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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Calling All Whovians

David Tennant has played both Hamlet and the Tenth Doctor, and this video combines the two to flesh out the Doctor's tragedy with Shakespeare's words. It couldn't be more appropriate in describing the struggles of Tennant's Doctor, who both fights to preserve himself in his current incarnation and yet also puts his life at risk on purpose many times because he keeps losing everything. 


 
I'm old enough to know that a longer life isn't always a better one. In the end, you just get tired; tired of the struggle, tired of losing everyone that matters to you, tired of watching everything you love turn to dust. If you live long enough, the only certainty left is that you'll end up alone.

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Yeah, I realize now that I hadn't actually watched the embedded clip here. That does a fantastic job of comparing Hamlet and the Doctor. I might still try and go through and discuss it, but as far as showing how this speech has Doctor Who echoes for any Doctor Who fan... this vid does it better than I could possibly dream to, and your quote from( is it Waters of Mars) Doctor Who also just goes that extra bit of showing another connection. This is great.
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I think it's from the Lazarus episode, actually. I loooove this vid :-)

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