Post by Kestrel on Apr 7, 2021 6:25:20 GMT
Not sure what I expected from this, but a multi-Doctor high Fantasy romp based on Don Quixote definitely wasn't it. Loved the ending with Teresa, but I'm not sure what the story is trying to say about her keeping the memory of "sir Kiote" alive. Is this meant to be a fantasy setting where Don Quixote really existed, more or less, or is it, rather, saying that she perpetuated a myth that would later be factionalized by Miguel de Cervantes? But... given that Don Quixote is hardly the genuinely heroic archetype we see "sir Kiote" embody, that does r make much sense to me....
Really fun story. I'm curious about the audio mixing, though. The soundtrack is very subdued and melancholy, rather than the exuberant adventure score one might expect. Lends the story some emotional weight it might not otherwise have. Although, I think there's some interesting subtext at play here....
At first I thought it might be a weakness of the writing, or the performance, but it took me a while to key into the fact that "sir Keote" was meant to be the 4th Doctor. His lines, simply, don't sound like something Tom Baker would say. But I think this clumsiness, this awkwardness, is intentional--this is emphatically not the Doctor: this is an idealized version of the Doctor, as exists only in Adric's mind.
Strangely, Adric is a fairly passive character in a story bearing his name. He's merely along for the ride. Or so it seems--as a manifestation of Adric's imagination, everything "Kiote" does is, ultimately, an extension of Adric's own will--for who is the Doctor to him of not the ultimate aspirational figure? "Sir Kiote" is not the Doctor, he is both who Adric thinks the Doctor is as well as the person whom Adric one day hopes to become.
An aspiration mirrored in Teresa's ultimate heroic pursuits.
And this is precisely what makes Adric ingenious.
So: a brilliant story. Easily one of the best Short Trips. I don't know if it would change my mind if I was one of those people with a visceral hatred for the character--I'm not (and I never minded Wesley Crusher, either)--but it might.
Really fun story. I'm curious about the audio mixing, though. The soundtrack is very subdued and melancholy, rather than the exuberant adventure score one might expect. Lends the story some emotional weight it might not otherwise have. Although, I think there's some interesting subtext at play here....
At first I thought it might be a weakness of the writing, or the performance, but it took me a while to key into the fact that "sir Keote" was meant to be the 4th Doctor. His lines, simply, don't sound like something Tom Baker would say. But I think this clumsiness, this awkwardness, is intentional--this is emphatically not the Doctor: this is an idealized version of the Doctor, as exists only in Adric's mind.
Strangely, Adric is a fairly passive character in a story bearing his name. He's merely along for the ride. Or so it seems--as a manifestation of Adric's imagination, everything "Kiote" does is, ultimately, an extension of Adric's own will--for who is the Doctor to him of not the ultimate aspirational figure? "Sir Kiote" is not the Doctor, he is both who Adric thinks the Doctor is as well as the person whom Adric one day hopes to become.
An aspiration mirrored in Teresa's ultimate heroic pursuits.
And this is precisely what makes Adric ingenious.
So: a brilliant story. Easily one of the best Short Trips. I don't know if it would change my mind if I was one of those people with a visceral hatred for the character--I'm not (and I never minded Wesley Crusher, either)--but it might.