doctor who and the waste land

[tlr3]

over on doctor who, the dramatic argument is being made that the only moral way to respond to a total war is by becoming ambivalent about your own survival at the cost of others.

just in this season, we've already had three human characters who have responded to experiences with total war--plus daleks. both lazarus and diagoras say that, because of

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[irkthepurist]

oh i like this! some very interesting points to chew over here - thank you!

[tlr3]

glad you like 'em.

and i'm glad my english major and that class on modernist poets was worth something after all. .. :)

[sea_thoughts]

Very good ideas. So you think we're going to have a triangle of traumatised soldiers?

[tlr3]

jack, the doc, and (in the other corner), whoever simm is playing?

yeah. i don't think RTD would say it *too* directly, but the number of war-scarred men we've gotten so far has the smell of RTD setting up a difficult dramatic concept for the finale, which will then be an undercurrent rather than said *too* explicitly. kind of like the "maybe rose and the doctor aren't totally good for each other" undercurrent in season 2.

[therru]

Very interesting thoughts! I will certainly mull them over, and I hope you will keep posting in doctorwho!

[tlr3]

thanks!