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promethia_tenk) wrote2011-08-29 05:45 pm
promethia_tenk) wrote2011-08-29 05:45 pm
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More LKH reaction: let's not kill Moff just yet
I'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:
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The episode is copping some flak for not really addressing Melody's kidnapping properly, and I hate to agree with the angry people...
And River's timeline totally isn't complicated enough already. We need TWO of them!
I like the parallels to the Fisher King...<3
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I'd be a bit epically shocked.
The episode is copping some flak for not really addressing Melody's kidnapping properly, and I hate to agree with the angry people...
There are a whole lot of things about this episode where I could readily agree with the angry people, and I've managed to get my zen and Moff trust back and have even started loving this ep a bit, but a part of me could write huge criticisms about so many things going on here. It's the weirdest divided feeling, much like watching the episode with half of my brain going "wheee, isn't this just FUN?!??!" and the other half going "I. Hate. EVERYTHING." This is the first Moff thing I've ever watched where I suddenly really *understood* why some people hate his work, because all the usual criticisms you hear about him, I felt about this episode (at first).
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Oh well, there's a couple of Press Gang episodes I always skip because of their shittiness, and at least AGMGTW and LKH are re-watchable and fun, I suppose. I'm pretty patient when it comes to TV [hell, I watched House until the end of season 6] so hopefully things will start picking up in the finale and series 7.
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O_O You deserve a medal. Or perhaps some counseling.
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It was the horror of House/Cuddy that finally broke me ;_;
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I am a member of the House/Cameron comm expressly for the purpose of listening to them snark on Huddy--I figure it is all the enjoyment I could wring out of the late seasons without the horror of actually, you know, watching.
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This right here does rather seal it for me.