Vid Rec...The fury of a Timelord

[fate_incomplete]

Randomly come across this vid this afternoon, so here's a random vid rec for a Sunday afternoon.

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For months now, I haven't been able to watch any Who clips/vids without feeling like crying. A whole heap of emotions in the lead up to the 50th with the added knowledge of fall of the Eleventh actually coming and everything Who kind of hurts, though

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[betawho]

Great video, but this is actually an example of something I really dislike in New Who. The emphasis on the negative.

The Doctor can't simply be a man who joyfully wants to go out into the universe to experience the wonder of it.

Nowadays he has to be "running" from all the bad things, all the "blood on his hands."

He doesn't go forward in hope and joy, he goes forward "because he daren't look back."

And, to me, that's a crying shame. It's a loss of innocence at a time when the world desperately needs innocence.

Wonder has been replaced by tragedy. Shame has replaced self-worth. A man who used to be described as someone "with the best life ever" now has a life that he himself cannot even look at.

"I weep for my people," as Churchill said. When innocence and wonder are considered lesser things than trajedy and self-loathing.

When "While there's life there's hope" is replaced by "Everything dies."

[fate_incomplete]

I actually like the duality and complexity of the Doctor shown by this darker side of his character. To me the fact that he can keep going, can find wonder and beauty in the universe after everything he has seen, and everything he has done shows his depth and strength. In particular this is why I like Eleven, he walks that fine line of innocence, child like wonder and desire for adventure, a depth of caring and responsibility, his guilt, his darkness, his age, the weight of all his years so well

[a_phoenixdragon]

This was perfectperfectperfect...

*HUGS*

[fate_incomplete]

Isn't it just! Makes me want to dark!fic Eleven being all delightfully wicked. You know, if I currently had the attention span to actually sit and write instead of finding distractions like tumblr too shiny to resist...