Thank you so much for all of this work. Like you, I've spent lots of time obsessing about this journal. And I really adore page six.
Looking down at me in a very... As if we has always known. [next line crossed out entirely]... scorned [?] relative or child.
I think it is HAD not HAS...as if we had always known. And while it could, given how little we see of it, be about anything. The end of the Time Lords for example. I honestly think that bit if about Bad Wolf. I think you are correct in thinking the later wolf reference is about the werewolf.
If you think about that combination of words it is very like what happens to the Doctor at the end of Parting of the Ways. He is on the ground. Rose is looking down at him...and she says something that completely changes how he sees her. I think it changes how he sees humans. She goes from being a child or relative in his eyes (someone in his care) to someone who is his equal.
I could be completely wrong...and I really want them to release this entire journal so we can delve deeply into John Smith's subconscious...but the placement of those words, by the Dalek passage just made me think of that moment when the Doctor's eyes were opened to the possiblity of Rose being someone he could love and not just something he sets fire to that's away up the chimney. I think, too, that is the most apt description of companions and his relationship to them that I've ever heard. He loses them but also sets fire to them, gives them purpose and spark...and they're away up the chimney while he's left with the sense of loss.
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Date: 2008-02-05 08:12 am (UTC)Looking down at me in a very... As if we has always known. [next line crossed out entirely]... scorned [?] relative or child.
I think it is HAD not HAS...as if we had always known. And while it could, given how little we see of it, be about anything. The end of the Time Lords for example. I honestly think that bit if about Bad Wolf. I think you are correct in thinking the later wolf reference is about the werewolf.
If you think about that combination of words it is very like what happens to the Doctor at the end of Parting of the Ways. He is on the ground. Rose is looking down at him...and she says something that completely changes how he sees her. I think it changes how he sees humans. She goes from being a child or relative in his eyes (someone in his care) to someone who is his equal.
I could be completely wrong...and I really want them to release this entire journal so we can delve deeply into John Smith's subconscious...but the placement of those words, by the Dalek passage just made me think of that moment when the Doctor's eyes were opened to the possiblity of Rose being someone he could love and not just something he sets fire to that's away up the chimney. I think, too, that is the most apt description of companions and his relationship to them that I've ever heard. He loses them but also sets fire to them, gives them purpose and spark...and they're away up the chimney while he's left with the sense of loss.
Rae