Comments | firstofoct: hello, my name is hannah and I am a huge RTD stan

firstofoct

hello, my name is hannah and I am a huge RTD stan

Jan 02, 2011 17:07

In which I tell you all about things that I have expressed a million times before, but I don't care.

Five Reasons I Am In Love With the RTD-era Of Doctor Who And Always Will Be
(in no particular order)

( Cut for rambling )

meta: doctor who, the doctor and rose. otp forever., doctor who

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kilodalton January 3 2011, 04:02:23 UTC

This whole thing is great!!

Of course he didn't want to die! Who does? And he didn't deserve to die, but that's just who he is. Of course the Doctor is going to save Wilf. Of course he is. The way that RTD gave the choice to Ten? Utterly beautiful and poetic and I love it so much.

I think that's the moment he finally calmed down - when he realized that he had the choice to open that door. Ten was a total control freak, and seemed willing to sacrifice his life for myriad people and causes throughout his tenure. (Kind of like he is sad when HE sends Rose to Pete's World, but when he thinks he will have her with him and she is swept there anyway 5 minutes later, he is totally devastated for years and years. Like in the first instance, he was controlling it - but in the second, he wasn't.)

I think having a prophecy hanging over his head was screwing with his mind big-time ... he was always big on being the one to control things, not the other way around.

firstofoct January 3 2011, 06:25:03 UTC

Aww, thank you!

I think having a prophecy hanging over his head was screwing with his mind big-time ... he was always big on being the one to control things, not the other way around.

I think that was such a big part of it. Here you had this guy that always knew more than everyone else in a room, always controlling the situation - being told he was going to die and he could do nothing and knew nothing. It drove him mad.

_thirty2flavors January 3 2011, 06:04:15 UTC

I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY WITH THIS. The way RTD crafts plots to get his characters to a certain point rather than craft characters to get the plot to a certain point is everything I loved about his show. Ten was allowed to grieve, good people had flaws but remained good people, the average person was always important, the ~feeling was always genuine and powerful and in conclusion IDK MAN RTD is so great.

firstofoct January 3 2011, 06:22:58 UTC

TY bb.

I just always felt that the theme with RTD's Doctor Who was that the most average person could do the most amazing, good things. It's shown in Father's Day, and TBF, again in ACC.

_thirty2flavors January 3 2011, 06:35:01 UTC

Absolutely, and that is why I love his companions and why I think Martha in LOTL is a bit more powerful on its own than Bad Wolf or DoctorDonna (and why I like Turn Left more for Donna, etc). Plus, it's Ten's line about "little people" that really reinforces how far off the rails he's gone and that's what sets Adelaide off (YOU GO GIRLFRIEN).

Yeah I do think Moffat has tried to stick wiht that theme, even if in general I am not sure he's been as successful yet. But I did really like Eleven's like about "nobody important? That's amazing! 900 years and I've never met anyone before who wasn't important" or w/e.

firstofoct January 3 2011, 06:40:11 UTC

Bad Wolf gets a few more points from me because Rose made the effort to save the Doctor and wasn't going to give up and was willing to risk her life, but ITA about Martha. Girl was badass and all of that for frankly, a very douche-y Ten.

But that's just the thing! It was one comment, albeit, a very well done one, but just one! That message was the central theme of so many episodes of RTD's Who and it's just SUCH a good message. Especially for the family audience that DW is intended for. Everyone can take something from a message like that. And RTD managed it without sounding like an after school special. I mean, Ten gets a little preachy sometimes, but most of the time (particularly the "you look like giants" comment) it is actually very true and not cheesy or fake at all.

god kali i've never been so srs in my life.

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sherrilina January 16 2011, 22:46:41 UTC

I meant to respond to this earlier, because I agree so hard! IDK, maybe because I'm new and it's all still so fresh to me, but when I think of "Doctor Who" in the "OMG I love/am obsessed with Doctor Who", it's still the RTD era I'm thinking of, sometimes I forget that now we have 11 and stuff! (Though I do like him, it's just...well ( ... )