10.11.2015

Break the Cycle

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Ich hab' so ein wenig DEN Faden verloren, aber dafür einen gefunden, der eine Verbindung zu etwas hat, was ich vor ein paar Wochen zum Thema "Alle durchgeknallt, oder was?" geschrieben habe:

Ich habe das dringende Bedürfnis, mal laut "STOP!" und "SHUT UP!" zu schreien und jeden einzelnen in eine eigene Ecke zu schicken, um mal in Ruhe darüber nachzudenken, was wir da eigentlich machen und was das denn werden soll...

"Seid ihr jetzt alle komplett irre?" wäre die eine wichtige Frage, die sich alle gefallen lassen müssten. Also echt. Kompett durchgeknallt.


Wie der Zufall so will, hat in der letzten Doctor Who - Doppelfolge der gute Doctor genau die Predigt gehalten, die ich auch mal gerne halten würde, wenn ich eloquenter wäre und mir jemand zuhören würde...

In der Doppelfolge geht es darum, dass eine Alienrasse, die friedlich und unerkannt unter uns Menschen lebt, von einer Splintergruppe zum Aufstand aufgehetzt werden soll, um letztendlich einen Krieg auszulösen.

Inhaltlich erscheint mir die Geschichte sehr der derzeitigen "War on Terror" - Situation nachempfunden zu sein, was auch folgendes Gespräch aus Teil 1 deutlich macht (Infobox Übersetzung):

The Doctor: Isn't there a solution that doesn't involve bombing everyone?

Kate (Head of UNIT): The treaty's been comprehensively violated, Doctor.

The Doctor: This is a splinter group. The rest of the Zygons, the vast majority, they want to live in peace. You start bombing them, you'll radicalise the lot. That's exactly what the splinter group wants.

(Doctor Who 9x07 "The Zygon Invasion", ab 15:04)

Die "Ansprache", die mir so gefällt, befindet sich am Ende vom 2. Teil (9x08 "The Zygon Inversion"). Vertreter der beiden Kriegsparteien ("Zygon" und "Kate") sind dabei, auf den berühmten Knopf zu drücken, um die erste Bombe zu werfen (sozusagen), und die Frage ist: Welcher Knopf ist der richtige, und wer ist schneller?

Der Doctor versucht, beiden ins Gewissen zu reden und wird dabei auch ziemlich... LAUT (Infobox Übersetzung):

The Doctor: Stop this. Stop this, please. [...] We'll forgive, we'll forget. And the ceasefire will stand.

Zygon: No. [...] We have been treated like cattle. [...] We've been left to fend for ourselves. [...] It's not fair.

The Doctor: [...] These things have happened, [...] they are facts. YOU just want cruelty to beget cruelty. You are not superior to the people who were cruel to you, you're just a whole bunch of new cruel people. A whole bunch of new cruel people being cruel to some other people, who'll end up being cruel to you.

The only way anyone can live in peace is if they're prepared to forgive.

Why don't you break the cycle?


Zygon: Why should we?

...

The Doctor: What is it that you actually want?

Zygon: War.

The Doctor: Ah, ah right! And when this war is over, when you have a homeland free from humans, what do you think it's going to be like? Do you know? Have you thought about it? [...] Paint me a picture! Well? Oh, you don't actually know, do you? [...] Because, like every other tantrumming child in history, you don't actually know what you want.

So, let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you've killed all the bad guys, and when it's all perfect and just and fair, when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The troublemakers. How are you going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one?

Zygon: We'll win.

The Doctor: Oh, will you? Well, maybe... maybe you WILL win! But nobody wins for long. The wheel just keeps turning. So, come on. Break the cycle. [...]

Zygon: You know what I see, Doctor? [...] A 50% chance.

Kate: For us, too.

The Doctor: And we're off! Fingers on buzzers! Are you feeling lucky? Are you ready to play the game? Who's going to be quickest? Who's going to be luckiest?

Kate: This is not a game!

The Doctor: No, it's not a game, sweetheart, and I mean that most sincerely.

Zygon: Why are you doing this?

Kate: Yes, I'd quite like to know that, too. You set this up... Why?

The Doctor: BECAUSE IT'S NOT A GAME, Kate!

This is a scale model of war. Every war ever fought, right there in front of you. Because it's always the same. When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn! How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning:

SIT DOWN AND TALK!


[...]

Zygon: I'm not stopping this, Doctor. I started it. I will not stop it. You think they'll let me go, after what I've done?

The Doctor: You're all the same, you screaming kids. You know that? "Look at me, I'm unforgiveable." Well, here's the unforeseeable: I forgive you... after all you've done. I forgive you.

Zygon: You don't understand. You will never understand.

The Doctor: I don't understand? Are you kidding? Me? Of course I understand. You mean, you call this a war? This funny little thing? This is not a war! I fought in a bigger war than you will ever know. I did worse things than you could ever imagine.

And when I close my eyes... I hear more screams than anyone could ever be able to count! And do you know what you do with all that pain? Shall I tell you where you put it? You hold it tight... till it burns your hand, and you say this: Noone else will ever have to live like this! Noone else will have to feel this pain! Not on my watch!

(Kate closes her box.)

The Doctor: Thank you. Thank you.

Kate: I'm sorry.

The Doctor: I know. I know. Thank you. [...]

Zygon: (Closes her box.) I don't understand how you could just forgive me.

The Doctor: Because I've been where you have. There was another box. I was going to press another button. I was going to wipe out all of my own kind - man, woman and child - I was so sure I was right.


(Doctor Who 9x08 "The Zygon Inversion", ab 30:40)

Eindrucksvoller ist das Ganze natürlich zum Anschauen, leider (bis dato) nur auf Englisch: Watch Online...


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