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Jul. 27th, 2009 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gementIn the wake of Torchwood fan reactions to events in Children of Earth, and just on general principle, I am delighted to support this thesis: Doctor Who has no canon.
It's a lovely essay, with no spoilers and lots of quotes from Doctor Who bigshot writers, and I just kept nodding like a bobble-head the whole time. It's a valuable piece of reading if you're a fan of some other geek franchise or like thinking about what makes stories Real, even if you're not Whovian.
This note in the comments actually made my eyes well up:
"The Doctor remembers every Doctor Who story ever told. Every episode, target book, comic strip and every game of companions and TARDISes that you played as a kid. The universe he lives in has no record of it, because of paradoxes and divergent dimensions and the Time War have reset things... but the Doctor remembers and sometimes when he is sad it's because you've stopped being 8 years old and he can't run around the school playground with you anymore."
Yes. Just like that. I'm still playing. Are you?
It's a lovely essay, with no spoilers and lots of quotes from Doctor Who bigshot writers, and I just kept nodding like a bobble-head the whole time. It's a valuable piece of reading if you're a fan of some other geek franchise or like thinking about what makes stories Real, even if you're not Whovian.
This note in the comments actually made my eyes well up:
"The Doctor remembers every Doctor Who story ever told. Every episode, target book, comic strip and every game of companions and TARDISes that you played as a kid. The universe he lives in has no record of it, because of paradoxes and divergent dimensions and the Time War have reset things... but the Doctor remembers and sometimes when he is sad it's because you've stopped being 8 years old and he can't run around the school playground with you anymore."
Yes. Just like that. I'm still playing. Are you?
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Date: 2009-07-28 06:46 pm (UTC)I was sad that the quote you posted didn't apply to me. The character, the concept, of the Doctor is so beautiful. I've introduced Dominic to it and every time he asks to watch it I feel warm inside. Except this last time when I turned on Season 4 and he asked, "Where's Rose?" Then I felt a little sad.
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Date: 2009-07-28 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-28 07:37 pm (UTC)Let's get dangerous!
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Date: 2009-07-29 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-29 12:29 pm (UTC)