Doctor Who, last son of Gallifrey
Aug. 11th, 2005 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethBeen reading essays about Doctor Who again
one of them compared Gallifrey Go Boom with Superman, the whole Last Son of Krypton thing.
There are a number of characters who are 'last of their people'. And assuming their biology is in full working order (or their technology, like genetic looms), there is one simple way to fix that.
Like Battlestar Galactica says, the war is over, they lost, now what they have to do is get out there and start making babies.
At this point the Doctor shouldn't be traipsing around the galaxy having fun adventures. He should be looking for a co-parent.
Which makes Rose make a whole different kind of sense. Find a robust young woman who likes to take care of people. Fuss about children. Fuss over baby Rose actually.
And okay, 'Doctor Who and the new born baby' is never going to be saturday night tea time viewing (stinky and loud!) but logically this is what he should be doing. Building something. Taking every part of Gallifrey that ever mattered to him, all the good bits, everything worth preserving, and giving it back to the universe. Making sure it will carry on without him.
Which, come to think, he might have done already, if all the hints dropped as 7 and all the bits in the books about the Other have any validity.
Then it gets to be a Babylon 5 deal, when something is worth it you keep on building it until it stays. Like Valen did. Even knowing the future he got stuck in and did his best and built something worth building.
All of this has happened before, all of this shall happen again.
But we can make it better this time.
Making people better is what Doctors do.
one of them compared Gallifrey Go Boom with Superman, the whole Last Son of Krypton thing.
There are a number of characters who are 'last of their people'. And assuming their biology is in full working order (or their technology, like genetic looms), there is one simple way to fix that.
Like Battlestar Galactica says, the war is over, they lost, now what they have to do is get out there and start making babies.
At this point the Doctor shouldn't be traipsing around the galaxy having fun adventures. He should be looking for a co-parent.
Which makes Rose make a whole different kind of sense. Find a robust young woman who likes to take care of people. Fuss about children. Fuss over baby Rose actually.
And okay, 'Doctor Who and the new born baby' is never going to be saturday night tea time viewing (stinky and loud!) but logically this is what he should be doing. Building something. Taking every part of Gallifrey that ever mattered to him, all the good bits, everything worth preserving, and giving it back to the universe. Making sure it will carry on without him.
Which, come to think, he might have done already, if all the hints dropped as 7 and all the bits in the books about the Other have any validity.
Then it gets to be a Babylon 5 deal, when something is worth it you keep on building it until it stays. Like Valen did. Even knowing the future he got stuck in and did his best and built something worth building.
All of this has happened before, all of this shall happen again.
But we can make it better this time.
Making people better is what Doctors do.