I love that baby Brem doesn’t babble, while I think adult Brem can babble with the best of them.
I love that we get to first see the planet Thhhhhhhhhhhhhmyr, but with no mention of any fudge. :(
I wish I had a TARDIS babysitter. SO much.
Why did you settle on 3 children in the end? I think it’s the perfect number, but I’m curious... why not more, in the end?
Discussion Question:
I think some of Brem’s weariness of his Dad had to start here, watching his Dad up and leave from time to time to save the universe, where he’s left at home. Perhaps the Doctor not realizing certain things, like cutting Brem off from his mind accidentally, made Brem more aware that his father makes mistakes at a very early age? I would like to think at least until the incident at 4, Brem was relatively happy and was enraptured by his father. I think Brem easily sees all of the Doctor’s faults, very easily. But I think what is amazing about Brem’s journey, is that from the age of 4 where the Doctor lets him down SO much, Brem’s journey is about finding his father in the man that is the Doctor again, and gaining faith in him as a person, accepting him with faults instead of seeing him as only his faults. I think it takes Brem a long time to understand how much his father tries and how much he loves, and to accept that that is a good thing, and that yes, the Doctor makes mistakes - huge ones that can’t be fixed and patched together with an “I’m sorry.” But I never wanted to believe that the only reason Brem forgives the Doctor in the end, is because the Doctor needs him to so desperately. That he needs Brem in his life, and so Brem will be there for him.
Yes, he makes a choice, then and there, to be a Time Lord, and to continue that life with his father. But, I have to believe that it’s more than that. It’s for Brem, too. Because the Doctor is good, and does try, and that’s what is important, and Brem has seen that and understands the importance of what being a Time Lord means to the universe.
I think the thing that happened at 4 was only so horrible because Brem was FOUR. At some point in Brem’s life, he would have to make a choice and a parallel universe would have been created because there is always the “what if” in any choice that is made. And I think that is what the entire upset was about. The uncertainty that the choice Brem made might have been the wrong one. And that he had to make that choice at 4, when he wasn’t an adult to weigh the odds, and he was being swayed by his father and was forced into making a choice at such a young age... it was just too early. But it still would have happened eventually.
Chapter 8 part 2
I love that we get to first see the planet Thhhhhhhhhhhhhmyr, but with no mention of any fudge. :(
I wish I had a TARDIS babysitter. SO much.
Why did you settle on 3 children in the end? I think it’s the perfect number, but I’m curious... why not more, in the end?
Discussion Question:
I think some of Brem’s weariness of his Dad had to start here, watching his Dad up and leave from time to time to save the universe, where he’s left at home. Perhaps the Doctor not realizing certain things, like cutting Brem off from his mind accidentally, made Brem more aware that his father makes mistakes at a very early age? I would like to think at least until the incident at 4, Brem was relatively happy and was enraptured by his father. I think Brem easily sees all of the Doctor’s faults, very easily. But I think what is amazing about Brem’s journey, is that from the age of 4 where the Doctor lets him down SO much, Brem’s journey is about finding his father in the man that is the Doctor again, and gaining faith in him as a person, accepting him with faults instead of seeing him as only his faults. I think it takes Brem a long time to understand how much his father tries and how much he loves, and to accept that that is a good thing, and that yes, the Doctor makes mistakes - huge ones that can’t be fixed and patched together with an “I’m sorry.” But I never wanted to believe that the only reason Brem forgives the Doctor in the end, is because the Doctor needs him to so desperately. That he needs Brem in his life, and so Brem will be there for him.
Yes, he makes a choice, then and there, to be a Time Lord, and to continue that life with his father. But, I have to believe that it’s more than that. It’s for Brem, too. Because the Doctor is good, and does try, and that’s what is important, and Brem has seen that and understands the importance of what being a Time Lord means to the universe.
I think the thing that happened at 4 was only so horrible because Brem was FOUR. At some point in Brem’s life, he would have to make a choice and a parallel universe would have been created because there is always the “what if” in any choice that is made. And I think that is what the entire upset was about. The uncertainty that the choice Brem made might have been the wrong one. And that he had to make that choice at 4, when he wasn’t an adult to weigh the odds, and he was being swayed by his father and was forced into making a choice at such a young age... it was just too early. But it still would have happened eventually.