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promethia_tenk) wrote2011-01-20 05:20 pm
promethia_tenk) wrote2011-01-20 05:20 pm
I like my angst subtextual . . .
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 ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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?)
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?)
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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 . . .