However, once he becomes someone for whom, as he says, there is nothing he can't do any longer, the events of CoE, and not just that, everything, every single moment, past, present or future, because there are no laws any longer to stop him from going back into his past, becomes his responsibility, and his non-interference would turn him into the kind of god that Gwen implicitly made him—one that deliberately turns away in disgust while children suffer, who choses who lives and who dies, and this god would indeed be a monster. This. This. This!
and at the end of Waters of Mars his, 'Isn't anyone going to thank me?' is uncomfortably close to Miss Hartigan's disappointed, 'My people. Why do they not rejoice?', when people ran from the Cyberking screaming in fear. I hadn't thought about the parallel with Muss Martigan before, but that's very poignant. What I always remember, however, when hearing those words of the Doctor's is Martha's story, that she tells during the Year That Never Was: "He has saved your lives so many times, and you never even knew he was there. He never stops. He never stays. He never asks to be thanked. But I've seen him. I know him."
but also shows that the Time Lords had not been collateral damage or innocents, but in the end every bit as dangerous as the Daleks themselves. One thing (amongst many others) that I found v. interesting in 'The Writer's Tale' was the fact that originally EoT would have featured at Dalek/Time Lord alliance.
The Doctor always loved humans, but the ultimate trial is for him to recognise that he is no better than they, and in the end he finally does what so many of them have done over the four seasons of the show, die so that another person can live *nods a lot* I love that, the small, but so, so important sacrifice. Someone, somewhere, said that that choice probably informed Eleven's character on a very deep level, and I like that very much.
there isn't anything left of the Doctor's superiority towards someone he once considered wrong; in the end he is only concerned about Jack making the same mistake that he himself made after losing Donna, believing that it's easier and less painful alone. Yeah, that's how I see it too.
Thank you for writing this - it's absolutely extraordinary, and if there was any justice in the world it'd get published!
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This. This. This!
and at the end of Waters of Mars his, 'Isn't anyone going to thank me?' is uncomfortably close to Miss Hartigan's disappointed, 'My people. Why do they not rejoice?', when people ran from the Cyberking screaming in fear.
I hadn't thought about the parallel with Muss Martigan before, but that's very poignant. What I always remember, however, when hearing those words of the Doctor's is Martha's story, that she tells during the Year That Never Was: "He has saved your lives so many times, and you never even knew he was there. He never stops. He never stays. He never asks to be thanked. But I've seen him. I know him."
but also shows that the Time Lords had not been collateral damage or innocents, but in the end every bit as dangerous as the Daleks themselves.
One thing (amongst many others) that I found v. interesting in 'The Writer's Tale' was the fact that originally EoT would have featured at Dalek/Time Lord alliance.
The Doctor always loved humans, but the ultimate trial is for him to recognise that he is no better than they, and in the end he finally does what so many of them have done over the four seasons of the show, die so that another person can live
*nods a lot* I love that, the small, but so, so important sacrifice. Someone, somewhere, said that that choice probably informed Eleven's character on a very deep level, and I like that very much.
there isn't anything left of the Doctor's superiority towards someone he once considered wrong; in the end he is only concerned about Jack making the same mistake that he himself made after losing Donna, believing that it's easier and less painful alone.
Yeah, that's how I see it too.
Thank you for writing this - it's absolutely extraordinary, and if there was any justice in the world it'd get published!