Yes! And the Doctor's appropriation goes even farther in that scene -- it's supposed to be about Jack's immortality, an explanation that he's owed (and implicitly, something fundamental he's lost), and the Doctor derails it into his own grief over losing Rose, which he expects Jack to understand and share. It's Jack, not the Doctor, who says "sorry" this time.
(The fact that Martha and Professor Yana overhear this entire exchange just makes it reverberate through all the rest of the story lines; something fundamental about the Doctor is being exposed, and it's not pretty. IMO, this, and not the Master's year of torture, that is the real breaking point for both Martha and Jack -- the point after which they will never want to be Companions again in the same way.)
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Date: 2011-01-28 02:43 pm (UTC)(The fact that Martha and Professor Yana overhear this entire exchange just makes it reverberate through all the rest of the story lines; something fundamental about the Doctor is being exposed, and it's not pretty. IMO, this, and not the Master's year of torture, that is the real breaking point for both Martha and Jack -- the point after which they will never want to be Companions again in the same way.)