or perhaps you've talked about it in previous posts of your own?
Not really, I didn't want to harsh people's squee by going on about it, but I'm not really interested in the Doctor's history pre-series. I understand why people are, of course, but for me, fundamentally it doesn't matter, because the other answer to the question "Doctor Who?" is the one we've seen played out before us for nearly 60 years, watching an unlikely exile grow into a hero, under the name that they chose, that was not their name before that. To me, that's the only answer to that question that really matters. I love that so much of DW, behind the scenes and in front of it is, as Three would have explained, serendipity. I think it says everything in the world you need to know about the show that it begins with ordinary people discovering all of time and space in a junkyard, hidden in a mundane object, and that they learn to become extraordinary because of their travels, as does the Doctor. I hate that CC has essentially broken that. I'm finding ways to live with it and mend it a bit in my head, because I do love this ridiculous old show - but the idea that the Doctor had been the Doctor before, the TARDIS had taken that 1960s police box before, that the Doctor is probably the most extraordinary being in the known universe, upon whose back the whole of Gallifrey is founded and that this didn't begin in a junkyard, that it just kicked hidden memories, an old personality back into action that something else would have done sooner or later is very hard to take, for me. I know that it was what broke a lot of my long-time flisters as well, some of them for good, so I've lost old friends as a result as well, or they've all but ceased posting and writing, and because of my chronic illness, this is the only real social life I have. (It is also, IMO, needlessly bleak in a way that I've bounced hard off before in some of CC's earlier work, but that's just a minor gripe in light of the rest.)
I'd resigned myself to the fact that one day New Who was bound to Go There in terms of the Doctor's origins, but I didn't think they'd mess with the on-screen ones, no matter if the Doctor turned out to be the Other, LOOOOOOMED, or just another Time Lord actually, he just likes being mysterious, he's really from Guildford, or had previous regenerations or were actually half-human on their mother side (and their mother was Leela) or whatever.
So, yeah, it's about my focus on the show, which isn't other people's, and I'll work this one out, the show will move on, it'll all be retconned six times over by the time we reach the 70th anniversary let alone the 100th, but personally, I am not okay with it yet. Being able to watch and enjoy the bits of the show I do love is huge progress on where I was this time last year, so I don't want anyone lecturing me on how great it is really. For me, it's not. It made me cry every time I thought about DW for 8 months straight, and 2020 was bad enough without that!
Here's to 2023? And I hope you enjoy the rest up till then very much anyway. ♥
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Not really, I didn't want to harsh people's squee by going on about it, but I'm not really interested in the Doctor's history pre-series. I understand why people are, of course, but for me, fundamentally it doesn't matter, because the other answer to the question "Doctor Who?" is the one we've seen played out before us for nearly 60 years, watching an unlikely exile grow into a hero, under the name that they chose, that was not their name before that. To me, that's the only answer to that question that really matters. I love that so much of DW, behind the scenes and in front of it is, as Three would have explained, serendipity. I think it says everything in the world you need to know about the show that it begins with ordinary people discovering all of time and space in a junkyard, hidden in a mundane object, and that they learn to become extraordinary because of their travels, as does the Doctor. I hate that CC has essentially broken that. I'm finding ways to live with it and mend it a bit in my head, because I do love this ridiculous old show - but the idea that the Doctor had been the Doctor before, the TARDIS had taken that 1960s police box before, that the Doctor is probably the most extraordinary being in the known universe, upon whose back the whole of Gallifrey is founded and that this didn't begin in a junkyard, that it just kicked hidden memories, an old personality back into action that something else would have done sooner or later is very hard to take, for me. I know that it was what broke a lot of my long-time flisters as well, some of them for good, so I've lost old friends as a result as well, or they've all but ceased posting and writing, and because of my chronic illness, this is the only real social life I have. (It is also, IMO, needlessly bleak in a way that I've bounced hard off before in some of CC's earlier work, but that's just a minor gripe in light of the rest.)
I'd resigned myself to the fact that one day New Who was bound to Go There in terms of the Doctor's origins, but I didn't think they'd mess with the on-screen ones, no matter if the Doctor turned out to be the Other, LOOOOOOMED, or just another Time Lord actually, he just likes being mysterious, he's really from Guildford, or had previous regenerations or were actually half-human on their mother side (and their mother was Leela) or whatever.
So, yeah, it's about my focus on the show, which isn't other people's, and I'll work this one out, the show will move on, it'll all be retconned six times over by the time we reach the 70th anniversary let alone the 100th, but personally, I am not okay with it yet. Being able to watch and enjoy the bits of the show I do love is huge progress on where I was this time last year, so I don't want anyone lecturing me on how great it is really. For me, it's not. It made me cry every time I thought about DW for 8 months straight, and 2020 was bad enough without that!
Here's to 2023? And I hope you enjoy the rest up till then very much anyway. ♥