Well someone appreciates our beautiful, gorgeous John...
Sat Jul 04 09, 1:15PM
'Doctor Who' blogging: "The Empty Child"
'tons of spoilers! don't read till you've seen the episode! and no comments from party poopers -- this is a love fest only / previous: Episode 8: "Father's Day”)
I'm rewatching the first series of the new Doctor Who with an eye toward looking where the show has gone since.
'more below the ad... scroll down...)
Ah, Steven Moffat, our new Doctor Who overlord: this is the first episode by him. And this is the first appearance of Captain Jack Harkness. I don't mind telling you, when I first heard that the Doctor was getting a new companion, long before I ever saw this episode, and I went in search of pictures online of the actor who would be playing him, I gasped when I saw John Barrowman. It wasn't this image:
but the effect was similar: he literally took my breath away, he was so beautiful, but in such a masculine way. I probably looked a bit like Rose, when she first lays eyes on him:
It's such a perfect introduction we get to Jack, so beautifully setting the stage for who he would be, as a character, but also who he would be as a sort of cultural icon. We've never seen a character like Jack before in pop culture: he's so manly while so unapologetically gay 'or perhaps omnisexual but mostly leaning toward gay -- we'd see later that he's fallen in love with at least one woman, but it's clear here that he'd have no trouble at all seducing Rose... and enjoying it). It's impossible to imagine any homophobic moron impugning Jack's masculinity: he's “all man” in a way that we haven't seen onscreen before, certainly not in anything so popular and with such an impact as this new Doctor Who turned out to have. I have no doubt there are real men like Jack -- we've just never seen them in popular entertainment like this before, certainly not in any kind of heroic capacity.
the rest can be found here: http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2009/07/070409doctor_who_blogging_empty_child.html
'Doctor Who' blogging: "The Empty Child"
'tons of spoilers! don't read till you've seen the episode! and no comments from party poopers -- this is a love fest only / previous: Episode 8: "Father's Day”)
I'm rewatching the first series of the new Doctor Who with an eye toward looking where the show has gone since.
'more below the ad... scroll down...)
Ah, Steven Moffat, our new Doctor Who overlord: this is the first episode by him. And this is the first appearance of Captain Jack Harkness. I don't mind telling you, when I first heard that the Doctor was getting a new companion, long before I ever saw this episode, and I went in search of pictures online of the actor who would be playing him, I gasped when I saw John Barrowman. It wasn't this image:
but the effect was similar: he literally took my breath away, he was so beautiful, but in such a masculine way. I probably looked a bit like Rose, when she first lays eyes on him:
It's such a perfect introduction we get to Jack, so beautifully setting the stage for who he would be, as a character, but also who he would be as a sort of cultural icon. We've never seen a character like Jack before in pop culture: he's so manly while so unapologetically gay 'or perhaps omnisexual but mostly leaning toward gay -- we'd see later that he's fallen in love with at least one woman, but it's clear here that he'd have no trouble at all seducing Rose... and enjoying it). It's impossible to imagine any homophobic moron impugning Jack's masculinity: he's “all man” in a way that we haven't seen onscreen before, certainly not in anything so popular and with such an impact as this new Doctor Who turned out to have. I have no doubt there are real men like Jack -- we've just never seen them in popular entertainment like this before, certainly not in any kind of heroic capacity.
the rest can be found here: http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2009/07/070409doctor_who_blogging_empty_child.html