while the Daleks are robots with slugs where their souls should be, the Doctor is a man with two hearts.
I hadn't thought about the ways in which two hearts becomes an emotional/spiritual descriptor for the Doctor, not just a physiological one.
Oswin had a full conversion. She is not human by the time we meet her; she is a slug in a robot suit, trapped in a little white room. But something went wrong with Oswin—or very, very right. The Daleks couldn’t take her love.
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Date: 2012-10-02 02:40 pm (UTC)This is glorious. YES to all of this.
while the Daleks are robots with slugs where their souls should be, the Doctor is a man with two hearts.
I hadn't thought about the ways in which two hearts becomes an emotional/spiritual descriptor for the Doctor, not just a physiological one.
Oswin had a full conversion. She is not human by the time we meet her; she is a slug in a robot suit, trapped in a little white room. But something went wrong with Oswin—or very, very right. The Daleks couldn’t take her love.
Brilliant. Yes.