I like my angst subtextual . . .

[promethia_tenk]

So, I've long maintained that "The Beast Below" is a far, far better episode than most people give it credit for.  Then yesterday I was batting around some things with elisi , whose thoughts on such matters I can't really separate from my own anymore, and the following came to me:

Ok, so, "The Beast Below:"

Eleven is going to kill the starwhale. Or, more specifically, he's going to make it a vegetable so that it can still fly around but it "won't feel it."

Eleven is the starwhale.

And then he'll have to find a new name because he won't be the Doctor anymore.



So . . . what do you do around here to stave off the, you know . . . self harm?



(Aside: has anyone else ever tried to make this point before?  I swear I would have remembered it if I'd read it somewhere else, but maybe I missed something?)

Comments

[owlboy]

Could be. That scene with Liz 10 tho, with the dress, and the masks- I feel like they went to a lot of effort to pack metaphors in it. [I love that little scene a ridic amount]

[promethia_tenk]

=D Yeah, I remember when the episode came out everybody was like "that shot was really pretty but so weird--why was it even in there?" . . . gripe, gripe, gripe. I loved your stuff with the mirrors, etc.

I think my resolution for the next season is to pay more attention to the complainers (!)--usually a sign there's something deeper going on that we're all missing. Like the starwhale metaphor was waaaaay to heavy-handed *nods*

[owlboy]

>>I think my resolution for the next season is to pay more attention to the complainers (!)--usually a sign there's something deeper going on that we're all missing.

Absolutely! Some of them don't even realise how insightful they are. I twigged onto the bajillion eyes thing when someone said something like 'Moffat sure likes eyes, doesn't he?' [same dude went on to tell me I was reading too much into it...]

[promethia_tenk]

Some of them don't even realise how insightful they are.
Beautifully ironic, that.

[same dude went on to tell me I was reading too much into it...]
And that =D My favorite was still the guy on GB who posted a picture of a fistful of drinking straws and the caption 'drop em.' It was like, wow, that would be so much more clever if you weren't massively wrong . . .