This, our inaugural week, demands that we provide not only a taste of what shall come to this new blog, peppered with a bit of poetry and prose, but also with the humour that is quintessentially Doctor Who. Thus, we share with you a fan-made video that has not only provided us with inspiration but with innumerable laughs.
Tip your hat to NoDayLight who gets sole credit for this brilliant piece of Whovian comedy.
A poem, one that was written for a variety of reasons, one of which is to honour all things Doctor Who. I, the author of this blog, own all rights to this poem. Should you wish to use it, please let me know.
The End
He stands alone
Gazing down upon the scene
Spread out before him
Wise eyes
Full of memories, and
Knowledge of what will come
Old age wraps loving arms
Around the youth of his soul
Cloaking him
In a shroud of wrinkles and grey
Obscuring
The man beneath
Pondering those years gone by
With memories that somehow never die
Pausing to regret
Yet
Knowing
Change has always been his friend
How does one accept
The end?
The question a drum beat in his mind
Demanding answer
In time
To grasp one’s own end
Is to say
I am done
Will he leave behind
A legacy that must
Color the future
Of worlds to come?
He casts a wizened eye
To the future
Sees but only the darkness
And
A solitary tear slides
Down his ancient face
He knows
He will not be there.
Written by: ©CaffeMPath
25 May 2009
Lost Without A Muse(ment)
We have the power to do anything we like. Absolute power over every particle in the universe. Everything that has ever existed or ever will exist, as from this moment. Are you listening to me, Romana? Because if you’re not listening, I can make you listen. Because I can do anything. As from this moment there is no such thing as free will in the entire universe — there is only my will, because I possess the Key to Time.
The Doctor, in “The Armageddon Factor“
Season 16 (1978-1979) comprised six stories, concluding with The Armageddon Factor, and during which the Doctor was tasked by one of the two most prominent Six Fold Guardians (the White Guardian) with finding all six pieces of the Key to Time. The White Guardian claimed that the Key, once assembled, would possess the ability to stop time long enough for the balance of the Universe to be re-established. Apparently, every once in a Gallifreyen [insert long time span here], the Universe becomes so full of chaos that it must be rebalanced.
Is it possible that the Universe is once again filled with unbearable chaos? Or is it that Russell T. Davies has simply lost his Muse?
One can only assume that the Doctor remained the sole possessor of the Key to Time after successfully assembling it and restoring order to the aforementioned imbalanced Universe — at least until now, when we learn he has handed it over to Russell T. Davies.
Davies, having been recently abandoned by his Muse, is now reliant upon the powers vested in him by virtue of the Key to Time, and with it Davies has decided to bring back the dead. If the rumors are true (and we all know how reliable rumors are) it is not simply random dead people he intends to resurrect, but certain former inhabitants of Gallifrey (i.e. the Doctor’s mum). Inhabitants that may have been dead long before the Doctor destroyed his home planet and time-locked it in such a way that it shall not exist in the past nor the future.
Davies may even go so far as to resurrect the cremated remains of the twice-dead Master (“He shall knock four times,” Planet of the Dead). Perhaps the Master’s wife found the Ring of Immortality that fell into the dead Master’s ashes, then gave the Ring to Davies, in exchange for his ressurection.
So, Davies is now in possession of two of the four most powerful talismans known to all Universes. And because we don’t know who possesses the other two, or if they even exist anymore, this makes him a most powerful man, no?
In spite of being in possession of these very powerful items, it would seem that the Muse abandoned Davies nonetheless; and she took his sanity with her. I wonder, where did she go? Perhaps only David Tennant knows the answer to that question. Perhaps Davies’ Muse really belongs to David Tennant and was only intervening on his behalf through Davies. Ah, the Muse abandoned Davies because David Tennant is leaving. Yes, it all makes sense now.
No, wait.
All these rumors of late make Tennant’s final year as the Doctor sound like some twisted high school reunion. Or a Dr. Phil therapy session on Getting Closure gone bad. For instance, The Return of Donna (together with Bernard Cribbins, who plays her grandfather, Wilf, and is slated to be the Doctor’s companion for the Christmas special) is certainly a bizarre element that fans like me will have a love/hate relationship with. He did stick Donna’s memories into the dusty attic of her brain for a reason, even though it seemed like a really bad reason at the time. Captain Jack Harkness will return at some point, should the Doctor need him, of course. Afterall, he has to call in sick at his job at Torchwood. (He’s the boss, so he can do that.)
Timelords will, according to the rumors, return from annihilation or wherever they’ve been hiding all these hundreds of years. “Know this, Time Lord – you are not alone,” said the Face of Bo, ominously; although it is unclear at this point if the Face of Bo was referring to the Master or the Doctor’s companions that will become like family, or actual blood relatives (not including Jenny), or possibly former inhabitants of Gallifrey. Whatever the case may be, Rumors Say: “Timelords” will return and will be all dark and evil this time around, Valeyard notwithstanding.
Even our beloved now-residing-in-a-parallel-world Rose will somehow return… as will Sarah Jane. What? no Other Metacrisis Doctor returning with Rose, after ripping a hole in the fabric of the dimensions in order to cross from one parallel to another?
It is almost as if Tennant’s leaving, and thus the “death” of the tenth Doctor, is this Grand Exit which requires all the world heretofore/theretofore/paralleltofore to be present for that exit. Nevermind that the Doctor lives on in Matt’s body (ewwww, weird thought). Let us not forget that this brilliant sci-fi show did not begin with Tennant and won’t, technically, end with him. (Sadly, you may not be able say this of the show’s popularity…) You have to wonder though, with the end of Tennant/Davies, will Matt/Moffat materially change Doctor Who from that point forward?
Perhaps then it is not sheer madness that fuels the most vicious rumor of all: that the interior of the TARDIS (and thus the TARDIS herself) will somehow be blown to smithereens — as if she can not exist without David Tennant either – leaving one to wonder exactly how the Eleventh Doctor will do what he does best: time travel. One might hope that, somehow, depending on where the Doctor gets stranded after the gutting death of the TARDIS, he could possibly acquire the proper elements or materials to create a device similar to a vortex manipulator, or variant or spin-off thereof, with which to travel through time. (Perhaps a big black Hummer or sleek sports car instead of a blue police box? Just a thought… he had a flying car once, it was yellow.)
It is still, at best, a horrible thought. Certainly, it is a bitter pill that we devoted fans must swallow to accept that David Tennant will no longer be our Timelord, but absolutely it is bad medicine indeed to take away the lovable blue Police Box with which he travels. Afterall, she’s been around since day one.
Shakespeare without a stage.
Faren wel, my dear readers.
