I cant actually remember how exactly I stumbled across this page, but i'm so glad I did ♥ I would love to write something brilliant and insightful in response, but right now i'm just going to have to try and aim for coherent! This is possibly the best meta i've ever read. I'm a new DW fan, and I just finished season 3 (and have been watching the final three eps almost obsessively over the past week), and although I recognised how dark they were thematically, i'm stunned at everything you saw in them and how deep they truly go.
I'm a massive BtvS/AtS fan, and i've been talking with my sister a lot about which show we each prefer or think is better. I was insisting that DW could never go quite as deep or be as thematically brilliant as Buffy, but this essay pretty much blows that theory out of the water! All your stuff about the Doctor as God, and the gravity/implications of the 'I forgive you' line... its all just brilliant :) Some of your insights literally took my breath away ♥
Thankyou so much for writing this! Also, do you mind if I friend you? I don't update my LJ much but I comment enough on my friends' journals to make up for it ♥
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I cant actually remember how exactly I stumbled across this page, but i'm so glad I did ♥
I would love to write something brilliant and insightful in response, but right now i'm just going to have to try and aim for coherent! This is possibly the best meta i've ever read. I'm a new DW fan, and I just finished season 3 (and have been watching the final three eps almost obsessively over the past week), and although I recognised how dark they were thematically, i'm stunned at everything you saw in them and how deep they truly go.
I'm a massive BtvS/AtS fan, and i've been talking with my sister a lot about which show we each prefer or think is better. I was insisting that DW could never go quite as deep or be as thematically brilliant as Buffy, but this essay pretty much blows that theory out of the water!
All your stuff about the Doctor as God, and the gravity/implications of the 'I forgive you' line... its all just brilliant :) Some of your insights literally took my breath away ♥
Thankyou so much for writing this! Also, do you mind if I friend you? I don't update my LJ much but I comment enough on my friends' journals to make up for it ♥