I like the idea of symbiosis between the Doctor and the Tardis. I always found Pilot a bit dull as a character, but I take your main point, and there are certainly hints of it. Moya comes across to me as a rather placid and star whaleish creature; I imagine the Tardis as far more quirky, possibly even wacky--perhaps a bit like Maude in "Harold and Maude": outdated, past its prime, but completely self-willed and eternally young.
Yeah, the 8th Doctor's Tardis certainly was ... big, and the cloister seemed to have been replaced by a nuclear reactor core, which was WTF. But I liked the vision of the Doctor at home, reading HG Wells (presumably for the lolz) and drinking tea as he hurtled upside down through wormholes.
I have some thoughts about the Time War, but I'll post them separately.
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Date: 2010-04-13 10:13 pm (UTC)Yeah, the 8th Doctor's Tardis certainly was ... big, and the cloister seemed to have been replaced by a nuclear reactor core, which was WTF. But I liked the vision of the Doctor at home, reading HG Wells (presumably for the lolz) and drinking tea as he hurtled upside down through wormholes.
I have some thoughts about the Time War, but I'll post them separately.