So, I was talking to a friend of mine in Graphics this morning, and he mentioned how he would (jokingly) prefer to “live in black and white like they did in the 30’s”. It made me laugh, and I replied: “Why, would you prefer 50 shades of grey?” We both laughed and got on with work.
Then, in Physics, we were learning about the brightness of stars and how this was called ‘flux’. The same friend from earlier said “Oh, like a flux copassitor from Back to the Future!” And my teacher replied, “No, they’re completly different things. Back to the Future is just a film. It’s not real. And neither is Dr Who.”
Now, I make Sir sound like a bit of a buzz kill, but he meant it in good faith. He did entertain us when we were doing about gamma radiation exposure and I brought up the Incredible Hulk. It got me thinking though – how important are these things to us? I mean, I know that colour is a real thing whilst (in this universe, at least) the Doctor remains in the realms of fiction, but what would happen to us if these things didn’t exist?
I suppose if we all lived in a world without colour no one would know any better, but I came up with this idea, kind of similar to The Knife of Never Letting Go, where all the colour was kept in this one part of the world. What would it be like to stumble across that? What would the consequences be? Who would be in charge of regulating the colour? Why had all the colour left the world and converged in this one spot in the first place?
Sounds like a good plot to a book, but knowing what I know now, if I were suddenly transported into that world it would be horrible. I love the vibrancy of colours – the variety and range of the entire colour spectrum. I feel it would also be a very bland world. Imagine Monet’s Water Lilies without colour. It would mostly be black and very dark grey, I suppose.
And what if Dr Who didn’t exist? All the Whovians wouldn’t be here for a starters, and Superwholock on Tumbr would just be Superlock, but more serious things would happen. (As a side note, the iPad I am writing this on recognises Superwholock as a word. Go figure). Generations of people have loved and adored that show. It still goes on now and, even if there is argument over Steven Moffat’s writing, new people are becoming hooked every day. That sci-fi show has united people of all generations, even from different countries, through love for the Doctor and a yearning for a man in a blue box to grab your hand and shout “Run!” Amazing things have come from this show, too: cosplay, art, FanFiction, conventions, a fetish or two for bow ties and love that spans the globe.
It would be a very different if these things didn’t exist. I guess that goes for most things we take for granted – unless you’re show is on haitus, as Dr Who is currently. I think that some of these things we always expect to be there. Colour has always been a feature of the world, and Dr Who has been running for 50 years now. It’s amazing and wonderful and would be devastating if something were to happen to either of these things. I think that the world would be a very different place.
I’m not quite sure where this post is going, but it was just something that was on my mind today. As you can tell, I have a fair bit of time to think these things over. I probably shouldn’t have been thinking of thinking of this in Physics when I really need to pay attention for that…
The Musings of Eden 