Wise words

[elisi]

'Watch enough Who and inevitably your favorite character becomes the Doctor and your favorite Doctor becomes the Doctor.'
Unknown

"Doctor Who | We Will Rock You Tribute | 1963 - 2017" (Watch on YouTube)

Do you think if we shake S11 really hard we'll get more of the Doctor? Like, we're in the middle of a 55-year old character arc here. Bit keen to get back.
(with apologies to Promethia)

Comments

[promethia_tenk]

Ooo, that was rather good. Though it's all serious music in the beginning until finally the opening bars of We Will Rock You broke out and I lol'd.

[elisi]

Isn't it just? Just a random thing youtube suggested to me, and then Oooooh!

[purplefringe]

Do not have time to watch the vid till later but YES my favourite Doctor IS The Doctor!! That is what I ALWAYS tell people when they inevitably ask me who *my* Doctor is!! (a question I hate) I always get told that's a cop-out answer, but now I feel vindicated by this unknown person.

[elisi]

Well mine is Eleven - or rather 'MY Doctor' is Eleven - but I couldn't have him without all the others, he wouldn't make sense.

Although yes, the Doctor is obviously the one I follow, the one I care about, the one I want to see more of.

Incidentally, have you read The Day of the Doctor? I keep meaning to pimp it and then faltering because it's impossible to describe. But one thing it does is it always calls the Doctor 'the Doctor' - half the time you have to try to work out which one you are following, as the book jumps between times and events with abandon, and the Doctor is just the Doctor. Best book ever.

[promethia_tenk]

It's something I heard someone say waaaaaaaaay back in the day during season five when I was just getting into Doctor Who and obviously had no idea what they were talking about. But it struck me as good enough wisdom that I've always remembered it, and now I finally feel like I understand what this long-lost person meant!

[lynnenne]

That's a pretty cool music mix.

[elisi]

Isn't it just? It popped up as a suggested video on youtube and... had to share!

[thisbluespirit]

Nice one! I thought from teh set up it must be another TARDISELLIOTT one, and so it was...

[elisi]

I don't think I've come across them before, but I like their style so will definitely check out more.

(In other news: Have now finished Fenric and Survival and am too full of Seven-y meta-y emotions to really function...)

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, they did the "Never Been Better" one I recced a little while ago, and which you liked! :-D

Have now finished Fenric and Survival and am too full of Seven-y meta-y emotions to really function...

<3 I'm glad! I mean, I hope you manage to function, but this is only right and proper...

[elisi]

Heh, they did the "Never Been Better" one I recced a little while ago, and which you liked! :-D
Oh cool, thank you!

<3 I'm glad! I mean, I hope you manage to function, but this is only right and proper...
Well, my head is up in the clouds, but I'm used to that... ;)

ETA: Can I steal your icon?

[thisbluespirit]

The icon is an old one, by an lj user called derogative, and I stole it, so I see no reason why you shouldn't! ;-)

[elisi]

Thank you!

[purplefringe]

Thank you, long-lost person! :D

[purplefringe]

I have not yet read The Day of the Doctor - though I do have a signed copy!! I went to a signing at Forbidden Planet and queued in the cold for a really long time, and then by the time I got to meet Moffat and RTD I was too verklempt to say anything much /o\ They were both completely lovely though. And I'm really looking forward to reading it - I'm so glad you like it, that gives me a lot of hope! Will push it up the endless To Read list.

And I know that most people do have 'their' Doctor, but I just...don't. Nine was my first Doctor, and I LOVED him and was OUTRAGED and distraught when I learned he was only doing one season. He kind of set the tone of The Doctor for me. But then there was Ten, who was beautiful and passionate and who I fell for within about three minutes, and was hopelessly, completely in love with (and sliiiiightly still am, oh god why) and was the perfect Doctor for 16-19 year-old me. Then there was Eleventy! Wonderful, kind, lovely, flaily Eleventy, who taught me to read the show in a whole new way, and whose era got me into the whole meta thing, and who completely reset the tone of the Doctor for me. And then there was Twelve, who I loved hopelessly, in spite of (or sometimes because of) all his anger, and how hard he had to work for the things that came so effortlessly to his predecessors, and I mean he was Peter Capaldi so I was always going to love him. And now there is Thirteen. And for all this season's issues, I love her. And there is just no way I can ever choose between them, which is why I always say my Doctor is The Doctor. I guess to be more accurate my Doctor is the New Who Doctor, but that's only because I haven't seen enough of all of the others to claim them as mine.

[elisi]

I have not yet read The Day of the Doctor - though I do have a signed copy!! I went to a signing at Forbidden Planet and queued in the cold for a really long time, and then by the time I got to meet Moffat and RTD I was too verklempt to say anything much /o\ They were both completely lovely though.
Eeeep! Lucky you! You could have asked how much he considered his era of Doctor Who to relate to The Waste Land, but I figure that would have been a little much when just getting a book signed. ;)

And I'm really looking forward to reading it - I'm so glad you like it, that gives me a lot of hope! Will push it up the endless To Read list.
I have read it four times (so far). It is genuinely one of the best books of *anything* I have ever read. It's like... seeing it all in 3D or something? I can't explain it. You'll see. *hands* I have never read anything remotely like it.

And there is just no way I can ever choose between them, which is why I always say my Doctor is The Doctor. I guess to be more accurate my Doctor is the New Who Doctor, but that's only because I haven't seen enough of all of the others to claim them as mine.
No, that makes perfect sense. I just have a special place for Eleven in my heart. And his Ponds. I guess they just made me happier than all the rest.

But yay for Thirteen and more in SEVEN MINUTES MUST GO!

(Also if you miss Moffat, watch Seven.)

[sea_thoughts]

Very cool!

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

Awesome!!!

[elisi]

Good, isn't it?

[elisi]

You're welcome. :)