[essay] The Doctor and the Daleks/The Doctor and humanity.
Okay so. Dalek Weekend has passed. And this means that the people I thread with most regularly at the very least have seen a side of the Doctor that I have not until now been able to portray in camp. We had some of it with Davy Jones, but the Doctor doesn't have the same determination to destroy Davy Jones as he does the Daleks. There's a distinct
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The Doctor is always going to be the older and wiser party, even to characters like Jack who are a) technically older than him and b) have seen nearly as much.
Aside from all the essaying we have previously done, this weekend it came down to; Jack is essentially a soldier. He wishes he wasn't, but he is. The Doctor is his commanding officer, has been ever since they travelled together as Ninth. Obviously when the Doctor's not around it's much easier to ask for forgiveness than wait for a go-ahead, so he doesn't usually. But in the end Jack understands self-sacrifice and he respects the Doctor's right as the leader, the general, to choose who sacrifices what. Which is why he's maybe not nearly as angry about the whole thing as everyone else is.
Also, Jack may have lived for a lot longer, but most of that was while buried alive. The Doctor's still got a good 700 years of experience on him yet.
In conclusion YOU'RE BRILLIANT AND AMAZING, TELL ME YOUR SECRET.
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