what am I to make of the apparent tilt towards destruction this season?
"Everything has its time and everything dies." Or to put it another way: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up..."
We've had the time of creation: the Eleventh Doctor's identity was created by Amelia in Series 5, the Ponds' marriage was created, the new universe was created and the Doctor was REcreated from Amelia's memories; River Song as we know her was created in Series 6 and Team TARDIS started the revolution to overthrow the Silence; the Doctor's old reputation was killed off and he created a new one - i.e. the madman with a box, not the Oncoming Storm, which was cemented in the first episode of Series 7 with the Daleks' memory being wiped.
Now we are over the crest of the hill and going down the other side, down into the dark, into death and destruction (no, I don't think it's a coincidence that Moffat wanted this series to start in autumn as the days grow shorter, the nights grow colder and the dark grows stronger). We know that we are seeing the last of the Ponds: their story is ending (it's even possible that the Doctor is moving backwards through their timeline in order to avoid saying goodbye). The end of the Ponds brings all of the things that the Doctor hates: saying goodbye, leaving people behind, being alone again. Let's not forget that the Ponds can't have any more biological children and Amy can't settle down because she's always listening out for the TARDIS sound. As long as she's listening, as long as she's still WAITING, there will be no more creating.
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Date: 18 Sep 2012 10:23 pm (UTC)"Everything has its time and everything dies." Or to put it another way: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up..."
We've had the time of creation: the Eleventh Doctor's identity was created by Amelia in Series 5, the Ponds' marriage was created, the new universe was created and the Doctor was REcreated from Amelia's memories; River Song as we know her was created in Series 6 and Team TARDIS started the revolution to overthrow the Silence; the Doctor's old reputation was killed off and he created a new one - i.e. the madman with a box, not the Oncoming Storm, which was cemented in the first episode of Series 7 with the Daleks' memory being wiped.
Now we are over the crest of the hill and going down the other side, down into the dark, into death and destruction (no, I don't think it's a coincidence that Moffat wanted this series to start in autumn as the days grow shorter, the nights grow colder and the dark grows stronger). We know that we are seeing the last of the Ponds: their story is ending (it's even possible that the Doctor is moving backwards through their timeline in order to avoid saying goodbye). The end of the Ponds brings all of the things that the Doctor hates: saying goodbye, leaving people behind, being alone again. Let's not forget that the Ponds can't have any more biological children and Amy can't settle down because she's always listening out for the TARDIS sound. As long as she's listening, as long as she's still WAITING, there will be no more creating.