owlboy: (Eleven ponder)
Helena Bottom Harder ([personal profile] owlboy) wrote in [personal profile] promethia_tenk 2011-01-21 12:58 am (UTC)

>>Explain! Explain!

Yes Dalek Tenk (salute)

It's quite gruesome. IMO all the red is a visual metaphor for the violence/opression that the city is built on- it's built on the blood of the Starwhale and the people sacrificed to it to hide the truth.
The violence is so pervasive in this culture that people don't even /notice/ it anymore. They wear it- they're drenched in it- and they don't know. Liz 10's epic red dress- I saw it was water at first, but it's blood- all of this flows out of her own actions that she has made herself ignorant of.

Eleven twigs to the situation almost immediately [and the way this is explained - it's a police state because no one cares about the children - i ADORE] but he doesn't get how horrific it really is. That he's wading into metaphorical blood with no idea. Which is why I find this little icon incredibly affecting.

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