Devastated!! O Netflix, thou art cruel! To take away - with little more than a few weeks' notice - all seasons of
Doctor Who from America's adoring fans is an act on par with the coldness and soulessness of a Cyberman! My days will now be vapid and my blog inspiration-less without the easy (and "free") accessibility of decades of
Doctor Who! What's to be done?! This isn't an option:
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The only consolation, reader, is that I was able to watch and ponder one last episode before I was cut off (forever?!) like Rose in "Doomsday" (sorry. spoilers...!) from our beloved Doctor.
Well, it certainly didn't take long for Rose (nor I) to grow fond of the Doctor's regenerated look - the "new new Doctor." So here we are - the New New Doctor on New Earth in New^15 York. However, it's the old that are of significance - The Face of Boe and Cassandra; fancy meeting them here?!
(Take note - the Doctor likes a shop ("not a big one, just a shop"); the Face of Boe "will impart his great secret" just before his death; and the person who last tells Cassandra she's beautiful, is actually herself in a different body! Fascinating! This show though! So Timey Wimey - it pays to pay attention!)
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| New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York |
Continuing plot lines and reunions aside, can we talk about those "not real people"? Those humans - those poor, forgotten, rejected, suffering people - what an unimaginable life they led! Their lot was incredibly tragic. And when finally free from their pods, they were still bound by their disease - separated from people by their own repulsiveness and infection. What they needed was a cure; they needed life; they needed a Doctor. *Dunt du duh! As always, that's exactly who arrived on the scene just in time to save the day with a little creativity and his sonic screwdriver! With some quick thinking, a concoction of every cure known to man, and a very efficient showering system, he was able to cure the whole lot! Brilliant! The result? "A brand new form of life - New Humans!"
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| "They were born sick...They were meant to be sick." |
Earlier, when Cassandra shared what she'd seen and felt while she was briefly inside the diseased patient - "they're so alone. They keep reaching out just to hold us. All their lives and they've never been touched." - I thought of all of the times recorded in the Gospels when Jesus touched people just like them. He continually reached out to the rejects, the unclean, the shunned, the diseased and broken. When everyone else walked away, he walked towards them. When everyone else said get lost, He said "come near." It wasn't the well that He had come for:
"they have no need of a physician." He came for the sick. But it was more than a smile, a handout or even a temporary cure that He offered; He was offering life eternal! Yes, He healed their bodies, but He "
came that they may have life and have it more abundantly."
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| "Come on!" |
When the Doctor cleverly assembled his curing disinfectant shower, he gave those poor creatures life - a second chance! Those who had once been shunned, imprisoned, and doomed to death received the gift of life. Just so, Jesus offers a 'disinfecting shower' - His own blood. Your sins, your impurities, your vile disgusting heart, your incurable disease of sin can all be washed as white as snow. Yes, it sounds too good to be true - but it's not!
"God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him." Paul reminds the Corinthians that they too were once wicked people, "
and such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ." Simply step into the 'shower' of God's grace, His free gift, and be washed in the blood of the Lamb! and become "Completely, completely alive!" Not just an "echo of life" - Completely, completely alive! Be healed, be cleansed, find hope and joy and life in Jesus - then "PASS IT ON! PASS IT ON!" Don't keep it to yourself! Share the healing!
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| "Pass it on! Pass it on!" |
