As a kid I used to want to do everything, to be a part of everything. I’ve tamed down that desire to a few things and one of those things is acting. Every time I watch a really good movie or TV show, I want to jump out of my comfort zone and act.
Watching something like the most recent few Doctor Whos (and their confidentials) seems like a kind of magic. How do they do this? How do they get the emotions just right, and create something from nothing and make it feel like you (the person watching) is going through what the Doctor is going through.
The second time I watched the Waters of Mars episode (yes, I’ve seen it twice) I knew what was coming and yet I was still amazed at the acting and I was still amazed at the Doctor’s character – he’s walking away. Throughout most of the episode he’s walking away.
Even when he goes back and starts saving them, you get this uneasy feeling: he wouldn’t have just walked away earlier unless there was a really good reason. He’s snapped, he’s not being logical.
Back on Earth he’s playing God… well he is called a Time Lord. The Time Lord Victorious:
Time lord victorious… Drawn from looking at a screenshot from the episode
It’s brilliant, and I just don’t understand how, I can’t understand the mechanics behind creating things like this. There are some people who think advanced technology is just like magic; I don’t: I think great writing and acting and creating these characters is magic. It’s inconceivable how they create it.
That might be what’s driving me to want to try to act: a desire to be able to make this magic. I always want to do things that seem wonderful and impossible. I think “That’s brilliant. Where can I get one?”
(My blog entries about random Doctor who episodes probably don’t do them justice. I found a review of this episode over at bleedingcool.com, which has pictures like actual screenshots instead of a half-drawn picture.)