SWEET ZOMBIE JESUS

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Happy Easter everyone! And for the not-so-religiously-inclined, happy Sunday!

I'm still going to be watching "The Eleventh Hour" about a hundred more times before I feel like I can properly comment, since I'm just awash in squee, so have a gif :D

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[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

You know the best thing about that montage?

In the last few days before the S5 premiere, I just kept thinking about how the Doctor really is a Legacy Character to end all Legacy Characters. And now we have an eleventh reincarnation. ELEVEN OF THEM. And no signs of stopping! He's like this modern day myth, only less of an asshole than the likes of Odysseus.

Eleven. That just seems important to me, that this one concept and character has lived longer than most actual people on this planet. That he's still so important, and not because he's reinvented and throws off previous history, but because all that history is embraced for all its amazingness and its camp.

I loooooove it aaaaah.

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[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

No, hush you, don't stem the flow of genius analyses :) I think it's built into the fact that at the beginning of the show, they created A) the most fantastic, universal premise ever, and B) the most flexible conceit that any show has ever come up with: a canon excuse to change the lead actor and have the balls to claim he is the very same man. And he is and it works. He's set apart from legacy characters because he's made himself vital and made himself a legend the likes of which James Bond *snerk* couldn't touch with a ten mile pole.

That he's still so important, and not because he's reinvented and throws off previous history, but because all that history is embraced for all its amazingness and its camp.

You hit the nail right on the head. The show and the character both draw on some much history, and instead of trying to pry itself away from camp and bad edges, it's turned into this epic, unstoppable force of nature, and when the Doctor tells aliens to run THEY FUCKING DO IT AND DON'T LOOK BACK.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

when the Doctor tells aliens to run THEY FUCKING DO IT AND DON'T LOOK BACK.

Even though, lets be honest, Eleven is the least intimidating Doctor yet. Even the spacey Eight is scarier. Eleven is just adorablethings. Adorablethings and also a bit of a pimp granted.

[vinylsigns.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, that bowtie does make him a bit fluffier :)