I am not sure how much I believe her. Partly it's that I think she doesn't understand the Doctor in the least - she's not the sharpest tack in the toolbox, and if she's had a moment of insight, it's probably a fluke. But as spokesperson for Russell T. Davies, well... There's the implication that we are supposed to believe her. And certainly not all the Doctor's ideas are good, and sometimes he's dangerous, and he knows it. He is painfully aware at times of his own fallibility.
But can anyone - should anyone - actually control him? He has reasonably good values and judgement, or at least, has chosen well so far whenever faced with a crisis. (Sometiems by luck.) He works best, it seems, in tandem with a human he likes. It makes me wonder, in fact, what would happen if his mad scheme had worked out, if he and the Master had gone off into the space-time continuum together - could he (as I think he hoped) have restored the Master to sanity? Or would the Master have driven him crazy?
During the third series, Ten may hope that 'someone' is Martha. Rose in the second series tends to disagree with the Doctor less and less. Maybe Ten is afraid Martha would become like this once their love is mutual?
Maybe. He might fear that his influence on her would be so great that her influence on him - the steadying, humanistic balance he's looking for, if that's what it is - would be erased.
My interpretation is that he's still hurting because of Rose, not just her loss becasue he misses her (which is bad enough) but because he knows she's living a future that isn't what she wanted, that her heart was broken on being forced to leave him. He doesn't want to break Martha's heart that way - much better to let her think he's oblivious to her love, and that he's simply clueless. Because if she knew he loved her, it would be harder for both of them.
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Re: The Doctor: Transformation or Stasis? (1)
Date: 2007-07-27 01:00 pm (UTC)I am not sure how much I believe her. Partly it's that I think she doesn't understand the Doctor in the least - she's not the sharpest tack in the toolbox, and if she's had a moment of insight, it's probably a fluke. But as spokesperson for Russell T. Davies, well... There's the implication that we are supposed to believe her. And certainly not all the Doctor's ideas are good, and sometimes he's dangerous, and he knows it. He is painfully aware at times of his own fallibility.
But can anyone - should anyone - actually control him? He has reasonably good values and judgement, or at least, has chosen well so far whenever faced with a crisis. (Sometiems by luck.) He works best, it seems, in tandem with a human he likes. It makes me wonder, in fact, what would happen if his mad scheme had worked out, if he and the Master had gone off into the space-time continuum together - could he (as I think he hoped) have restored the Master to sanity? Or would the Master have driven him crazy?
During the third series, Ten may hope that 'someone' is Martha. Rose in the second series tends to disagree with the Doctor less and less. Maybe Ten is afraid Martha would become like this once their love is mutual?
Maybe. He might fear that his influence on her would be so great that her influence on him - the steadying, humanistic balance he's looking for, if that's what it is - would be erased.
My interpretation is that he's still hurting because of Rose, not just her loss becasue he misses her (which is bad enough) but because he knows she's living a future that isn't what she wanted, that her heart was broken on being forced to leave him. He doesn't want to break Martha's heart that way - much better to let her think he's oblivious to her love, and that he's simply clueless. Because if she knew he loved her, it would be harder for both of them.