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Dear Santa Moff...
For S10 of Doctor Who, can I please have lots of this:
For those unfamiliar with the show, the quote on my icon is also from that episode. It's called 'The Beast Below' and is Eleven's 2nd episode and one of my favourites. Here's another quote, right from the beginning:
DOCTOR: Look at this place. Isn't it wrong?
AMY: What's wrong?
DOCTOR: Come on, use your eyes. Notice everything. What's wrong with this picture? Now, come on, look around you. Actually look.
TANNOY: London Market is a crime-free zone.
DOCTOR: Life on a giant starship. Back to basics. Bicycles, washing lines, wind-up street lamps. But look closer. Secrets and shadows, lives led in fear. Society bent out of shape, on the brink of collapse. A police state.
[...]
DOCTOR: Now, police state. Do you see it yet?
AMY: Where?
DOCTOR: There.
(A little girl crying, all alone.)
[...]
AMY: One little girl crying. So?
DOCTOR: Crying silently. I mean, children cry because they want attention, because they're hurt or afraid. But when they cry silently, it's because they just can't stop. Any parent knows that.
AMY: Are you a parent?
DOCTOR: Hundreds of parents walking past who spot her and not one of them's asking her what's wrong, which means they already know, and it's something they don't talk about. Secrets. They're not helping her, so it's something they're afraid of. Shadows, whatever they're afraid of, it's nowhere to be seen, which means it's everywhere. Police state.
For those unfamiliar with the show, the quote on my icon is also from that episode. It's called 'The Beast Below' and is Eleven's 2nd episode and one of my favourites. Here's another quote, right from the beginning:
DOCTOR: Look at this place. Isn't it wrong?
AMY: What's wrong?
DOCTOR: Come on, use your eyes. Notice everything. What's wrong with this picture? Now, come on, look around you. Actually look.
TANNOY: London Market is a crime-free zone.
DOCTOR: Life on a giant starship. Back to basics. Bicycles, washing lines, wind-up street lamps. But look closer. Secrets and shadows, lives led in fear. Society bent out of shape, on the brink of collapse. A police state.
[...]
DOCTOR: Now, police state. Do you see it yet?
AMY: Where?
DOCTOR: There.
(A little girl crying, all alone.)
[...]
AMY: One little girl crying. So?
DOCTOR: Crying silently. I mean, children cry because they want attention, because they're hurt or afraid. But when they cry silently, it's because they just can't stop. Any parent knows that.
AMY: Are you a parent?
DOCTOR: Hundreds of parents walking past who spot her and not one of them's asking her what's wrong, which means they already know, and it's something they don't talk about. Secrets. They're not helping her, so it's something they're afraid of. Shadows, whatever they're afraid of, it's nowhere to be seen, which means it's everywhere. Police state.
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"Nobody HUMAN talk to me today!!!"
Damn.
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But from a ''is it proper Dr Who?'' point of view, of which the only stipulations are ''does it have a lot of big, earnest ideas and/or hugs?'' then yes it is amazing
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... Well, it carries the template for Moffat writing, pretty much. I owe this to Phil Sandifer, it's from his review thingy of that ep:
How do you save the world from its own intrinsic evil? By being amazing, breaking the rules, and, when the narrative points to something awful, telling a different sort of story.
And so the moral heart of the Moffat era stands, for a moment, revealed - an understanding and principle we can take forward in reading everything else that he does. It is an observation that stems inexorably from the history of alchemy within the series and from the underlying imagery of this story. “As above, so below,” the injunction goes - a declaration that manipulating symbols and manipulating objects is, in some sense, the same thing. That a symbol and a thing are in some sense interchangeable. What is the moral heart of the Moffat era? It is simple.
The secret of material social progress is alchemy.
Something I find especially relevant right now. Trump is telling a story. But 4 million people marched yesterday to tell a different one.
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He's very good at what he does, but it's a narrow field. I sort of forgot about him after S8.
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LOL. If he ever has kids, he'll learn. >:)
And Eddie Izzard gives me hope. <3 There should be more like him.
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