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starladyIs 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.
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Date: 2019-07-28 18:47 (UTC)I am planning to skip Eleven this time (I guess I've also de facto skipped Nine too, sorry Christopher Eccleston, always getting screwed), but it's interesting starting from the beginning with Ten and realizing that the seeds of a lot of things that happened later were there from the absolute very beginning. When he says that now he knows what kind of man he is, that he's a lucky man, that is not a description of character! That is a random external attribute! My dude! Who are you when the chips are down? He hasn't the faintest clue and that seems like a definite problem.