yet only the 7th Doctor and the metacrisis 10th Doctor went through with their attempts to eliminate him/the Daleks
It bears mention that there was some internal dispute as to the ending of Remembrance. I've heard told that the final ending used was an earlier draft and used in error.
"Best interaction" is tough to call. There's no doubt in my mind that 7th's speech to/with is the model for various nuWho speeches, and one of my personal high points for the series. But I think I'm going with 5 and Resurrection.
Resurrection is interesting specifically because it places the Doctor, the Daleks, and Davros in something of a three-way war. Maybe even four or five way war, depending on how you parse the sides. I always felt that 4's sudden change of heart relative to Dalek genocide was a bit...hollow, hopelessly naive, and better studied in something like Moore's Watchmen. 5's showdown moment with Davros isn't that. There's a real sense of menace and threat, as well as a sense that, had the confrontation happened somewhere else in the course of the episode or had more time before it was broken up, the Doctor would not have necessarily made the same choice.
what do you make of the 10th Doctor's anger at the metacrisis Doctor for "committing genocide" against the Daleks and Davros?
Character malfunction. I think that a problem that's endemic to the new writers, though they have many virtues over the old, is taking the Doctor at face value of being a Technical Pacifist. He talks the talk, but that's for the purposes of efficiency and trickery, and doesn't really bear any real scrutiny. Metacrisis Doctor forces some sort of character conflict that's weirdly abstract and somewhat unsupported by the text, because the writers wanted to see that conflict play out.
I loathe the confrontation with Davros in "Resurrection", because the Doctor has a massive moral conflict over whether to shoot Davros in cold blood, but doesn't have any problem with killing Daleks, including with biological weaponry, at any point. It looks really nastily as if he only has problems with killing people who are humanoid, which is really not a characterisation I want in any version of the Doctor.
Metacrisis Doctor forces some sort of character conflict that's weirdly abstract and somewhat unsupported by the text, because the writers wanted to see that conflict play out.
I think you're spot-on. In order for the whole ~you made me better, now you can do the same for him~ thing to not ring hollow, TenToo needs to have done Something Bad. Yet ... you're completely right, it's not supported by the text, nor is it reflective of Ten's own actions over the past 2 seasons.
It bears mention that there was some internal dispute as to the ending of Remembrance. I've heard told that the final ending used was an earlier draft and used in error.
"Best interaction" is tough to call. There's no doubt in my mind that 7th's speech to/with is the model for various nuWho speeches, and one of my personal high points for the series. But I think I'm going with 5 and Resurrection.
Resurrection is interesting specifically because it places the Doctor, the Daleks, and Davros in something of a three-way war. Maybe even four or five way war, depending on how you parse the sides. I always felt that 4's sudden change of heart relative to Dalek genocide was a bit...hollow, hopelessly naive, and better studied in something like Moore's Watchmen. 5's showdown moment with Davros isn't that. There's a real sense of menace and threat, as well as a sense that, had the confrontation happened somewhere else in the course of the episode or had more time before it was broken up, the Doctor would not have necessarily made the same choice.
what do you make of the 10th Doctor's anger at the metacrisis Doctor for "committing genocide" against the Daleks and Davros?
Character malfunction. I think that a problem that's endemic to the new writers, though they have many virtues over the old, is taking the Doctor at face value of being a Technical Pacifist. He talks the talk, but that's for the purposes of efficiency and trickery, and doesn't really bear any real scrutiny. Metacrisis Doctor forces some sort of character conflict that's weirdly abstract and somewhat unsupported by the text, because the writers wanted to see that conflict play out.
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I think you're spot-on. In order for the whole ~you made me better, now you can do the same for him~ thing to not ring hollow, TenToo needs to have done Something Bad. Yet ... you're completely right, it's not supported by the text, nor is it reflective of Ten's own actions over the past 2 seasons.
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