For me, I can forgive RTD his many sins and clearly personal obsessions in part because they are so obvious and in part because he really made the show about sorrow and loss and memory and how those aren't necessarily bad things. Those themes were always somewhere in Who, but he gave narrative to them, and I think it's fucking spectacular. The Christmas special worked so well, I thought, because it was really salving on those themes -- we've had so much emo!Doctor and so much tragedy that we've grokked that maybe the characters haven't (i.e., Face of Boe), it was nice to see the Doctor recognizing his situation and also being peaceful with it, as opposed to just thinking he deserved it.
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Date: 2009-01-06 06:06 pm (UTC)