Oh, I'm not forgetting Harriet Jones - she's one of my favourite characters in the show, and I just came to like her more with "The Stolen Earth". The Doctor is so manifestly wrong... and moreso, I think he knows it. Yet doesn't admit his guilt. That goes beyond arrogance.
When Nine grumbled about "tiny ape brains" it seemed like an affectionate affectation. When Ten presumes to control humans... well. That's the kind of thing evil invading aliens like Cybermen and Sontarans do: think their ways are better and so they have the right to subjugate humans.
I would grumble more about the Doctor's high-handed treatment of Harriet Jones and Earth politics (not to mention Earth authonomy) in "The Christmas Invasion" except it pales beside my horror of his actions in, say, "The Last of the Time Lords" (where he valued one monstrous Time Lord at the expense of all of humanity).
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Date: 2008-08-14 08:27 pm (UTC)When Nine grumbled about "tiny ape brains" it seemed like an affectionate affectation. When Ten presumes to control humans... well. That's the kind of thing evil invading aliens like Cybermen and Sontarans do: think their ways are better and so they have the right to subjugate humans.
I would grumble more about the Doctor's high-handed treatment of Harriet Jones and Earth politics (not to mention Earth authonomy) in "The Christmas Invasion" except it pales beside my horror of his actions in, say, "The Last of the Time Lords" (where he valued one monstrous Time Lord at the expense of all of humanity).