As always, your meditations are full of joy, and exploding with ideas. You and I share some of them, and we part ways on others, but I wouldn't go an episode without reading what you have. As I said, it's the joy, and the love, and the exploding vitality - rather like the show, actually.
I've been working on one thing that might - might - not mirror (see wut I did thar?) some of your assumptions, having to do with what I think is the misapprehension of River and the nature of her love for the Doctor.
Despite the batting about of the word 'psychopath' by both River and the Doctor, I don't think she is anything of the sort - nor do I think for one moment that she intended to let the universe die because she couldn't do without the Doctor.
Yes, she needed to let him know how much it would hurt - would destroy - her. But more importantly, she needed to let him know she could not let him die without knowing how much he was loved, by everyone. And what does one take from a statement like that? For me, it clearly is meant to be followed by " ... once you know, once you truly understand this, you great Gallifreyan fool, I will immolate my own heart and save the universe. Because we are alike - and that means I love the universe, too. How could I not, with all its wonders, and with you in it, and with my mother and father in it? But you had to know."
(And I find, in that moment, that she perfectly becomes both her mother and her father, in that moment when Older Amy stands at the door of the TARDIS, with Rory on the other side. No one's much said anything about just when Older Amy tells Rory not to let her in: it's only after she hears the door begin to click open. Rory has made the choice to save her, and she is then free to say, "No. You and I, we must do what's right - but thank you for showing me that you would do the wrong thing for me. And because you would do it for me, I love you enough not to allow you to do it." River says, in essence: "I recognize that I am willing to do the wrong thing for you - and that frees me to do the right thing for you.")
AAAh~ Yes, you've helped me put my head together just a little bit more, and it's all thanks to you love, and joy, and explosion of ideas~
no subject
I've been working on one thing that might - might - not mirror (see wut I did thar?) some of your assumptions, having to do with what I think is the misapprehension of River and the nature of her love for the Doctor.
Despite the batting about of the word 'psychopath' by both River and the Doctor, I don't think she is anything of the sort - nor do I think for one moment that she intended to let the universe die because she couldn't do without the Doctor.
Yes, she needed to let him know how much it would hurt - would destroy - her. But more importantly, she needed to let him know she could not let him die without knowing how much he was loved, by everyone. And what does one take from a statement like that? For me, it clearly is meant to be followed by " ... once you know, once you truly understand this, you great Gallifreyan fool, I will immolate my own heart and save the universe. Because we are alike - and that means I love the universe, too. How could I not, with all its wonders, and with you in it, and with my mother and father in it? But you had to know."
(And I find, in that moment, that she perfectly becomes both her mother and her father, in that moment when Older Amy stands at the door of the TARDIS, with Rory on the other side. No one's much said anything about just when Older Amy tells Rory not to let her in: it's only after she hears the door begin to click open. Rory has made the choice to save her, and she is then free to say, "No. You and I, we must do what's right - but thank you for showing me that you would do the wrong thing for me. And because you would do it for me, I love you enough not to allow you to do it." River says, in essence: "I recognize that I am willing to do the wrong thing for you - and that frees me to do the right thing for you.")
AAAh~ Yes, you've helped me put my head together just a little bit more, and it's all thanks to you love, and joy, and explosion of ideas~