I'm quite fond of that one. I wish I knew who made it, but I saw it and thought, "Yoink! That must be mine!"
what grates is not that he does the cruel things, but that he seems to do them without compassion or concern or regret. The "no mercy" aspect, which at times he seems to revel in.
Exactly. I just had a discussion with a friend of mine who kept talking about how compassionate and overly caring Ten was, and I just boggled. There may be little moments like with Chloe, but there are so many big, genocidal and hypocritical moments that it completely overpowers me.
Maybe not so much inconsistent as unpredictable?
Perhaps, yes. Although also perhaps consistent in being arbitrary, or acting in ways that I find problematic.
The problem with Ten's psychological situation is that either Rose didn't help Nine at all - after the Time War - contrary to everything we saw;
I can't believe Nine didn't heal, at least some. We were given such strong indications. I've always had the feeling that in some way Ten was a regeneration that went "wrong" (like Six), but no one either inside or outside the show was seeing it but me.
or she helped him but after she left he reverted to something less like himself than he was before.
It could have worked - Tennant's performance has always seemed to me to be more of a pastiche of previous Doctors (mostly late Tom Baker) than a genuine original like Nine and most previous Doctors were. But certainly people are worshipping him, quite literally in the show, as the Best Evah!!! I'm just baffled.
Re: Blake's 7 - I'm amused that the title character got written out halfway through the run!
Re: Numb3rs, the subsequent seasons have not lived up to the promise of S1, which had 3 or 4 outstanding episodes, and a run of several others that were stronger than average procedural shows. I also like the idea of having intelligence be a character's "superpower" as it were.
I am certainly viewing it with suspicion because I want the Doctor to be redeemed in my eyes, and I'm not sure it can happen, and I'm not at all sure they'll even try on a superficial basis.
We're definitely in the same place there. I do think bringing Donna on is at least a possibility that they recognize he needs someone to slap him. But it's not that he needs to be hit or hurt; he needs to realize his hypocrisy and selfishness, and I don't think the showrunners see it, so the chances are indeed slim.
Given this discussion, I'll be really interested to see what you think of The Second Coming.
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Re: Doctor talk
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I'm quite fond of that one. I wish I knew who made it, but I saw it and thought, "Yoink! That must be mine!"
what grates is not that he does the cruel things, but that he seems to do them without compassion or concern or regret. The "no mercy" aspect, which at times he seems to revel in.
Exactly. I just had a discussion with a friend of mine who kept talking about how compassionate and overly caring Ten was, and I just boggled. There may be little moments like with Chloe, but there are so many big, genocidal and hypocritical moments that it completely overpowers me.
Maybe not so much inconsistent as unpredictable?
Perhaps, yes. Although also perhaps consistent in being arbitrary, or acting in ways that I find problematic.
The problem with Ten's psychological situation is that either Rose didn't help Nine at all - after the Time War - contrary to everything we saw;
I can't believe Nine didn't heal, at least some. We were given such strong indications. I've always had the feeling that in some way Ten was a regeneration that went "wrong" (like Six), but no one either inside or outside the show was seeing it but me.
or she helped him but after she left he reverted to something less like himself than he was before.
It could have worked - Tennant's performance has always seemed to me to be more of a pastiche of previous Doctors (mostly late Tom Baker) than a genuine original like Nine and most previous Doctors were. But certainly people are worshipping him, quite literally in the show, as the Best Evah!!! I'm just baffled.
Re: Blake's 7 - I'm amused that the title character got written out halfway through the run!
Re: Numb3rs, the subsequent seasons have not lived up to the promise of S1, which had 3 or 4 outstanding episodes, and a run of several others that were stronger than average procedural shows. I also like the idea of having intelligence be a character's "superpower" as it were.
I am certainly viewing it with suspicion because I want the Doctor to be redeemed in my eyes, and I'm not sure it can happen, and I'm not at all sure they'll even try on a superficial basis.
We're definitely in the same place there. I do think bringing Donna on is at least a possibility that they recognize he needs someone to slap him. But it's not that he needs to be hit or hurt; he needs to realize his hypocrisy and selfishness, and I don't think the showrunners see it, so the chances are indeed slim.
Given this discussion, I'll be really interested to see what you think of The Second Coming.