Please Allow Me To Rant
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
You've got to be kidding me.
Apparently, the BBC have just issued a "statement" or something (actually, it was a FAQ page) wherein they tackle the question "Is the Doctor Half-human?" and their response is "Yes, on his mum's side. It was established in the TV movie; though purists tend to disregard this."
First of all, though I am completely and utterly obsessed with Doctor Who in every possible way, I wouldn't exactly consider myself a purist. I'm open to pretty much any change in canon, anything the production team wants to throw at us, I'm typically good with.
But this...this is my one exception. I've always had issues with the whole "half-human" thing, in anything, not just Doctor Who. It dates back to when I was little and watching "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" all the time. In that, Sabrina, who I always thought was the coolest character, was half witch/half mortal, and it used to constantly infuriate me that she wasn't completely a witch. I don't know why. I'd sit there and get completely enchanted with some cool magical thing, she'd do something really cool and wierd and bizarre, and then just when I was completely in awe, they'd pull it down again and be all "Oh, but she's still half-mortal, what a shame." For some reason, it wasn't nearly as cool.
From that point on I became increasingly frustrated with the amount of characters that ended up being half-human. The whole "I'm half this, but half that, where do I belong" or the even worse "I can't do that, the half of me that's human makes me too weak" conflict bothered me more and more the more times I encountered it, culminating at the point I just happened to stumble upon the Doctor Who TV movie.
Now the Doctor had always facinated me. Totally alien, in every sense of the world, he was mysterious and bumbling and bizarre. He was one of the few characters that were still completely otherworldly, which I thought was brilliant.
And then I saw the TV movie.
I thought it was awesome, I'll just say that to start. I liked Paul McGann's Doctor, I loved his Doctor. I loved a lot about that movie. Amnesia? Sweet. Kissing Grace Holloway? Sweet. None of that bothered me, till they went all "The Doctor is half-human!" and I was about ready to crawl into a hole and die (ok, not really, even I didn't take it that seriously) It was like every fandom-related issue of my childhood all over again! I couldn't do it. I couldn't let my one alien character, my favorite character, go down the route of so many others.
So I did the one thing I swore to myself I would never do. I ignored it. Yes, it was technically canon, but since no one had confirmed it, I could get away with it. I don't usually ignore canon, I don't usually just gloss over things, and I'm usually very, very open-minded. But this...this was a deep seeded issue of mine, that no matter how many times I tried to ignore wouldn't seem to go away. I lived terrified that the new series would mention it, or have a line about it or something.
And now here I am. Sounding stupid, ignorant, stubborn, and totally unlike myself. Stuck in the past and refusing to look into the future. A half-human Doctor. I have tried to accept it, I've tried to make peace with the idea, but for some reason, I can't seem to let myself.
The Doctor is half-human, the Doctor is half-human, the Doctor is half-human.
*shudders uncontrollably*
I've got a lot of work to do on this. I'm very, very sorry.
You've got to be kidding me.
Apparently, the BBC have just issued a "statement" or something (actually, it was a FAQ page) wherein they tackle the question "Is the Doctor Half-human?" and their response is "Yes, on his mum's side. It was established in the TV movie; though purists tend to disregard this."
First of all, though I am completely and utterly obsessed with Doctor Who in every possible way, I wouldn't exactly consider myself a purist. I'm open to pretty much any change in canon, anything the production team wants to throw at us, I'm typically good with.
But this...this is my one exception. I've always had issues with the whole "half-human" thing, in anything, not just Doctor Who. It dates back to when I was little and watching "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" all the time. In that, Sabrina, who I always thought was the coolest character, was half witch/half mortal, and it used to constantly infuriate me that she wasn't completely a witch. I don't know why. I'd sit there and get completely enchanted with some cool magical thing, she'd do something really cool and wierd and bizarre, and then just when I was completely in awe, they'd pull it down again and be all "Oh, but she's still half-mortal, what a shame." For some reason, it wasn't nearly as cool.
From that point on I became increasingly frustrated with the amount of characters that ended up being half-human. The whole "I'm half this, but half that, where do I belong" or the even worse "I can't do that, the half of me that's human makes me too weak" conflict bothered me more and more the more times I encountered it, culminating at the point I just happened to stumble upon the Doctor Who TV movie.
Now the Doctor had always facinated me. Totally alien, in every sense of the world, he was mysterious and bumbling and bizarre. He was one of the few characters that were still completely otherworldly, which I thought was brilliant.
And then I saw the TV movie.
I thought it was awesome, I'll just say that to start. I liked Paul McGann's Doctor, I loved his Doctor. I loved a lot about that movie. Amnesia? Sweet. Kissing Grace Holloway? Sweet. None of that bothered me, till they went all "The Doctor is half-human!" and I was about ready to crawl into a hole and die (ok, not really, even I didn't take it that seriously) It was like every fandom-related issue of my childhood all over again! I couldn't do it. I couldn't let my one alien character, my favorite character, go down the route of so many others.
So I did the one thing I swore to myself I would never do. I ignored it. Yes, it was technically canon, but since no one had confirmed it, I could get away with it. I don't usually ignore canon, I don't usually just gloss over things, and I'm usually very, very open-minded. But this...this was a deep seeded issue of mine, that no matter how many times I tried to ignore wouldn't seem to go away. I lived terrified that the new series would mention it, or have a line about it or something.
And now here I am. Sounding stupid, ignorant, stubborn, and totally unlike myself. Stuck in the past and refusing to look into the future. A half-human Doctor. I have tried to accept it, I've tried to make peace with the idea, but for some reason, I can't seem to let myself.
The Doctor is half-human, the Doctor is half-human, the Doctor is half-human.
*shudders uncontrollably*
I've got a lot of work to do on this. I'm very, very sorry.