Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130304024346/@comment-188432-20130308050248

SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: Not really getting the Christ thing. I don't remember Eight doing a move like that... Can you explain more fully? You may not be the right person to tackle the Eight logo, then. Seriously, you've now said that Eight is typified by a pocket watch he never wore and you can't remember the Christ-like imagery from the film.

I'm not entirely sure at this point that you've actually seen the movie — or at least not recently.

The very clear Christ imagery comes most obviously from two scenes. Immediately post regeneration, he stumbles around with a white sheet wrapped around him and goes into a room under construction that conveniently has a lot of broken mirrors around. He then lets his arms fly out, parallel to the floor, thrusts his head all the way back and says, "Who. Am. I."

The other main "Christ scene" is when the Master it sputting the device on his head to suck the lives out of him. This device is clearly a "crown of thorns".

Honestly, it's some of the most hamfisted Christ imagery ever committed to film, and is always remarked upon whenever the movie is seriously discussed. See the info text, the latest commentary, various "making of" documentaries, various Gallifrey Base threads, and I certainly hope our own page on the film, since it is so easy to document with valid sources.