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I just listened to The Natural History of Fear, it was great and i understood nothing
I kinda started out thinking "ooh, someone has recently read 1984", but no. The concept is really interesting. It's also one of those stories (like Scherzo) that shine in the audio format. Btw sound design and editing are phenomenal too.
DOCTOR: When a humming top is at the acme of its gyration, it becomes so steady and quiet that it doesn't seem to move. In this state, it is said to sleep.
Basically, the doctor and companions aren't really in the story. It's kind of just the echoes of their memories (that certain characters in this totalitarian state adopt as their own) that drive the story and lead to a revolution. It works so well because they reuse actors. The listener has already attached attributes to these voices. (For example, the editor gains instant sympathy just by McGann voicing him.)
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Here are some things I thought were neat.
1.) Light City (as a totalitarian state)
Justification: "your state loves you", "anything for the common good", "real love, real loyalty", "better for both of us", " Happiness through acceptance. Productivity through happiness.", "What's good for the Conscience is good for the State. What's good for the State is good for me.", "I did it for love."
Spinning Top Metaphor: totalitarian society is held in an equilibrium ("it becomes so steady and quiet that it doesn't seem to move"). The only way this can be maintained is by preventing new ideas, by preventing questions. Also, Peoples daily lives loop (go round in circles).
"cover the face", dehumanizing people makes it easier to manipulate while keeping a clean conscience
Spinning Top: remain in a "sleeping" state, repress questions that could bring up trauma, a barrier
EDITOR: And the sound of a child's toy, a humming top.
CONSCIENCE: A trigger.
EDITOR: Good. A hypnotic, I agree. And the sounds of building.
CONSCIENCE: Symbolic, of course. A barrier, something to protect the deeper levels.
government forces parallel states of the mind: Conscience, Sub-conscience
DJ: As you are happy?
EDITOR: Do not question me. Questions lead to unhappiness.
Conscience (plans to incite revolution using the Eighth Doctor's memory) and Sub-conscience (follows rules of leaders: censor, editor) are working against each other
NURSE: There's something you've forgotten.
EDITOR: What?
NURSE: Something you need to know.
EDITOR: You, you can't.
NURSE: Shall I tell you what it is?
EDITOR: No. No, you may not tell me anything. I am the Editor. I tell you. Do you hear me? I tell you.
NURSE: I think I will tell you. You'll thank me. It's very important.
EDITOR: No. No, no, no, no.
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NURSE: Look straight ahead. Tell me what you see there.
EDITOR: A figure. A child. Is it me? Or is it you pretending to be me?
NURSE: Yes, and behind you?
EDITOR: An old man.
NURSE: What have you forgotten?
EDITOR: I don't
NURSE: What have you forgotten? Tell me.
EDITOR: I don't know. I don't know. I've forgotten who I am.
3.) Critic of Religion, Doctor Who, and the Media??
The doctor kinda becomes an accidental messiah to this society. His extracted memories are broadcasted, almost used as gospel. But they are warped to fit the narrative, not exactly the same as his memories.
NURSE: The hero, the Doctor, arrived in Light City. Everyone was happy.
The Conscience criticizes the people for following him blindly.
CONSCIENCE: The hero was real. His name was the Doctor. But long ago he fell to the shadows. They took him, rewrote him, gave him back to us as a fiction they knew we would idolise. And us? We follow our hero blindly, day after day, story after story, along a road we once would have burned. And we think we are happy.
The adventures of the Doctor turned into "infotainment" programs (which is to say, Doctor Who itself) can be easily arranged into propaganda tools of the state. Have we in our own watching, listening and reading of Doctor Who, been victims of this kind of manipulation? But we also learn that Doctor Who is the carrier of the ideas of the Doctor (freedom, inquiry, and creativity) which cannot be entirely eradicated.
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4.) Does End Justify the Means?
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EDITOR: Look at them. They're mad. They'll kill us.
CENSOR 2: No birth comes without pain.
EDITOR: Look at our time. I don't even know if I was right or wrong.
EDITOR: A fate I have brought upon the world I love. What have I done? What have I done?
QUOTES
"Memory is such an unpredictable process. Neurons, proteins, the chemical tides that govern our lives." ~ poetry McGann is back babii, also idea of person = sum of their memories -> (against this because:) editor is not doctor although he has all his memories
"A single image fighting through the chaos of misfiring neurons. Overwhelming, ambiguous." ~ poetry McGann is having the time of his life
"Everything we could be and everything we mustn't be all mixed up together in the same.. ahhh, at the same... a rainbow. *happiest voice ever & smol giggle* I saw a rainbow." ~ poetry McGann must be protected
"Of course there are lost episodes commissioned, but not made. Made but misfield post-broadcast. Shear incompetence." ~ I see what you did there Big Fish and I like it
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