That's the best-worst feeling, isn't it? I love it so much when that happens with a story - it's the most satisfying, uplifting experience as a writer to know you've absolutely nailed an idea. But then it's also frustrating when you can't figure out how to replicate it. Like, if only that delicious bottled magic were on tap.
Also I'm bringing this over from ao3 and I hope I'm not talking your ear off too much on this, please feel free to tell me to go away if I am, but YES ELEVEN. I just finished the first season of his run and I'm torn between desperately wanting to gush about my feelings and not even knowing where to start. I was worried that my devotion to Jodie Whittaker would make it hard to get invested in another Doctor, but it hasn't been that way at all.
And also, just quickly, this:
I think a lot of it came from my intuitive take on the differences in the canons themselves, which then obviously manifest in the characters. Star Wars has always had heavy themes of redemption, of course, and so it makes sense that Ben's arc -- and therefore his POV -- is shaped by that. But Doctor Who -- perhaps because it is so long running, such that a single "arc" doesn't really make sense -- has always felt like it was thematically more about picking the right actions in a given situation, and let the world think of you what it will.
I just wanted to say that I've been thinking about that line of yours a lot as I watch Doctor Who and it's held so true. There are elements of that classic redemption arc there (dear god, that episode where the Doctor gets tormented across two dream worlds by the "person who hates him more than anyone" who ends up being the Doctor himself, come back to berate his younger incarnation about his past failings - yeah, that one was intense). But there's no linear progress or straightforward chain of improvement. Just the Doctor trying every episode, every day to cope with the past and be their best self.
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That's the best-worst feeling, isn't it? I love it so much when that happens with a story - it's the most satisfying, uplifting experience as a writer to know you've absolutely nailed an idea. But then it's also frustrating when you can't figure out how to replicate it. Like, if only that delicious bottled magic were on tap.
Also I'm bringing this over from ao3 and I hope I'm not talking your ear off too much on this, please feel free to tell me to go away if I am, but YES ELEVEN. I just finished the first season of his run and I'm torn between desperately wanting to gush about my feelings and not even knowing where to start. I was worried that my devotion to Jodie Whittaker would make it hard to get invested in another Doctor, but it hasn't been that way at all.
And also, just quickly, this:
I think a lot of it came from my intuitive take on the differences in the canons themselves, which then obviously manifest in the characters. Star Wars has always had heavy themes of redemption, of course, and so it makes sense that Ben's arc -- and therefore his POV -- is shaped by that. But Doctor Who -- perhaps because it is so long running, such that a single "arc" doesn't really make sense -- has always felt like it was thematically more about picking the right actions in a given situation, and let the world think of you what it will.
I just wanted to say that I've been thinking about that line of yours a lot as I watch Doctor Who and it's held so true. There are elements of that classic redemption arc there (dear god, that episode where the Doctor gets tormented across two dream worlds by the "person who hates him more than anyone" who ends up being the Doctor himself, come back to berate his younger incarnation about his past failings - yeah, that one was intense). But there's no linear progress or straightforward chain of improvement. Just the Doctor trying every episode, every day to cope with the past and be their best self.