Time Lords! Now with Randomly Ass-Pulled Superpowers!
Yeah, it's been a while. Here's a "quick" rundown of some of the pop culture stuff I've been consuming lately--to actually go into detail on any of these would require seperate entries for each. And probably also cuts:
--I read some more Xanth, a neat book about Asian culture (not just anime, but also like, foods, drinks, crafts, etc.), a cool big ( Read more... )
and the Doctor whined and had an actual freaking _temper tantrum_ like a baby where he shoved things off the desk, and even worse--he considered, really CONSIDERED, letting Wilfred _die_ because he was just "a little person"! and I wanted to take him by his lapels and _shake_ him...
Whereas I wanted to give the Doctor an enormous hug in between my crying. Because I knew exactly how he felt, because I've felt like that. ALL THE TIME. (... er. Not the part where I have to decide whether or not to sacrifice myself for someone else; that's actually never come up. ;-) But the part where I'm being put in a position where I have to grow and change and move on and I don't want to do it?? Yeah, THAT I can relate to, believe you me. I mean, I totally get that it could drive some people insane, that scene, but in my case -- I just read it that way and then related and emphasized to the point where I couldn't half-breathe between sobs, and that was that. :))
If you got something positive out of the Doctor's "I'm the god. I'M the god!!", I'm honestly curious as to what. I don't mean to say your opinion is automatically invalid and stupid, I just...don't get it. Obviously LOTS of people get _exactly what RTD wants them to get_ out of all this. I just...wish I knew how. I walk into the church, and where everybody else hears soaring, uplifting music, _I_ just hear noise.
I get something positive out of it because the Doctor _is_ a demigod, to my way of seeing. I know he introduces himself as "just" an alien, but his mythology runs so deep (in both the world of the show, and, let'e be honest, in our own world thanks to a show with 50 or 60 or whatever years of history) that he's more like a Greek or Egyptian god to me than he is Just Another Character.
Like ... okay, here's the difference. "Twilight" ticks me off because Bella treats Edward like a god, but Edward is just a smarmy vampire bloke undeserving of such attention. Everyone in "Doctor Who" treats the Doctor like a god, and I'm okay with that because he IS one. The Doctor has the centuries and the near-immortality and the memories and the abilities and (here's the most important one) the GOODNESS to back up such a claim. Edward doesn't.
It doesn't bother me when characters get all semi-worshipful and blindly-following of the Doctor, because I feel like he deserves it. And that's not to say that if Martha Jones had established a church building and started holding worship services for people to kneel to the Doctor every Sunday, that I would be cool with it, because No. That's too far.
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