Pony Positive Day Two

[rabid1st]

Okay...I am out there trying to follow RTD logic...and let's see where it leads me.

RTD keeps pointing out that his Torchwood CoE choices are the product of "reality" and "drama" and he says that if you don't like the horrible things that happen, you should go read poetry. I am assuming he doesn't mean the poetry of Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath or Emily Dickinson.

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labour, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
were toward eternity.

Yes...that's a cheery one with no whiff of dramatic reality to it at all. It is sure to get me over my Torchwood CoE funk.

But...what about children's poetry? Maybe a little Dr. Seuss? Hop on Pop! That's cheery! Or, children's television might be the place for happy endings, right? RTD said there was no way he could kill Rose because Doctor Who is about hope. And it's SciFi fantasy not drama (or tragedy as I like to call pointless death and doom). So...what's up with the despair and brain wiping, Rusty?

I'm thinking if RTD really isn't being defensively hypocritical in his assertion that Torchwood has to kill characters because death and pain is part of reality...then it stands to reason Doctor Who is the place for happy, sappy, pony-fied ever-after love story endings. Something with a "true love's kiss" and a wedding, would be about right, I'm thinking. Dr. Who is not about reality, is it? It's about last minute saves. Why so glum, Ten? Just make all of the bad happy again...think "What would Captain Jack do?" and do the opposite of that. No lonely running...no lost lives...just happy endings.

Comments

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

I don't want to be depressed by poetry OR Torchwood. Luckily Torchwood failed to depress me due to being crap. The Torture poem, however, is very depressing indeed, as well as good - and Rusty should be duly humbled by it.

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

It's one of my favorites. Wislawa Szymborska makes me wish I read Polish.