First of all, brilliant as always. I was waiting for this like so many other people. I love your inclusion of River; thinking about her this way helps complete my personal understanding of the Moment.
I think yours is the first mention of the importance of the Marcus Aurelius qoute I've seen. Someone had a screencap up of Clara's writing on the board (to show her in the school) and it was focused on the words "no more" which of course resonated with the Warrior Doctor's ultimatum. But on my next viewings I concentrated to really hear the quote, and it gained so much more meaning.
And I'm so pleased you tied in to that wonderful Seven moment: I used it for inspiration for a ficlet: http://hawkmoth.livejournal.com/339944.html (which I titled "Unforeseeable Ways.")
Can't wait for more, and I know your meta for the Christmas Special is going to be heartwrenching.
Ack! LJ ate my comment. It really has been playing up recently. I had to re-upload about half the images for this post because they just vanished.
First of all, brilliant as always. I was waiting for this like so many other people. I might write more (mostly about 'the women') but this just all hang together.
I love your inclusion of River; thinking about her this way helps complete my personal understanding of the Moment. Yay! There is always the underlying idea of 'all the women are woman' (and all the men are - quite literally - one man!), and I might have to play with that a little more.
I think yours is the first mention of the importance of the Marcus Aurelius qoute I've seen. Oh, there's this beautiful review which uses his writings throughout. (S)he gets the timey-wimey wrong, but other than that it's pretty perfect. And all the quoting is brilliant.
And I'm so pleased you tied in to that wonderful Seven moment: I used it for inspiration for a ficlet: http://hawkmoth.
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>>This is *exactly* what Ten and Eleven do in The Day of the Doctor. They love and accept the War Doctor - stop running from what they did, stop denying it, and instead embrace it
Which I think they could not do without Clara and Rose doing it first. They basically all Care Bear Stare him into not blowing up Gallifrey, it's great.
>>Clara: What you’ve always done. Be a Doctor! ... You told be the name you chose was a promise. What was the promise?
I like how Clara talks to him like a student. ''Do you remember what we learned? Come on, you can do it.''
The Library parallels, specifically, "what he did was give her a screwdriver", and River as the Moment caused small shrieking sounds. Clara gets "I always know" as well.
Clara gets "I always know" as well. This one struck me much more forcefully, given the very recent repetition in Name of the Doctor: 'River would know. River always knew.'
The Library parallels, specifically, "what he did was give her a screwdriver", and River as the Moment caused small shrieking sounds. :D :D :D EVERYTHING ties back to the Library. It was pretty much Moffat's blueprint for how he was going to run the show I think. ♥
Clara gets "I always know" as well. All the women are one woman...
I am gobsmacked and have no words, beyond, this is just amazing. Amazing. You've pulled together so many threads it's just uncanny. I was kind of seeing this when I watched the 50th, but you've managed to articulate so many of my incoherent, unformed impressions. Thank you for getting inside my brain and putting everything into clear words (and images!).
I really wish Moff could read this. The special showed how much of a long game he's playing. I wish people would step back a bit from their snap judgments of him and look at the bigger picture of what he's doing.
I am gobsmacked and have no words, beyond, this is just amazing. Amazing. *mutters incoherently* (By which I mean thank you.)
You've pulled together so many threads it's just uncanny. I was kind of seeing this when I watched the 50th, but you've managed to articulate so many of my incoherent, unformed impressions. Thank you for getting inside my brain and putting everything into clear words (and images!). Oh I couldn't not! It was eating my head until I had it posted. And seriously, it was all just... there. Culling it and making it flow were the difficult parts.
I really wish Moff could read this. The special showed how much of a long game he's playing. I wish people would step back a bit from their snap judgments of him and look at the bigger picture of what he's doing. People are idiots. Like someone, somewhere said. If they're not 'getting it' by now, they should just leave and come back when they next person takes over. They're never going to understand.
Again, many many thanks for posting this.Thank YOU for your lovely,
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First of all, brilliant as always. I was waiting for this like so many other people. I love your inclusion of River; thinking about her this way helps complete my personal understanding of the Moment.
I think yours is the first mention of the importance of the Marcus Aurelius qoute I've seen. Someone had a screencap up of Clara's writing on the board (to show her in the school) and it was focused on the words "no more" which of course resonated with the Warrior Doctor's ultimatum. But on my next viewings I concentrated to really hear the quote, and it gained so much more meaning.
And I'm so pleased you tied in to that wonderful Seven moment: I used it for inspiration for a ficlet: http://hawkmoth.livejournal.com/339944.html (which I titled "Unforeseeable Ways.")
Can't wait for more, and I know your meta for the Christmas Special is going to be heartwrenching.
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It really has been playing up recently. I had to re-upload about half the images for this post because they just vanished.
First of all, brilliant as always. I was waiting for this like so many other people.
I might write more (mostly about 'the women') but this just all hang together.
I love your inclusion of River; thinking about her this way helps complete my personal understanding of the Moment.
Yay! There is always the underlying idea of 'all the women are woman' (and all the men are - quite literally - one man!), and I might have to play with that a little more.
I think yours is the first mention of the importance of the Marcus Aurelius qoute I've seen.
Oh, there's this beautiful review which uses his writings throughout. (S)he gets the timey-wimey wrong, but other than that it's pretty perfect. And all the quoting is brilliant.
And I'm so pleased you tied in to that wonderful Seven moment: I used it for inspiration for a ficlet: http://hawkmoth. ( ... )
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Which I think they could not do without Clara and Rose doing it first. They basically all Care Bear Stare him into not blowing up Gallifrey, it's great.
>>Clara: What you’ve always done. Be a Doctor! ... You told be the name you chose was a promise. What was the promise?
I like how Clara talks to him like a student. ''Do you remember what we learned? Come on, you can do it.''
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Lol! She does. *snort*
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Clara gets "I always know" as well.
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This one struck me much more forcefully, given the very recent repetition in Name of the Doctor: 'River would know. River always knew.'
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:D :D :D EVERYTHING ties back to the Library. It was pretty much Moffat's blueprint for how he was going to run the show I think. ♥
Clara gets "I always know" as well.
All the women are one woman...
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I really wish Moff could read this. The special showed how much of a long game he's playing. I wish people would step back a bit from their snap judgments of him and look at the bigger picture of what he's doing.
Again, many many thanks for posting this.
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*mutters incoherently* (By which I mean thank you.)
You've pulled together so many threads it's just uncanny. I was kind of seeing this when I watched the 50th, but you've managed to articulate so many of my incoherent, unformed impressions. Thank you for getting inside my brain and putting everything into clear words (and images!).
Oh I couldn't not! It was eating my head until I had it posted. And seriously, it was all just... there. Culling it and making it flow were the difficult parts.
I really wish Moff could read this. The special showed how much of a long game he's playing. I wish people would step back a bit from their snap judgments of him and look at the bigger picture of what he's doing.
People are idiots. Like someone, somewhere said. If they're not 'getting it' by now, they should just leave and come back when they next person takes over. They're never going to understand.
Again, many many thanks for posting this.Thank YOU for your lovely, ( ... )
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