meta: The Fate of All is Always Dust - The Name of the Doctor (part 1 of 2)
In which the use of words, and names are very important; there is a big difference between knowledge/information/wisdom/myth; the Akashic Records, the Astral Plane and the Golden Ratio make a mystical appearance; there is a lot to say about form/emptiness, what the soul is made of and how things are more than the sum of their parts; the Doctor can
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I agree, this season has been one of the most tmematically and symbolically rich i've seen. Series 7a was utterly brilliant, but 7b was just filled with layers and layers.
Though, I would offer that a deep reading of Sleeping Beauty is not about Love at all (after all, the two don't know each other, so how is Love involved?) -- but Awakening from the Ordeal into the Union. :) There is also a link in fairytale between the Impenetrable Forest of Thorns and Blindness/Captivity.... so that Beauty, as she lies insensate, is blind, but surrounded by thorns... then the thorns melt away so that her Antithesis may Awaken her.... just as in Rapunzel, the would be savior is blinded by thorns, until Rapunzel achieves her own freedom, passes through her ordeal, and restores his sight by Uniting with him in Tears. :)Thank you so much for the insight on this, that is fab!. Of course, the awakening from Ordeal into Union. I lost the thread of the heroic journey as this ( ... )
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Ahhhhh, of course, i'd totally forgotten about blind Ada!
'm not sure about the whole Soufflé metaphor or parts making up for the whole, to be fair I still don't understand how Clara went from herself to super-clever heroine Oswin or Victorian!Clara
I think loads is left open with Moffat's Who - we don't always get the full explanation. That's not a complaint - the pay off is that Moff works more symbolically - however, as such, detail gets lost. The mechanics of her survival all comes back to the leaf, and it's that which will define her identity - i need to epxlore that more, and its links to the World Tree and death/rebirth, also Clara as echo/ghost - hopefully i'll write on this in my next meta (but it's not gonna be around for a couple of weeks as i'm swanning off to scotland in 2 days time).
What still bugs me about the theory Hurt's Doctor is the one who committed the Time War Genocide is that I don't see how it will appear in the 50th, ( ... )
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thank you for reading!
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And the episode was marvelous! I spoke ill of Mr. Steven Moffat before, but this - and finally recently watching Sherlock (all of it at once) - has made me realise that this slander may well have been the mistake of my lifetime! I am sorry for saying anything against Mr. Moffat. That makes this humiliating apology made thrice, completing it by my promise to make it so. I hate being wrong.
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I'm so glad you have come round enjoying to Moffat's vision of Who. I do think he is a radically different writer to RTD, and it seems that fans prefer one approach over the other - quite naturally. I adore RTD, but Moff totally pushes my mythic buttonS!!
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