the notion of the Data Core troubled me the more I thought about it. To be consigned forever to a place that you didn’t choose to be in but can’t escape from - that sounds pretty much like my definition of Hell. Yes, that's absolutely true—this virtual after-life, there is a lot to be said about it. And it's all the more thought-provoking when you take into account the Doctor's reaction to the uploading of people in the database in Bells of St. John, although the context is quite different, in both the intent and the conditions of that happening. The symbolism is still there…
And yet the story demands that we take it as River’s happily-ever-after. So I wanted to try and square that ending with everything that we learn about River in subsequent episodes: what she values, who she decides to be, the people she learns to love. ♥ I love the complexity of it. Layered, bittersweet.
Because it’s all down to her in the end, isn’t it? Even when it looks like time and causality and the Universe are making the decisions for her, she’s still mistress of her fate. Yes, I like that… :)
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Yes, that's absolutely true—this virtual after-life, there is a lot to be said about it. And it's all the more thought-provoking when you take into account the Doctor's reaction to the uploading of people in the database in Bells of St. John, although the context is quite different, in both the intent and the conditions of that happening. The symbolism is still there…
And yet the story demands that we take it as River’s happily-ever-after. So I wanted to try and square that ending with everything that we learn about River in subsequent episodes: what she values, who she decides to be, the people she learns to love.
♥ I love the complexity of it. Layered, bittersweet.
Because it’s all down to her in the end, isn’t it? Even when it looks like time and causality and the Universe are making the decisions for her, she’s still mistress of her fate.
Yes, I like that… :)