Could you elaborate on that some time? It doesn't make much sense to me as it stands since the Doctor mostly focuses on Earth and humans and they weren't involved in the Time War. Well, the Time War itself continues to effect the whole universe: we're still meeting races displaced by it (the Zygons who are on earth in The Zygon Invasion/Inversion were looking for a new home because theirs was destroyed by the Time War, for example). But more essentially, I think, is that the Doctor has so much impact on the places that he intervenes, but the fallout from the Time War has 'sickened' him and this effect inevitably spreads to the things he touches. This is the most pronounced in late-stage Ten (Waters of Mars), and the consequences of his unbalance start coming home to roost with Eleven. The warrior persona he can't quite seem to put away has earned him a fearsome reputation. It leads his enemies to destroy the universe in The Big Bang. It leads them to steal his friends' baby and make her into a weapon to bring him down--universal devastation is personal devastation and vice-versa. A thousand-year war wages on Trenzalore to try to keep the Time Lords from returning and the Time War from re-ignigting and the Doctor is the lynchpin. The Doctor's unwellness is fundamentally the universe's unwellness in Moffat Who, and Moffat's major project has been to fix it.
Except with the Doctor now disabled that whole dynamic is reversed. Elisi and I were talking about how, when One sent Susan away, the expectation was very much reversed: not that he needed to protect her but that she needed to take care of him and would need to be pushed to go out and live her own life. Blinding the Doctor would seem to introduce a similar dynamic into his relationship with BIll. Have you seen Pyramid at the End of the World yet? My head is spinning wonderfully.
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Date: 30 May 2017 02:57 pm (UTC)Well, the Time War itself continues to effect the whole universe: we're still meeting races displaced by it (the Zygons who are on earth in The Zygon Invasion/Inversion were looking for a new home because theirs was destroyed by the Time War, for example). But more essentially, I think, is that the Doctor has so much impact on the places that he intervenes, but the fallout from the Time War has 'sickened' him and this effect inevitably spreads to the things he touches. This is the most pronounced in late-stage Ten (Waters of Mars), and the consequences of his unbalance start coming home to roost with Eleven. The warrior persona he can't quite seem to put away has earned him a fearsome reputation. It leads his enemies to destroy the universe in The Big Bang. It leads them to steal his friends' baby and make her into a weapon to bring him down--universal devastation is personal devastation and vice-versa. A thousand-year war wages on Trenzalore to try to keep the Time Lords from returning and the Time War from re-ignigting and the Doctor is the lynchpin. The Doctor's unwellness is fundamentally the universe's unwellness in Moffat Who, and Moffat's major project has been to fix it.
Except with the Doctor now disabled that whole dynamic is reversed.
Elisi and I were talking about how, when One sent Susan away, the expectation was very much reversed: not that he needed to protect her but that she needed to take care of him and would need to be pushed to go out and live her own life. Blinding the Doctor would seem to introduce a similar dynamic into his relationship with BIll. Have you seen Pyramid at the End of the World yet? My head is spinning wonderfully.