Anon 07/11/2024 (Thu) 20:25 No.10658 del
>>10605
>Oh, boy, my brother has tried to explain Doctor Who canon to me
Frankly, it's a mess. The whole show is a mess at this stage but I still like mess... Sometimes. But it definitely makes the early stuff a lot comfier to watch, it didn't need to worry about these things.
> "everything canon, including changes, but somethings are disfavored and they pretend not exist, but later acknowledge" is what I took from it.
The consensus at this stage is that there is no canon, except insofar as there's some things in the show which haven't yet been directly contradicted by things elsewhere in the show. Canon is a shrinking raft as far as any official Doctor Who "story" goes.
>Very much a side note, but that almost sounds similar to the feelings I'm trying to covey here
The Bionicle track you linked there reminded me of Dark Ambient - but then, lots of tracks I like in a similar vein would so the same, but for the fact that they hold special significance for me, so I imagine to you it wouldn't sound quite like Dark Ambient. The music in early Doctor Who also contributes quite a lot to this feeling - here's my favourite example. Short I'm afraid.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fewiHTKKpXo [Embed]
The screenshot from the episode works perfectly for it too, a similar kind of thing to the cover you matched with your song, a city dwarfed by the rather flat landscape around it. Minas Tirith is the same. Flat grassy plains stretching vast and wide are very very comfy to me, I love to imagine the old days of the steppe, with nothing but open blue sky stretching before you, able to go anywhere with nobody around for miles and miles. There's nowhere like that in Britain, you're never far from trees or hills or buildings, it is after all only the size of Idaho. I've heard of people going a bit crazy confronted with some of the truly, truly flat plains in the central US and honestly I envy just being able to witness something like that with your own eyes, though perhaps it can be as difficult for ordinary Americans to travel that far out as well, I don't know. But a land so flat you can see it stretch far away into the horizon, and a sky completely unimpeded, landmarks so absent you feel as though you might be unanchored and float off into the blue, that I'd give almost anything to see just once in my life, and so I'm sure that one day, I will.
>Also, I took a screencap of that same shot with Twilight just by coincidence. I just liked the way she looked there for whatever reason.
It's a good shot in regards to that then, because it appeals to two things at once - for you, you liked how Twilight looked in the shot, but for me, I almost always feel compelled to take a screenshot where it's wide and shows off a lot of the environments and background. Taking little snapshots with the world itself as the focus helps make me feel like it's real, like Ponyville is out there, almost like I'm some sort of conspiracy-anorak collecting photographs in the rain, glimpses of other worlds that appear in quiet moments.