Closing Time.
You know what’s marvellous about this episode from a meta point-of-view? The mirrors finally [begin to] become clearly defined, and I can write a post with lots of subheadings and different topics, rather than something that’s a big tangled ball with no beginning or end.
Please no spoilers beyond this episode (and the trailer)!!!
( These spoilers are adorable and quietly heartbreaking )
Please no spoilers beyond this episode (and the trailer)!!!
( These spoilers are adorable and quietly heartbreaking )
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Your analyses always make me go 'huh', and 'interesting!' and 'I hadn't thought of it quite that way, but now that you mention it...', and they essentially add oceans of depth to my enjoyment of the show.
Re: the finale, I think Rory will play a pivotal role as nurse to the Doctor/Doctor River Song and father to Melody. And I think it's going to cost him something huge.
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Your analyses always make me go 'huh', and 'interesting!' and 'I hadn't thought of it quite that way, but now that you mention it...', and they essentially add oceans of depth to my enjoyment of the show.
*beams* Thank you! I sort of can't not write, so it's lovely to know that other enjoy it! :)
Re: the finale, I think Rory will play a pivotal role as nurse to the Doctor/Doctor River Song and father to Melody. And I think it's going to cost him something huge.
Hmmmm. Well SOMETHING is up. My money is more on Amy at the moment, but since everything is connected, Rory could well be pivotal. *counts down nervously*
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(I pointed out the mirror/door to you in my episode reaction! Without your previous meta, I would have probably paid it no mind.)
As one who got so very tired of Emo!Ten, I appreciated you comparison/contrast of Ten and Eleven. (Eleven really is my favorite of all the "new" doctors...) And I agree, if Eleven is at peace with dying, he wants answers before he goes.
(And now I really want you to read my Alfie story!)
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*g* I'll take that as a good thing. :)
(I pointed out the mirror/door to you in my episode reaction! Without your previous meta, I would have probably paid it no mind.)
So many mirrors... /o\
As one who got so very tired of Emo!Ten, I appreciated you comparison/contrast of Ten and Eleven.
You've see owlsie's 'Ronery' vid, right? I am VERY fond of Ten, but he could angst for England... (To quote yhlee, talking about the actor who plays Wesley on Angel, who was - until Ten came along - one of the greats of man!pain: "I can't believe I forgot how Denisof as Wesley can stand there and exude pain. It's like a superpower." *g*)
(Eleven really is my favorite of all the "new" doctors...)
Well I only know the 'new' ones, but he's definitely my favourite too. It's funny, because I loved Ten very much, but once Eleven came along I suddenly went 'Hang on, so this is what's been missing...'
And I agree, if Eleven is at peace with dying, he wants answers before he goes. ( ... )
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Also I think it's obvious that Ten suffered from that god complex that the "Closing Time" Eleven has overcome, first with his actions at the end of "God Complex" and afterwards during those long years of loneliness before his farewell tour. The baby embodied what Eleven has faith in, humanity, while Ten still saw himself as a god the others had faith in. It's significant that he worked in a toys store, serving humanity, waiting for human customers.
The baby and Amy are the new gods.
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Someone called Craig Eleven's Wilf, but it's Alfie who's more pivotal in that particular respect. :)
Also I think it's obvious that Ten suffered from that god complex that the "Closing Time" Eleven has overcome, first with his actions at the end of "God Complex" and afterwards during those long years of loneliness before his farewell tour.
*nods a lot* And I love that it's been so systematically dismantled. Presuming that he finds a way to Not Die, he will be a very different man to the one at the end of RTD's run. Someone with a lot more humility.
The baby embodied what Eleven has faith in, humanity, while Ten still saw himself as a god the others had faith in. It's significant that he worked in a toys store, serving humanity, waiting for human customers.
LOVE the 'Here to help'. Love it to teeny tiny pieces! <3
The baby and Amy are the new gods.
All hail the Mighty Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All!
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i loved reading your analysis, but i did think eleven was pretty emo at the end, even if he wasn't full on emo at the beginning ...
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Petrichor = the smell of dust after rain. It was one of the passwords Amy and Rory needed to get into the old console room in The Doctor's Wife. :)
i loved reading your analysis, but i did think eleven was pretty emo at the end, even if he wasn't full on emo at the beginning ...
Well he's just about to die, so I'm not going to quibble. And the thing is that the show undercuts it *beautifully* by the little girl going 'I liked his hat'. It's the lack of indulgence that's the key difference. Oh and thank you. :)
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*twirls you*
Amy is *still* a mirror to the Doctor. Invoking the password that got them into Ten's console room. Becoming famous. Good with kids. Having a companion following her around. She's been converted.
Oh very good. But it's a different kind of mirror? (This is what I mean about the mirrors being clearer.) River is a literal mirror, with Timelord abilities and a timey-wimey nature, and someone who travels the universe by herself. Amy has turned into Sarah Jane. :) (Also see this discussion.)
Conversion. (Ten wore Converse shoes for running.) "With the Word." Perfect that we get Cybermen this time. Silver men, *mirror men*, "you will be like us." This is how the Doctor fights monsters, becoming like them. Notice the eyeglass loop he wears while wiping the memory of the cybermat so he can reprogram it. Shushing everyone, an invocation of silence.LOVELY. (And yes, I forgot to mention the cybermen. As well as Eleven's sudden declaration of love... Which was funny, but the fact that this is what he reaches for, after ( ... )
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