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. . . Doctor Who.
Um. I think it broke me.
Ten has been heading in this direction for a long time; since he first regenerated, in fact. Remember him telling Rose, "I have no Off button"? He never did get one. He's been going off the rails bit by bit, as illustrated so beautifully by that "Handlebars" video everyone has seen by now. (If, somehow, you haven't: A perfect illustration of how Ten has always, despite his goofy charm, been terrifying.) And somehow, I still feel like I got hit by a truck.
Way back in my reaction post for "The Fires of Pompeii," I said:
I really liked the discussion of the nature of time and how events look to a Time Lord. This is an issue I've pondered a bit myself - it only seems logical that there is a very good reason indeed why Time Lords don't abuse their powers. [...] This lines up nicely with my reasoning - it's not that they don't, and it's not that they are physically unable. It's that they can't. It's that fucking with how time is supposed to go is repugnant to a Time Lord in a way that goes to the very deepest and most primeval levels. It ties in to how the Doctor reacted to Jack, and reinforces how very insane the Master must have been, to be able to ignore this in order to do what he did.
Which, in a nutshell, sums up my reaction here, too. You could see, in this special, the moment the Doctor lost his grip on reality, the moment he went insane, the moment he became the Master. That the Master is returning in the next special is clearly no accident - he and the Doctor share that now, that insanity that makes them think that they can do whatever they want.
The difference between them, as it stands now, is that the Doctor is able to see that he went too far. Adelaide was brave enough to save the Earth's timeline from the destruction he very nearly wrought, but that was inevitable too - the universe, the Doctor himself said in "Turn Left," compensates. Usually, the Doctor is one of the tools it uses, but Ten, it would seem, isn't going to be of much use to it anymore. After he goes too far once, who's to say it won't be that much easier next time to do it again?
There are two more specials to go, so we'll see what we see, but as it stands now, that's a hell of a reason for Eleven to be brought into being, and it makes some tantalizing suggestions as to what his personality might be like.
. . . on a lighter note: FUCKING HELL WATER ZOMBIES. I've got a glass of water next to me as I type, and I'm thirsty, but I'm not ready to touch it just yet. Episodes like this make it really fucking hard to believe that Doctor Who is supposed to be a FAMILY show. I bet some parents have had some interesting discussion with their kids today.
(I also bet those water zombie costumes were miserable. Those poor actors. Especially Andy and Maggie. Damn.)
Man, I'm glad I waited to watch that episode of iCarly. Even if it turns out to be the worst thing the show has done since "iGo to Japan," it'll still be a welcome antidote. Between 2012 and "Waters of Mars," I have been put through the fucking wringer. Hell, even The Thick of It finished on more of a down note than usual. Adorably clever tween show, here I come!
Um. I think it broke me.
Ten has been heading in this direction for a long time; since he first regenerated, in fact. Remember him telling Rose, "I have no Off button"? He never did get one. He's been going off the rails bit by bit, as illustrated so beautifully by that "Handlebars" video everyone has seen by now. (If, somehow, you haven't: A perfect illustration of how Ten has always, despite his goofy charm, been terrifying.) And somehow, I still feel like I got hit by a truck.
Way back in my reaction post for "The Fires of Pompeii," I said:
I really liked the discussion of the nature of time and how events look to a Time Lord. This is an issue I've pondered a bit myself - it only seems logical that there is a very good reason indeed why Time Lords don't abuse their powers. [...] This lines up nicely with my reasoning - it's not that they don't, and it's not that they are physically unable. It's that they can't. It's that fucking with how time is supposed to go is repugnant to a Time Lord in a way that goes to the very deepest and most primeval levels. It ties in to how the Doctor reacted to Jack, and reinforces how very insane the Master must have been, to be able to ignore this in order to do what he did.
Which, in a nutshell, sums up my reaction here, too. You could see, in this special, the moment the Doctor lost his grip on reality, the moment he went insane, the moment he became the Master. That the Master is returning in the next special is clearly no accident - he and the Doctor share that now, that insanity that makes them think that they can do whatever they want.
The difference between them, as it stands now, is that the Doctor is able to see that he went too far. Adelaide was brave enough to save the Earth's timeline from the destruction he very nearly wrought, but that was inevitable too - the universe, the Doctor himself said in "Turn Left," compensates. Usually, the Doctor is one of the tools it uses, but Ten, it would seem, isn't going to be of much use to it anymore. After he goes too far once, who's to say it won't be that much easier next time to do it again?
There are two more specials to go, so we'll see what we see, but as it stands now, that's a hell of a reason for Eleven to be brought into being, and it makes some tantalizing suggestions as to what his personality might be like.
. . . on a lighter note: FUCKING HELL WATER ZOMBIES. I've got a glass of water next to me as I type, and I'm thirsty, but I'm not ready to touch it just yet. Episodes like this make it really fucking hard to believe that Doctor Who is supposed to be a FAMILY show. I bet some parents have had some interesting discussion with their kids today.
(I also bet those water zombie costumes were miserable. Those poor actors. Especially Andy and Maggie. Damn.)
Man, I'm glad I waited to watch that episode of iCarly. Even if it turns out to be the worst thing the show has done since "iGo to Japan," it'll still be a welcome antidote. Between 2012 and "Waters of Mars," I have been put through the fucking wringer. Hell, even The Thick of It finished on more of a down note than usual. Adorably clever tween show, here I come!
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On the other hand: "Because I love the way they feel against my skin in the moonlight!" Let me just package up that Crowning Moment of Awesome award for you there, Lewbert. My e-mail signature just got longer.
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(Question for later--the Master has proven that it is possible to distort the timeline beyond what really should have happened. This was followed by an epic reset. Is that the logic of the universe compensating? Does it literally give back years and force a do-over if time gets sufficiently ruptured? What parts of history are sufficiently ruptural, and why is the universe invested in them?)
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Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table~
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