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Hi guys, Jen and I have been hard at work organizing notes and starting this paper for the ICFA! So again, thank you for tuning in; more updates will be coming in the future as we get closer and closer and things pick up again. Right now it's the tedious quiet stuff. Lots of notes. Lots of writing. Some of the information we've been finding is so amazing we can't wait to share it all with you.  We've been even starting concrete sections of the paper and our powerpoint presentation as well.

But we need your help!  We are both freelance writers and workers fresh out of school and are working our asses off to stay sharp and on our toes! Our Kickstarter drive  to help get us down to the conference in Florida could use your support and we have only 15 more days to reach our goal.

Contributors each receive a thank you gift according to the amount donated to our fund ranging from acknowledgement and thank you's in our presentation and here on our blog,  Doctor Who themed postcards from Orlando with personal doodles to bound copies of our final paper and to the most generous; all of the above plus conference journals bound and presented in the style of River’s diary with photos from the conference which features Neil Gaiman as guest of honor.  I would love it if everyone would take a look and consider help contributing to our project.

Overview: Season Seven

Rounding things out, here is Season Seven's notes!

In case you missed it yesterday, I explained these posts thusly: I decided to jot down a few notes on each episode based on my memory alone. For the most part these thoughts/notes are mine and based on nothing but my memory and knowledge of specific episodes of Doctor Who, but Max occasionally chimes in and usually signs his notes.
This is the final of three posts. Season Six went up yesterday, Season Five the day before, and here is seven, also known as 7.1!
General notes:

• HUMANITY is a major theme. As the Doctor gets more God-like, he draws a thicker line between himself and the human race. Episodes that feature this theme are starred. *
• Any two-part episodes are considered as one unit. Their story line is split up, but their themes continue to develop and character arcs stretch from the beginning of one to the end of another
• We consider CHARACTERS over "Real-world" circumstances (for instance, rather than considering the fact that Tennant stepped in because Eccleston had to leave, we would look at Nine's departure in the storyline, and Ten's arrival.)
• Memory/forgetting is another important theme, in both Doctor Who and Peter Pan.

Overview: Season Six

And we're off! Same deal as yesterday, different season.

In case you missed it yesterday, I explained these posts thusly: I decided to jot down a few notes on each episode based on my memory alone. Max pitched in a few times, but for the most part these thoughts/notes are mine and based on nothing but my memory and knowledge of specific episodes of Doctor Who.
This is the second of three posts. Season Five went up yesterday, and seven will arrive tomorrow! I know, the anticipation is insane.
General notes:

• HUMANITY is a major theme. As the Doctor gets more God-like, he draws a thicker line between himself and the human race. Episodes that feature this theme are starred. *
• Any two-part episodes are considered as one unit. Their story line is split up, but their themes continue to develop and character arcs stretch from the beginning of one to the end of another
• We consider CHARACTERS over "Real-world" circumstances (for instance, rather than considering the fact that Tennant stepped in because Eccleston had to leave, we would look at Nine's departure in the storyline, and Ten's arrival.)
• Memory/forgetting is another important theme, in both Doctor Who and Peter Pan

Overview: Season Five

Before re-watching each episode individually, I decided to jot down a few notes on each one based on my memory alone. Max pitched in a few times, but for the most part these thoughts/notes are mine and based on nothing but my memory and knowledge of specific episodes of Doctor Who.
I'll start with Season five, then post six tomorrow, and seven on Tuesday.
General notes:

• HUMANITY is a major theme. As the Doctor gets more God-like, he draws a thicker line between himself and the human race. Episodes that feature this theme are starred. *
• Any two-part episodes are considered as one unit. Their story line is split up, but their themes continue to develop and character arcs stretch from the beginning of one to the end of another
• We consider CHARACTERS over "Real-world" circumstances (for instance, rather than considering the fact that Tennant stepped in because Eccleston had to leave, we would look at Nine's departure in the storyline, and Ten's arrival.)
• Memory/forgetting is another important theme, in both Doctor Who and Peter Pan
  

Sound familiar?

Puer aeternus is Latin for eternal boy, used in mythology to designate a child-god who is forever young; psychologically it is an older man whose emotional life has remained at an adolescent level. The puer typically leads a provisional life, due to the fear of being caught in a situation from which it might not be possible to escape. He covets independence and freedom, chafes at boundaries and limits, and tends to find any restriction intolerable.<sup>[1]

Notes:
^ Sharp, p. 109

Sharp, Daryl. Jung Lexicon: A Primer of Terms & Concepts. (pp 109 – 110). Inner City Books, Toronto, 1991. ISBN 0-919123-48-1

We have MANY MANY other books to purchase and or take out from the library aside from the over a dozen we currently already have and most likely WILL be using for this paper.   The subject of the puer aeternus is pretty pivitol not only for our comparisons of Eleven and Peter, whom is the poster child for the archetype,  but may explain to a degree Moffat's intentional plans for the character and how the personality change and his relationship to Amy correlates to real world issues with young adults and teenagers today moreso than ever before in the show's history.

A late-nite tidbit for the brain to nosh on. Talk again real soon! 

- Max</sup> 

Selections of How Jen and Max Work...

In the interest of full disclosure, THIS is what we're dealing with here.

12:08 AM Jen: DOCTAH

12:09 AM Max: WHAT

12:10 AM Jen: I'm picking a background for our blog

 Max: omgggg  :3

12:11 AM Jen: sooo... this is you and me on a daily basis

  http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6p8agmAz51rzxwr9o1_500.gif

12:16 AM Max: Uh pretty much

  it's either me or you doing the waving and the other doing the shaking

12:17 AM Jen: yep

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