Your writing only proves it to me and I still hold that, Harriet Jones did nothing wrong ordering the Sycorax destroyed. They were parasites, they would only leave for good if they felt Earth wasn't worth the trouble. The Doctor only proved what the queen knew, he was more dangerous than he was helpful. A man who thinks like a man but with the powers of a god will always be a monster. This is why I stopped watching after the Christmas Special.
That last scene gave me so many mixed emotions. I love your writing, Rap.
I have to agree that I totally understood why Harriet did what she did and I think she summed it up well in the Christmas Invasion - the Doctor isn't always around and what are they supposed to do. The strength of her character is such that she really can't look at her own doofy nice guy kid and say his life is worth more than saving everyone else 100 years in the future. She can't really ask for the favor because of that, and the Doctor being the sort of guy he is, he can't offer because he's so pissed over being one upped and having his face rubbed in it.
Mixed emotions? That was mostly "ah... poor Matthew, his entire family has thought he was dead for months and meanwhile...
Well, until that last scene, I had been working through my emotions about Harriet and the Doctor meeting in this verse, but then you had Matthew on the slave ship, sacrificing his bit of comfort for the ood. That is always a strong soft spot for me, when someone offers someone in need food, especially when they can't afford to spare any. It is sign of goodwill, nurturing, comfort, an end to hostilities, and should be taken as that.
This is another reason I was so horrified with that monster who kicked the squirrel off the canyon.
Well, the oood were always basically good guys. I wanted to have someone from the downton side to be slightly better than the way Harriet was used to handling issues with aliens. It's a point in her favor that the guy she raised is willing to see aliens in any sort of sympathetic light.
And matthew is a doof and has really odd taste in women (I can make a really good case for him being less than hetero) but he's also a pretty good representation of the ideal English noble. He's doing his duty to his family, he can't get the food for himself... Why should the other prisoners go hungry?
And he essentially proves the point the doctor had been badly making with Harriet - just because you're scared of the perceived bad guys, blowing up the bad guys isn't always the first and best option.
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That last scene gave me so many mixed emotions. I love your writing, Rap.
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I have to agree that I totally understood why Harriet did what she did and I think she summed it up well in the Christmas Invasion - the Doctor isn't always around and what are they supposed to do. The strength of her character is such that she really can't look at her own doofy nice guy kid and say his life is worth more than saving everyone else 100 years in the future. She can't really ask for the favor because of that, and the Doctor being the sort of guy he is, he can't offer because he's so pissed over being one upped and having his face rubbed in it.
Mixed emotions? That was mostly "ah... poor Matthew, his entire family has thought he was dead for months and meanwhile...
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This is another reason I was so horrified with that monster who kicked the squirrel off the canyon.
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And matthew is a doof and has really odd taste in women (I can make a really good case for him being less than hetero) but he's also a pretty good representation of the ideal English noble. He's doing his duty to his family, he can't get the food for himself... Why should the other prisoners go hungry?
And he essentially proves the point the doctor had been badly making with Harriet - just because you're scared of the perceived bad guys, blowing up the bad guys isn't always the first and best option.
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