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Unsetting Doctor characterization
Mar. 12th, 2007 11:04 amI'm going to polish this here before I post on the Who comms and get killed in a wanksplosion, but I can't help but see if anyone else sees what I see. Because I've been watching a lot of old school Who over the weekend, and come to the uncomfortable conclusion that the Doctor is a bit of a pedo - or at least has a schoolgirl fetish.
I say "a bit of" because he's not perving on anyone below the age of consent by their own standards. And there's never a hint of anything untoward in his relationship with Susan. But what else have we got in canon?
Romana decides to loosen up and become more likeable to the Doctor and what does she do? Regenerate into someone much smaller (a body that was her own choice, unlike the Doctor's regenerations; I get the impression he slept through those classes at the Academy.) And then she tops it off by adopting an unmistakeable schoolgirl uniform to wear. Considering that the Tom/Lalla relationship ends up all over the screen, it's pretty canon to say that Doctor 4 and Romana 2 were at it like weasels offscreen. Since, er, they were. And oh, by the way, uniform or not, Romana's just out of the academy, while the Doctor is old enough to start to have a mid-lives crisis, as he bitched about all the time to an unsympathetic Sarah Jane.
The 9th Doctor and Rose were all over each other to the point that they had to *deny* they were all over each other just about every other episode because it was that obvious that they were seriously involved. Tennant (Doctor 10) is on record calling the Doctor/Rose relationship a sexless love story. Sexless (or not in the hands of the fans) he is yet again attracted to someone who is centuries younger than he is and is barely adult by her standards, much less his.
One of the shows over the weekend was Black Orchid. Peter Davison is on record saying that he offset being the Doctor famously told to not touch his companions by playing that he and Nyssa had some offscreen understanding. Beside the yet-again centuries of age difference, in Orchid the Doctor and his companions are offered a drink. The Doctor, champion of children everywhere, asks for lemonade. Tegan asks for a screwdriver and gets it. (We see her drinking cocktails later as well.) But when *Nyssa* asks for a screwdriver as well, the Doctor clears his throat and suggest that "the children" (by which he means Nyssa and Adric) also get lemonade.
That scene, in conjunction with Davison's statements, somewhat freaks me out. In conjunction with the relationships with Romana 2 and Rose, it makes me seriously wonder if after his mid-lives crisis, the Doctor really did start perving on Sweet Young Things.
I say "a bit of" because he's not perving on anyone below the age of consent by their own standards. And there's never a hint of anything untoward in his relationship with Susan. But what else have we got in canon?
Romana decides to loosen up and become more likeable to the Doctor and what does she do? Regenerate into someone much smaller (a body that was her own choice, unlike the Doctor's regenerations; I get the impression he slept through those classes at the Academy.) And then she tops it off by adopting an unmistakeable schoolgirl uniform to wear. Considering that the Tom/Lalla relationship ends up all over the screen, it's pretty canon to say that Doctor 4 and Romana 2 were at it like weasels offscreen. Since, er, they were. And oh, by the way, uniform or not, Romana's just out of the academy, while the Doctor is old enough to start to have a mid-lives crisis, as he bitched about all the time to an unsympathetic Sarah Jane.
The 9th Doctor and Rose were all over each other to the point that they had to *deny* they were all over each other just about every other episode because it was that obvious that they were seriously involved. Tennant (Doctor 10) is on record calling the Doctor/Rose relationship a sexless love story. Sexless (or not in the hands of the fans) he is yet again attracted to someone who is centuries younger than he is and is barely adult by her standards, much less his.
One of the shows over the weekend was Black Orchid. Peter Davison is on record saying that he offset being the Doctor famously told to not touch his companions by playing that he and Nyssa had some offscreen understanding. Beside the yet-again centuries of age difference, in Orchid the Doctor and his companions are offered a drink. The Doctor, champion of children everywhere, asks for lemonade. Tegan asks for a screwdriver and gets it. (We see her drinking cocktails later as well.) But when *Nyssa* asks for a screwdriver as well, the Doctor clears his throat and suggest that "the children" (by which he means Nyssa and Adric) also get lemonade.
That scene, in conjunction with Davison's statements, somewhat freaks me out. In conjunction with the relationships with Romana 2 and Rose, it makes me seriously wonder if after his mid-lives crisis, the Doctor really did start perving on Sweet Young Things.
