Is it silly of me that I love that he's almost as nearsighted as I am, judging from the distortion you can see in his lenses? It's sort of endearing to know that he's probably bumped into and tripped over as many things as I have without his specs. :D
I have to wonder how much conversation went into when the Doctor was going to be allowed to wear glasses, given the debates they had over coat deployment.
Originally DT's concept was that the Doctor was going to wear glasses all the time, but that was nixed by TPTB. I can actually see story reasons not to do that, as you wouldn't want the Doctor easily disabled...
I do find it funny that the Doctor is farsighted whereas David appears to be nearsighted. I'm nearsighted too - but I really only need my glasses for distance vision, and that's mostly for the astigmatism. My husband, on the other hand - if they didn't have indexed lenses nowadays, he would be in total Coke bottles. He can't see three feet in front of his face without his specs.
I'm coke-bottle nearsighted too! One reason I stopped wearing contacts, in addition to them irritating my eyes more the older I got, but my prescription is so strong and complicated (I've got myopia AND astigmatism) that they could never get it tight enough for me to see crisply. I have much better vision with my glasses.
I adore that he insisted on the Doctor wearing glasses at least some times, since he was plagued with glasses as a child and wanted speccy kids to have a hero to look up to who also needs specs.
My husband may actually be getting Lasik at some point in the next couple of years. His prescription has stabilized, and even if he still sometimes needed glasses after the procedure he'd be much better off than he is now. He hasn't worn contacts since I've known him, but apparently he did give them a try briefly in early college and found the same thing you did - that they didn't cut the mustard for vision correction. Especially since he did a lot of photography at the time.
Anyhoo, back to DT: the glasses are just so hot! Even though he doesn't seem to think so... but then he probably grew up wearing NHS black plastic hornrims, so I can see where he got a bit tired of them. Do English girls not have the thing about peeling the glasses off of a speccy boy? It's sort of like undressing them! Hee!
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Date: 2007-10-08 01:41 pm (UTC)Is it silly of me that I love that he's almost as nearsighted as I am, judging from the distortion you can see in his lenses? It's sort of endearing to know that he's probably bumped into and tripped over as many things as I have without his specs. :D
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Date: 2007-10-08 02:54 pm (UTC)Originally DT's concept was that the Doctor was going to wear glasses all the time, but that was nixed by TPTB. I can actually see story reasons not to do that, as you wouldn't want the Doctor easily disabled...
I do find it funny that the Doctor is farsighted whereas David appears to be nearsighted. I'm nearsighted too - but I really only need my glasses for distance vision, and that's mostly for the astigmatism. My husband, on the other hand - if they didn't have indexed lenses nowadays, he would be in total Coke bottles. He can't see three feet in front of his face without his specs.
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Date: 2007-10-08 03:03 pm (UTC)I adore that he insisted on the Doctor wearing glasses at least some times, since he was plagued with glasses as a child and wanted speccy kids to have a hero to look up to who also needs specs.
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Date: 2007-10-08 03:13 pm (UTC)Anyhoo, back to DT: the glasses are just so hot! Even though he doesn't seem to think so... but then he probably grew up wearing NHS black plastic hornrims, so I can see where he got a bit tired of them. Do English girls not have the thing about peeling the glasses off of a speccy boy? It's sort of like undressing them! Hee!