Leave a comment

Comments 2

gwaithgweneth September 17 2012, 17:05:00 UTC
"Am I the only one who actually saw what Toby was referencing with Jex?"

No, you're not. I believe my exact words when the Doctor sat down in the ship and started going through files, particularly given that this is the show that gave us the Daleks, were "Oh, so he's that sort of a doctor. Lovely."

My biggest problem with the Doctor pointing a gun at Jex was the idea that he might shoot him before the Gunslinger got a chance to, honestly. (That and the fact that he seemed to be doing it out of anger, not a sense of justice, so I didn't have a problem with him aiming the gun, but I'm just as happy he didn't use it). The Doctor gets exactly no points for the plan he does come up with though.

Reply


sensiblecat September 17 2012, 20:04:30 UTC
Journey's End was filled with the same muddled thinking about guilt. I never really got that sequence where Davros showed Ten all the innocent people that had supposedly died doing his dirty work. It wasn't as if he made them do it. Was he wrong to inspire people like Astrid to help him? I can only accept that sequence as Davros manipulating the Doctor, but the implication was that we were supposed to accept it as a valid reason for the Doctor to feel guilty. Surely if we delude ourselves that the Doctor can do what he does without ever killing anybody, we are guilty of the worst kind of sentimentality. I personally cheered when the Duplicate Doctor replied to being called a genocidal murderer with, "You made me ( ... )

Reply


Leave a comment

Up