for the Doctor not to know who he is watching die ruins it for me.
Emotionally speaking, I have a dual problem: if I am forced to witness Jack's death, that's not the death I want for him, when not only the Doctor doesn't know who he is, but neither did I. But I don't want to see or be forced to think about Jack's end, either. Or any of the other characters. (The Doctor, for instance.) We all die. Let's leave it as an abstraction.
(Okay, if Jack's immortal he won't die, but that's another topic!)
My second problem is that if the Doctor doesn't know who his friend is who is dying, it ...loses impact. As if the whole thing is some sort of deception.
We're on very iffy grounds of crossed timelines, too.
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Date: 2007-10-19 07:46 pm (UTC)Emotionally speaking, I have a dual problem: if I am forced to witness Jack's death, that's not the death I want for him, when not only the Doctor doesn't know who he is, but neither did I. But I don't want to see or be forced to think about Jack's end, either. Or any of the other characters. (The Doctor, for instance.) We all die. Let's leave it as an abstraction.
(Okay, if Jack's immortal he won't die, but that's another topic!)
My second problem is that if the Doctor doesn't know who his friend is who is dying, it ...loses impact. As if the whole thing is some sort of deception.
We're on very iffy grounds of crossed timelines, too.