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There will be spoilers in this post for S4 Doctor Who...all the way to the finale.
So let's do our LJ cut...I can only hope all of you lovely unspoiled people come back here in a few weeks and read all this. I'm surprised I haven't been defriended for my obsessive ranting.
We first hear about the DoctorDonna in Planet of the Ood...this is also where the Ood tell the Doctor his song is coming to an end. I know it is generally assumed that the Ood were talking about "River Song" and this is just a wink and nudge moment. But the problem I have with that is that the Ood have just invited the Doctor and Donna to stay with them. There is room in the song for you, Doctor, they tell him. And he indicates the TARDIS...same old life...and says he has a song. Then they say that his song is coming to an end. All songs end, they say. Just as Bad Wolf Rose said, everything ends. And every WHO fan knows that all songs end...Doctors and companions change...the show changes. But at the end of JE...we have the same lonely old Doctor in his police box.
He's safe there, as his subconcious mind told the journal of impossible things. Nothing can hurt him in his box. None of us tend to think outside this particular blue box either...do we...? Yet, it is what he indicated here...when he said he had a song. And Rose is worried about him living the "same old life" and for a second when he was with the Ood before...he lost the police box...and he grabbed onto the life he wanted...with some terror but with some delight as well.
So, let's look at these Ood...with no free will. They are cut off from their great brain and both the brain and the Ood are diminished by the separation. The Ood are refered to as the Great Mind's children...but only when they are joined together do we hear the true song of unity and peace. There is room for the DoctorDonna in that song. And we hear the song again...when the Doctor and his children are pulling the Earth home...when Donna and 10.2 are standing there together smiling on everyone...united and at peace. I say this is the new age Doctor...one who can lead humanity to a higher purpose...more a teacher than a god.
But let's say the Doctor is right in everything he did in JE. And the song thing was about River. We are told that the children of time are an army. Both of those things have God image all over them...it is a very common metaphor...the Children of God become the Army of God. God is a separate all knowing entity that directs us to a "better life." We have free will but he knows best...so we do what he wants us to do. We can't even decide to die without him meddling in it.
Looking at Midnight again...we see that a Doctor separated from people is a rather petty god. He's on about how clever he is...and that's why he gets to decide what they should do. And he keeps the enemy close...for too long. And I think about 10.2 and his following through on the genocide of the Daleks when Nine wouldn't do that. Nine didn't kill them when he had the chance, either. 10.2 is his own man...really. And like Donna killing the wasp that was dragging Agatha down...10.2 kills the Daleks that are dragging the Doctor down.
Dalek Caan and the Doctor have a lot in common. They are the last sad remants of their kind. In the first season of New Who we are told that the amazing thing about the human race was the way they got out there and mingled with all the other species in the universe. They danced. They interbred. Humans and aliens mixed and became something new and exciting. All the other Daleks of Skaaro gave that a shot...but not Caan...he was clinging to the past. He wanted to have the glory of his lost empire back...so he flew into the Time Vortex. I can see the Doctor wanting the same thing...Gallifrey back. Worse, I can see the fans going...oh, good. But is it good to resurrect the dead past in the hopes of making it better this time? Father's Day told us no...you can start over with another man...but you can't make the dead live again.
I wonder if the reason the Doctor didn't want to kill the Daleks was that he can't bear to see the Time War end...and to put that part of his life behind him. And again...I think of the Valeyard...who we know came back through time to stop himself and the high council from succeeding. It is rather like a worm eating itself if RTD is working us toward the Valeyard...then he's taken brilliant tiny steps toward it every year. And the one true way to stop it happening...is to have 10.2 take over...then his inner Donna can stop him. And he, the great mind, will be one of his people rather then a separate ruling entity. The children will no longer be his army...his cannon fodder...but will be his family.
In the Doctor's Daughter he says something about not being a monkey's uncle...and I thought, oh, he's still got that I'm so above you thing going on. And he has it again in Midnight. And the child born in war...lives on...with Jenny...but again...I think...10.2 wasn't born in WAR at all...he was born out of love. First, the love 10 felt for Rose...and then a love of Donna as she needed him so much and was so afraid...and he came to help her. And he was always so calm about things...in the middle of the torture...not like 10...who seemed a few bricks short of a wall if you ask me.
There will be spoilers in this post for S4 Doctor Who...all the way to the finale.
So let's do our LJ cut...I can only hope all of you lovely unspoiled people come back here in a few weeks and read all this. I'm surprised I haven't been defriended for my obsessive ranting.
We first hear about the DoctorDonna in Planet of the Ood...this is also where the Ood tell the Doctor his song is coming to an end. I know it is generally assumed that the Ood were talking about "River Song" and this is just a wink and nudge moment. But the problem I have with that is that the Ood have just invited the Doctor and Donna to stay with them. There is room in the song for you, Doctor, they tell him. And he indicates the TARDIS...same old life...and says he has a song. Then they say that his song is coming to an end. All songs end, they say. Just as Bad Wolf Rose said, everything ends. And every WHO fan knows that all songs end...Doctors and companions change...the show changes. But at the end of JE...we have the same lonely old Doctor in his police box.
He's safe there, as his subconcious mind told the journal of impossible things. Nothing can hurt him in his box. None of us tend to think outside this particular blue box either...do we...? Yet, it is what he indicated here...when he said he had a song. And Rose is worried about him living the "same old life" and for a second when he was with the Ood before...he lost the police box...and he grabbed onto the life he wanted...with some terror but with some delight as well.
So, let's look at these Ood...with no free will. They are cut off from their great brain and both the brain and the Ood are diminished by the separation. The Ood are refered to as the Great Mind's children...but only when they are joined together do we hear the true song of unity and peace. There is room for the DoctorDonna in that song. And we hear the song again...when the Doctor and his children are pulling the Earth home...when Donna and 10.2 are standing there together smiling on everyone...united and at peace. I say this is the new age Doctor...one who can lead humanity to a higher purpose...more a teacher than a god.
But let's say the Doctor is right in everything he did in JE. And the song thing was about River. We are told that the children of time are an army. Both of those things have God image all over them...it is a very common metaphor...the Children of God become the Army of God. God is a separate all knowing entity that directs us to a "better life." We have free will but he knows best...so we do what he wants us to do. We can't even decide to die without him meddling in it.
Looking at Midnight again...we see that a Doctor separated from people is a rather petty god. He's on about how clever he is...and that's why he gets to decide what they should do. And he keeps the enemy close...for too long. And I think about 10.2 and his following through on the genocide of the Daleks when Nine wouldn't do that. Nine didn't kill them when he had the chance, either. 10.2 is his own man...really. And like Donna killing the wasp that was dragging Agatha down...10.2 kills the Daleks that are dragging the Doctor down.
Dalek Caan and the Doctor have a lot in common. They are the last sad remants of their kind. In the first season of New Who we are told that the amazing thing about the human race was the way they got out there and mingled with all the other species in the universe. They danced. They interbred. Humans and aliens mixed and became something new and exciting. All the other Daleks of Skaaro gave that a shot...but not Caan...he was clinging to the past. He wanted to have the glory of his lost empire back...so he flew into the Time Vortex. I can see the Doctor wanting the same thing...Gallifrey back. Worse, I can see the fans going...oh, good. But is it good to resurrect the dead past in the hopes of making it better this time? Father's Day told us no...you can start over with another man...but you can't make the dead live again.
I wonder if the reason the Doctor didn't want to kill the Daleks was that he can't bear to see the Time War end...and to put that part of his life behind him. And again...I think of the Valeyard...who we know came back through time to stop himself and the high council from succeeding. It is rather like a worm eating itself if RTD is working us toward the Valeyard...then he's taken brilliant tiny steps toward it every year. And the one true way to stop it happening...is to have 10.2 take over...then his inner Donna can stop him. And he, the great mind, will be one of his people rather then a separate ruling entity. The children will no longer be his army...his cannon fodder...but will be his family.
In the Doctor's Daughter he says something about not being a monkey's uncle...and I thought, oh, he's still got that I'm so above you thing going on. And he has it again in Midnight. And the child born in war...lives on...with Jenny...but again...I think...10.2 wasn't born in WAR at all...he was born out of love. First, the love 10 felt for Rose...and then a love of Donna as she needed him so much and was so afraid...and he came to help her. And he was always so calm about things...in the middle of the torture...not like 10...who seemed a few bricks short of a wall if you ask me.