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promethia_tenkI've worked out the thing about LKH that's been bothering me and that I was trying to get at in my fic:
It's still all about the little girl in the astronaut suit, and what we've seen in AGMGTW/LKH has to be the beginning of fixing that, not the end. Melody/River breaking her programming is a wonderful thing (and I do, actually, love how that was done), but that does nothing to address the fact that that programming should never have happened in the first place and that everything about how River/Melody's character is constructed is part of a deconstruction/analysis/response/resolution to who the Doctor is that we've barely even begun to tap into yet. Likewise, it does still matter that Amy and Rory don't have their baby back, and there's still the little matter of the Doctor apparently dying permanently at the hands of that astronaut by the lake (and we're told time is screwed up somehow). And all these things are connected in the form of the girl in the suit, which suggests to me that they all have to be resolved together.
Basically, Time Can Be Rewritten, and I think River is going to end up with dual lives/timelines, in the same way that Amy grew up without and with parents and that Rory was a Roman for 2000 years in a universe that never happened but can still remember it.
[ETA: idea from Elisi, that I now want very badly to be true: Moffat has talked in interviews about how the Doctor's reputation has become too big and that this season is in many ways about resolving that and returning him to the bumbling, low-profile space wanderer he once was. If the Doctor somehow succeeded in undoing his reputation throughout time, that would undo Kovarian and Co. and all their actions as well: stealing Melody, her brainwashing, the astronaut killing the Doctor . . .]
In other news: Silence will fall when the correct question is asked! Anyone familiar with the story of the Fisher King? Basically, the Fisher King is the legendary guardian of the Holy Grail, the cup of life (everybody lives!). But the Fisher King is wounded/ill in such a mythological/symbolic way that all his land is likewise stricken and dying (often this wound is a thigh wound, which is taken symbolically as a sexual wound, and the fertility of the land is tied to the fertility of its king). Some versions of the legend explicitly link the damage to the King and his land to a war (like, say, the Time War). A knight searching for the Grail must make his way to the Chapel Perilous and there ask a correct series of questions (which are a mystery) and which will heal the King and restore life to the land. I've been suspecting that Moff has been positioning the Doctor as the Fisher King since the Christmas special:
It's still all about the little girl in the astronaut suit, and what we've seen in AGMGTW/LKH has to be the beginning of fixing that, not the end. Melody/River breaking her programming is a wonderful thing (and I do, actually, love how that was done), but that does nothing to address the fact that that programming should never have happened in the first place and that everything about how River/Melody's character is constructed is part of a deconstruction/analysis/response/resolution to who the Doctor is that we've barely even begun to tap into yet. Likewise, it does still matter that Amy and Rory don't have their baby back, and there's still the little matter of the Doctor apparently dying permanently at the hands of that astronaut by the lake (and we're told time is screwed up somehow). And all these things are connected in the form of the girl in the suit, which suggests to me that they all have to be resolved together.
Basically, Time Can Be Rewritten, and I think River is going to end up with dual lives/timelines, in the same way that Amy grew up without and with parents and that Rory was a Roman for 2000 years in a universe that never happened but can still remember it.
[ETA: idea from Elisi, that I now want very badly to be true: Moffat has talked in interviews about how the Doctor's reputation has become too big and that this season is in many ways about resolving that and returning him to the bumbling, low-profile space wanderer he once was. If the Doctor somehow succeeded in undoing his reputation throughout time, that would undo Kovarian and Co. and all their actions as well: stealing Melody, her brainwashing, the astronaut killing the Doctor . . .]
In other news: Silence will fall when the correct question is asked! Anyone familiar with the story of the Fisher King? Basically, the Fisher King is the legendary guardian of the Holy Grail, the cup of life (everybody lives!). But the Fisher King is wounded/ill in such a mythological/symbolic way that all his land is likewise stricken and dying (often this wound is a thigh wound, which is taken symbolically as a sexual wound, and the fertility of the land is tied to the fertility of its king). Some versions of the legend explicitly link the damage to the King and his land to a war (like, say, the Time War). A knight searching for the Grail must make his way to the Chapel Perilous and there ask a correct series of questions (which are a mystery) and which will heal the King and restore life to the land. I've been suspecting that Moff has been positioning the Doctor as the Fisher King since the Christmas special:
