maybe they've reached a point where they don't have a handle on him anymore and it's the equivalent of the beach scene.
It looks that way, and I hate it. I want something both more emotive and more positive.
I like the godhood angle when it started - it seemed playful and imaginative. But the more they - the producers, the writers - seemed to be taking it seriously, and not necessarily just on a symbolic level, the more annoying it seemed. Too grandiose, and not leading anywhere I wanted to go. Gallifreyans are not gods, they're people - I loved the notion (from series 1) that the Doctor was both different and the same as humanity. By the end of series 3, I feel that's been lost: having a planet of people praying to him and having their prayers answered by a major miracle - that puts him apart in a rather dramatic way, in a way where he can't be 'one of us', injecting a sense of hierarchy that I don't think should be there....
I'm not sure if this thought or feeling is very clear, but it adds up to: if the Doctor is a god, then he is something lesser than when he was a person of unusual knowledge and abilities. I heard it said even back in series 2 that the Doctor was 'too much of a superhero'. Though I didn't understand - I think the implication is that back in the 1960's he was a simply a wise man with a TARDIS? - I begin to see the progression. Superheroic tricks (like a sonic screwdriver that can do anything) don't bother me, but to step from 'enhanced human' to something greater than human ... isn't what I want to see.
It does look as if Martha and Jack have both written the Doctor off as unreachable. I hate it, and can only hope that series 3 changes the imbalance, and they can be affectionate friends (if not lovers) again.
Simm was riding it like a bucking bronco and it wasn't a pretty ride, but I don't think he ever got completely bucked off.
Simm was zany and crazy and fun and stole the attention so much that I was fristrated because I didn't want to be seeing a show called "Master Who", I wanted the Doctor. Simm reminded me of the Joker - who is fun, and has some great scenes with Batman, but he shouldn't take the spotlight away from the hero, or camera-time either, which Simm's Master did. And when I didn't think they were redoing Batman, I thought they were redoing Blackpool with the song and dance routines grafted on an action-based story.
Really, I thought it was a bit of a hodge-podge; thematically inconsistent. Obviously a lot of fans didn't mind, but it made me squirm because it wasn't the characters I'd come to see, presented in the way I wanted to see them.
The Doctor loved the Master - and I couldn't bring myself to care. I didn't want to not care. By that point it all felt like a game.
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Re: emotion and HN/FOB
Date: 2007-11-01 01:52 am (UTC)It looks that way, and I hate it. I want something both more emotive and more positive.
I like the godhood angle when it started - it seemed playful and imaginative. But the more they - the producers, the writers - seemed to be taking it seriously, and not necessarily just on a symbolic level, the more annoying it seemed. Too grandiose, and not leading anywhere I wanted to go. Gallifreyans are not gods, they're people - I loved the notion (from series 1) that the Doctor was both different and the same as humanity. By the end of series 3, I feel that's been lost: having a planet of people praying to him and having their prayers answered by a major miracle - that puts him apart in a rather dramatic way, in a way where he can't be 'one of us', injecting a sense of hierarchy that I don't think should be there....
I'm not sure if this thought or feeling is very clear, but it adds up to: if the Doctor is a god, then he is something lesser than when he was a person of unusual knowledge and abilities. I heard it said even back in series 2 that the Doctor was 'too much of a superhero'. Though I didn't understand - I think the implication is that back in the 1960's he was a simply a wise man with a TARDIS? - I begin to see the progression. Superheroic tricks (like a sonic screwdriver that can do anything) don't bother me, but to step from 'enhanced human' to something greater than human ... isn't what I want to see.
It does look as if Martha and Jack have both written the Doctor off as unreachable. I hate it, and can only hope that series 3 changes the imbalance, and they can be affectionate friends (if not lovers) again.
Simm was riding it like a bucking bronco and it wasn't a pretty ride, but I don't think he ever got completely bucked off.
Simm was zany and crazy and fun and stole the attention so much that I was fristrated because I didn't want to be seeing a show called "Master Who", I wanted the Doctor. Simm reminded me of the Joker - who is fun, and has some great scenes with Batman, but he shouldn't take the spotlight away from the hero, or camera-time either, which Simm's Master did. And when I didn't think they were redoing Batman, I thought they were redoing Blackpool with the song and dance routines grafted on an action-based story.
Really, I thought it was a bit of a hodge-podge; thematically inconsistent. Obviously a lot of fans didn't mind, but it made me squirm because it wasn't the characters I'd come to see, presented in the way I wanted to see them.
The Doctor loved the Master - and I couldn't bring myself to care. I didn't want to not care. By that point it all felt like a game.