Maybe the Christmas special won't suck... but I don't have high hopes.
I try not to have expectations, especially low ones. At the time "The Last of the Time Lords" aired, it was hard to feel very optimistic about the ending. But now, with a lot of rationalization applied to the subject, and my sense of ipatience/withdrawal kicking in, I'm looking forward to any kind of a new Doctor Who episode.
I can't believe how the Doctor did it so dismisively! Making jokes like Jack's not responsible enough to have that sort of tech!
You'd think he'd be entrusting him with more, if anything. Jack has earned a lot of faith and respect on the Doctor's part, I'd say. And doesn't seem to be getting it.
Still, it's the Doctor, and most of all it's Ten, who doesn't seem to have a handle on either manners or gratitude. I try to take it as a kind of tease between two people who know and love each other so well that neither takes it amiss, and Jack is happy enough to have the Doctor exile him exactly where he wants to be, and where the Doctor can find him whenever he wishes.
Still. If Jack has earned anything (and he has), it's the right to freedom of choice.
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Date: 2007-10-19 08:32 pm (UTC)I try not to have expectations, especially low ones. At the time "The Last of the Time Lords" aired, it was hard to feel very optimistic about the ending. But now, with a lot of rationalization applied to the subject, and my sense of ipatience/withdrawal kicking in, I'm looking forward to any kind of a new Doctor Who episode.
I can't believe how the Doctor did it so dismisively! Making jokes like Jack's not responsible enough to have that sort of tech!
You'd think he'd be entrusting him with more, if anything. Jack has earned a lot of faith and respect on the Doctor's part, I'd say. And doesn't seem to be getting it.
Still, it's the Doctor, and most of all it's Ten, who doesn't seem to have a handle on either manners or gratitude. I try to take it as a kind of tease between two people who know and love each other so well that neither takes it amiss, and Jack is happy enough to have the Doctor exile him exactly where he wants to be, and where the Doctor can find him whenever he wishes.
Still. If Jack has earned anything (and he has), it's the right to freedom of choice.