"You can spend the rest of your life with me. But I can't spend the rest of my life with you."

[jjtaylor]

I fear I am about to spend the next hour crying. I'm watching School Reunion, from Doctor Who, with someone who's catching up on the second season. We're actually quite close to Army of Ghosts/Doomsday chronologically, but we saw School Reunion long ago when it first aired on Sci Fi and I thought it was important to see it again before we watched

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[wildgreentide]

She says, "Is that what you're going to do to me?" And the Doctor says, "Not to you." But the story we see tells us otherwise, and it breaks my heart.

*sob!* I rewatched "School Reunion" the other day and cried and cried, watching the Doctor lie to her, which is partly wanting to keep the truth from her as long as he can and partly wanting to protect her and partly wanting to believe it himself. It's interesting -- I initially thought Tennant's Doctor was happier, or at least less damaged, than Eccleston's, but in watching S3 and now rewatching S2, I'm seeing deeper reserves of denial, anger, and, yes, loneliness, than even Nine possessed. I think I got so caught up in the Rose/Doctor sappiness of S2 that I forgot how much of the Doctor's essential sadness it masked -- or maybe I couldn't see that until I saw how his story with Rose ended, as he always knew it would have to.

[amberlynne]

*sniff*