Doctor Who/Torchwood Essays that I Want to Write:

[butterfly]

a. On the terrible leadership abilities of Captain Jack Harkness and how things are better all-around when he's a follower, not the leader.

b. On Doctor/Rose and the Doctor and the Master, and similarities in their emotional impact on the Doctor.

c. Daleks and the Doctor and all the comparisons between them existing in the series, both explicit and implied.

d. On the subject of the Lonely God and its narrative purpose.

e. A full-out exploration of all of the steps that went into making Doctor/Rose work as a romance (short answer: time, chemistry, writing).

f. Regarding the evolution of Rose's clothing choices and what they mean (this may or may not dip into other characters).

g. On how Gwen and Ianto don't hate each other even the slightest bit and why they don't.

h. On the differences in how the Doctor treats each of his companions and why he does (may bring in Old School comparisons).

Comments

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

The Lonely God theme is something that a lot of people seem tired with, but I find it endlessly fascinating. Because... he still doesn't want to be either lonely or a god, but he doesn't see any other choices. The universe needs someone to save it, no matter how much he might wish otherwise.

[shield-wolf.livejournal.com]

I too find the Lonely God theme fascinating, for much the same reasons you indicate here. It's especially obvious to me from "Journey's End" that the sense of dichotomy between the man and the god and the tension it implies -- a tension that finally tears him in two, metaphorically speaking, leaving one of each in a sense -- was largely the point of his character arc over the course of the past four seasons (much as I may wish otherwise, since the opportunity for positive growth and change was there but remains largely unfulfilled in the Doctor with which we have been left).