the Tenth Doctor is less given to those kinds of second chances (right from The Christmas Invasion).
Is it in "School Reunion" that he says, "I used to have so much mercy"?
I think Ten is more liely to push himself to extremes. I wonder if he regrets his choice in "The Parting of the Ways". I think not, but it seems to have steeled him to harder and darker choices. He has a harsher temper.
I loved Florence Finnegan's line: "You're quite the funny man. And yet, I think, laughing on purpose at the darkness." Ten is very into denial and misdirection. Which I love. It makes him both dark and complex, and yet his warmth and kindness are worn on the surface, easy to see.
wonder even more what he's going to make of Jack.
Eee yes. I can't even guess, which is part of the fun. Well, actually, I can guess, I can make any number of guesses, but I'm not putting money on any of them. I am still uncertain as to why the Doctor didn't just go back and pick Jack up on the Game Station; his 'explanation' just made it more perplexing to me. So. We shall see.
maybe it's just that he's even more mercurial than most of the Doctors have been and his extremes of emotion are far more pronounced.
I'd leave the 'just' out of that sentence. Because he is mercurial, he seems just that much less in control, more dangerous and more judgemental. I like that in a Time Lord.
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Date: 2007-04-16 02:06 pm (UTC)Is it in "School Reunion" that he says, "I used to have so much mercy"?
I think Ten is more liely to push himself to extremes. I wonder if he regrets his choice in "The Parting of the Ways". I think not, but it seems to have steeled him to harder and darker choices. He has a harsher temper.
I loved Florence Finnegan's line: "You're quite the funny man. And yet, I think, laughing on purpose at the darkness." Ten is very into denial and misdirection. Which I love. It makes him both dark and complex, and yet his warmth and kindness are worn on the surface, easy to see.
wonder even more what he's going to make of Jack.
Eee yes. I can't even guess, which is part of the fun. Well, actually, I can guess, I can make any number of guesses, but I'm not putting money on any of them. I am still uncertain as to why the Doctor didn't just go back and pick Jack up on the Game Station; his 'explanation' just made it more perplexing to me. So. We shall see.
maybe it's just that he's even more mercurial than most of the Doctors have been and his extremes of emotion are far more pronounced.
I'd leave the 'just' out of that sentence. Because he is mercurial, he seems just that much less in control, more dangerous and more judgemental. I like that in a Time Lord.
Sartre. Go for it.