#which obv resulted in another wave of frustration with chibnall era's essentialism posing as existentialism
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#you know where this is going#but this is szał uniesień (frenzy of exultations) by władysław podkowiński from 1893#and yes it was quite scandalous in fin the siecle#and there's a very dramatic backstory of passion and heartbreak behind it#that culminated with the artist cutting the canvas after breaking up with the model (the woman not the horse)#but onto the tag rants#I have been thinking of writing a review of I am the Master short story collection#which obv resulted in another wave of frustration with chibnall era's essentialism posing as existentialism#the collection has three stories relying on paralleling the master with the doctor#master of disguise where ainley dresses up as four#and night harvest which is basically an rtd era companion introduction episode#except the enigmatic stranger met by a too-curious-for-her-own-good young woman is the master#simple and works out as well as you might expect#(ainley gets outed because of gendered language and when you think simm will overthrow an evil system he goes i'll make it more efficient)#and then there's dhawan's the master and margarita#and obv i have an unjust grudge against this one because this title felt like a promise that was not delivered on#but objectively the story is good! just a bit overstuffed feels more like a draft of a novel than a novella#but generally the idea is that the master has his own pertwee-like camaraderie in soviet version of unit#and? has to? come up? with? illusions? to? *be*? the doctor?#idk if the aithor knew where potd will go or if cc read the story and thought *omg i have been so brilliant all along*#but this whole thing just feels so.#infertile.#like that's the only thing i feel when i look at cc's idea of the master as a self annihilating* character#*not self destructive they've always been self-destructive because destruction is a condition of construction#like berger's clown who always gets punched to the ground and always gets up they're an ironically redeeming figure#and their NATURAL similarities to the doctor are such a fruitful concept they were doing great fuelling the chemistry for 50 years#and now this. just. where do you go from this?#beyond spending a moment feeling moved by how moved i am what is to be my intellectual response? what's the discussion?#beyond but you see the doctor is good :33 because they make friends :33 and they make friends because they are good :33 ∞#tw: negativity
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