*meep* (Kathy is making me an icon that's PERFECT for occasions like this. Consider it used here, since she won't have time for making it until after New Year. *g*) Done! :-) (v. intrigued)
I think they're both very aware of death (Abigail literally counting down the days, and River knowing fullwell the price of running with the Doctor) - the fact that they can use their final days to save others is a bonus they fully embrace. Niiice. As you said before, the death simply is and is to be accepted--not a tragedy imposed from outside. I think I'm not really concerned about the idea of finding a cure for Abigail because her illness feels mostly like a device to allow her life to allegorically represent finite human life in general within the time confines of the episode. Particularly if you're looking at her and Kazran as a mirror of the Doctor and River, her illness and the ice chamber allows her meetings with and temporal relationship to Kazran to mirror that of River to the Doctor--her life is necessarily shorter and their encounters broken into chunks rather than continuing linearly.
(Abigail singing in the snow is just the most gorgeous thing ever... *sniff*) It's beautiful aesthetically and it's even more beautiful in the way it completely ties together all the various strands of the episode on literal and symbolic levels. It fits in every way <3 It is the complete opposite of a shoehorned cameo singing role--I would entirely believe that Moffat started from the idea of that scene and worked backwards from there.
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Done! :-) (v. intrigued)
I think they're both very aware of death (Abigail literally counting down the days, and River knowing fullwell the price of running with the Doctor) - the fact that they can use their final days to save others is a bonus they fully embrace.
Niiice. As you said before, the death simply is and is to be accepted--not a tragedy imposed from outside. I think I'm not really concerned about the idea of finding a cure for Abigail because her illness feels mostly like a device to allow her life to allegorically represent finite human life in general within the time confines of the episode. Particularly if you're looking at her and Kazran as a mirror of the Doctor and River, her illness and the ice chamber allows her meetings with and temporal relationship to Kazran to mirror that of River to the Doctor--her life is necessarily shorter and their encounters broken into chunks rather than continuing linearly.
(Abigail singing in the snow is just the most gorgeous thing ever... *sniff*)
It's beautiful aesthetically and it's even more beautiful in the way it completely ties together all the various strands of the episode on literal and symbolic levels. It fits in every way <3 It is the complete opposite of a shoehorned cameo singing role--I would entirely believe that Moffat started from the idea of that scene and worked backwards from there.