You have a bubble icon too! I know! I am so pleased! :)
And if "who River kills" isn't a Jack-like moment of Not Flinching, I shall be very much surprised. I could see Moffat getting there in a huge number of different ways, but I'll bet you that's the kind of thing it'll be. I'm not going to take that bet, 'cause you're going to win.
Oh, wow. Nice. That nearly counts as foreshadowing. It does, doesn't it? That thing of being brought back to life... And I think it had to be Ten who did it when it comes to River. A future Doctor will set it up, but Ten is the one who'll play god - because he can. (And, if we take Rose's words/actions there, which happen just before she collapses and the Doctor takes the vortex from her, which will then kill him... well, the whole thing is then quite literally coursing through him as he regenerates. Hmmmm. No wonder he broke.)
When neither of them had a direction, they helped each other find it. But once they'd done that, they really didn't have many ways to challenge each other, everything was rushing one way, and Rose got bowled under. That's a very good summary.
And I was treating the characters more or less statically and looking at how their dynamic coalesces. This was so counter-intuitive to him it took us several meetings and me writing up a sample paper before he got what I wanted to do, at which point he decided that I'd really need to do some reading in Russian structuralist theory if that's how I was going to go about things. Heh. Having just had a look at the essay in question, I wrote it in response to someone who just didn't really see the point of Spike in S5 and I began to realise that what *I* saw was something vastly different and I had to spell it out so that others could see it too... But Russian structuralist theory is probably a bit much for a fannish essay (thank goodness)!
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Date: 27 Feb 2011 09:19 pm (UTC)I know! I am so pleased! :)
And if "who River kills" isn't a Jack-like moment of Not Flinching, I shall be very much surprised. I could see Moffat getting there in a huge number of different ways, but I'll bet you that's the kind of thing it'll be.
I'm not going to take that bet, 'cause you're going to win.
Oh, wow. Nice. That nearly counts as foreshadowing.
It does, doesn't it? That thing of being brought back to life... And I think it had to be Ten who did it when it comes to River. A future Doctor will set it up, but Ten is the one who'll play god - because he can. (And, if we take Rose's words/actions there, which happen just before she collapses and the Doctor takes the vortex from her, which will then kill him... well, the whole thing is then quite literally coursing through him as he regenerates. Hmmmm. No wonder he broke.)
When neither of them had a direction, they helped each other find it. But once they'd done that, they really didn't have many ways to challenge each other, everything was rushing one way, and Rose got bowled under.
That's a very good summary.
And I was treating the characters more or less statically and looking at how their dynamic coalesces. This was so counter-intuitive to him it took us several meetings and me writing up a sample paper before he got what I wanted to do, at which point he decided that I'd really need to do some reading in Russian structuralist theory if that's how I was going to go about things.
Heh. Having just had a look at the essay in question, I wrote it in response to someone who just didn't really see the point of Spike in S5 and I began to realise that what *I* saw was something vastly different and I had to spell it out so that others could see it too... But Russian structuralist theory is probably a bit much for a fannish essay (thank goodness)!