vid - The Waters of Mars - Doctor Who

[kiki_miserychic]

vid title: The Waters of Mars audio: Billy Crudup's Doctor Manhattan in Watchmen source: Doctor Who duration: 2:22 spoilers: The Waters of Mars

summary: The Doctor prefers the stillness here.

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I am looking at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us. All we ever see of stars is their old photographs.

In my opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon. Just look around you. Mars gets along perfectly well without so much as a micro-organism. Here it's a constantly changing topographical map, flowing and shifting around the globe in ripples ten thousand years wide. So tell me how would all of this be greatly improved by an oil pipeline? By a shopping mall?

I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives. They claim their labors are to build a heaven, yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made, perhaps nothing is made; a clock, without a craftsmen. It’s too late, always has been, always will be, too late.

Comments

[cyborganize.livejournal.com]

OK, I haven't yet watched Waters of Mars, so I can't fully place this in the shifting ethos of the Doctor. but it's really haunting. the grainy, nostalgic effects are so beautiful! and it's a genius mashup -- the image of Mars ties it together perfectly. "I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives" is particularly chilling.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It's oddly fitting how well Watchmen and Doctor Who go together.

Honestly, there have been times when I've looked around at my friends and thought, "I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives."

I think The Doctor could easily follow the same path as Doctor Manhattan. He cold get tired of Earth, humanity, and the rest of it. He could fuck off to the moon, kick back in a lawn chair, watching the planet and let us continue killing each other until there was nothing left. Then he'd go off and start his own world.