DOCTOR: It all just disappears, doesn't it? Everything you are, gone in a moment, like breath on a mirror. Any moment now, he's a-coming
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I was so over "HamletDoctor" by the time we got to 10's regeneration I didn't even plan to watch in it real time (but then did), and then it made me angry, why was 10 so special, compared to all the other regenerations who also did amazing things (but didn't air in the age of the internet). So yes, 11 was a gift, I though it was perfect, and it exactly summed up how 11 lived his life.
I just tried to post a link to an interview with Christopher Eccleston talking about why he quit, which i thought was interesting but unsurprising, but it was marked as spam! I always liked 9
But the fact that we were all anticipating some huge event, and ultimately the Doctor is just saving one village, means a lot to me. Right? It's so powerful, because of COURSE the Doctor should value those lives that much. When he talks about how every single he life he saves over the years is a victory, it's incredibly powerful- so many people got to live our their lives directly because of him, and for once, they got to know him and love him for it. He doesn't just save their lives and leave- he becomes part of their lives
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You know, that's a really helpful take on Twelve. I admit, I've struggled with his character or his arc, because after all the miracles of Eleven's run, I couldn't understand why he seemed to have decided that things like miracles and heroes didn't exist. But if it's more a question of his thinking that he doesn't deserve such things…I'll have to think about that some more!
I love the ending of "The Wedding of River Song," too: that River knows what she'll eventually have to do, but she is NOT going to do it before the Doctor hears just how much he's loved…The Doctor's behavior there is so telling, too, because he tries to push Amy and River away, to make them angry or hateful enough to give up on him and stop trying to save him (telling River he's ashamed of her; snapping, "I won't thank you for this, Amelia Pond") - I think he thinks that their love for him must be shallowly rooted enough for that to work, because how could they really love him, the kind of man he is? That is a favorite story of mine, too - although I have a
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The part I do love about Ten's death is when he sees Rose, but that's really because I hated what happened to her, and to see her before all that, happy and smiling, is wonderful. I HATED how we were made to feel so guilty and awful that he died saving Wilf.
I don't often see the 'writing in response' aspect as much, I must admit, but this (and some parts of The Day of the Doctor) obviously were, and while the episode was generally oddly written (and the Time Lord stuff still doesn't make sense to me) I really appreciated the...generosity of spirit that was shown in this regeneration.
These two scenes are intensely different in a lot of ways, but one that strikes me now (as it struck me then) is that Ten wants to cling to being Ten, so he wants desperately to stay alive and not to regenerate.I felt it also came across as RTD saying 'you'll miss me when I'm gone' and also him saying that we won't ever get any better than David Tennant. Which does fit exactly with Ten's personality, I have to say. But none of the other regenerations
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I love the ending of "The Wedding of River Song," too: that River knows what she'll eventually have to do, but she is NOT going to do it before the Doctor hears just how much he's loved…The Doctor's behavior there is so telling, too, because he tries to push Amy and River away, to make them angry or hateful enough to give up on him and stop trying to save him (telling River he's ashamed of her; snapping, "I won't thank you for this, Amelia Pond") - I think he thinks that their love for him must be shallowly rooted enough for that to work, because how could they really love him, the kind of man he is? That is a favorite story of mine, too - although I have a ( ... )
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I don't often see the 'writing in response' aspect as much, I must admit, but this (and some parts of The Day of the Doctor) obviously were, and while the episode was generally oddly written (and the Time Lord stuff still doesn't make sense to me) I really appreciated the...generosity of spirit that was shown in this regeneration.
These two scenes are intensely different in a lot of ways, but one that strikes me now (as it struck me then) is that Ten wants to cling to being Ten, so he wants desperately to stay alive and not to regenerate.I felt it also came across as RTD saying 'you'll miss me when I'm gone' and also him saying that we won't ever get any better than David Tennant. Which does fit exactly with Ten's personality, I have to say. But none of the other regenerations ( ... )
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