{"id":242747,"date":"2013-11-25T14:56:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T14:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/11\/25\/strawberrypatty-i-think-this-is-one-of-the-most\/"},"modified":"2018-10-01T06:52:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T06:52:12","slug":"strawberrypatty-i-think-this-is-one-of-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/11\/25\/strawberrypatty-i-think-this-is-one-of-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-242747 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/11\/25\/strawberrypatty-i-think-this-is-one-of-the-most\/attachment\/242748\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mwryl7pAFh1qeu9wvo1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mwryl7pAFh1qeu9wvo1_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mwryl7pAFh1qeu9wvo1_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/strawberrypatty.tumblr.com\/post\/67960202018\/i-think-this-is-one-of-the-most-beautiful-things\" target=\"_blank\">strawberrypatty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I think this is one of the most beautiful things in the special.<\/p>\n<p>This is not even on the meta \u201cOh my God, it\u2019s Tom Baker!\u201d thing. Not really. It\u2019s about the hope this gives for the Doctor.<\/p>\n<p>The Curator is, IMHO, the last incarnation of the Doctor. He\u2019s done all he can, seen all he can see. Now he\u2019s Sherlock Holmes as a Bee Keeper. Instead of retiring from the action-packed life to being, like, the President of the restored Galifrey, he\u2019s retired to Earth\u2014 his adopted home.<\/p>\n<p>This is one last trip for him. It\u2019s an extended version of the last twenty minutes of Journey\u2019s End for him. Just think about how long he\u2019s been in this form. He most likely regenerated into Tom Baker from Planet of the Spiders. So how long has he lived? Eleven has lived for two hundred years in his current incarnation without any real visible change in appearance. It\u2019s possible the Curator has spent millennia in this incarnation.<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s a Curator. He collects things from the past. He remembers. He\u2019s perfectly content not dashing about any longer. I like to think he watches the things his past self does, recalling the good times. He looks in on his companions in their own times. Since he\u2019s on the slow path now himself, he can visit the Ponds without risking the destruction of the timeline. He and Jack and Barbara and Ian can meet up and laugh about watching the world pass them by very, very slowly.<\/p>\n<p>The Curator is the Doctor\u2019s reward for all he\u2019s done to keep the universe safe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>strawberrypatty: I think this is one of the most beautiful things in the special. This is not even on the meta \u201cOh my God, it\u2019s Tom Baker!\u201d thing. Not really. It\u2019s about the hope this gives for the Doctor. The Curator is, IMHO, the last incarnation of the Doctor. He\u2019s done all he can, seen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/11\/25\/strawberrypatty-i-think-this-is-one-of-the-most\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13,674,1242,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242749,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242747\/revisions\/242749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}