A quick follow-up to yesterday's piece on DW & Buddhism. Courtesy of Outpost Gallifrey, here's a new op-ed from the London Telegraph, "It's now time to take Doctor Who seriously," that explores the current series' resonance with T.S. Eliot & Camus. Key quote:
The Doctor is described at one point as a "lonely god". He has something close to the perspective of a god: he can munch, if he so chooses, his breakfast bagel shortly after the Big Bang and have supper the same day in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. But he does not have the power of a god: he can't go back and change the course of events. So everybody he cares about or ever will care about is always already dead; every companion he picks up will, sooner or later, be gone. I've mentioned before, in connection with this, T S Eliot's notion that if "all time is eternally present/ All time is unredeemable". Eliot was interested (inter alia) in the theology of this; Russell T Davies in the psychology.
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