(No, I didn’t notice that you had put up your Doylist answer, so I did too. Oh well. Just allow me my fanatic Watsonianism and take from it what you will.)
I would love a link to a fic I actually thought of posting it (or excerpts) here if you liked. In any case, my total inability of providing you with links continues to be a thing. So if you don’t want any posting/are currently too busy for fic/ want to read ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING (it’s the 1st part of a thematic trilogy), tell me, and I’ll just give you titles and brief instructions. Sorry. Posting here or links *would* be simpler and easier for both of us.
please feel free to squee about as many things as possible. Well, time constraints, but for now:
1) Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? :) <3 :) (My answer to all such cases -in more emotional ones I use Inception too) 2) Parallel/Symbolism/Mirroring/something!...whatever it is: The beginning of the episode initially makes it seem like the Doctor is the one who is going to be executed. Which, yeah, cool, clever, but… ALL the things too, obviously. I’ll leave it to the master, “saving and salvation” and all the other stuff, fuck yeah, you go girl, much clapping, etcetera. 3) Someone send the Vatican a nice Popemobile and the Moff an award for thinking up the word. 4) “Only in darkness are we revealed.” And of course 12 is blind in the entire episode and hiding it, and never let it be said that Moffat is just a sadist (though he totally is.) 5) That. Fucking. Spectacular. Speech! YEEEES! Sorry River, you missed your true calling, archeology’s fine, but you should have become a writer. Oh my God! Six words, and relating to 4), allow me to introduce my favourite trope ever: What You Are in the Dark. And in this case “in extremis” too (flails a bit). You wanna win me over to your fandom? You play this card (or To Be Lawful or Good, the power of love, choices and free will, and all the heroic sacrifice things). Now, DW was already included in my, let’s say, definitive canon of the above, the fandoms to which you reverently turn and say “Lo, true virtue in adversity”: Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Discworld, Star Trek, Doctor Who. But they went and made it *explicit*. They made it the *theme*of the episode. They pushed up the moral things and the hardship and the danger and the hopelessness to over 9000, they broke the bloody show, and it was a sublime thing of beatifically beautiful beauty. Hats off, bitches. Compulsory reading: All the essays on J. R. R Tolkien’s cosmology, Virtuous Paganism, and the Old Norse theory of courage.
Or you know, yes, the interview: For me the whole point of the story is the Doctor is still the Doctor, even in extremis. Even when he’s not real, even when he’s a simulant on a hard drive and there is no possibility of escape or reward, he holds true to the man he wants to be. Never cruel, never cowardly – and never giving up till he wins.
(much rejoicing, salutes, wild cheering, and Kermit-style flailing)
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I would love a link to a fic
I actually thought of posting it (or excerpts) here if you liked.
In any case, my total inability of providing you with links continues to be a thing. So if you don’t want any posting/are currently too busy for fic/ want to read ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING (it’s the 1st part of a thematic trilogy), tell me, and I’ll just give you titles and brief instructions.
Sorry. Posting here or links *would* be simpler and easier for both of us.
please feel free to squee about as many things as possible.
Well, time constraints, but for now:
1) Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? :) <3 :)
(My answer to all such cases -in more emotional ones I use Inception too)
2) Parallel/Symbolism/Mirroring/something!...whatever it is: The beginning of the episode initially makes it seem like the Doctor is the one who is going to be executed. Which, yeah, cool, clever, but… ALL the things too, obviously. I’ll leave it to the master, “saving and salvation” and all the other stuff, fuck yeah, you go girl, much clapping, etcetera.
3) Someone send the Vatican a nice Popemobile and the Moff an award for thinking up the word.
4) “Only in darkness are we revealed.” And of course 12 is blind in the entire episode and hiding it, and never let it be said that Moffat is just a sadist (though he totally is.)
5) That. Fucking. Spectacular. Speech! YEEEES! Sorry River, you missed your true calling, archeology’s fine, but you should have become a writer. Oh my God! Six words, and relating to 4), allow me to introduce my favourite trope ever: What You Are in the Dark. And in this case “in extremis” too (flails a bit). You wanna win me over to your fandom? You play this card (or To Be Lawful or Good, the power of love, choices and free will, and all the heroic sacrifice things).
Now, DW was already included in my, let’s say, definitive canon of the above, the fandoms to which you reverently turn and say “Lo, true virtue in adversity”: Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Discworld, Star Trek, Doctor Who.
But they went and made it *explicit*. They made it the *theme*of the episode. They pushed up the moral things and the hardship and the danger and the hopelessness to over 9000, they broke the bloody show, and it was a sublime thing of beatifically beautiful beauty.
Hats off, bitches. Compulsory reading: All the essays on J. R. R Tolkien’s cosmology, Virtuous Paganism, and the Old Norse theory of courage.
Or you know, yes, the interview:
For me the whole point of the story is the Doctor is still the Doctor, even in extremis. Even when he’s not real, even when he’s a simulant on a hard drive and there is no possibility of escape or reward, he holds true to the man he wants to be. Never cruel, never cowardly – and never giving up till he wins.
(much rejoicing, salutes, wild cheering, and Kermit-style flailing)