Peter Capaldi Shorts
Description: “Winning? Is that what you think is about? I’m not trying to win. I’m not doing this because I want to beat someone or because I hate someone or because… because I want to blame someone. It’s not because is fun, God knows it’s not because is easy. It’s not even because it works because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it’s right. Because it’s decent. And above all it’s kind, it’s just that. Just kind." This beautiful speech from the Season 10 finale, The Doctor Falls, is a message we all need right now—to do what we do with kindness.
Description: Heaven Sent from Doctor Who season 9 is a masterpiece of storytelling. The visuals and directing are incredible, but the story is what shines. I'm particularly fond of the shepherd boy's tale used to illustrate the billions of years the Doctor spent in the clockwork, puzzle hell running from the veil. The metaphor - a bird sharpens its beak on a granite mountain once every 100 years or so, and the time it takes for the mountain to be worn down from the sharpening of birds beaks...is one second in eternity - has often been used in literature. James Joyce uses it, most notably, in 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'
Description: I made this on the question: What does the Doctor see when he/she sees a reflection? Existentially, it must be complicated when you've regenerated so many times and had so many faces. This is one of my most popular pieces online, which means that it had some controversy. Particularly the fact that I seemed to have left the 9th Doctor out. I wanted to include Eccelston. I also wanted to include all the other Doctors, but it wasn't feasible, so I left Easter eggs instead. Apparently, that wasn't enough for some people and they thought I was trying to erase the 9th Doctor from the canon, which is just stupid.
