Pony Pep Talk Needed...ARRGGH!
Jun. 27th, 2009 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabid1stI have had a premonition of a pony-free Christmas as RTD and company start giving interviews about The Next Doctor all over the interwebs.
It took hold of me for no good reason. I have no additional spoiler news or anything, so don't fret over that. Suddenly, I just saw RTD talking up something that was completely ordinary (The Next Doctor) and I thought...he's not going to come through for us. He just doesn't get it. Though he did say he's getting better at hiding information from the press and fans.
I think this sudden loss of faith comes from the confidence they are showing going to Comic Con. They have what they think is an epic finale in the bag and they are ready to face questions from the audience with no fear of influence, no possiblity of second guessing themselves. I have to wonder what sort of reception they are going to get from the fans. Obviously, there is a lot of ill will about Donna, but most of the Rose-lovers seem to have given up the ship. I don't know...maybe this has all just gone on too long for me to keep being optimistic.
Someone give me a pep talk.
Depressing Pessimists are NOT welcome!
:grin:
It took hold of me for no good reason. I have no additional spoiler news or anything, so don't fret over that. Suddenly, I just saw RTD talking up something that was completely ordinary (The Next Doctor) and I thought...he's not going to come through for us. He just doesn't get it. Though he did say he's getting better at hiding information from the press and fans.
I think this sudden loss of faith comes from the confidence they are showing going to Comic Con. They have what they think is an epic finale in the bag and they are ready to face questions from the audience with no fear of influence, no possiblity of second guessing themselves. I have to wonder what sort of reception they are going to get from the fans. Obviously, there is a lot of ill will about Donna, but most of the Rose-lovers seem to have given up the ship. I don't know...maybe this has all just gone on too long for me to keep being optimistic.
Someone give me a pep talk.
Depressing Pessimists are NOT welcome!
:grin:
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Timothy Dalton could also be The Other
Date: 2009-06-29 01:53 am (UTC)Another possibility is that Dalton is playing a new version of the Valeyard.
I know...I know...I've gone to the Valeyard every season...but, dangnabit...it is the one really big question from Old School that RTD hasn't addressed and it is intimately tied in to the Doctor destroying Gallifrey. Also, it would underline the idea that the Doctor shouldn't be alone...and even underscore the use of the term "Naismith"...as in Not Smith...as in a Doctor gone bad. If the Doctor was sure that his enemy was the Master...then he learned that the Master was only a pawn in a hellish game that HE...the Doctor had set up...well...it might give us a grand enemy tie-in for S5, too.
Sadly, I am not a big fan of the revelation of your love in the moment of death scenario. Only because it, too, is over used. I do agree that there is something to be said for living that relatively short life with Rose...because it will be the same as loving for an hour...in our lifetime. But, I would rather see a hero who can embrace his desires than one who plays the martyr. I, also, feel that RTD sort of denies something very important in the gay community when he says the Doctor loves Rose but just can't be with her...because...he's a time lord and she's a human. That's very much like denying love...as you say.
Rae