On the one hand, there's really very little use in belaboring an issue. I learned long ago that the only real constant in the universe is that "things change," and typically the more we as a people push back against that inevitability the more likely we are to cause ourselves greater damage than were we to embrace what comes next. The older you get, the more you see the writing on the wall, the more you feel the stitching on the ball, and you pretty soon you find yourself repeating that age-old phrase, "It is what it is."
Still, on the other hand, I was one of the few who actually liked Peter Capaldi's incarnation of Doctor Who when he appeared on the scene. (Well, so far as I was noticing, anyway.) He was a bit of a curmudgeon, true, but the best skeptics always are ... and the good Doctor has always been a balancing act of pessimism and optimism if there ever were such a character. I suppose that's what goes hand-in-hand with having the fate of the cosmos in your hands with such frequency: you realize that saving the universe today only means that you'll have to do the same tomorrow. Or the next day. Or the day after that. So on and so forth.
It was about time for the Doctor to become a bit of a grouch, and Capaldi handled that with a master's touch. He wasn't 'mean for mean's sake' to anyone he met along the way (even the villains, by and large), but he certainly approached his share of derring-do with a bit of an attitude.
Well, his final days are upon us it would seem as this upcoming season and holiday special promises to be his march into oblivion (though viewers can be assured he'll be back in another guise post haste). The BBC has released a trailer for the episodes just around the corner, and though it was shared endlessly across the Information Superhighway yesterday I'm feeling inclined to do it for my little corner of the web below. Take a gander ...
Still, on the other hand, I was one of the few who actually liked Peter Capaldi's incarnation of Doctor Who when he appeared on the scene. (Well, so far as I was noticing, anyway.) He was a bit of a curmudgeon, true, but the best skeptics always are ... and the good Doctor has always been a balancing act of pessimism and optimism if there ever were such a character. I suppose that's what goes hand-in-hand with having the fate of the cosmos in your hands with such frequency: you realize that saving the universe today only means that you'll have to do the same tomorrow. Or the next day. Or the day after that. So on and so forth.
It was about time for the Doctor to become a bit of a grouch, and Capaldi handled that with a master's touch. He wasn't 'mean for mean's sake' to anyone he met along the way (even the villains, by and large), but he certainly approached his share of derring-do with a bit of an attitude.
Well, his final days are upon us it would seem as this upcoming season and holiday special promises to be his march into oblivion (though viewers can be assured he'll be back in another guise post haste). The BBC has released a trailer for the episodes just around the corner, and though it was shared endlessly across the Information Superhighway yesterday I'm feeling inclined to do it for my little corner of the web below. Take a gander ...
As always, thanks for reading ... and live long and prosper!
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