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“Question. You take a broom, you replace the handle, and then later you replace the brush, and you do that over and over again. Is it still the same broom? Answer? No, of course it isn’t. But you can still sweep the floor.”

- Deep Breath, 8x01

#honestly this scene just gets better with age he doctor’s going through an identity crisis; he never expected to live past his ‘eleventh’ regeneration#and before that he fought in an 800 year war in trenzalore (edited) #probably a longer than his 'war’ regeneration the doctor had to live the slow path, and watch generations of families in trenzalore live and die under his watch #the doctor healed from the time war#only to fight in another war on behalf of his people (who prove themselves to be dicks when they trap the doctor in his confession dial) #and he never expected more than that life#except he got a extra lives #this is why at the beginning of his twelfth life he no longer felt comfortable with himself (edited) #and god peter’s subtle acting when he realized he was also the metaphorical broom# is the doctor still the doctor if he replaced every part of himself?#'there’s no trace of the original you left’ it’s why its so poignant and in character that in ‘the doctor falls’ he refuses to regenerate again because he ‘can’t keep on being somebody else’.

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