There were a lot of nuances I missed in that finale, too, probably because I was so high off of how *not* disappointed I was. Even as I am critical of that "LET'S ALL THINK DOCTOR" stuff, I thought it was done really beautifully, and I loved, loved, loved it. Sometimes I forget to say how much I loved something because I launch straight away into criticism...but on a purely emotional level, I was hit very strongly, got almost a bit teary, and it reminded me of Peter Pan, when all the children are muttering "I do believe in faries" to bring back Tink from the dead. It's a weird kind of prayer, a kind of prayer I can really get behind, communal and built on shared values or a common goal.
Yes, Martha's arc was really, really well-done. And I don't know how much of it was intentional, but I felt super satisfied and enthusiastic about her character overall, and didn't feel let down at all by the show -- and even though I'm somewhat mixed about the whole "let's all think Doctor" at the end bit (as the SHOW clearly believes in the Doctor much more than I do), I didn't mean to deride Martha's trip around the world, which I thought was really harrowing, beautiful, and exciting, and definitely proved her willingness and ability to handle intense amounts of badassery.
And I'm a sucker for that whole "power of narrative/story" line. And it was primed for so well in the Shakespeare episode, the idea that words can matter, are powerful. It made tangible the metaphorical power of stories an words, and I appreciated that greatly.
I mean, the story itself disrupts the Master's thought matrix and breaks his power, not anything that the Doctor does. And the story that Martha is telling is her own story.Ugh, yes, this! What a
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Also, thank you for this. I witnessed Martha's arc, and loved/love her for being this fierce warrior but one who never looses her humanity. You really made me 'see' more than this, here.
*hugs* I'm so glad! I do love, love, love offering my wild and probably inaccurate interpretations of shows. I mean, sometimes I just makeup stuff. It goes beyond head-canon. Because it's just so fun to forget writerly intent and draw connections and make insights based on my own personal experiences. The power of narrative and media and art is that the author has essentially given us another world to peer into, and just like our world, it's full of myriad point-of-views and ways of seeing things.
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There were a lot of nuances I missed in that finale, too, probably because I was so high off of how *not* disappointed I was. Even as I am critical of that "LET'S ALL THINK DOCTOR" stuff, I thought it was done really beautifully, and I loved, loved, loved it. Sometimes I forget to say how much I loved something because I launch straight away into criticism...but on a purely emotional level, I was hit very strongly, got almost a bit teary, and it reminded me of Peter Pan, when all the children are muttering "I do believe in faries" to bring back Tink from the dead. It's a weird kind of prayer, a kind of prayer I can really get behind, communal and built on shared values or a common goal.
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And I'm a sucker for that whole "power of narrative/story" line. And it was primed for so well in the Shakespeare episode, the idea that words can matter, are powerful. It made tangible the metaphorical power of stories an words, and I appreciated that greatly.
I mean, the story itself disrupts the Master's thought matrix and breaks his power, not anything that the Doctor does. And the story that Martha is telling is her own story.Ugh, yes, this! What a ( ... )
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*hugs* I'm so glad! I do love, love, love offering my wild and probably inaccurate interpretations of shows. I mean, sometimes I just makeup stuff. It goes beyond head-canon. Because it's just so fun to forget writerly intent and draw connections and make insights based on my own personal experiences. The power of narrative and media and art is that the author has essentially given us another world to peer into, and just like our world, it's full of myriad point-of-views and ways of seeing things.
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