Community and The Doctor
By Lacie Grayson
You meet a man, totally ordinary a little goofy looking and takes your hand a pulls you in to a blue box. This becomes your life, running from monsters and robots. It feels pretty amazing doesn't it? You become more clever, and you learn to trust what's behind that blue door.
After fifty years, Doctor Who has quite a community. In some places it borders on a family or out right fanatical. After all, that's where the word fan comes from. The question I'm most often asked is why? Everyone asks me why I love this show so much. It's a show that gives me hope.
The Doctor teaches us to be a good person without putting a moral play on us the viewer. It shows we too can be good but doesn't adhere to certain code. Just that we as humans should hold ourselves to more. To become more human than we thought we could be before, it's a good thing.
A theme that echoes through many episodes, no matter who writes them, is the need to be kind. Yes, we know this at a basic level, but are we kind? Over time humans, adults will lose their kindness their ability to trust. The Doctor restores that for anyone willing to watch and learn.
The show has brought us all together. We've formed tribes, obsessed, laughed, and cried over this show. The Doctor has been a cautionary tale of a man alone: an example of a man learning to love. Its a beautiful thing, seeing how a family can grow up around you when you least expect it. How they can be there when you need them most. It is quite possibly the best thing in the universe.
That's what makes Doctor Who such an enduring show. It makes the fans feel something beyond enjoyment for an hour. It helps the viewer grow because it you makes think, hopefully as you mull over plot points you take the lesson to heart.
I'm glad I met The Doctor, are you?
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