- The Gelth's manipulation of the Doctor is really very clever: "The last of our kind, we face extinction." "The Time War - the whole universe convulsed. We're trapped in this gaseous state." "We want to stand tall, to feel the sunlight, to live again."
- The Doctor and Rose have another clash of world-views. The Doctor: "It's like recycling." Hee. Rose still maintains that it's wrong, and the Doctor does attempt to make her understand, bless him. And the irony is that Rose is right not to want the Gelth to be allowed to inhabit corpses, but her reasons are wrong. And the Doctor's judgement is clouded and he's blind to the risks involved because the Gelth have invoked the Time War and his role in that is not something he can be rational about, so he makes an error of judgement and almost brings about the end of the human race. Oops.
- I love the concern that the Doctor shows for Rose during their disagreement about using Gwynneth and the corpses. He's inflexible about what he feels has to be done, but his voice gets softer when he sees that Rose is upset. And his "Do you carry a donor card?" is an honest attempt to make her see it the way he does.
- "I think it's gone a little bit wrong.". Understatement of the century.
- I like the Doctor's honesty in admitting to Rose that yes, she's most likely going to die, in 1860, before she's even been born. "I'm sorry." There's a real sense of fear, a real possibility that they'll both die. I like it that he's fallible and can make a huge error of judgement, for understandabe reasons, yes, but it's still a potentially fatal mistake.
- When Gwynneth gets out her box of matches and Rose protests, the Doctor holds out his hand to Gwnneth and says, "Leave that to me." His responsibility, and he's ready to sacrifice himself to stop the invasion. Is it any wonder we love him the way we do?
- I like characters who screw things up, badly even, while trying to do the right thing, and who get it that good intentions don't absolve one of responsibility for the outcome of one's actions. Lymond comes to mind, specifically in relation to Eloise's death in the explosion at the convent, which wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been overtrusting with that letter and allowed it to fall into the wrong hands.
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Blue Elementals. Hee. Sounds like a Penny Dreadful!
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Date: 2007-08-14 08:09 pm (UTC)- The Doctor and Rose have another clash of world-views. The Doctor: "It's like recycling." Hee. Rose still maintains that it's wrong, and the Doctor does attempt to make her understand, bless him. And the irony is that Rose is right not to want the Gelth to be allowed to inhabit corpses, but her reasons are wrong. And the Doctor's judgement is clouded and he's blind to the risks involved because the Gelth have invoked the Time War and his role in that is not something he can be rational about, so he makes an error of judgement and almost brings about the end of the human race. Oops.
- I love the concern that the Doctor shows for Rose during their disagreement about using Gwynneth and the corpses. He's inflexible about what he feels has to be done, but his voice gets softer when he sees that Rose is upset. And his "Do you carry a donor card?" is an honest attempt to make her see it the way he does.
- "I think it's gone a little bit wrong.". Understatement of the century.
- I like the Doctor's honesty in admitting to Rose that yes, she's most likely going to die, in 1860, before she's even been born. "I'm sorry." There's a real sense of fear, a real possibility that they'll both die. I like it that he's fallible and can make a huge error of judgement, for understandabe reasons, yes, but it's still a potentially fatal mistake.
- When Gwynneth gets out her box of matches and Rose protests, the Doctor holds out his hand to Gwnneth and says, "Leave that to me." His responsibility, and he's ready to sacrifice himself to stop the invasion. Is it any wonder we love him the way we do?
- I like characters who screw things up, badly even, while trying to do the right thing, and who get it that good intentions don't absolve one of responsibility for the outcome of one's actions. Lymond comes to mind, specifically in relation to Eloise's death in the explosion at the convent, which wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been overtrusting with that letter and allowed it to fall into the wrong hands.
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood and the Blue Elementals. Hee. Sounds like a Penny Dreadful!