but I'm kinda hoping to get at least a few episodes where it's just the Doctor and Jack (assuming that he is still going back to DW for s3) I'd love to see this. It's my dream, with bells and rings on Jack's toes
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I'm finding this series not as captivating as the last as well, although I'm holding out final judgement until I see the whole thing. It's possible the end will have stuff in it that in retrospect make the whole season tie together much more coherently. I see hints that they might be able to do that at least. *fingers crossed*
Two shows with Captain Jack on at the same time would be much with the gleeful, although I don't know how realistically feasible it could be. But I'll settle for just continuing to get a Captain Jack fix. ;)
I hadn't even thought about the "I'm sorry" thing. I'd been thinking it would be something about arrogance and the whole what makes a god question that seems to keep being touched on obliquely.
The theme of the series has got to be hubris defined by the OED thus:
hubris • noun excessive pride or self-confidence. - DERIVATIVES hubristic adjective. - ORIGIN Greek, originally denoting presumption towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.
My issue with this - and I'm thinking back to Boomtown here - in the famous dinner scene Margaret!Blon calls the Doctor on the way he passes judgemnt on other races, on the way that he seems to wade in where angels fear to tread, shake things up/fix things or break things and then leave. Without considering the consequences of his actions. Yet CE's Nine did seem to me to have a long term view about time and the proper place of things and species, wars and development within that linear time. He did seem to consider the consequences of other people's actions on the environment they were corrupting, so it seems damn Ood (sorry couldn't resist the pun) that he wouldn't consider his own actions in a similar vein.
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Two shows with Captain Jack on at the same time would be much with the gleeful, although I don't know how realistically feasible it could be. But I'll settle for just continuing to get a Captain Jack fix. ;)
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And Girl in the Fireplace was an *awesome* ep.
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hubris
• noun excessive pride or self-confidence.
- DERIVATIVES hubristic adjective.
- ORIGIN Greek, originally denoting presumption towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.
My issue with this - and I'm thinking back to Boomtown here - in the famous dinner scene Margaret!Blon calls the Doctor on the way he passes judgemnt on other races, on the way that he seems to wade in where angels fear to tread, shake things up/fix things or break things and then leave. Without considering the consequences of his actions. Yet CE's Nine did seem to me to have a long term view about time and the proper place of things and species, wars and development within that linear time. He did seem to consider the consequences of other people's actions on the environment they were corrupting, so it seems damn Ood (sorry couldn't resist the pun) that he wouldn't consider his own actions in a similar vein.
Any thoughts?
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