[ SECRET POST #2706 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2706 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

da

Why don't you like it?

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Speaking just for myself, because it's cutesy, twee, over-anthropomorphizing in a universe that has too big a problem with that already, and of course it's another case of the bad fangirl habit of seeing everything in the universe solely through the lens of shipping.

The TARDIS is a machine, an impossible machine wrapped around universal forces that shouldn't be containable, because that's the kind of thing Time Lords used to do. It has a kind of proto-consciousness, or something that functions similarly to one, sure.

But it is not a human consciousness. Its internal processes do not resemble ours. And it goddamn sure isn't a cute gothy chick with an adorable crush.

Sucking the awe and mystery out of something huge and old and strange because your imagination isn't large enough... that's bad. But sucking the awe and mystery out because your imagination can't encompass anything that isn't shipping... that's just fucking embarrassing.

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt

I wasn't specifically talking about The Doctor's Wife but the idea of the TARDIS choosing the Doctor which it's an idea that has been around far longer than that episode. Thank you for your reply.

I've got no problem with the idea of the TARDIS choosing the Doctor or having a limited form of consciouness. I don't see it as shipping related, but I do see it as some form of a bond.

I don't like how it was portrayed in that episode. My headcanon is different from the MPDG we saw.

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AYRT

And on that level, I can totally see where you're coming from. I'm not sure I agree with your idea that the TARDIS chose the Doctor, but at this point we're disagreeing within a mutually agreeable frame of reference, and that's the kind of fandom argument I enjoy. :)

Whereas the notion of the TARDIS as Helena Bonham Carter's non-union equivalent... that is from a different frame of reference, we can agree.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I saw the idea of the Tardis being alive and sapient way back in the 1990s Virgin Publishing New Adventures novels. However there she seemed a bit more intimidating, slightly threatening and very possessive of the Doctor. Though in those books most POVs those hints of the Tardis are seen through is the POV of companions, like Ace, or Bernice Summerfield.

But on the bit about the Tradis not having a human consciousness, the episode did try to convey that, but how well people picked up that factor is likely very ymmv.