#12th doctor
and then I finally read it and it’s even better than I expected, and I wish I’d read it sooner.
A really, really late entry forTwelve Days of Twelve:
Day 7: Favourite Scene[I know. This one should be a collection of gifs showing every single instance Missy and the Master are in the same scene. But after conducting careful calculations I’ve come to the conclusion humankind is not made to witness that level of awesomeness all at once. So, here have something else instead.]
Winning? Is that what you think it’s about? I’m not trying to win. I’m not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because I want to blame someone. It’s not because it’s fun and God knows it’s not because it’s easy. It’s not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it’s right. Because it’s decent. And above all, it’s kind. It’s just that, just kind.
It’s not always the good guys who win. Not in real life, and also not on a TV show for kids even though the Doctor did have an impressive track record of 50 years for doing the thing™.
We like to turn the Doctor into a super hero, and forget that he doesn’t have any special powers, or instruments, or connections. He is a lot less like superman, and more like one of us. If the past two series had a message then it was that anyone can choose to be the Doctor. Clara, Osgood, Bill. Even Missy. Because yes - it is a choice. One, we’ve seen the Doctor make over, and over and over again.
What we hardly ever get to see in fiction is that sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes life pits us against just too strong enemies. Sometimes being good, having the moral high ground is not enough.
And although the Doctor is outnumbered, even though he never stands a chance he still gets to choose sides. He knows it’s pointless, that it won’t stop his enemies, but what else could he do?
At the end of the day, fights are not about victories, but the choices one can live (or die) with,