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Doctor Who 167: "The Christmas Invasion"
Is it me or is this episode wildly chilling?
My only exposure to Ten before this was the brilliant vid "Handlebars," which was not lying! Everything that happens in that vid is laid out right here in outline form and it is a chilling contrast to the Christmas crackers and general holiday cheer. The Doctor declares himself Earth's defender, which is cool I guess, except that Harriet Jones isn't wrong: he can't be everywhere all the time. And even if he could be…what gives him the right, other than that he can? What gives him the right to bring down Harriet Jones and end the second Golden Age prematurely? He's right that her decision to destroy the Sycorax is murder, but being prime minister means making tough calls, and it's not entirely clear that she made an actually wrong one. Also the Doctor's actions basically directly lead to the rise of Saxon, which is not great!
The real kicker is that he doesn't believe in second chances, but he's a lucky man; he gets quite a lot of them.
My only exposure to Ten before this was the brilliant vid "Handlebars," which was not lying! Everything that happens in that vid is laid out right here in outline form and it is a chilling contrast to the Christmas crackers and general holiday cheer. The Doctor declares himself Earth's defender, which is cool I guess, except that Harriet Jones isn't wrong: he can't be everywhere all the time. And even if he could be…what gives him the right, other than that he can? What gives him the right to bring down Harriet Jones and end the second Golden Age prematurely? He's right that her decision to destroy the Sycorax is murder, but being prime minister means making tough calls, and it's not entirely clear that she made an actually wrong one. Also the Doctor's actions basically directly lead to the rise of Saxon, which is not great!
The real kicker is that he doesn't believe in second chances, but he's a lucky man; he gets quite a lot of them.