CHAOSVERSE BOOK CLUB: WEEK TEN

[lorelaisquared]

The very lovely Earlgreytea68 is away this weekend so she asked me to put some thoughts together for her Chaosverse Book Club this week.

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[lorelaisquared]

I think the sleeping goes to show that even Time Lords need more sleep when they're stressed and worried. The Doctor of course puts it off as long as he can for the sake of his children but he's clearly reaching his breaking point here. If they hadn't rescued Rose soon after this I think he eventually would have collapsed.

I think maybe the TARDIS sees the solution that the Doctor is in denial about and so she gives things a little push.

Oh that's an interesting point about how the Doctor underestimates Brem's adoration. Also, I wonder how much of Brem's abilty to forgive the Doctor for the genocide comes down to how alike they are and how if faced with the same circumstances, Brem would do the same thing. Perhaps, even at 4, he knows this.

Oh yes! Your point that Brem is angry at the universe and not his father is a very good one. What happened to Rose really wasn't anyone's fault, it was a tragic occurrence, so there's no one to blame and instead Brem sort of plants it on his father. I guess when you look at the big picture its not even just that he held this responsibility on his shoulders that he's upset about, it's that he lost his mother at all, and in so doing, he lost a great deal of his youth and childhood!

I find your reflections on Brem and the Doctor fascinating. What I take from that is that by NATURE they are almost identical, but by NURTURE they are very different just by the pure fact that they've grown up under such vastly different circumstances.