Of the three Christmas Specials, I still like The Runaway Bride best (Donna! Gallifrey! Darkest Ten Moment ever except for end of Family of Blood! Season 3 foreshadowing in miniature! Inspired Lunacy!) , and The Christmas Invasion least (no Doctor at all until the last ten minutes or so, swordfight as grand climax (which I'm only fond of in DW if
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Rusty 'n Joe and their ex believer issues: in RTD's case, well, the guy wrote a two parter (starring Eccleston as the man himself, no less) about Jesus disolving religion, and JMS spent half of the Lost Tales on the Augustinian "why does God permit evil?" argument, so I stand by my claim about their ongoing obsession? (I've never watched Queer as Folk, so I have no idea whether Rusty vents it there, too. He didn't in Casanova. JMS, on the other hand, always finds a way to smuggle in a messiah and/or a crucifixion somewhere, and if not that, then an antichrist...)
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Yay!
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*nods eagerly*
so I stand by my claim about their ongoing obsession
Oh, I didn't mean to contest that claim at all, I was merely wondering if it's ex-believers rather than atheists per se (one not necessarily being the other).
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Something I also remembered is an old comic book series JMS wrote - Midnight Nation, which has angels and demons and a character getting crucified among other things. He definitely seems to like the imagery.
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