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8 years, 6 months ago - View
JimboMcMaster replied to the topic The Magician’s Apprentice
@citizenvexx, @pedant and @supernumerary. Re: The Doctor’s approaching inevitable death.
Add to that the end of the Tennant era. That’s four in total in the last 7 years! The Doctor knows he will die soon, without actually being in a state of dying, and, in three of the four examples, goes on one last sequence of adventures (mainly off-screen) a…[Read more]
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8 years, 6 months ago - View
IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan replied to the topic The Magician’s Apprentice
They mention the Doctor is dying AGAIN.
I think that is a bit of linguistic jiggery-pokery to mask dark themes for the kiddies.
The Doctor has just (as far as we can tell) left a young boy to die and is shame-ridden. “Dying of shame” is not a new trope, redolent as it is with the shattering of illusions, the abandonment of hope a…[Read more]