Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow
Ten, stop bottling up your feelings, it never ends well. *g*
Life is very long - also appears as a lyric in "The Queen is Dead," and since Morrissey is an allusive bastard and the song deals with similar disaffection with a hollow crown, I'm 98.5% sure it was deliberate. Except, as a cherry on top, he expands it to "Life is very long when you're lonely." (Ten listens to the Smiths on repeat and cries into a mug of tea when he's feeling mopey. Nothing will convince me otherwise. And one day I will make a Doctor/Rose vid to "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" because I can barely listen to it without going PFFAAAHAHA at how appropriate it is.)
And while I'm dragging song lyrics into it, the broken column as Gallifrey makes me think of Honour by VNV Nation, about a once-proud nation marching to the field of its final battle and annihilation. "Shall I call on you to guide me well / To see our hopes and dreams fulfilled? / On this day of our ascension." The whole thing is eerily appropriate to the Time War.
And on a final note, this makes me want to rewatch Family of Blood with the WWI parallel firm in my mind. Because wow--the Doctor's human doppelgänger doing his duty to his nation, unaware of the Time War's human doppelgänger lurking on the horizon. And the epilogue takes on a darker undertone in the presence of all that twilight and half-death in the aftermath: "Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn..." ("...At the going down of the sun and in the morning / We will remember them" and the stars that shall be bright when we are dust and OH.) Which Cornell probably intended to some extent, the clever bastard, what with the doling out of immortality as a punishment and... all of NuWho, really, and its ambivalence towards mortality.
no subject
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Ten, stop bottling up your feelings, it never ends well. *g*
Life is very long - also appears as a lyric in "The Queen is Dead," and since Morrissey is an allusive bastard and the song deals with similar disaffection with a hollow crown, I'm 98.5% sure it was deliberate. Except, as a cherry on top, he expands it to "Life is very long when you're lonely." (Ten listens to the Smiths on repeat and cries into a mug of tea when he's feeling mopey. Nothing will convince me otherwise. And one day I will make a Doctor/Rose vid to "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" because I can barely listen to it without going PFFAAAHAHA at how appropriate it is.)
And while I'm dragging song lyrics into it, the broken column as Gallifrey makes me think of Honour by VNV Nation, about a once-proud nation marching to the field of its final battle and annihilation. "Shall I call on you to guide me well / To see our hopes and dreams fulfilled? / On this day of our ascension." The whole thing is eerily appropriate to the Time War.
And on a final note, this makes me want to rewatch Family of Blood with the WWI parallel firm in my mind. Because wow--the Doctor's human doppelgänger doing his duty to his nation, unaware of the Time War's human doppelgänger lurking on the horizon. And the epilogue takes on a darker undertone in the presence of all that twilight and half-death in the aftermath: "Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn..." ("...At the going down of the sun and in the morning / We will remember them" and the stars that shall be bright when we are dust and OH.) Which Cornell probably intended to some extent, the clever bastard, what with the doling out of immortality as a punishment and... all of NuWho, really, and its ambivalence towards mortality.