She is nearly a match for him, which he begins to discover when he searches her mind for clues to solve the mystery of the robotic threat. The Doctor is unusually star-struck by Reinette-her intelligence and strength, poise and command-that he all but abandons Rose and Mickey in his single-minded mission to save her from this fate. Reinette is being hunted by robotic beings whose expressed purpose is to harvest her brain when the “time is right”. The Doctor is this hero, of course.īut they enter into one another’s lives because of unusual circumstances-traumatic ones, at that. She must constantly strive to maintain her image, and takes what value and love her “betters” deem she deserves.Įnter the hero: someone who is impressed by the soul of her and not her outward appearance, who appreciates the strength and worth of her inner self with clarity and admiration.
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Despite how much she achieves in these areas, she will never win the full love and devotion of the man she seeks to woo–she can only hope to be his mistress, never a wife. She makes the most of the opportunities given her, but the best she can hope for is to be loved by someone for how clever and beautiful and well-bred she is. We quickly see that Reinette’s glamorous life is not quite so desirable an existence. Known to us in this episode as Reinette, we are given a window (or several, as you will see) into both her life and inner self through this remarkable episode. The “girl” in our title is the renown Madame de Pompadour of eighteenth century France. JanuLaura Fissel doctor who, review, Sci-Fi, TV, who-ology 0
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