You Can't Run Forever...Everybody Lives

Okay, so I have developed an honest to god obsession with Doctor Who. There are only a few other obsessions that can even come CLOSE to the feeling Doctor Who gives me EVERY TIME I watch it. Them being Harry Potter, RENT and Spring Awakening. Even so, they don't come close enough. In the beginning I was so wishy washy about Doctor Who. I had heard of it, and I thought...oh that just sounds weird. Yet, after seeing an episode I was intrigued and now I just ADORE it. The show isn't just amazing for the plots, oh no, it goes so much deeper.

Doctor Who epitomizes so many symbols and themes. The Doctor stands for hope, love, life, and everything in between. You have a man, a timelord, who has lived over 900 years and seen so much, and yet he's still living and learning. He's still learning new things. He's a lonely man, he takes companions knowing that eventually he'll have to let them go. Eventually he'll have to allow them to live their own lives, have their families and do their own things. Yet, he still keeps going. I think this quote by River, whose identity is still not truly known to viewers yet, epitomizes what I just mentioned: "When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever, for one moment, accepts it."

It's true. No matter what happens the Doctor doesn't accept that. He keeps trekking on through time and space. He keeps moving and helping others. I have never seen on a single episode the doctor do for himself. He's always doing for others. He's always helping others. He never asks for anything in return either. He just does it. Again, Martha, a companion of his epitomizes this in a quote: "And his name is The Doctor. He has saved your lives so many times and you never even knew he was there. He never stops. He never stays. He never asks to be thanked. But I've seen him, I know him... I love him... And I know what he can do."

While there's some really sad episodes, even those episodes bring hope. He visits historic figures and literary figures, throwing in tales of monsters, witches and other supernatural elements, but deep down there's so much deeper meaning. I know this may all sound silly because it's about a tv show, but honestly this show really has made me love it because of the meaning and symbols in it. When I'm really feeling low, I just watch Doctor Who and the positive meaning and emotions it brings out can truly make me feel so much better. I can find a quote from almost every episode that I LOVE. This blog is only scraping the surface, and yet I felt the need to write it because, well it really makes me feel much more positive about everything.

I'm going to list some other quotes from the show that I absolutely adore:

"You spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible: that maybe you survive."- 9th Doctor from The End of the World

"One may tolerate a world full of demons for the sake of an angel"- 10th Doctor from The Girl in the Fireplace

"He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful."- Tim Latimer from The Family of Blood

"When you're a kid, they tell you it's all 'grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it.' But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better."- Elton from Love and Monsters

"What if you were really old, and really kind and alone? Your whole race dead, no future. What couldn't you do then? If you were that old, and that kind, and the very last of your kind.... you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry."- Amy Pond from The Beast Below

"Have you ever run away from something because you were scared, or not ready, or just... just because you could?"-Amy Pond from The Beast Below

"You can't go back and change time, you mourn or you live"-from The Vampires of Venice


"It seems to me there is so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamed of. It's colour! Colour that holds the key! I can hear the colours, listen to them. Every time I step outside, I feel nature is shouting at me. Come on! Come and get me! Come on! Capture my mystery!"- Vincent Van Gogh from Vincent and the Doctor

"The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant."- 11th Doctor from Vincent and the Doctor


"That's okay; we're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one. 'Cos it was, you know. It was the best....And the times we had. Woulda had. Never had. In your dreams they'll still be there. The Doctor and Amy Pond. And the days that never came."- 11th Doctor from The Big Bang

I don't know what else to say. I just felt an honest need to share why I love Doctor Who so much, and to put out there how upbeat it makes me feel. :D So that's it really.