Where It All Started

Hi all, this is Max! Jen has already introduced our paper rather effectively, I don't want to repeat much but I will say I hope people will join and follow us as we work. As stated, we are so excited and would love people to come view and track our progress with us from here to Orlando!

I thought to introduce myself, I'd share and present some basic thoughts we had at the very beginning of this process; what actually sent us into motion. Essentially, how we got here! As our paper title and blog name and snazzy wallpaper suggests, yes our paper is indeed about the parallelism between the relationships of the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond in the television show Doctor Who and that of J.M. Barrie's titular characters from Peter and Wendy and all it's various original canon incarnations.  We then, accordingly, will be looking at the psychological and sociological implications of those similarities in regards to pop culture and the show's current audience and demographics.

Our first original thought all the way back in May, was to focus upon the central topic of fairy tales and fairy tale conventions that Steven Moffat, upon given helm to the television series, was able to adapt and weave into and alongside the expected sci-fi elements of the series, creating a show with quite a different tone and feel than it was more or less under the helm of Russell T Davies who had preceded him as showrunner. However, revisiting Moffat's older single episodes as a writer during that previous era, such as Girl In The Fireplace (Madame Du Pompadour is a prototypal Amy and many elements of this episode are repeated in full in Series 5) reveal a more fairy tale influenced sensibility from the start.

However, as we dug into those recurring motifs and patterns and unraveled the Eleventh Doctor's new deceivingly youthful and puckish but also at times extremely chaotic and scary behavior and Amy's centrality to the "Bit fairy tale" theme and her relationship with The Doctor across her three starring seasons, it became much clearer that Moffat, via Eleven and Amy, was playing not just with fairy tales but specifically working with an adaptation of Peter Pan! And that is where our concept truly started to take shape. 

I have much more to say, but I thought this is a good place to end for now.

 Talk to everyone again real soon!

~ Max