I saw someone else do this as a poll at a Who comm and I figure now that I've seen the episodes I can attempt this. ok, so episodes broken down for your reading pleasure
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How many children play their little imaginary games and are told what they imagine can never be real? And how shattered do we feel when we finally realise that the cakes that we leave in the garden for the fairies can never really be eaten, because the fairies can never come in reality. And then, how nice is it, once in a blue moon, to have a a moment of escapism, back to that feeling of thinking "if there was nothing out there, than what was that noise?" where you can say to yourself "I do believe in fairies, I do, I do, I do."
THIS!!!! SO MUCH OF THIS!!!!
I DO BELIEVE IN MAGIC AGAIN SANTA MOFF! I DO!! I DO BELIEVE!!!!
And all because of this absolutely wonderful season!
I KNOW RIGHT. SANTA MOFF THANKYOU FOR REMINDING ME WHAT IT IS TO SEE WITH A CHILD'S EYES. THANKYOU FOR MAKING THIS THE GREATEST SEASON OF NEW WHO YET. JUST. THANKYOU.
There's a great quote of Philip Pullman's which sums this philosophy up. "Without stories we wouldn't be human beings at all." I knew I liked him.
I kind of expended most of my poetics for this season months ago, but I dug up a reaction I posted in a friend's journal back after the finale, which I think pretty much sums it all up for me:
This is what I hear from Steven Moffat over and over and over: Think deeper. Imagine wilder. Believe good things are possible. It's ok to forgive. It's ok to trust. Be good to each other. Remember. Keep trying. And keep telling stories, because the stories are where we keep the meanings.
That isn't trite, and that isn't naive. That's humanism. And we need to hear it, over and over. We need to hear it all the damn time.
I love Philip Pullman and his astonishing stories :P (At least for the most part. Though I wish his beliefs on God would take a back seat to his writing.)
That is the greatest series five quote ever and it is so true! The thing that's so great about series five of Dr Who is that yes there are terrible moments, yes there are sad moments, yes there are moments where things don't work out, but all that angst and pain always loses out to the good things in the end. It comes back to Vincent and The Doctor. "The bad stuff doesn't cancel out the good and make it unimportant."
I wish more dramas would remember this. Series nine of Spooks had me drowning in doom and gloom and five fan fics later, and a billion scene rewrites I still feel like my favourite character is doomed to a life of sadness because the scriptwriters have filled the episodes with so much angst and sadness and pain.
Series nine of Spooks had me drowning in doom and gloom and five fan fics later, and a billion scene rewrites I still feel like my favourite character is doomed to a life of sadness because the scriptwriters have filled the episodes with so much angst and sadness and pain.
I just realized the other day that, although I like both serious, angsty character dramas and lighter more comedic shows, I only feel compelled to write fic for the lighter ones. I feel like I have so much more freedom with lighter shows. The characters are perhaps drawn a little more sketchily, giving me more room to interpret; there's more humor, which I love to write; and I feel like, with tone, you can essentially always take characters from a lighter show and go darker, but it's very hard to take those from a darker show and lighten them up. Tragedies just cut off possibilities in so many ways.
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THIS!!!! SO MUCH OF THIS!!!!
I DO BELIEVE IN MAGIC AGAIN SANTA MOFF! I DO!! I DO BELIEVE!!!!
And all because of this absolutely wonderful season!
Also seconding the need for Hercule Poirot!!!!
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There must be at least a reference XD
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There's a great quote of Philip Pullman's which sums this philosophy up. "Without stories we wouldn't be human beings at all."
I knew I liked him.
I kind of expended most of my poetics for this season months ago, but I dug up a reaction I posted in a friend's journal back after the finale, which I think pretty much sums it all up for me:
This is what I hear from Steven Moffat over and over and over: Think deeper. Imagine wilder. Believe good things are possible. It's ok to forgive. It's ok to trust. Be good to each other. Remember. Keep trying. And keep telling stories, because the stories are where we keep the meanings.
That isn't trite, and that isn't naive. That's humanism. And we need to hear it, over and over. We need to hear it all the damn time.
He really is a magnificent bastard.
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That is the greatest series five quote ever and it is so true! The thing that's so great about series five of Dr Who is that yes there are terrible moments, yes there are sad moments, yes there are moments where things don't work out, but all that angst and pain always loses out to the good things in the end. It comes back to Vincent and The Doctor. "The bad stuff doesn't cancel out the good and make it unimportant."
I wish more dramas would remember this. Series nine of Spooks had me drowning in doom and gloom and five fan fics later, and a billion scene rewrites I still feel like my favourite character is doomed to a life of sadness because the scriptwriters have filled the episodes with so much angst and sadness and pain.
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I just realized the other day that, although I like both serious, angsty character dramas and lighter more comedic shows, I only feel compelled to write fic for the lighter ones. I feel like I have so much more freedom with lighter shows. The characters are perhaps drawn a little more sketchily, giving me more room to interpret; there's more humor, which I love to write; and I feel like, with tone, you can essentially always take characters from a lighter show and go darker, but it's very hard to take those from a darker show and lighten them up. Tragedies just cut off possibilities in so many ways.
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