Thank you for this. This is all so right. There are things I'd like to reply to in this (mostly along the lines of "Yes, yes, yes, and...!"), but it's too early in the morning.
I know everyone's been saying "Peter Pan" all over the place, which I completely missed, but in Peter Pan, the audience is asked to believe in something generic to save a specific instance of that generic. Whereas in Last of the Time Lords they're asked to utter the name of someone specific in order to change the world - I'm not sure they're asked to believe, but rather to act. And it links back to Utopia too, and the power of names. (It also makes me think of the infamous butterfly, flapping its wings and changing the global weather pattern.)
I go back to the difference between child-like and childish again. trixieleitz asked about Primeval, which for me, fell firmly in the category of childish.
I shall be reading this post a lot today, I think. Thank you.
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Date: 2007-07-03 06:44 am (UTC)I know everyone's been saying "Peter Pan" all over the place, which I completely missed, but in Peter Pan, the audience is asked to believe in something generic to save a specific instance of that generic. Whereas in Last of the Time Lords they're asked to utter the name of someone specific in order to change the world - I'm not sure they're asked to believe, but rather to act. And it links back to Utopia too, and the power of names. (It also makes me think of the infamous butterfly, flapping its wings and changing the global weather pattern.)
I go back to the difference between child-like and childish again.
I shall be reading this post a lot today, I think. Thank you.