Fantastic meta, wonderful! I love how you use Buffy to explain Who, and that magnificent shift from monster/metaphors to character/metaphors.
I want to explore the active/passive dynamic of Amy, and how she's represented. What a balance of yang and yin! And look in A Good Man how she's basically powerless, and surrounded by white, in a place that's otherwise dark. When she gets out into the dark, that's when she becomes active, pulling a gun on her daughter. (*Again.*) But she's dressed in white. She's an active principle in a passive environment.
And now she's in a White Place once more, but now white and black are reversed. In the dark place, behind the time engines (which are held within) she is passive, but get her out into the light and she becomes active, especially when they enter the all-white art gallery. Older Amy wears White Armor, and she's the active one, not younger Amy in her darker earth tones.
Wearing black when she's captured by the Silence. Passive. If she's the Apollo, then wearing white makes her Active.
(The Dolls in the Dollhouse were called Actives, btw.)
When she's in that white window dressed in white in A Good Man, right in the middle of Manton's speech we get this cut to her just as he says "the Papal Mainframe Herself." C'mon, that can't be accidental!
And now my brain is turning to mush. Must have coffee!
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I want to explore the active/passive dynamic of Amy, and how she's represented. What a balance of yang and yin! And look in A Good Man how she's basically powerless, and surrounded by white, in a place that's otherwise dark. When she gets out into the dark, that's when she becomes active, pulling a gun on her daughter. (*Again.*) But she's dressed in white. She's an active principle in a passive environment.
And now she's in a White Place once more, but now white and black are reversed. In the dark place, behind the time engines (which are held within) she is passive, but get her out into the light and she becomes active, especially when they enter the all-white art gallery. Older Amy wears White Armor, and she's the active one, not younger Amy in her darker earth tones.
Wearing black when she's captured by the Silence. Passive.
If she's the Apollo, then wearing white makes her Active.
(The Dolls in the Dollhouse were called Actives, btw.)
When she's in that white window dressed in white in A Good Man, right in the middle of Manton's speech we get this cut to her just as he says "the Papal Mainframe Herself." C'mon, that can't be accidental!
And now my brain is turning to mush. Must have coffee!