Ancient Evils
Jun. 7th, 2011 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lowkeySo A Doctor World's ASW riffs aren't as good as Aria's (and here and here and here), but this one in particular bucks the "generally pleasing, but only in a mediocre sort of way" trend of ADW's strips.
I mean....
... the comic isn't really that fair, in-so-far as the Eleventh's freak out can really only be described as a brief glimmer of anger.
But it's revealing, and I like it. The Doctor had worked so hard and so carefully to get his A-Team together, and he'd won the day with no bloodshed... and at that last moment, he can't help but reveal that under it all, he's absolutely livid.
You came into my box and kidnapped my friend? Keep your worthless life. I'll destroy your good name for all of time and space. When this place is dust and all your descendants dead, time will yet remember that one man came to this asteroid, and you ordered your army to run away.
But as my friend M. pointed out—there's a reason that River calls out the Doctor at the end of the episode. It's this exact vindictiveness, all the more terrible for its lack of overt violence, that has brought the universe to the current impasse.
I mean....
... the comic isn't really that fair, in-so-far as the Eleventh's freak out can really only be described as a brief glimmer of anger.
But it's revealing, and I like it. The Doctor had worked so hard and so carefully to get his A-Team together, and he'd won the day with no bloodshed... and at that last moment, he can't help but reveal that under it all, he's absolutely livid.
You came into my box and kidnapped my friend? Keep your worthless life. I'll destroy your good name for all of time and space. When this place is dust and all your descendants dead, time will yet remember that one man came to this asteroid, and you ordered your army to run away.
But as my friend M. pointed out—there's a reason that River calls out the Doctor at the end of the episode. It's this exact vindictiveness, all the more terrible for its lack of overt violence, that has brought the universe to the current impasse.
