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elisi 's journal, there have been some fascinating discussions about Ten’s character arc recently, particularly some of his darker aspects like his behaviour at the end of FoB. This sparked off a train of thought rather too lengthy for a comment. It includes quotations and discussion of School Reunion and Family of Blood, among others, but no significant spoilers beyond The Eleventh Hour and even those are of a very general nature.
My problem throughout S5 was I simply couldn’t reconstruct the process in my mind by which Ten become Eleven. He went out fighting to stay exactly as he was, and the assumption seemed to be that he loved his life too much to let it go, though that was barely tenable by the end of EoT. We certainly didn’t see any sense that replying the end of the Time War brought him closure, or signs that he was primed to become the person we see Matt Smith pretending to be.
So, this got me thinking about short-term and long-term memory, and the mechanism we human apes have for filing away memories when we’re done with them, and it isn’t helpful or desirable to have them hitting us on a daily basis. What would it be like if we could live for centuries and have many different bodies and personalities? If we’d evolved those physical powers, how would our brains have adapted to accommodate them?
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elisi 's journal, there have been some fascinating discussions about Ten’s character arc recently, particularly some of his darker aspects like his behaviour at the end of FoB. This sparked off a train of thought rather too lengthy for a comment. It includes quotations and discussion of School Reunion and Family of Blood, among others, but no significant spoilers beyond The Eleventh Hour and even those are of a very general nature.My problem throughout S5 was I simply couldn’t reconstruct the process in my mind by which Ten become Eleven. He went out fighting to stay exactly as he was, and the assumption seemed to be that he loved his life too much to let it go, though that was barely tenable by the end of EoT. We certainly didn’t see any sense that replying the end of the Time War brought him closure, or signs that he was primed to become the person we see Matt Smith pretending to be.
So, this got me thinking about short-term and long-term memory, and the mechanism we human apes have for filing away memories when we’re done with them, and it isn’t helpful or desirable to have them hitting us on a daily basis. What would it be like if we could live for centuries and have many different bodies and personalities? If we’d evolved those physical powers, how would our brains have adapted to accommodate them?
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