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So I'm catching up on Doctor Who...
Jun. 17th, 2010 07:58 pmAnd I just finished "Cold Blood" and I need to freak out for a moment.
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In other Who-related musings, I've been thinking a lot about![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
green_maia's Who-thoughts that always make me thinky. And I've been wondering: has anyone written a piece of meta about how the Doctor (at least in nu!Who; I have no idea if this was the case with classic!Who) destroys the people around him? I don't know why, but I think it's significant that Martha is the only one who managed to escape from him relatively unscathed, and that's because she left of her own free will. She walked away (and I love her forever and ever and ever for it). Whereas Donna and Rose were absolutely destroyed by him: their choices taken away. Because they couldn't let go. Because they were made to let go.
And then there's Wilf, who had to see what happened to his granddaughter and has to live with that lie, and Harriet Jones, of course. And Adelaide. And I'm sure there are others, if I took the time to think of them. I actually find Sally Sparrow's ending sad: she's with this guy she never really cared about and just working in that little shop. I wanted more for her. And okay, maybe I really, really shipped her and Billy for the three minutes they were a possibility.
Anyways, I keep remembering Rory's (brilliant) quote about how the Doctor makes people dangerous to themselves. I feel like you could construct a really brilliant meta about this, but the details of it aren't clear enough in my mind, and I'm not into this fandom enough to do it. You could construct a similar one about Angel, and how he makes everyone around him, especially the women, destroy themselves as well.
Anyways,green_maia has touched on a bunch of this in her posts, so if it intrigues you, check there. This is clearly a not-fully-formed thought process.
Now I'm gonna watch "Vince and the Doctor." And hopefully not fall asleep.
( cut for spoilers )
In other Who-related musings, I've been thinking a lot about
green_maia's Who-thoughts that always make me thinky. And I've been wondering: has anyone written a piece of meta about how the Doctor (at least in nu!Who; I have no idea if this was the case with classic!Who) destroys the people around him? I don't know why, but I think it's significant that Martha is the only one who managed to escape from him relatively unscathed, and that's because she left of her own free will. She walked away (and I love her forever and ever and ever for it). Whereas Donna and Rose were absolutely destroyed by him: their choices taken away. Because they couldn't let go. Because they were made to let go.And then there's Wilf, who had to see what happened to his granddaughter and has to live with that lie, and Harriet Jones, of course. And Adelaide. And I'm sure there are others, if I took the time to think of them. I actually find Sally Sparrow's ending sad: she's with this guy she never really cared about and just working in that little shop. I wanted more for her. And okay, maybe I really, really shipped her and Billy for the three minutes they were a possibility.
Anyways, I keep remembering Rory's (brilliant) quote about how the Doctor makes people dangerous to themselves. I feel like you could construct a really brilliant meta about this, but the details of it aren't clear enough in my mind, and I'm not into this fandom enough to do it. You could construct a similar one about Angel, and how he makes everyone around him, especially the women, destroy themselves as well.
Anyways,
green_maia has touched on a bunch of this in her posts, so if it intrigues you, check there. This is clearly a not-fully-formed thought process.Now I'm gonna watch "Vince and the Doctor." And hopefully not fall asleep.
