{"id":120969,"date":"2015-12-28T10:58:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T10:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/28\/doctor-who-rant\/"},"modified":"2015-12-28T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T10:58:24","slug":"doctor-who-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/28\/doctor-who-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor who rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ok I\u2019m just really frustrated about this last episode because the doctor used a gun! I don\u2019t care that the time lord can regenerate so he didn\u2019t technically kill anyone the doctor is not a violent man in that way. Also I felt the doctor use to be all about respecting others. He was the doctor so he healed rather than a gun he had a screwdriver so he could fix things and this whole season the doctor hasn\u2019t been like that. Him and Clara and rude to people and don\u2019t seem to care like the others did. I miss the old characters and their compassion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You\u2019re precisely right. \u00a0The Doctor up and murdering someone, even someone he knew would get right up again, is wildly out of character.<\/p>\n

And he knows it. \u00a0Everyone in the episode knows it. \u00a0Clara takes him to town for it. \u00a0But what is it he says right at the end of Face the Raven?\u00a0\u201cThe Doctor isn\u2019t here anymore. \u00a0It\u2019s just\u00a0me<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a major backslide into the thinking of the Time Lord Victorious. \u00a0The Doctor has been punching a wall and vowing revenge for the last 4.5 billion years<\/i>. \u00a0And this is why one of them has got to go. \u00a0Their association is mutually toxic, and makes them both much worse people. \u00a0 That\u2019s why they were put together in the first place, and why they can\u2019t stay together.<\/p>\n

Now, the Doctor has used guns before. \u00a0He\u2019s committed amazing atrocities. \u00a0When he was young and stupid he liked to beat up Romans and hit Frenchmen with shovels (which is fantastic. \u00a0<\/i>The First Doctor + Blunt Force Trauma is one of my very favorite things). \u00a0It\u2019s not that he Never Touches Guns. \u00a0But when he does, it\u2019s always an indication that the stakes have been raised, that he\u2019s at the end of his rope, and that he\u2019s probably making wildly terrible decisions and needs to be called out on them.<\/p>\n

Which, to this episode\u2019s credit, he absolutely<\/i>\u00a0is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve loved Moffat\u2019s division of the Doctor, the legend, who never would, and the Doctor, the man, who is deeply flawed and would when pushed. He tries to be the legend, but sometimes he slips to just being he man. It\u2019s terrifying and horrible and complex and wonderful, playing off the Doctor\u2019s cruelest moments from throughout Classic and New Who and explaining them beautifully.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

scriptscribbles: animate-mush: hello-world3: Ok I\u2019m just really frustrated about this last episode because the doctor used a gun! I don\u2019t care that the time lord can regenerate so he didn\u2019t technically kill anyone the doctor is not a violent man in that way. Also I felt the doctor use to be all about respecting others. … <\/p>\n

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