Dr Who and his "Companions"
Jul. 4th, 2006 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
f4f3Watching this weekend's Who (brilliant, great cliff-hanger, can't wait etc) I was struck by a piece of dialogue between Rose and her mother, to the effect that one day Rose would be left behind by him on some distant planet, no longer Rose and no longer human.
It put me in mind of a dialogue from Alan Moore's Marvelman comic . Marvel Man was an English revamp of Captain Marvel, who was himself derived from Superman - albeit one modelled on a young Paul Newman.
Evelyn Cream, a very accomplished assasin, is explaining to the head of intelligence that he has betrayed them and made a deal with Marvel Man. Sir Dennis is repulsed - he regards MM as a monster, and tells Cream that associating with such a monster will kill him. I'm quoting from memory here, but the dialogue is something like:
"He isn't human, Cream. Have you ever wondered what we must look like from his perspective? Like animals."
"The difference between you an I, Sir Dennis, is that you have made him an enemy, and I have made him an ally."
"No, Cream, he's made you his pet."
I wonder how a 600 year old alien really thinks about a 19 year old human.
It put me in mind of a dialogue from Alan Moore's Marvelman comic . Marvel Man was an English revamp of Captain Marvel, who was himself derived from Superman - albeit one modelled on a young Paul Newman.
Evelyn Cream, a very accomplished assasin, is explaining to the head of intelligence that he has betrayed them and made a deal with Marvel Man. Sir Dennis is repulsed - he regards MM as a monster, and tells Cream that associating with such a monster will kill him. I'm quoting from memory here, but the dialogue is something like:
"He isn't human, Cream. Have you ever wondered what we must look like from his perspective? Like animals."
"The difference between you an I, Sir Dennis, is that you have made him an enemy, and I have made him an ally."
"No, Cream, he's made you his pet."
I wonder how a 600 year old alien really thinks about a 19 year old human.
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Date: 2006-07-04 03:12 pm (UTC)My rels in the far south west (Dorset) don't get Channel 5 either. I think it's a centralist bias.
We get avocados but not avocets or advocaat.
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Date: 2006-07-04 03:47 pm (UTC)We don't get Excocets, but we do get Harriers - one of them went over the first tee at about 100 ft this lunchtime.
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Date: 2006-07-04 04:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-04 08:18 pm (UTC)