• @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]

  • @CitizenVexx

     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]