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But...huh...wha...
So...
...the beginning of "The Enemy Within" happened before "Remebrance of the Daleks," then?
Time travel is so complicated...
(Also, finishing that serial just after rewatching "Waters of Mars" is, y'know, not a comforting way to spend time with The Doctor.)
So...
...the beginning of "The Enemy Within" happened before "Remebrance of the Daleks," then?
Time travel is so complicated...
(Also, finishing that serial just after rewatching "Waters of Mars" is, y'know, not a comforting way to spend time with The Doctor.)
So, again, the takeaway here is that Davies has seen _them all_ (or at least, nearly all of them), and he definitely cares about making sure it all ties together.
Which is really what makes the age thing so buggeringly annoying and baffling. WHY?! Why be so careful about everything else, but throw in this silly and pointless contradiction?
> You _will_ write me a supplemental letter about this so we can rant properly, young lady. You WILL. I've been waiting _months_.
I'm sure I will eventually have more to say, but my brain just kinda...BROKE. Hence my instantly leaping to continuity and objective assessments. I'll probably feel it later.
Seven has been Doctorly for me since the white flag line in "Delta and the Bannermen," but Doctorly in a way that I always thought of before as a Post-Time-War Doctor sort of way. It's definitely a bit surprising to find out that it's more of a Post-Castrovalva Doctor thing, but I suppose it makes more sense - you can't see Four or Five destroying two species; you just can't. And you can't really see Eight doing it, either. But, by the time The Doctor is Eight, you CAN imagine The Doctor doing it. If that makes sense...?
As for Ace not being bothered, she seemed to have channeled her emotions into being upset about things happening a little closer to home. What IS it about pretty soldier boys named Mike?
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I know we have this whole running tally of things from the new series that started decades earlier than we thought, but this one...well...
I thought we had more _time_ before Dark, Edgy Doctor started showing up.
And I know it's not just Seven who went this dark...I was _chilled_ by Five when he (blank), but it didn't...actually _distance_ me from him. Six's strangling of Peri was due to his not taking his wormwoo--wiggenwe--_wolfsbane_ potion (what is WITH me and w words?) so to speak, so he wasn't quite himself...but I "let him get away with" freaking GENOCIDE when it came to the Vervoids. That's not to say it didn't disturb me. But (a) there were only a few of them, (b) they were an artifically-created mistake that was never meant to be like that anyway, and (c) he managed to do it without harming anybody else. Much.
But with this one...
_What about the Thals_?!!
I mean, sure, they're BORING, but that's not enough reason to off someone (tempted though one might be). I only hope that 1963, Earth time was during part of their timeline where they were mostly off at colonies on other worlds, but, we don't know...
What really chilled me about Seven is that--from the look in his eye and the tone in his voice when he said that line--I know absolutely for a FACT that whether there were a lot of Thals left on the planet or not, whether he _knew_ it or not, _he still would've done exactly the same thing_.
(shivers)
I know, the needs of the VERY many vs. the needs of the many but...
Now, I didn't really mean the Great Time War was _all_ Seven's fault--I said that wrong. Definitely "Genesis" was the beginning of the whole thing, "thinking Time-Lordishly", but...
This close to the end of the series, this close to Eight (who is the one we mainly assume fought the actual big battles and probably had to regenerate into Nine because of it), suddenly the Doctor does something REALLY big and drastic involving just one push of a button that blows up an entire planet--and explains it in EXACTLY FREAKING NINE'S TONE OF VOICE FROM THAT ONE SPEECH, and _bang_ the last border piece just showed up. The entire middle is yet to be filled in, of course--but the edge is finally complete.
So...yeah. He didn't _start_ it, but god DAMN. Wow.
Seven....I _want_ to like him just as much as the other Doctors, I REALLY do, but every time he does something adorable and sweet _now_ I can't stop myself wondering...what cold-bloodedly calculated thing is _also_ going through that head? I love his accent, he's a pookie goofball, and the squidgy cuddlyness is still in there too...BUT.
I mean, my favourite characters on the two space-station shows are Garak and Londo, right? Obviously I GOTTA be okay with sneaky, complicated, shades-of-grey types.
...but...
They say Six is the "least human"-acting Doctor. I beg to differ. If Seven wasn't so cold and _calm_ about these things, if he was more passionate when he masterfully reveals how he'd been thinking ten steps ahead of everyone all along, I...
I dunno.
It isn't just this one, is the problem. In "Silver Nemesis"--not that much later--he does something almost EXACTLY THE SAME. Even though it wasn't quite as drastic it...still doesn't help.
At any rate, I still take pictures of him being cute/funny/whatever, and believe you me, there are still a LOT of them. But...there's a wall there, now. I'm...waiting to find out how permanent it is. That's all I can say, at this point.
(Incidentally, this IS the discussion I wanted to have...it's just...we seem to be having it out in the open where it is spoilers. Oops?)
As for Ace and "Mike"...ha! Yeah, I thought of that..._Our_ Mike really WASN'T that much of a jerk, though.
Oh, and also, according to the commentary, Sophie Aldred is a huge Upstairs, Downstairs fan. Heh.
...Notorious
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