Rings of Akhaten rewatch—MY GOD RIVERRRR
Jun. 19th, 2013 07:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flowsoffireSooo. Been rewatching Rings of Akkaten and I just have to SHARE THE FEELS.
The River parallels were pretty much obvious from the first airing (see here for reference). The song is over, Merry vs. Melody (when Merry ends up not sacrificing herself, the Doctor tells her "There's always a way." ALWAYS A WAY OUUUUUT ♥ too bad there's nowhere to jump from), the power of stories and knowledge etc etc.
But KNOWING that the Doctor is always seeing River… That "The song is over" moment was all the more powerful for it. THE CHORISTER'S BRACELET IS EERILY SIMILAR TO A VORTEX MANIPULATOR, SERIOUSLY. HOW DID I EVER MISS THIS.
But mostly, mostly:
DOCTOR: You remind me of someone.
CLARA: Who?
DOCTOR: Someone who died.
CLARA: Well, whoever she was, I'm not her, okay? If you want me to travel with you, that's fine. But as me. I'm not a bargain basement stand-in for someone else. I'm not going to compete with a ghost.
DOCTOR: No.
There were snowmen!Clara and Oswin, of course, and also the whole new companion thing, the fact that the Doctor had to heal from the loss of the Ponds—but now that we know that he lost River too… could it get any clearer? Except if Clara went "oh, was that a former girlfriend?", I can't see how. And it's BRILLIANT, because Clara is Clara and River is River, and they are both huge in his life, and shippers wars suck and they're both awesome and I'm happy. And yes, I know that probably sounded rambly and a bit incoherent. That's me in enthusiasm.
That was my merry moment of the day. (…easy pun, I had to…)
The River parallels were pretty much obvious from the first airing (see here for reference). The song is over, Merry vs. Melody (when Merry ends up not sacrificing herself, the Doctor tells her "There's always a way." ALWAYS A WAY OUUUUUT ♥ too bad there's nowhere to jump from), the power of stories and knowledge etc etc.
But KNOWING that the Doctor is always seeing River… That "The song is over" moment was all the more powerful for it. THE CHORISTER'S BRACELET IS EERILY SIMILAR TO A VORTEX MANIPULATOR, SERIOUSLY. HOW DID I EVER MISS THIS.
But mostly, mostly:
DOCTOR: You remind me of someone.
CLARA: Who?
DOCTOR: Someone who died.
CLARA: Well, whoever she was, I'm not her, okay? If you want me to travel with you, that's fine. But as me. I'm not a bargain basement stand-in for someone else. I'm not going to compete with a ghost.
DOCTOR: No.
There were snowmen!Clara and Oswin, of course, and also the whole new companion thing, the fact that the Doctor had to heal from the loss of the Ponds—but now that we know that he lost River too… could it get any clearer? Except if Clara went "oh, was that a former girlfriend?", I can't see how. And it's BRILLIANT, because Clara is Clara and River is River, and they are both huge in his life, and shippers wars suck and they're both awesome and I'm happy. And yes, I know that probably sounded rambly and a bit incoherent. That's me in enthusiasm.
That was my merry moment of the day. (…easy pun, I had to…)
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Date: 2013-06-27 12:24 pm (UTC)*is angrily right*
but he said "I can always see you", "I always see you". Might mean he is able to spot her whenever she’s there, but also that in whichever situation, he can—subconsciously—summon her image
Exaclty! It is him imagining her. The fact isn’t her constant presence, but his ability of seeing her. Perfect sum up.
Can I say how much I love you for the Heathcliff parallel?
Pss, have a look at that.
Well, it only works as a metaphor. Like the songs—the song theme didn’t come from the Doctor’s hallucination, it accompanied it. Technically speaking that’s one hell of a coincidence, like the whole universe wanted to make sure his wife was ever so there in his memory.
Exactly and series 7b was crammed with references -the writers were more consistent in their work on River's abasence than Clara's mystery *facepalm*.
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Date: 2013-06-27 01:31 pm (UTC)*soothing hug*
Pss, have a look at that.
Ghhhhhh it's amazing. On an angrier note, I hold you personally responsible for my eventually giving up and getting myself a Tumblr after seeing that post. Guess I needed another way to FREAKING EAT TIME! ;P
Exactly and series 7b was crammed with references -the writers were more consistent in their work on River's abasence than Clara's mystery *facepalm*.
Mwahaha, you're exactly right!!! Well, it's Moffat's baby… ;)
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Date: 2013-06-27 06:21 pm (UTC)Guess I needed another way to FREAKING EAT TIME!
And your sanity; I feel obligated to warn you, tumblr is the worst place in terms of fandom wanks, groundless hating and character depreciation... Users are much nicer and coherent on LJ.
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Date: 2013-06-27 07:02 pm (UTC)Thanks for the warning :) I will TRY to keep my use reasonable for the moment though (aka only following friends and River/Eleven people I'd already noticed, keeping well away from anything negative, etc) so I should be okay! Hopefully. :)
(I'm still flowsoffire, if you're interested—what was yours again? Message if you don't want it hanging around the comments… idk.)
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Date: 2013-06-28 03:30 pm (UTC)(I'm onaperduamedee ;) but my blog is pretty much multi fandom so...)
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Date: 2013-06-28 03:34 pm (UTC)Subscribing done—and I don't mind ;) All the pretty stuff can have me curious or interested…
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Date: 2013-06-28 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-28 04:59 pm (UTC)Thanks for the welcome! :D