Doctor Who: Vincent and the Doctor

[calapine]

Hello. Today was Doctor Who day, so I watched Doctor Who, and it was great.

Comments

[amaresu]

I got the impression that they were attempting to say that he had some sort of aphasia and that's why he could see the monster and that's why he painted like he did because it was how he saw the world. I've seen the Van Gogh had aphasia theory before though so perhaps that's why I'm thinking that.

And a big yes to everything else.

[calapine]

I thought aphasia was a thing where you found it difficult to communicate?

[amaresu]

It's where your senses get confused. Like people taste shapes or hear colors. It's really interesting. I used to know someone who could taste certain sounds.

There are a lot of different kinds. Medical dramas tend to show the difficulty in communicating ones. But lots of people lead perfectly normal lives, for the most part.

[calapine]

Possibly you be meaning synesthesia?

[calapine]

It's the first episode where I haven't wanted to Instantly Rewatch because I don't want to start sobbing ridiculously quite so soon again, woes.

[calapine]

Ah, yes, it works none too shabbily as a metaphor.

[piccgirl]

So..

I read like, the first line on your post, cursed the fact that my *ahem* download isn't finished yet, and skipped down here to say that.

*shakes fist at slowness of compy*

(I'll come back here after I watch it.)

(Nonsense comment is nonsense)

[such_heights]

Yes, so much, to all of this! <333

I really really like the Doctor's saying at the end that good things won't neccessarily soften the bad, because sometimes it doesn't matter how much you know you are loved and that people care about you and that there are amazing brilliant things and all the jazz, it doesn't matter, because inside everything is wrong and terrifying and it hurts.

Exactly, that made me enormously happy and feel loved by the show.

[calapine]

I think what pleased most was I know how much influence Doctor Who had on me as a kid, and given the show's popularity it'll undoubtedly influence a lot more kids now, and if I'd had this episode, I think I'd've been less scared when I first realised that I wasn't well, and that can only be a good thing.