Meaningless Doctor Who Quotes
Jul. 31st, 2009 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabid1stOr...I can read a pony into any old shadow on the side of a building...
...if I tilt my head just right and squint.
This quote, like all the rest of them, is completely meaningless because it comes out of context and is related to the psychology of people I just don't know very well.
So, I get all excited about it...because I hope it means what I want it to mean...and yet, in the end...it probably doesn't mean anything like what I want it to mean.
Confused?
Pop under this cut for a very short, probably meaningless, pony-squeeable quote from DT...
Asked about how his run as the Doctor ends...
iF: Did it finish the way you wanted?
TENNANT: [huge smile] Oh, yeah.
Well, then...all we really need to know is what David wanted.
He certainly always seemed to be a Ten/Rose shipper...and a heroic and memorable end is always the best kind. Leave the audience uplifted and singing your praises. But he could also have layers as an actor...and be proud of a worthy death sequence. Hard to say. One thing I noted about a few San Diego interviews...David and RTD kept praising Billie...then quickly adding in Catherine Tate and others. They would go...actors the caliber of Billie...and Catherine Tate...and the rest. Making me wonder...is it just that they both love Billie and find her iconic? Or does she have some bigger part to play than a single flashback scene?
Because the one thing in S4 that seemed to really please David...was having Billie back on set and acting out those uber-romantic moments with her. Though he never mentions that directly...he does make it very clear in the video diaries. And in the confidential...where he gushes about Rose being "all he (the Doctor) wants in the universe." Oh...and when he was giving a recent interview...the interviewer suggested he must have enjoyed the Bad Wolf Bay scene...and he actually seemed very taken aback...and then said..."Well, that one was very hard to do, but yes, you are proud of the work, looking back." So...he didn't like it.
...if I tilt my head just right and squint.
This quote, like all the rest of them, is completely meaningless because it comes out of context and is related to the psychology of people I just don't know very well.
So, I get all excited about it...because I hope it means what I want it to mean...and yet, in the end...it probably doesn't mean anything like what I want it to mean.
Confused?
Pop under this cut for a very short, probably meaningless, pony-squeeable quote from DT...
Asked about how his run as the Doctor ends...
iF: Did it finish the way you wanted?
TENNANT: [huge smile] Oh, yeah.
Well, then...all we really need to know is what David wanted.
He certainly always seemed to be a Ten/Rose shipper...and a heroic and memorable end is always the best kind. Leave the audience uplifted and singing your praises. But he could also have layers as an actor...and be proud of a worthy death sequence. Hard to say. One thing I noted about a few San Diego interviews...David and RTD kept praising Billie...then quickly adding in Catherine Tate and others. They would go...actors the caliber of Billie...and Catherine Tate...and the rest. Making me wonder...is it just that they both love Billie and find her iconic? Or does she have some bigger part to play than a single flashback scene?
Because the one thing in S4 that seemed to really please David...was having Billie back on set and acting out those uber-romantic moments with her. Though he never mentions that directly...he does make it very clear in the video diaries. And in the confidential...where he gushes about Rose being "all he (the Doctor) wants in the universe." Oh...and when he was giving a recent interview...the interviewer suggested he must have enjoyed the Bad Wolf Bay scene...and he actually seemed very taken aback...and then said..."Well, that one was very hard to do, but yes, you are proud of the work, looking back." So...he didn't like it.
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Okay...I am looking at you now...
Date: 2009-08-01 01:01 am (UTC)That JUST occured to you?
That has been the geek-boy alternative to the pony all along. Save Gallifrey...put things back the way they were...there is a link there with Davros saying, "A simple Dalek did what you could not do."
So, yes...he ruins his ship and gives his life...working with the Master, perhaps...to bring Gallifrey back and buy redemption. Now, I know that you haven't been out there on the regular DW boards, where that is the only theory going...bringing back the Time Lords and Gallifrey in a sweeping reset.
I hate this theory...because I like Gallifrey free Who...for now. And I don't see that it really solves anything...but it does leave Moffat with a clean slate and it is a good explanation for David saying, "He does what he could only do at the end of his life." Basically, he breaks the laws of time...and dies getting his people back...coming full circle. And really...well...the Time Lords could give him a magic life with Rose as a reward...or something. So, it could still be pony friendly. I don't like it because it resets the main thing that is interesting about New Who...no Time Lords but him.
Rae
Re: Okay...I am looking at you now...
Date: 2009-08-01 02:40 am (UTC)Worse, yet...
Date: 2009-08-01 02:42 am (UTC)Rabid is deeply wounded by this.
:grin: