Haha, yay! I wanted people to know the poem but putting the entire thing in anywhere, even if only at the begining, felt clunky, and I don't know how many people actually read author's notes, but I figured there'd be a few who'd get it anyway. WHOO. lol I've had it memorized since we studied the Outsiders in seventh grade.
Pretty much I decided I had to keep that bit becaues I loved it too much. Mickey and the Doctor interacting never fails to amuse me.
The parallel just kind of occured to me on a whim and the more I thought about it the more I liked it, and the more I decided that was how I was going to interpret GitF, lol. I do find it hard to believe he's devastated by Reinette's death solely because in those couple hours they had an ~omg super special~ connection of ~love~, regardless of what Moffat wants me to believe; I think what probably got to him was the most was that her death was so normal and not the result of some ultimately preventable alien invasion or some grand sacrifice to save the world, she just gets old and sick and dies. While I'm sure on one hand it's nice not to feel partially responsible (for once), given the argument with Rose in the previous episode I think it's a pretty safe bet to assume the fact that he couldn't have done anything about it would ultimately be just as bad.
I watched the clip of the School Reunion argument a few times while writing this and the more I watched it the more convinced I became that this is a huge motivator for everything he does, ever. Pretty much everything in the universe seems to conspire to remind him that he'll ultimately lose anyone he gets close to, to the point where he avoids getting close to anyone at all (or at least he tries to, lol), and I think it's such an interesting bit of cowardice for an otherwise recklessly brave character.
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Pretty much I decided I had to keep that bit becaues I loved it too much. Mickey and the Doctor interacting never fails to amuse me.
The parallel just kind of occured to me on a whim and the more I thought about it the more I liked it, and the more I decided that was how I was going to interpret GitF, lol. I do find it hard to believe he's devastated by Reinette's death solely because in those couple hours they had an ~omg super special~ connection of ~love~, regardless of what Moffat wants me to believe; I think what probably got to him was the most was that her death was so normal and not the result of some ultimately preventable alien invasion or some grand sacrifice to save the world, she just gets old and sick and dies. While I'm sure on one hand it's nice not to feel partially responsible (for once), given the argument with Rose in the previous episode I think it's a pretty safe bet to assume the fact that he couldn't have done anything about it would ultimately be just as bad.
I watched the clip of the School Reunion argument a few times while writing this and the more I watched it the more convinced I became that this is a huge motivator for everything he does, ever. Pretty much everything in the universe seems to conspire to remind him that he'll ultimately lose anyone he gets close to, to the point where he avoids getting close to anyone at all (or at least he tries to, lol), and I think it's such an interesting bit of cowardice for an otherwise recklessly brave character.