tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post2201740233223129278..comments2024-03-18T19:05:39.072-07:00Comments on Morphosis: What is Doctor Who?Adam Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-21519128947258963742024-01-02T10:05:24.766-08:002024-01-02T10:05:24.766-08:00Hi nice reading yourr blogHi nice reading yourr blogMarihttps://karenmpage.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-28999628513487493182018-11-05T10:38:40.102-08:002018-11-05T10:38:40.102-08:00John Pertwee brought something of himself to the r...John Pertwee brought something of himself to the role he was a complicated man.<br /><br />Peter Capaldi may not simple have been adopting a 'role' from the past. <br /><br />Eccleston's skill I thought was at moments to make you feel you were in the presence of an alien mind.<br /><br />Capaldi's with looking at individual agency and adopting a role. A human out of time and out of step with the world around him. jebnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-37465596592380390082018-09-20T05:08:03.476-07:002018-09-20T05:08:03.476-07:00The Doctor also has no time for the non-U bureaucr...The Doctor also has no time for the non-U bureaucrats and functionaries he often meets. He prefers the workers - social horseshoe theory.Patrick Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01060396277219920420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-42417005234560289792018-09-20T04:50:51.022-07:002018-09-20T04:50:51.022-07:00Eton and then Fettes.Eton and then Fettes.Adam Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-70831282569526560332018-09-20T04:44:05.097-07:002018-09-20T04:44:05.097-07:00Bond also went to Fettes.Bond also went to Fettes.Andrew M Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04960973782513353356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-46700480780016176972018-09-20T04:29:23.086-07:002018-09-20T04:29:23.086-07:00Good point! Though 'Scottish gentleman' ha...Good point! Though 'Scottish gentleman' has a recognisable cultural pedigree, where 'Irish gentleman' just means Anglo-Irish and (speaking myself as somebody whose heritage is Welsh) 'Welsh gentleman' just looks like a contradiction in terms.Adam Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-76856917621875734752018-09-20T04:26:28.487-07:002018-09-20T04:26:28.487-07:00Delightful piece. I'd quibble over casting McC...Delightful piece. I'd quibble over casting McCoy as an <i>English</i> gentleman, though. His Scottish accent is very different to Capaldi's, but it isn't absent.SpaceSquidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-86072289001276239022018-09-20T04:01:14.873-07:002018-09-20T04:01:14.873-07:00... and in a way the Doctor's most perennial &...... and in a way the Doctor's most perennial 'battle' is on the one hand fighting off the forces of a kind of Voldemort-y aristocratic villainy, embodied in The Master, and on the other <em>resisting</em> the caricatural levelling puritanical quasi-fascism of the Daleks and Cybermen and Autons on the other. S/he is about following that line.Adam Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-76804488246247505542018-09-20T03:55:13.413-07:002018-09-20T03:55:13.413-07:00Phil: this is spot-on, I think. And 'manic pix...Phil: this is spot-on, I think. And 'manic pixie dream gentleman' is a stroke of genius.Adam Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-60264229206748682502018-09-20T03:49:47.872-07:002018-09-20T03:49:47.872-07:00Delete surplus 'recognisable's to taste - ...Delete surplus 'recognisable's to taste - Ed.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009879034507926661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-31536471124369906322018-09-20T03:48:28.409-07:002018-09-20T03:48:28.409-07:00Ecclestone's Doctor-as-traumatised-survivor be...Ecclestone's Doctor-as-traumatised-survivor bears rewatching in the light of this argument, and in the light of Ecclestone's own politics. How would it feel, to wake up and find yourself both working-class and a 'gentleman'? How would it make you feel?<br /><br />As far as Jodie Whittaker's concerned, I think there's enough wiggle room in the accumulated characterisations of the Doctor for her to find a recognisable space. There are two recognisable variations on the Victorian/Edwardian gentleman character - Hartnell, Troughton, Smith and Capaldi on one side (gentleman as Rex Harrison), Pertwee, McGann and Tennant on the other (gentleman as Simon Templar). But beyond that, as well as Ecclestone, you've got Peter Davison (gentleman as troubled second son who goes into the Church) and, of course, Tom Baker (manic pixie dream gentleman). Whittaker's Doctor will be different, but I think it'll be recognisable - and at least with Moffat out of the way they won't be going down the River Song route ("Hello boys, I'm a feminist!").Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009879034507926661noreply@blogger.com