Journey's End

[clair_de_lalune]

I made it home from Edinburgh yesterday. After getting up at 3:30 am BST, I finally made it to Detroit at 12:30 pm EDT. Unfortunately, my luggage didn't arrive with me. I got a call at 7:30 this morning that 1 of my 2 bags has made it - the other, who knows: Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Timbuktu? *sigh

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Re: Welcome back! And thoughts on Dr. Who.

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I would agree that Rose was already falling in love with the Ninth Doctor...it's funny, but I have an easier time accepting that the Ninth and Tenth Doctors are the same man than I do accepting that the Tenth Doctor and his humanish self are the same man. I just don't know what it was about him that makes me so reluctant to believe he's essentially the same man as the Doctor. It's really weird, but maybe I'll feel differently when I have a chance to see it a second time.

I know what you mean. I think a lot of his has to do with the fact that, with nine and ten, there is only one bodie. But with ten and double!ten there are two, so it feels more like identical twins, that while they look the same have differents pasts, feelings, emotions, ect, and therefore like two different people. But that just may be the way I see it.

I know that a lot of people felt that it was truly a horrible thing to have happened to her, but is it horrible if she doesn't know what she's missed? Unlike some of the other companions (Sarah Jane & Rose come to mind), she won't miss the life she had with the Doctor.

This is obviously based just on the way you would view this sort of a situation, but I think this sort of thing would be worse. Donna's grandfather really hit the idea home when he mentioned 'all the wonderful things she's done.' Sarah Jane and Rose have lost the Doctor, and they know it, but they can also look back on everything they've done with him and remember the good times and the way their lives have changed because of him. Donna can't, and she may never finally realize her full potential again.

Re: Welcome back! And thoughts on Dr. Who.

[wimble_mimble]

>.> That should be spelled 'body'.

Re: Welcome back! And thoughts on Dr. Who.

[clair_de_lalune]

--I know what you mean. I think a lot of his has to do with the fact that, with nine and ten, there is only one body. But with ten and double!ten there are two...--

Yes, that's a good point. The real Time Lord Doctor is still there...on the other hand, the copy does have his emotions, memories, and past. He should be an exact replica, but he doesn't seem to be...because he's part human? Should that matter?

As an aside, I think the (real) Doctor does tell Rose that he needs her in a roundabout sort of way. He says something to the effect of "He needs you. That's very me."

--Donna can't, and she may never finally realize her full potential again.--

That's really the part about it that's most sad - that she may never realize her full potential.