Explaining the evolution of Who
Aug. 5th, 2014 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyI've heard a FEW times too many that the new Doctor Who (Peter Capaldi) is "too old", and that The Docto is supposed to be getting *younger*. But that's not how it works... it's more like how *you* evolve through life as well.
You can trace this back through the other Doctors as well, but for now we'll just go with the Four Doctors of the Modern Age - Eccleston, Tennant, Smith and Capaldi.
We start with Eccleston, a somber fellow full of guilt and trying to redeem himself. He finds a young companion who begins to fall in love with him, and at the time of his death he is thinking "If only I had been more open to this... younger, more adventurous..."
And he regenerates in to David Tennant. He's a young doctor, full of energy, full of life, full of love for Rose. In the end, as he is about to die, his last words are "I don't want to go". He wishes he had more time!
And he regenerates in to Matt Smith, who appears to be *even younger*. Only THIS time, he lives for some 400 years (or more, I can't remember the exact number but it's a lot), long enough to show actual signs of aging by the time he's ready to go (something no other regeneration had done before) and now... now he has matured.
And so he regenerates in to not another "child", but a fully mature man who has lived a life and is ready for more, ready to see what's out there beyond his own silly desires.
(at least that's where I think this is going).
You can trace this back through the other Doctors as well, but for now we'll just go with the Four Doctors of the Modern Age - Eccleston, Tennant, Smith and Capaldi.
We start with Eccleston, a somber fellow full of guilt and trying to redeem himself. He finds a young companion who begins to fall in love with him, and at the time of his death he is thinking "If only I had been more open to this... younger, more adventurous..."
And he regenerates in to David Tennant. He's a young doctor, full of energy, full of life, full of love for Rose. In the end, as he is about to die, his last words are "I don't want to go". He wishes he had more time!
And he regenerates in to Matt Smith, who appears to be *even younger*. Only THIS time, he lives for some 400 years (or more, I can't remember the exact number but it's a lot), long enough to show actual signs of aging by the time he's ready to go (something no other regeneration had done before) and now... now he has matured.
And so he regenerates in to not another "child", but a fully mature man who has lived a life and is ready for more, ready to see what's out there beyond his own silly desires.
(at least that's where I think this is going).
