Vid rec!
Sometimes I try to explain why I feel like the new Doctor Who hurts my soul, and I can never seem to adequately do so. It usually goes like this:
Me: They're not addressing the Doctor's issues.
Fan: But it does address those issues!
Me: But then nothing happens as a consequence.
Fan: There are consequences.
Me: Not really, because it doesn't change anything.
Fan: So you're saying you want them to punish the Doctor.
Me: No. I just want the issues to be addressed.
Fan: But it does address those issues!
ad infinitum.
I've thought about making a post about it, but frankly I find it really upsetting, partly because I like the show, or maybe I mean enjoy some aspects of it. It's as though it's the Harry Potter series, and it does what the Harry Potter series does: sets up this great premise, these great issues, and then doesn't follow through, yet keeps making you hope over and over that somehow, this is going to be about redemption, and not murdering our enemies, and how there is no black and white, and how good people can be corrupt, and corrupt people can be good, and maybe just maybe it might turn into Avatar the Last Airbender, but then it never does. Okay, so imagine that, except it keeps going. It's like if HP had had a book 8, 9, oh god 10 and it just keeps getting worse.
Okay, but anyway, I'm not going to make that post, because I found this vid. This vid was made in 2008, and it looks like most the internets have seen it anyway. But I never saw it, and it . . . almost makes it so I can watch Doctor Who again. I feel like few vids have ever affected me the way this one has. It must be because I have such an affection for, and yet such an intense problem with this show, that something that at last does all the things I wish the show did has a large impact on me. I only wish the people making this show could understand the things the people who made this vid and the awesome band that made this song seem to understand so well, and so chillingly.
Vid: No Handlebars
Vidders:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Song: Flobots
Me: They're not addressing the Doctor's issues.
Fan: But it does address those issues!
Me: But then nothing happens as a consequence.
Fan: There are consequences.
Me: Not really, because it doesn't change anything.
Fan: So you're saying you want them to punish the Doctor.
Me: No. I just want the issues to be addressed.
Fan: But it does address those issues!
ad infinitum.
I've thought about making a post about it, but frankly I find it really upsetting, partly because I like the show, or maybe I mean enjoy some aspects of it. It's as though it's the Harry Potter series, and it does what the Harry Potter series does: sets up this great premise, these great issues, and then doesn't follow through, yet keeps making you hope over and over that somehow, this is going to be about redemption, and not murdering our enemies, and how there is no black and white, and how good people can be corrupt, and corrupt people can be good, and maybe just maybe it might turn into Avatar the Last Airbender, but then it never does. Okay, so imagine that, except it keeps going. It's like if HP had had a book 8, 9, oh god 10 and it just keeps getting worse.
Okay, but anyway, I'm not going to make that post, because I found this vid. This vid was made in 2008, and it looks like most the internets have seen it anyway. But I never saw it, and it . . . almost makes it so I can watch Doctor Who again. I feel like few vids have ever affected me the way this one has. It must be because I have such an affection for, and yet such an intense problem with this show, that something that at last does all the things I wish the show did has a large impact on me. I only wish the people making this show could understand the things the people who made this vid and the awesome band that made this song seem to understand so well, and so chillingly.
Vid: No Handlebars
Vidders:
flummerySong: Flobots
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I doubt the show is ever going to take this tack, but the existence of this vid makes that okay in my heart.
(although it bothers me when the show valorizes some of the stuff that he does that's really actually quite worrying behaviour...)
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God, me too, and it's such a weird feeling. I just could not watch the show; it made me feel sick inside. But then I saw this vid and felt much better, and . . . it wasn't like the show was any better. I think maybe the show makes me sad about, um, humanity or something, and the vid was a reminder that not all of humanity thinks that behavior is okay.
although it bothers me when the show valorizes some of the stuff that he does that's really actually quite worrying behaviour...
Oh God. It's so terrifying and awful and you know, I would be totally alright with a show that was saying, "maybe this is heroic and maybe it isn't," because in some situations I don't see how the Doctor has an alternative besides, well. According to the vid, holocaust? I mean, what do you do with the Daleks? But Doctor, xenocide is still xenocide. It's so beautiful and terrifying, and yet the show doesn't seem to realize what it is, and it makes me . . . worry.
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I found it particularly interesting that the Harriet Jones bit was the bit they started with, because that's the most powerful part for me, and the reason I absolutely could not handle the show. Other things made me feel pretty upset, but it was Harriet Jones in particular where I was just like, I can't take this any more.