Doctor Who XXX[4].17: The End of Time, Part One

[parrot_knight]

Comments

[thanatos_kalos]

Finally, a pay-off for the use of the name 'Harold Saxon'

In the sense of the Saxons invading and assimiliating/being assimilated? Or am I missing a medieval ref? (My history ends about 500AD with the words 'Nunc aliquid diuersum omnino erit' (and now for something completely different).

[parrot_knight]

It's the idea of Harold II as England's lost hero-king, whom legend said survived Hastings and lived as a hermit/to a great age/to return at a time of England's greatest need. More obscure than Arthur in Britain or Fredericks I and II in Germany and Italy, but I'm sure it's occurred to Russell.

[thanatos_kalos]

Ah! I didn't know about that. :)

[parrot_knight]

There's certainly enough there for Russell to half-remember and amplify for his own purposes.

[tree_and_leaf]

It surfaces in Kipling - "Rewards and Faries".

[parrot_knight]

So it does.

[st_lemur]

Blond, Saxon, Master Race...

[parrot_knight]

I'd not thought of that, but that's there too.

[thanatos_kalos]

I caught the blonde/Master race bit (and now I have to bloody account for that, too... *watches word count dribble away*) but not the Saxon ref.

[st_lemur]

Rule 1 of TV/film textual analysis is "It's Always Nazis".

[parrot_knight]

The updated version of this rule, already seen in Doctor Who in 2005, is "It's always al-Qaeda".

[thanatos_kalos]

I thought Rule 1 was 'always use big words when writing it up'?

[parrot_knight]

That too. (In the humanities, no-one knows you can't count. If you know that 2+2=5, that's social sciences.)

[thanatos_kalos]

Which is why all the maths in my various projects scare my supervisors... ::evil laugh::