Or is this a broader statement? It's interesting how 'pro-life' has successfully been taken to mean 'pro the life of an unborn person', which it could be much broader than that.
I mean that he is pro-LIFE. Any kind of life is worth preserving. Mr. Ordinary down the road is worth going to extraordinary lengths to save. Aliens, clones, people bred to be lab-rats - all worth fighting for.
[weight loss one? Seen that too. Today we're doing series 1]
It's an interesting part of the moral universe of the David Tennant Doctor (I'm not sure if it's there in earlier generations) that The Doctor sees himself as some sort of judge and jury, but can't do what needs to be done with evil.
So with the Daleks, ..... [Spoiler alert for the end of the last series]
even though they are evil and want to destroy all non-Dalek life, he refuses kill the Daleks. So for punishment to be brought upon evil doers, the story required another to do that act, thus keeping the Doctro's hands clean.
I feel like I've just gate crashed a small private party of aficionados. Am I welcome here? I watched Dr Who religiously from 1979-1984. But then after that, I found World Series Cricket.
I found Boom Town especially interesting, in the way it looks at crime and punishment, and capital punishment in particular... I also like the way that Dalek probes the Doctor's prejudices. Though The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances are probably my favourites of the new series, not only because it's genuinely creepy in a "Ringu" sort of way, but also because of the Doctor's sheer joy at the end that "everyone lives!". I think i prefer Christopher Ecclestone to David Tennant...
Have you just watched the episode where The Doctor 'has' a daughter?
ReplyDeletenot today - but I've seen it before!
ReplyDeletethe one with the babies made of fat?
ReplyDeleteOr is this a broader statement? It's interesting how 'pro-life' has successfully been taken to mean 'pro the life of an unborn person', which it could be much broader than that.
I mean that he is pro-LIFE. Any kind of life is worth preserving. Mr. Ordinary down the road is worth going to extraordinary lengths to save. Aliens, clones, people bred to be lab-rats - all worth fighting for.
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as are Daleks.
ReplyDeleteIt's an interesting part of the moral universe of the David Tennant Doctor (I'm not sure if it's there in earlier generations) that The Doctor sees himself as some sort of judge and jury, but can't do what needs to be done with evil.
So with the Daleks, .....
[Spoiler alert for the end of the last series]
even though they are evil and want to destroy all non-Dalek life, he refuses kill the Daleks. So for punishment to be brought upon evil doers, the story required another to do that act, thus keeping the Doctro's hands clean.
yes, I've seen that. interesting.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I've just gate crashed a small private party of aficionados. Am I welcome here? I watched Dr Who religiously from 1979-1984. But then after that, I found World Series Cricket.
ReplyDeleteSorry.
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I found Boom Town especially interesting, in the way it looks at crime and punishment, and capital punishment in particular... I also like the way that Dalek probes the Doctor's prejudices. Though The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances are probably my favourites of the new series, not only because it's genuinely creepy in a "Ringu" sort of way, but also because of the Doctor's sheer joy at the end that "everyone lives!". I think i prefer Christopher Ecclestone to David Tennant...
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