Just thinking about it, is there something in the fact that it's the half-human version of the Doctor who carries out the genocide, and seems quite happy to do it, while the all-Time-Lord-all-the-time version of him is squicked by him doing it? Add to that the fact that DoctorDonna implies she's capable of doing more than either version of him.
Ooh, ooh, here's a thought - the Doctor was always half-human until Eight pushed the button, and then in the resulting regeneration he threw off the human side as he was so disgusted by what it would do, which explains why Nine has so much fail as he's being fully Time Lord for the first time in his existence...
The viewscreen thing, and other S4 arc-seeds, are going to look very odd and random on rewatches. Suggesting oddly that Rusty's instinct to stick to people saying "Torchwood!" every couple of episodes might actually have been the better approach...
Come to think of it, the Rose bit in Partners in Crime wasn't addressed at all, was it?
Yeah, Turn Left sets it up as "the multiverse is in danger, I must find the Doctor so he can save us" and then Journey's End makes it seem more "I WANT MY BOYFRIEND BACK!!!". I'd like to read Turn Left as the truth, but Journey's End is the final word on things and they're written by the same person...
I still do not like half-human because (a)Spock Thing and (b)it makes his interactions with the Time Lords much less interesting. And them all much less interesting if they can only produce slightly oddball anomalies with the help of HUMAN DNA which is oh so much specialer and more exciting than any tedious one-note alien species. Spock again, really.
I don't rewatch New Who. I think the only one I ever saw twice was Rose in its leaked and then telly versions. Oh, and I think I rewatched GITF at nos's. Or maybe School Reunion. I just can't care enough. And given that I have mad inadequacy issues that manage to make me doubt my ability to watch television or films at all, I'm not going to waste my limited viewing skillz on something that underwhelms me.
Ho hum. I should try to be optimistic about next season instead of just dreading being dragged back in for further disillusionment.
nless that's all about his complicated self-loathing, I dunno; maybe he feels it was Eight's destructive human side that pushed the button on Gallifrey all those times and that's also why he has so much more of the "you guys are so destructive!" thing than he used to and the objection to guns and oh god I think I have just made up some new personal canon, haven't I?
Shit, I think you might just have made it mine as well. Good thing I can hold multiple and completely contradictory bits of canon in my head all at the same time, eh?
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Ooh, ooh, here's a thought - the Doctor was always half-human until Eight pushed the button, and then in the resulting regeneration he threw off the human side as he was so disgusted by what it would do, which explains why Nine has so much fail as he's being fully Time Lord for the first time in his existence...
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DoctorDonna did seem to be heading towards setting herself up as the Kwisatz Haderach or something, didn't she?
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Come to think of it, the Rose bit in Partners in Crime wasn't addressed at all, was it?
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That is a scary thought, but I think you might be right.
Partners in Crime is clearly a Dimension-Cannon-overshoot or something. Yeah, it's a bit rubbish, isn't it?
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I don't rewatch New Who. I think the only one I ever saw twice was Rose in its leaked and then telly versions. Oh, and I think I rewatched GITF at nos's. Or maybe School Reunion. I just can't care enough. And given that I have mad inadequacy issues that manage to make me doubt my ability to watch television or films at all, I'm not going to waste my limited viewing skillz on something that underwhelms me.
Ho hum. I should try to be optimistic about next season instead of just dreading being dragged back in for further disillusionment.
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Shit, I think you might just have made it mine as well. Good thing I can hold multiple and completely contradictory bits of canon in my head all at the same time, eh?
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