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hermione_vader

Doctor Who Meme: Day 20.

Dec 29, 2010 00:21

So today, my mom and I went to the movies and saw The Fighter (Christian Bale = MIND BLOWN---must post more about that later). Later JoJo and I plowed through more of Series 11 of Top Gear (James and Richard on Japanese trains = adorkable). Then I watched Wedding Crashers (stupid but entertaining). God, I need to write something.

( Meme. )

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lotus0kid December 29 2010, 12:31:32 UTC

Oooh, so much yes. I actually spent like two hours looking for an icon of that moment, because it's so lovely.

You know, I never really connected Rose losing Earth to Nine losing Gallifrey before. I guess because she didn't really lose it, and it's not really her Earth- it's the one from billions of years in the future. But still, I think you're right that it's something she had to experience in order to understand the Doctor.

hermione_vader December 30 2010, 06:33:23 UTC

And it is such a pretty, pretty icon. You chose wisely. :D

I saw the metaphor when I first watched the episode---I don't know how to turn my "English major mode" off.

I guess because she didn't really lose it, and it's not really her Earth- it's the one from billions of years in the future.

Yes, I think it was more of a simulation of what he lost, but he needs her to know the gravity of what she's getting into, which is still very real for him. I also don't think they would have grown as close if she hadn't experienced that.

lotus0kid December 30 2010, 13:25:23 UTC

XD Thanks. I actually even told the person who made it how happy I was to finally find it. I think they enjoyed that.

Confessions of a former Who!n00b: when I first started watching, I was so ignorant of DW's canon that I thought the Doctor was the last of the Time Lords from the very beginning of the series, like back in One's day. I had no idea the Time War was a recent occurrence (inasmuch as a word like "recent" has any meaning here). I'm not sure how that may have affected my first impression of Nine, not knowing his PTSD was fresh.

hermione_vader January 5 2011, 04:13:01 UTC

They should enjoy it! They did a great job capturing that moment.

LOL. The Whoniverse is so expansive that when we all first get into it, our imaginations run a little wild.

More Who!n00b confessions: when I first discovered the show, I had heard that Captain Jack Harkness was immortal, and I saw an icon of him hugging Nine (in "Bad Wolf," I think), so at first I assumed he was a Time Lord. Then I started watching Torchwood and assume that he and the Doctor were really old friends, like stretching back to the Classic!Who Expanded Universe or something, but not seen onscreen. So when I got to "The Empty Child" and found that Jack and the Doctor didn't know each other at that point, I was really confused.