http://janie-aire.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] janie-aire.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] promethia_tenk 2011-09-09 03:16 am (UTC)

Spanner in the works

Moffat does write about good and evil, not just to undermine it, but to focus in on what good and evil really entail. The Doctor's morality isn't about rules so much as it is about empathy.

With Eleven more than any other Doctor, we see him actively putting himself in the place of the monster, and we see an awful lot of monsters who are just like him, in somewayshape or form. His first glimpse in a "mirror" is when he sees himself (and Amelia) reflected in Prisoner Zero.

He's identified with the star whale by Amy. His identity reboots the Daleks. Both he and the angels are space-time events significant enough to close a Crack. He sits on the throne of Signora Calvierri. He *is* the Dream Lord. And so on. He saves Kazran because he finds empathy in Kazran -- and he damns the sexy fish vampires for not remembering a name.

I wonder if the real juxtaposition that everything hings on is juxtaposition itself. Order and chaos, good and evil, man and monster, fire and water, red and blue. The light and the dark. Isn't everything crossed with its opposite on this show?


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