Not in Who - I'd half bet that most of the displays in the cases were looted from the cathedral itself. There are still offices with typewriters even in this day and age.
Yes, I had missed that entirely. And knowing the recent cliffhanger, I'm sure that was quite deliberate. Aren't there supposed to be a lot of things that only make sense after the finale?
i think there's a degree of making us look at 11 as the Doctor that misses the big thing because he's too busy looking for the big thing. it's been there all along, but Moff finally put the big stamp on it with the Doctor's reaction to Centurion-Rory.
it may even be that that's his social statement that he wants to make this season: that we're all to busy looking for the big thing to see a totally different big thing right in front of us...
or maybe it just seemed a fun way to give a character a weakness in order to give room to develop, just like 10's Anger and 11's Pride (which was coddled by Rose, exacerbated by Martha, and finally healed by Donna, only to revert into unfettered Arrogance, and his downfall, once she was gone). He's building a character with flaws (as any writer must), but those flaws are more more things we can see in ourselves than the broad strokes of RTD's archetypal absolutes.
Perhaps the fact that we're relating that side of ourselves more with this Doctor than with the companion is why many fans are too easily seeing "flaws" in this season than they would have accepted before.
Moff has, at least for this first season, reversed the roles: we are relating to the Doctor and dealing with an unpredictable companion. This is something we've not really seen in New Who, though it certainly is there in 7/Ace, 5/Turlough, early 4/Leela, and Big Finish seems to have done with 8/Lucie (I haven't finished hearing all of those yet).
it may even be that that's his social statement that he wants to make this season: that we're all to busy looking for the big thing to see a totally different big thing right in front of us...
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Date: 2010-06-24 10:49 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-06-24 02:55 pm (UTC)how about the typewriter that is THE KEYBOARD IN THE TARDIS.
how about the possibility that some of the other junk is also stuff from the TARDIS console.
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Date: 2010-06-24 05:23 pm (UTC)Yes, I'm being specifically vague to avoid spoiling for people who don't know what I'm talking about. I save all that for
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Date: 2010-06-24 05:51 pm (UTC)Yes, I had missed that entirely. And knowing the recent cliffhanger, I'm sure that was quite deliberate. Aren't there supposed to be a lot of things that only make sense after the finale?
SPOILER WARNING QUIT READING IF YOU'VE NOT SEEN 5x12
Date: 2010-06-24 07:52 pm (UTC)it may even be that that's his social statement that he wants to make this season: that we're all to busy looking for the big thing to see a totally different big thing right in front of us...
or maybe it just seemed a fun way to give a character a weakness in order to give room to develop, just like 10's Anger and 11's Pride (which was coddled by Rose, exacerbated by Martha, and finally healed by Donna, only to revert into unfettered Arrogance, and his downfall, once she was gone). He's building a character with flaws (as any writer must), but those flaws are more more things we can see in ourselves than the broad strokes of RTD's archetypal absolutes.
Perhaps the fact that we're relating that side of ourselves more with this Doctor than with the companion is why many fans are too easily seeing "flaws" in this season than they would have accepted before.
Moff has, at least for this first season, reversed the roles: we are relating to the Doctor and dealing with an unpredictable companion. This is something we've not really seen in New Who, though it certainly is there in 7/Ace, 5/Turlough, early 4/Leela, and Big Finish seems to have done with 8/Lucie (I haven't finished hearing all of those yet).
Re: SPOILER WARNING QUIT READING IF YOU'VE NOT SEEN 5x12
Date: 2010-06-24 11:14 pm (UTC)It's preferable to RTD's version, certainly.
Finish the 8/Lucies. They're good.