#iamthedoctor

one. Just because they are a stand in 4, the viewer to make the viewer feel as though they can be part of the narrative does not mean that that character does not require a personality. In fact, we connect less with characters that do not have personalities. Because we don't just don't feel any reason to think about them or spend time in the headspace, that that character might be experiencing and find traits that connect with us personally. Some of the best characters have been the ones that accidentally ended up with a character that superseded the original intention of the writers. And that's okay, that's amazing. The fact that we're watching and experiencing a TV show and the fandom that can do stuff like that, that can look deeper and read more deeply and have the media literacy to look deeper into that character is frankly astounding. But there's something else that's going on.

2, As time moves forward, as I encounter more people, I growing up felt very disconnected from the world, and I was always trying to be part of it. And I've discovered as an adult that this comes from Most likely having been on the spectrum in some way shape or form, and in many ways that has led to me feeling, like more like the doctor where I feel like I'm watching the world. And I'm participating in the world, and I'm experiencing the world, but in some ways I'm pretending to be human. And so I think there is this weird disconnect with writers that Think that we viewers are the companion that that they are bringing us along on the journey and not that we are actively participating and diving into that journey ourselves. We are the ones running from the world. We are the ones going to see amazing new places. We are the ones that dive into doctor who and jump in the tardis and run away. Because we don't necessarily want to experience the world around us, or we want the world around us to be more and have more meaning and have more definition than it does. And to me, that's just so very doctor coded to sit there and look at the world and want to see it through a new lens every day and want to for me. Personally, I'm one of those people that travels, I'm 1 of those people that like, I don't sit in 1 place all the time, and I don't, I don't do the day to. Day, I don't do the I do the work I should say. I do the work, but I don't do the normal thing I don't do. The the societal this is normal thing. I travel, and I take my friends with me. I have a running joke. Um, with some of my friends that I am always the 11th doctor to Amy and Rory. I mean, I'm the happy third wheel in all of my friends relationships. And like in some of those relationships, things work, because I'm there like things work, because I'm there to be the person that's like, oh okay. You know I'm here to listen, because that other person isn't there to listen right now, like I will listen to how you're feeling and II genuinely. Commit my time to that. I might not be helpful other than to just be an ear. I might be doing some something completely different, but they're still talking to me, they're still Spending time with me or they need some time away. And we hop in my car and we go and we go and we go and we go and we go and find some place that's amazing and fun and new and have a grand old time and the older I get and the more I spend time in life, I know that they're that the constantly. Moving the constantly, doing different things isn't healthy. And is in some parts me avoiding the situation, but At the end of the day, I think the writers underestimate just how important the doctor is to some of us. Not because II sort of disagree with the assertion that you that the doctor is autistic coded. I don't think that's true at all. For one, they're an alien, you cannot apply human diagnoses 2 A character that is not human, and that's just like a personal foible of mine. But I do think that we can feel represented by this idea of I'm trying to find connection and trying to understand and trying to find a home where you don't have one trying to discover who you are. Because you wear different faces constantly and at a certain point, what is the center of your personality? Do you love one of your masks? Is that the person that you want to be? The doctor offers all of these questions to us, and I just think the writers underestimate how important that is to the viewers.

I have absolutely no idea if that ramble made sense. It was done over voice text. But for some reason it all occurred to be while I was driving my car so I had to write it down so it probably isn't gonna make a whole lot of sense. But I hope that that meant something to someone and that other people out there. Can connect with it in some way. Share your thoughts and in the notes or in the comments, or in the tags. I want doctor who to keep going, even though I'm highly critical of everything that I've seen. Recently, it's a show that has meant a lot to me for a very long time. And I don't see it becoming less a part of my life because of the friends that I've made through it. Anyway, have a great day, guys.