if the Doctor didn't know what was up with Jack's immortality when he left the Gamestation, he'd surely have cottoned on in the time since.
I wonder how much the Doctor has paid attention to Jack's life. He may have been watching him, keeping an eye on him.... Or have dismissed him from his mind entirely.
Maybe he dreads meeting Jack because it'd be his duty to "fix" Jack (effectively a death sentence),
Oh - scary thought, but it totally rings true. Kill Jack to save the world -- he's been faced with that choice before (mostly with Rose) and his decision has gone either way, but mostly in the direction of saving the person he cares about. And the way to do that in this case would be to avoid Jack entirely.
I like that.
he's such a big ole softie he can't bring himself to do it?
Well, no. Could you?
And he has no way of knowing that fixing's exactly what Jack wants.
What the Doctor would want would be to 'fix' Jack in other ways, take away the pain. I think he would want Jack to survive as much as Rose did, even knowing that it's wrong - what he wants and what should be aren't always the same thing.
I don't believe for a minute that Ten is a heartless dirtbag. Which is why figuring out his motivation for acting like one is so much fun.
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Date: 2007-05-25 01:07 pm (UTC)I wonder how much the Doctor has paid attention to Jack's life. He may have been watching him, keeping an eye on him.... Or have dismissed him from his mind entirely.
Maybe he dreads meeting Jack because it'd be his duty to "fix" Jack (effectively a death sentence),
Oh - scary thought, but it totally rings true. Kill Jack to save the world -- he's been faced with that choice before (mostly with Rose) and his decision has gone either way, but mostly in the direction of saving the person he cares about. And the way to do that in this case would be to avoid Jack entirely.
I like that.
he's such a big ole softie he can't bring himself to do it?
Well, no. Could you?
And he has no way of knowing that fixing's exactly what Jack wants.
What the Doctor would want would be to 'fix' Jack in other ways, take away the pain. I think he would want Jack to survive as much as Rose did, even knowing that it's wrong - what he wants and what should be aren't always the same thing.
I don't believe for a minute that Ten is a heartless dirtbag. Which is why figuring out his motivation for acting like one is so much fun.