Yeah reminder that Van Gogh didn’t sell but one of his own paintings during his lifetime for sure. Although he did sell a lot of other people’s paintings when he was 15 and worked in an art gallery.
I can’t find a specific clip but if people have seen Doctor Who Van Gogh episode, where he’s just treated like garbage and a shit painter.
It’s not exactly the same for some of those abandoned cash-grabs I guess, but the point is we can’t really know, so I definitely agree with you that we shouldn’t just delete them.
But you miss all the buildup of the episode, and personally I think Doctor Who is very good at it. They show Van Gogh’s desperation and loneliness in the episode. And then to have that sort of fantastical acceptance from the entire world.
There’s a lot of that sort of story in Doctor Who, I greatly recommend. As far as scifi goes, Dr Who is whimsical and emotional and doesn’t really care about tiny details of tech and lore as opposed to Star Trek which is like very methodical and logical and clinical.
In Doctor Who emotions are the hero in like at least half the stories. This wasn’t even one of them, just a random monster story basically.
Yeah reminder that Van Gogh didn’t sell but one of his own paintings during his lifetime for sure. Although he did sell a lot of other people’s paintings when he was 15 and worked in an art gallery.
I can’t find a specific clip but if people have seen Doctor Who Van Gogh episode, where he’s just treated like garbage and a shit painter.
I think on QI they also mentioned once he was just like a teacher in the UK at one point. There’s good jokes as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o2TBmLARlA
It’s not exactly the same for some of those abandoned cash-grabs I guess, but the point is we can’t really know, so I definitely agree with you that we shouldn’t just delete them.
Van Gogh was exactly who i was thinking of while writing this comment :) I never watched Doctor Who, but i know and love that clip.
Ah, but “the clip” is prolly referring to basically the climax of the episode, if it’s the clip where the Doctor takes him to the Musée d’Orsay.
But you miss all the buildup of the episode, and personally I think Doctor Who is very good at it. They show Van Gogh’s desperation and loneliness in the episode. And then to have that sort of fantastical acceptance from the entire world.
There’s a lot of that sort of story in Doctor Who, I greatly recommend. As far as scifi goes, Dr Who is whimsical and emotional and doesn’t really care about tiny details of tech and lore as opposed to Star Trek which is like very methodical and logical and clinical.
In Doctor Who emotions are the hero in like at least half the stories. This wasn’t even one of them, just a random monster story basically.