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The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances
Aug. 12th, 2019 03:29 amWatched two episodes with my breakfast today.
I still like the plot today. It rolls from a very simple setup and clicks together neatly by the end, it has some excellent emotional moments, and it has simple imitables that wont get a kid into trouble but will be easy to play.
'Are you my mummy'.
Brilliant bit of creepy, and then a great social comment by the end. And the problem was running away scared and the solution was understanding and hugging.
Plus the way it wove together with the doctor at the hospital, 'Before this war began I was a father and a grandfather, and now I am neither. But I'm still a Doctor.' 'Yeah, know the feeling.'
Like, sneak some giganric feels and a time war reference in there.
I read a version once though that set the whole thing in China and made part of the point that Rose couldn't make her speech about how it all works out there because she didn't know. Can't remember the name of the fic or anything, boo. It made Jack asian? The more I think about it the less I'm sure I remember.
ANYway, setting it all in British history, even at that moment when so much of the world was involved, not the only possibility, and not its best look.
But an interesting angle on the moment.
Jack though. Jack was just... he is such a jerk. And thinks he's so smooth? All that showing off just to keep her off balance. And he's like a sketch version of himself obviously. And this is a moment that changes him, where he makes a choice to take responsibility and fix his own mess, but that being new for him is so weird. Like the Time Agency must have really messed up.
... now I want to relisten to Lives of Captain Jack again. Just the bits that had happened already. Except Jack doesn't remember them, so it's weird, how much they would and wouldn't shape him.
It's really great meeting Jack all over again. Just like :-D and want to hug the story.
And I love how they say he's just a 51st century guy. Like that's normal, that's the future, humans seek out new life and dance.
But it's also... they had to work so hard to make sure everyone's clear on his sexuality. And he was *new*. I remember that being a huge deal.
... it's not like there's a one of him everywhere now, but there's a lot of characters now as wouldn't have been around in 2005.
... and now I feel the temporal equivalent of looking down a long steep hill one has somehow climbed already. Like, woah, dizzy.
My driver the other day was talking about Doctor Who and he watched the first episodes but gave up when the Doctor changed because he thought the new guy was silly. He was wondering what it would be like to watch the early episodes now, so I said they're on DVD, so he said he'd go look in the TV and Movie Store. So that's cool.
It's just odd to me that some people do not think about Doctor Who, stop thinking about Doctor Who, have not though about it since they were kids. Like, what is that even like? What do they do with that brainspace?
Mine's full of imaginary friends.
And it's weird seeing them experience-young again.
I still like the plot today. It rolls from a very simple setup and clicks together neatly by the end, it has some excellent emotional moments, and it has simple imitables that wont get a kid into trouble but will be easy to play.
'Are you my mummy'.
Brilliant bit of creepy, and then a great social comment by the end. And the problem was running away scared and the solution was understanding and hugging.
Plus the way it wove together with the doctor at the hospital, 'Before this war began I was a father and a grandfather, and now I am neither. But I'm still a Doctor.' 'Yeah, know the feeling.'
Like, sneak some giganric feels and a time war reference in there.
I read a version once though that set the whole thing in China and made part of the point that Rose couldn't make her speech about how it all works out there because she didn't know. Can't remember the name of the fic or anything, boo. It made Jack asian? The more I think about it the less I'm sure I remember.
ANYway, setting it all in British history, even at that moment when so much of the world was involved, not the only possibility, and not its best look.
But an interesting angle on the moment.
Jack though. Jack was just... he is such a jerk. And thinks he's so smooth? All that showing off just to keep her off balance. And he's like a sketch version of himself obviously. And this is a moment that changes him, where he makes a choice to take responsibility and fix his own mess, but that being new for him is so weird. Like the Time Agency must have really messed up.
... now I want to relisten to Lives of Captain Jack again. Just the bits that had happened already. Except Jack doesn't remember them, so it's weird, how much they would and wouldn't shape him.
It's really great meeting Jack all over again. Just like :-D and want to hug the story.
And I love how they say he's just a 51st century guy. Like that's normal, that's the future, humans seek out new life and dance.
But it's also... they had to work so hard to make sure everyone's clear on his sexuality. And he was *new*. I remember that being a huge deal.
... it's not like there's a one of him everywhere now, but there's a lot of characters now as wouldn't have been around in 2005.
... and now I feel the temporal equivalent of looking down a long steep hill one has somehow climbed already. Like, woah, dizzy.
My driver the other day was talking about Doctor Who and he watched the first episodes but gave up when the Doctor changed because he thought the new guy was silly. He was wondering what it would be like to watch the early episodes now, so I said they're on DVD, so he said he'd go look in the TV and Movie Store. So that's cool.
It's just odd to me that some people do not think about Doctor Who, stop thinking about Doctor Who, have not though about it since they were kids. Like, what is that even like? What do they do with that brainspace?
Mine's full of imaginary friends.
And it's weird seeing them experience-young again.