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?)

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[promethia_tenk]

Anyway, this who thing ties in with the next ep, where the Doctor tries to stop the Bracewell bomb by talking about pain: 'It's hurts, that's means you're alive!'
Ooooo . . . I like. There's probably a much more coherent theory of the first half of the season in here somewhere if we poke around long enough. All that stuff about unlearning things left over from Ten . . .

Sleep well!