Be Kind
For everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
On Christmas, I was watching the Doctor Who Christmas Special, “Twice Upon a Time,” as one is apt to do on this day. It was a fun episode, but the real kicker everyone was waiting for (including me) was the regeneration scene. One of the more innovative ideas of Doctor Who is that when the lead actor decides it’s time to move on from the role, a new actor steps in and the character basically turns into the actor and away we go in his (or her) police phone box ship for adventures in time and space. These regeneration scenes have been pivotal in the run of the show, and the latest one was no exception.
In his last scenes, Peter Capaldi, the current actor in the role, was given a long monologue. In it, he offered up some choice advice for his new incarnation. Among the not eating pears joke, he implores his new self to be kind. In fact, he says it twice.
If you’re only passingly familiar with the titular British hero, the Doctor doesn’t use guns, he’s called books the greatest weapons in the world, and is not a traditional action hero most Americans would recognize. His last few incarnations have been skinny men in…
