Meta: Seeing EoT with new eyes (because RTD cut out THE MOST IMPORTANT PART!)

[elisi]

So, in my Time Lord Victorious meta, topaz_eyes posted a bit of cut dialogue from End of Time. It’s just a few lines from Wilf and the Doctor’s chat up in the Vinvocci spaceship, but it has completely overthrown my entire reading of the episode. Everything - OK, not everything, but the Doctor’s arc - suddenly makes sense in ways it didn’t before, and I feel

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[rahirah]

:considers:

Nope, still don't like Ten. Sorry. *g*

[elisi]

Oh you don't have to LIKE him. He's a selfish, self-righteous, self-pitying, un-Doctor-y broken ball of man!pain, and it's not a pretty or a likeable sight. But at least he's honest about it (and he is consistent), and that's all I wanted. (It's like... there's the DOCTOR [1-9 & 11] and then waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over there there's Ten, going mad and thinking that he's maybe god. Gives me a headache if I think about it too much.)

[paratti]

That line was perfect.

Misses it.

[elisi]

It would have made SUCH a difference... *sighs*

[paratti]

And opens up the Master's backstory so much.
Wibble.

[elisi]

Mmmmm, very true. Hadn't really thought of that, but yes. And it fits because the Master has always wanted survival above everything, and showing how that might have come about through the Doctor - just beautiful.

(You've read the naming of things, right? Summary: How to become the Master. It is the origin fic.)

[a_phoenixdragon]

I love you...

The way you can take the tangle of emotions and thoughts and make them obvious and...

I should probably stop here. Should have seen the rambly mess I made over at Prometheia's DreamWidth. Oh my gods...I'm just - unable to think, yet you do it for me and it is beautiful and brilliant.

Thank you.

*HUGS*

[elisi]

Hey, your comment over there was good and v. insightful!

Anyways, am happy I made sense. :)

[a_phoenixdragon]

LOL...messy, sprawling, horrid and completely missing the point while getting to the same point elsewhere, you mean, lol!!

You always make sense, bb. *Grins* I have to fic (rather incoherently, but still!) to make any modicum of sense.

*SQUISHES*

[promethia_tenk]

Whuu? It was a great comment.

[easytheretyger]

Wait, his reward was fish-fingers and custard? ;)

Brilliant meta, as usual. I wuv you.

[redjaywrites]

That should be a meme.

[elisi]

LOL.

Although an inability to appreciate fish custard could be a test for Having Gone Bad. What I mean is - Ten DOESN'T get fish fingers and custard. He has to be Eleven first. Ten wants indefinable, magical things, Eleven is happy with a little Scottish Girl and simple things. Which means he's the Doctor again, and the cure worked. :)

[easytheretyger]

:D

[redjaywrites]

Amazing. Will likely comment better when awake and exercised-out.

[redjaywrites]

Actually before I sleep, I do have one more comment. Two, actually. Ten has been grating on me, too, but I still like him from before he turned into... well, this. Excellent meta, as always. And since reading it, this line from a Johnny Cash song has been lodged in my head:

Go tell that long tongue liar
Go and tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter
Tell 'em that God's gonna cut 'em down
- God's Gonna Cut You Down, Johnny Cash

[elisi]

Ooooh, nice. Thank you.

[sensiblecat]

Johnny Cash really had Ten's number:
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses