Last Friday Night | Team TARDIS (Ponds)
what can I say? I needed todance.
I am really missing clever, fun, light hearted television.
I am really missing clever, fun, light hearted television.
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Thoughts about Doctor Who and why he is such a compelling hero on this Remembrance Day
I have been trying to write a book about the loss of innocence called "The Children's War". I ask myself, why is science fiction the most appealing setting for me? Why so often is this the genre for us to work out so many of our own issues?
I think we make up stories about people who are who we would like to be and we feel more comfortable if what they have to deal with is not so close to home. We call them Saints or Heros or Aliens and yet the essential truth of the best of our created characters is that they don't require anything special, not a Tardis or a War or a God because it is thier choice to do the right thing that defines them.
Remembrance day is not about making up stories about the glories of war but about recognizing the very difficult and necessary actions carried out by those who saw something needed to be done against criminals and thugs who would try to rule. It was for peace that they fought.
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A little more on Doctor Who...
I realized that I hate change and since Tom Baker I have not welcomed each new incarnation of Dr. Who with anything but sceptism and even racor. Yes, I am a bitch like that.
But I also realize that each has grown on me because Doctor Who is the best, period. Unlike another cannon which has been taken over by the Hollywood re-boot thrill ride money maker, it is still lovingly gripped by the questions of humanity, even when played out in alien skins. It doesn't mind coming in close and small to explore them. This is how it kept us satisfied back in the days of cardboard sets and wonky Daleks and now in the days of vengeful gunner robot cowboys and special effects. It doesn't pretend to have the corner on the truth, but it stays in the neighbourhood. The effort is encased in who Doctor Who is. For this reason, regardless of whether this Doctor is our romantic ideal or our joke cracking best friend, every one is the best Doctor.
Ask me again!
Doctor who?
I never realized how much I enjoyed hearing it said like that.
New icon is by femme_slash_fan.
But I also realize that each has grown on me because Doctor Who is the best, period. Unlike another cannon which has been taken over by the Hollywood re-boot thrill ride money maker, it is still lovingly gripped by the questions of humanity, even when played out in alien skins. It doesn't mind coming in close and small to explore them. This is how it kept us satisfied back in the days of cardboard sets and wonky Daleks and now in the days of vengeful gunner robot cowboys and special effects. It doesn't pretend to have the corner on the truth, but it stays in the neighbourhood. The effort is encased in who Doctor Who is. For this reason, regardless of whether this Doctor is our romantic ideal or our joke cracking best friend, every one is the best Doctor.
Ask me again!
Doctor who?
I never realized how much I enjoyed hearing it said like that.
New icon is by femme_slash_fan.