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I now have a passport. FEAR ME AND MY ABILITY TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY.
In other news, I watched DW's Journey's End again yesterday. I really should stop doing that because I only wind up incredibly pissed at the Doctor we're left with. Yeah, I feel bad for him with the rather shitty things that happen, however...
It's the whole way he let Davros get to him. Uh, Doctor? Your "Children of Time" were NOT running around half-cocked in your name due to you being some sort of god. Yes, Harriet sacrificed herself - and there have been others who've lost their lives - but a lot of them were for something BIGGER THAN YOU, DOCTOR. In this episode, they were all trying to save their planet, and if that meant getting the Doctor there as their best option to save it, they were going to do it. And when all hope seemed gone, they were willing to sacrifice themselves for the rest of the universe. But no, Doctor. You go on thinking your companions are nothing but killing machines, running around in your name because of some lunatic's guilt trip.
Okay so genocide, to put it puerilely, is a big no-no. Making that god-like decision is a horrible path to go down. He's done it before, and he doesn't think he'll ever do it again. But didn't the genocide of the rest of the universe even register to the Doctor? Because it wasn't in front of his nose, or because he wasn't making a direct decision about it, it didn't factor in? It wasn't as if Team TARDIS lobbed a bomb at a Dalek garden party - even with the reality bomb disabled, they'd never ever stop wiping people out with their fully-formed Dalek fleet. You know, I've got a feeling there was a reason the Time War involving a normally secluded/hands-off race took place. The Daleks wanted everyone GONE, and there's a point where even the Time Lords had to fight or be destroyed.
From my way of thinking, letting the Daleks go is making a just as god-like decision as destroying them. It's dooming millions. Billions. Trillions. But if there's just one person left after all that, it doesn't rate up there because it's not "genocide?" Or something? Or is that the Doctor just doesn't want blood directly on his hands, but is fine if the blood results from something a bit more indirect?
But really, it's more about his view of his companions that gets me. It drives me bonkers because it seems like the Doctor has such black-and-white thinking here. For some reason, he can't see beyond his own issues to the bigger picture. He's one messed-up puppy.
You know, on the scale of "fixing" the Doctor, I'm thinking Rose will have a much easier time with Ten II and his "born in battle" thing, than with the neurotic Davros-induced insanity that's with Ten I now. (Yeah, this means that Ten II has these issues as well, but they're buried since he didn't get the Davros treatment. And hopefully they'll stay buried.)
Turning off comments because I've got tons to do at work today, and this was something I just needed to rant about it a bit. Shaking my fist into the wind, and so on. :D
In other news, I watched DW's Journey's End again yesterday. I really should stop doing that because I only wind up incredibly pissed at the Doctor we're left with. Yeah, I feel bad for him with the rather shitty things that happen, however...
It's the whole way he let Davros get to him. Uh, Doctor? Your "Children of Time" were NOT running around half-cocked in your name due to you being some sort of god. Yes, Harriet sacrificed herself - and there have been others who've lost their lives - but a lot of them were for something BIGGER THAN YOU, DOCTOR. In this episode, they were all trying to save their planet, and if that meant getting the Doctor there as their best option to save it, they were going to do it. And when all hope seemed gone, they were willing to sacrifice themselves for the rest of the universe. But no, Doctor. You go on thinking your companions are nothing but killing machines, running around in your name because of some lunatic's guilt trip.
Okay so genocide, to put it puerilely, is a big no-no. Making that god-like decision is a horrible path to go down. He's done it before, and he doesn't think he'll ever do it again. But didn't the genocide of the rest of the universe even register to the Doctor? Because it wasn't in front of his nose, or because he wasn't making a direct decision about it, it didn't factor in? It wasn't as if Team TARDIS lobbed a bomb at a Dalek garden party - even with the reality bomb disabled, they'd never ever stop wiping people out with their fully-formed Dalek fleet. You know, I've got a feeling there was a reason the Time War involving a normally secluded/hands-off race took place. The Daleks wanted everyone GONE, and there's a point where even the Time Lords had to fight or be destroyed.
From my way of thinking, letting the Daleks go is making a just as god-like decision as destroying them. It's dooming millions. Billions. Trillions. But if there's just one person left after all that, it doesn't rate up there because it's not "genocide?" Or something? Or is that the Doctor just doesn't want blood directly on his hands, but is fine if the blood results from something a bit more indirect?
But really, it's more about his view of his companions that gets me. It drives me bonkers because it seems like the Doctor has such black-and-white thinking here. For some reason, he can't see beyond his own issues to the bigger picture. He's one messed-up puppy.
You know, on the scale of "fixing" the Doctor, I'm thinking Rose will have a much easier time with Ten II and his "born in battle" thing, than with the neurotic Davros-induced insanity that's with Ten I now. (Yeah, this means that Ten II has these issues as well, but they're buried since he didn't get the Davros treatment. And hopefully they'll stay buried.)
Turning off comments because I've got tons to do at work today, and this was something I just needed to rant about it a bit. Shaking my fist into the wind, and so on. :D