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subtle1science

"marry me a little"

Jul 08, 2010 17:10

*sigh* Last thing I expected, watching DW5, was to become a shipper.... ;) I think it's happened. "I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS!" as the Doctor would say.

http://community.livejournal.com/doctoreleven/379354.html

Very nicely done essay on Doctor/River....and I heartily concur. In the comments, the poster who wrote the literary analysis of DW5 also ( Read more... )

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suo_gan July 9 2010, 01:00:03 UTC

Yes, yes and YES! to all of it ( ... )

subtle1science July 9 2010, 01:33:09 UTC

I hadn't realized it--but yeah: this does mark the anniversary of the debacle that was CoE. And the irony is heavy....For one thing, I have, as Rusty instructed, moved on to another show: the one he--oh, happy day!--left. And, because he left, the show has developed into something amazing, filled with gripping stories and characters and overflowing with ideas and themes ( ... )

suo_gan July 10 2010, 05:01:43 UTC

I had to go away and think about this for awhile. I don't think we're getting another CoE carpet pulled out from under us with River, but I think we are getting a heads up that she is a complex character, and that may mean she has done or will do some things that aren't good. But I don't think she's going to be the Big Baddie of DW6. Not someone who got an afterlife where she tenderly cares for kids - uh uh, bog tipoff here ( ... )

subtle1science July 10 2010, 13:28:17 UTC

I, too, think we'll see something very complex about River in the next phase of her character development. But I don't think that Moffat will go for the cheap shock writing, as some folks have suggested--I don't for instance, see her as a psycho stalker (shades of the Snape/Lily critics....). I also don't think she's going to turn out to be his daughter or his mother (which would make the picnic at Asgard and the Singing Towers dates pretty....ew.). :D ( ... )

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Re: *waves* subtle1science July 18 2010, 02:58:22 UTC

*waves back!!*

Welcome!

What I'm amazed by is--I can't wait for next year. That's almost as mindboggling as finding myself to be a complete 'shipper for the Doctor/River. ;D

Have you seen the DW season 4 episodes "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead"?

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Re: *waves* subtle1science July 18 2010, 11:13:53 UTC

It's amazing, going back now and looking at "Silence"/"Forest" and seeing how much foundation was laid in those two episodes. Including the fairytale motif, as River uses the Doctor's story as a bedtime story for the children.

Which also connects with the DW5 theme of the Doctor's protecting children: River uses his story to provide comfort and security to the children--two of whom don't exist at all, except in the computer, and who worried about that; and CAL, who was real but died, and now has not only a whole library world to read, but a mother figure.

Er. That went off on a tangent, didn't it?

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