the tragic premise of the doctor and their companions is such stellar use of story time and narrative time. it builds on the premise of the doctor and us. we haven’t even lived as long as he’s grieved.
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the tragic premise of the doctor and their companions is such stellar use of story time and narrative time. it builds on the premise of the doctor and us. we haven’t even lived as long as he’s grieved.

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hello, was there a doctor who announcement while i was away camping?
the doctor is Such a malleable character with lies at the heart(s) that it should be impossible to fuck up the writing. and yet, russell t davies.
I don't think dr who is getting cancelled but you have to admit generating hype for an announcement only to say "we're pulling the plug" would be kind of hilarious
top things to give the Doctor 1. exile issues 2. psychotic memory issues 3. a very timey wimey plot 4. asexuality

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See, Doctor Who is about memory. Unfortunately this means Doctor Who is actually about the War Games
Doctor Who being about memory could be attributed to Steven Moffat who made the power of memories an enduring tool in his writing kit, but it's also an inevitable product of simply how long-lived Doctor Who is and how large and intimidating the story is, which creates the ancient conflict of how much time the show should devote to nostalgia and acknowledgement of how many characters and histories the show has had. Even the title "Doctor Who" suggests an invitation to discover the central history behind the mysterious traveller who saves the day. The show is so old because of how it thrives on change and renewal, but it has never been able to completely disregard its own history. Doctor Who is about memory because it's about change and the future can never exist without the past.
The War Games, a second doctor story and the second ever regeneration story, is never called back to in the same explicit way as the Curator or Bad Wolf or casual references to that time the Doctor wore celery, but it is a deep dark scar in the very fabric of Doctor Who's continuity. The Doctor's relationships with his companions change afterwards, growing more protective and possessive of them to a disastrous degree. After our first intro to the Time Lords our understanding of our heroes origins is reframed and colored in a new way. "A man is the sum of his memories, a Time Lord even more so" reveals to us that while our hero frequently changes faces, it's the history he carries with him that defines him as Doctor Who, and "if no one watches, Dr Who will kill himself." When Jamie and Zoe's memories of the Doctor are wiped it is a violation of the story itself, because if their adventures with the Doctor is wiped from their minds, then Doctor Who is taken out of their lives, and they are essentially exiled from the narrative. That's why the Doctor never revisits Jamie and Zoe AFTER their punishment. The Doctor does not exist in their reality. They're not in the same story as him anymore.
Doctor Who is about memory. Doctor Who is about the War Games.
the eleventh doctor never stopped thinking back to little amelia who waited for him. even when he’s old and delirious and about to regenerate on trenzalore, he thinks back to little amelia. the tardis console room is covered in her drawings. she giggling and running around. the doctor never stopped thinking about how different everything would have been for her if he kept his promise to little amelia and returned to her in five minutes.
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the eleventh doctor never stopped thinking back to little amelia who waited for him. even when he’s old and delirious and about to regenerate on trenzalore, he thinks back to little amelia. the tardis console room is covered in her drawings. she is giggling and running around. the doctor never stopped thinking about how different everything would have been for her if he kept his promise to little amelia and returned to her in five minutes.
Me (A time traveler visiting 20-year old Mozart): OK, so, this is called an electric guitar, basically instead of the body functioning as a resonance chamber, it produces music by harnessing the power of lightning. Do you have any other questions?
Mozart (Currently shredding Violin Concerto No. 1 on the guitar, having figured it out within 30 seconds): What other music can be made from harnessed lightning?
Me (Loading up some heavy dubstep): Oh, we're just getting started.
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yes, i'm about to compose a long and meandering post about how, in classic who, the doctor facing a court of law is an emphatic gesture at his fate as an exile and how this is a criminally underutilised trope in new who, you mIND YOUR BUSINESS
first, what you've got to remember is, how a greek chorus (famously, the stand in for the audience) is like a lawyer:
they’re both in the business of searching for a precedent finding an analogy locating a prior example so as to be able to say this terrible thing we’re witnessing now is not unique you know it happened before or something much like it we’re not at a loss how to think about this we’re not without guidance there is a pattern (anne carson, antigonick)
this finding of a precedent is necessarily a perusal of the past. or future. remember there is so much of both in the case of the doctor.
now, i just watched the keys of marinus and quick recap: ian is sentenced to death for killing someone and stealing the key and is on trial to be proven innocent. the legal system of millennius is reversed, is such that one is "guilty until proven innocent". the doctor is ian's defendant. the doctor tricks the first culprit into confessing. then, he leads the tribunal to catching the accomplice red-handed by deducing where the key is in a locked-room-mystery-esque plot.
the precedent the doctor avails is not the precedent acceptable to the legal system he is participating in. this is made explicit when he sends their newfound friends altos and sabetha to go to the library of millennius and look for precedents for murder. their findings are of no use to him. or to us. what the doctor depends on is himself, his own trickery and wisdom and deductions. he notes keeping pyrrho in mind, the skeptic philosopher from around 300 BC earth. the doctor reaches for a precedent that is incongruous with the legal system he is bound within. this is because he is fundamentally an exile. he is not at home anywhere.
even in his trials on gallifrey, the doctor is presenting his precedents from elsewhere. usually from earth. in the war games, the second doctor is on trial for interference and he cites the necessity to fight evil with the power of the time lords. the precedent he draws is so out of left field that it is not even a defence. it is the very charge he is on trial for.
the more i think about it, the less suited the doctor seems to assume the role of a lawyer or a defendant anywhere. in the deadly assassin, the fourth doctor's way out of a trial is to claim a legal right to run for presidency. the exile's only recourse to safety is the safety afforded by the home, which is not, in fact, afforded to him. at the end of the episode, the doctor will have charges against him dropped BUT he must return to his exile. he must leave gallifrey again.
the sixth doctor's trial is so wound up in pasts and futures that the valeyard's charge draws from the future and the doctor simply invokes modality as his defence. his defence is not precedent. his defence is himself. his person. his word. he shall improve. time can be re-written. he will be more cautious in his future. he is not bound to a written future (or a fixed law) because he is a time traveller (and an exile). he charts his own course. the law he ascribes to is necessarily provisional.
what i'm saying is, putting the doctor on trial, placing him in a courtroom, calls into questions his pasts and futures, which are confusing and illuminate how disjointed they are with the legal system of anywhere. this doesn't leave him above the law. this leaves him with what edward said calls "the exile's detachment".
Exile is not, after all, a matter of choice: you are born into it, or it happens to you. But, provided that the exile refuses to sit on the sidelines nursing a wound, there are things to be learned: he or she must cultivate a scrupulous (not indulgent or sulky) subjectivity […] Borders and barriers, which enclose us within the safety of familiar territory, can also become prisons, and are often defended beyond reason or necessity. Exiles cross borders, break barriers of thought and experience. (edward said, "Reflections on Exile")
anyway, when was the last time new who put the doctor in a court room? i think we should put that alien on trial again
is this a safe space to say amy pond has the greatest story of any new who companion and she's the doctor's specialest girl or
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time travel is a metaphor for exile actually. if you think about it.
thinking about this a lot.