Sherlock Season 4 : a story of a man with special abilities, an annoying powerful brother and a super powered psychotic murder sister who their parents kept secret.
Thor Ragnarock : a story of man with special abilities, an annoying powerful brother and a super
powered psychotic murder sister who their parents kept secret.
Both featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, and only one of which is now believable.
A look into correlations between The Doctor Who series and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Nietzsche was a philosopher. He dealt in morality, (The Spectre of Lanyon Moor) and one of his concepts involved a metaphorical abyss, that stared back at you. (PROSE: Uranus)
(The Spectre of Lanyon Moor was the first Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio story to feature Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and the first ‘official’ meeting of the Sixth Doctor and the Brigadier with the actors playing their characters. Uranus was the seventh short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: The Solar System. It was written by Craig Hinton. It featured the Seventh Doctor and Mel)
Evelyn Smythe thought that Aleister Crowley was, at the very best, a cut-price Nietzsche. (The Spectre of Lanyon Moor)
Prentis Duke hated the grey void of hyperspace, as if you looked too hard into it, “it became Nietzche’s abyss, grinning back at you.” (PROSE: Uranus)
In The Dying Days, the Eighth Doctor paraphrases Nietszche’s Beyond Good and Evil: “I’ve gazed into the abyss already, Xznaal, and the abyss gazed into me. It fled from what it saw. Monsters who fight with me should take care.”
This is, of course, an inversion of the original quote:
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Tardis.Wikia
An Introduction to the book More Doctor Who and Philosophy:
“I vaguely remember hearing about Doctor Who when I was growing up in Italy in the 70s, but I never actually watched it. When the BBC restarted the series in 2005 I decided it was time to see what all the fuss was about. I’ve been hooked ever since; and I occasionally use Doctor Who episodes in my introductory classes in philosophy because it’s a natural (ie, intelligent and entertaining) entry point for discussions about personal identity (qua regeneration), the metaphysics of time travel, and, of course, ethics, ethics, ethics. I was therefore delighted to see this recent addition to the ‘Popular Culture and Philosophy’ series. There is much to enjoy in this collection. Besides the obvious topics mentioned above, we are also treated to Doctor-informed discussions of aesthetics (why, exactly, are the Daleks beautiful?), human nature (‘Human beings, you’re amazing. Apart from that, you’re completely mad!’), the relevance of monadology to the Whoniverse, and even a discussion of the Jesus-like (shouldn’t it really be the Socrates-like?) character of the Doctor.
Perhaps my favorite part of the book is Episode 3: It’s a different morality. Get used to it, or go home!”Philosophy Now
From More Doctor Who and Philosophy:
From Doctor Who and Philosophy: Bigger On The Inside
“Deleuze’s Nietzsche, described in incredible detail in his second-published book, Nietzsche and Philosophy, is most faithful to the German’s original intent, and also lets one build a deeper understanding of the Doctor himself in his highest nobility, as he refuses to be dragged into despair, he who can stare into the abyss at the end of everything and overflow with laughter and celebration.”
Steven Moffat may have been influenced by Nietzsche in The Battle of Zaruthstra. “One of the themes of Eternal Recurrence…the idea of history repeating itself. Yet Steven Moffat presents the most alarming vision of all history happening at the same time at the end of the series!” Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who 2011: The Critical Fan’s Guide to Matt Smith’s Second Series.
There is a also a paper titled Nietzsche and Doctor Who-the serial form and the three teachings of Zarathustra by David Dreamer, exploring the correlation on the series and the 3 teachings presented in Thus Spake. It is available at film-philosophy.com.
“I shall thus be one of those who beautify things. Amor fati: let that henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war with the ugly. I do not want to accuse, I do not want even to accuse the accusers. Looking aside, let that be my sole negation! And all in all, to sum up: I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!” ~N~
Life on Mars" is a BBC series of 2006. It’s already been highlighted, I’m sorry I don’t remember by who, similarities between Sherlock and Ash to Ash. Ash to Ash is a spin on Life on Mars, so I thought I’d take a look at number one. With calm… And surely it’s interesting. This is a dream that is making the protagonist in a coma. His reality often bleeds into the reality he is dreaming of. Mirrors of the protagonist are used. Surely there is much more … but meanwhile ….
Sam tyler is investigating on a serial killer, who has just kidnapped his girlfriend and colleague, when he is hit by a car and he wakes up in 1973.
Here, while helping police investigate a crime identical to what he was investigating in the future, he glimpses a man who talks to him, presents himself as an ipno-therapist, tells him that he is in a coma, that everyone is worried about him, that his phone is never stopping ringing (really odd line), which has to step back and wake up.
And so he climbs on a roof and he thinks about jumping of but is stopped by a colleague, who makes him doubt what is true or not, and that he tells him maybe he is there for a reason.
From time to time he hears the doctor’s voices of the present time.
He works in a very strange office. It’s seems to be in a basement, whit dark walls an a particular cellar, like a chessboard (hello Mycroft office).
the interrogatory room is in a sort of storage closet, full all stranger things (Hello Magnussen’s MP).
He has a nightmare with a blond girl and a clown’s rag doll
In the second episode a girl working in the police department finishes in a coma after a shootout. She’s blond, thin and with delicate features. She has a boyfriend, like he in present time. While she’s in the coma, in her hospital bed, we hear the sound of the monitor but the monitor is always off. She’s a mirror?
in the next episode he heard his mother’s voice, the voice of an elderly woman, who talks to him as if she was in his sickbed, through television.
In the same episode, following his red cat, what he had as a kid, meets the young version of his mom.
There is a scene where his colleagues are talking but he hears the beep of a monitor and voices that talk about medical conditions.
He continue to get in touch with his reality, occasionally independently, but more often through the television or phones that ring and he just seems to hear.
He seems to be conscious of being in a coma, only one of his colleagues knows about his real situation.
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