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To the people of The Gamma Forest, the word 'Doctor' means 'Mighty Warrior'...
Rammstein + Doctor Who = Pure Awesomeness.
Lyrics here, and many thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
honeynoir who posted it first.
ETA: A few more thoughts on the vid under the cut. Although I just want to say that if anyone wants to know why Seven is BAMFness incarnate, all they need to do is watch the first 30 seconds of this vid.
I love the structure of this vid. I love the counting down, the parallels it brings out between all the Doctors. How even Five, the kindest and most gentle, shot a Cyberman at pointblank range; how both he and Ten and Three were rather lethal with a sword (Seven just BAMFs around with his, of course); how they're always pushing Daleks around (and oh, Eleven's anger, compared to the others); how Nine and Ten and Eleven have these incredible shots where they're just 100% Oncoming Storm.
I love how the Master is the one counting down in the first part of the vid, and how it uses all the Doctors in order.
I love how it then switches to 'monsters' counting down, and the focus is on Eleven, specifically, defeating them, again drawing on all the Doctors that have come before. (Like nesting dolls, he contain multitudes...) And it builds - like I said, it's the New Who Doctors who are the greatest warriors, since they are the ones living with the legacy of having destroyed Gallifrey.
Sorry to ramble (presuming anyone's around to actually read this), but it ties in with a LOT of thoughts I've been having about the Doctor's role, and what New Who has done to him. How RTD broke him and Moffat put him back together, except more complicated than that...
He's...like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And he's wonderful.
What Moffat does is make all of it even more literal than RTD did. He *is* the storm at the heart of the sun, and he *does* burn at the centre of time. And what Moffat does is then say 'All that's unimportant. It's about Romance and Intellect, not brute force and cynicism. That's why he's wonderful!'
(I'll try to post it during the holidays, I swear. If nothing else, then to stop it eating my head.)
Lyrics here, and many thanks to
honeynoir who posted it first.ETA: A few more thoughts on the vid under the cut. Although I just want to say that if anyone wants to know why Seven is BAMFness incarnate, all they need to do is watch the first 30 seconds of this vid.
I love the structure of this vid. I love the counting down, the parallels it brings out between all the Doctors. How even Five, the kindest and most gentle, shot a Cyberman at pointblank range; how both he and Ten and Three were rather lethal with a sword (Seven just BAMFs around with his, of course); how they're always pushing Daleks around (and oh, Eleven's anger, compared to the others); how Nine and Ten and Eleven have these incredible shots where they're just 100% Oncoming Storm.
I love how the Master is the one counting down in the first part of the vid, and how it uses all the Doctors in order.
I love how it then switches to 'monsters' counting down, and the focus is on Eleven, specifically, defeating them, again drawing on all the Doctors that have come before. (Like nesting dolls, he contain multitudes...) And it builds - like I said, it's the New Who Doctors who are the greatest warriors, since they are the ones living with the legacy of having destroyed Gallifrey.
Sorry to ramble (presuming anyone's around to actually read this), but it ties in with a LOT of thoughts I've been having about the Doctor's role, and what New Who has done to him. How RTD broke him and Moffat put him back together, except more complicated than that...
He's...like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And he's wonderful.
What Moffat does is make all of it even more literal than RTD did. He *is* the storm at the heart of the sun, and he *does* burn at the centre of time. And what Moffat does is then say 'All that's unimportant. It's about Romance and Intellect, not brute force and cynicism. That's why he's wonderful!'
(I'll try to post it during the holidays, I swear. If nothing else, then to stop it eating my head.)