A Big Damn Essay About Time Wars (Oh Boy)
This War Will Never Let Us Go; An Essay on Time Wars in Heaven and Criticism Thereof " You think it’ll last forever. People and cars and concrete. But it won’t. One day it’s all gone. Even the sky. My planet’s gone. It’s dead. It burned like the Earth. It’s just rocks and dust. Before its time." "What happened?" "There was a war and we lost." Russell T Davies, The End of The World (2005) Like it or not, the Time War is now an "era," of Doctor Who. The same as that of The Sixth Doctor's era, or the Eleventh Doctor's era, in 2005, the Time War as a concept became an intrinsic part of Doctor Who history. Introduced as an idea in Rose, we learn what the Time War was from Christopher Eccleston in The End of The World, and it serves as a critical emotional impact in the Doctor's character arc. An offseen trauma. This angle was meant to be probed, to be explored from a critical lens, but never necessarily explored physically. Russell T D