First of all, I love this season for giving me something I’ve not had since BtVS and AtS went off air: A TV show not just rich, but so saturated with meta, layers, themes, parallels, foreshadowing, symbolism, mirroring, etc. etc. that I hardly know where to start. Hence the fact that this is a long, rambly and somewhat incoherent stab at three million different lines of thought. (Really, this might be the best look inside my head that you’ll ever get. It should come with a warning.) At some point I'll write something better, promise. For now, I just wanted this done.
Now it’s not that RTD doesn’t do meta, but it’s of a very different sort. SJA has metaphors so obvious they’re pretty much colour coded and Torchwood suffered from an overdose of crack and angst until ‘Children of Earth’ which - imho - moved it beyond TV and into the realm of art, which is an entirely different thing. His DW era hovered between these two extremes, and was thus a very different beast in meta-terms.
Also I need to put a disclaimer here. I’ve loved S5 like few things before, but when I point out that something or other is good, or that I like how something developed from the way it was before, this doesn’t mean that I all of a sudden dislike the Rusty era. It’s just that in many cases I love where we’ve ended up, and I like the fact that the Doctor has recovered from his traumas/is once more written more like he used to be (See this post). So no bashing please. (And this post of mine: My Doctor, explains how I feel about Ten Vs. Eleven.)
Oh and sorry about stuff being repeated. I’m too tired to make it more coherent.
( Endless spoilers for all of S5 of DW )
Now it’s not that RTD doesn’t do meta, but it’s of a very different sort. SJA has metaphors so obvious they’re pretty much colour coded and Torchwood suffered from an overdose of crack and angst until ‘Children of Earth’ which - imho - moved it beyond TV and into the realm of art, which is an entirely different thing. His DW era hovered between these two extremes, and was thus a very different beast in meta-terms.
Also I need to put a disclaimer here. I’ve loved S5 like few things before, but when I point out that something or other is good, or that I like how something developed from the way it was before, this doesn’t mean that I all of a sudden dislike the Rusty era. It’s just that in many cases I love where we’ve ended up, and I like the fact that the Doctor has recovered from his traumas/is once more written more like he used to be (See this post). So no bashing please. (And this post of mine: My Doctor, explains how I feel about Ten Vs. Eleven.)
Oh and sorry about stuff being repeated. I’m too tired to make it more coherent.
