Doctor Who - Entire Cast & Crew 500 Miles Specialt
a short doctor who episode by steven moffat
[you know thing that impossible well now IT HAPPEN]
Spunky Assistant: BUT DOCTOR NO THAT IMPOSSIBLE
Doctor: YES SPUNKY ASSISTANT IT IMPOSSIBLE
[duramtic pause]
Doctor: …BUT HAPPEN
[title card doo wee ooo HAPPEN OF THE DOCTOR by STEVEN MOFFAT]
I don’t even like Dr. Who and this is hilarious
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“I am not a Dalek. I am human.” Ambiguous identities and the rejection of the abject in Steven Moffat’s “The Asylum of the Daleks.”
“The Asylum of the Daleks” by Steven Moffat, an episode of the long-standing British science TV fiction show, Doctor Who, is a complex story of dualities, repression, and identification, encased in a mystery plot with a horrifying climax. The episode circles around the character of Oswin Oswald, a young genius astronaut shipwrecked in the bowels of a Dalek asylum - a planet housing the most insane and battle-scarred members of the most fearsome species in Doctor Who universe - and trapped in an illusion created within her own mind to escape the traumatizing reality of having been forcibly transformed into a monstrous alien. While on the surface the episode can be accused of multiple continuity errors and disregard for in-universe logic when it comes to Dalek lore, Oswin’s story is nevertheless a structurally sound metaphor for the collapse of the self/other dichotomy as described in the theory of the abject proposed in The Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva. In my essay, I will explore the issues of boundaries, fluidity, selfhood, and cyborgianism present in the narrative, arguing that the underlying message of the episode is the inevitable rejection and destruction of the abject.
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Doctor Who’s Quinquagenary → Companions
“You will have realized, of course, that you’re not the only human who has traveled with me in the TARDIS. The Time Lords have often wondered why I bothered. After all, we are capable of living for thousands of years; you can barely reach a hundred. And they came up with a theory. They thought you were all memento mori. Reminders of death. Quite common things really. On Medieval Earth, courtiers would often keep skulls on their mantelpiece. No matter how powerful you were, death was inevitable. You still had to remember your mortality. Time Lords need to remember all the more. I denied that was the reason of course, and as you said, friendship, companionship. But over the years, over my many lifetimes, as my friends all left me one by one, I began to wonder that they really might have had a point after all.” -Eighth Doctor, Scherzo
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