Stray thought: how much can we attribute this difference to the fact that the Doctor is a Time Lord and Danny is (emphatically) human? I would say that plays a fairly big role? Missy comments on how humans are dying from the moment they're born - it's something alien to Time Lords, as they (through exposure to the time vortex) evolved to something far more long-lived. There is a cap on regenerations (presumably because everything starts to go wonky after a while), but it's perfectly possible to get more - as we saw. (And there might still be a price, other than becoming a grumpy Scotsman... We've seen the lengths the Master will go to, and how it can all go wrong - Skeletor!Master in EoT.) But human death is something much more final, presuming it's a natural death. ETA: Meant to tie this into Clara's speech at the beginning of Dark Water about how she's seen the Doctor change time, and she has of course done it herself. He was going to die, and she got him more life - but humans of course work very differently to Time Lords. [Insert stuff about Rose's dad]
I read your comment earlier and was a little puzzled about what you were so excited about, but I see it now. Yes, obviously. Perfectly, utterly obvious. It was the Great Epiphany Moment. Which was especially ironic since Owls has been talking about how Missy is a Companion-mirror for weeks... It just didn't quite ignite before.
Which kinda begs the question why it took weeks for one of us to see it. Are we that dense? Or are we that tied up in our own analysis? Um, probably? Also, the whole thing is a big Missy/Doctor showcase-thing. It's very distracting.
Not that I have any desire to be bludgeoned over the head with the point, as would happen on so many shows, but I have a feeling Moffat might have been just a bit too subtle for his own good on this one. Or possibly hadn't quite realized yet where the emphasis should be falling. I think the latter one? It's a tight script, it works beautifully, it's more like the 2D/3D thing? Hey look - it's all about Clara!
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I would say that plays a fairly big role? Missy comments on how humans are dying from the moment they're born - it's something alien to Time Lords, as they (through exposure to the time vortex) evolved to something far more long-lived. There is a cap on regenerations (presumably because everything starts to go wonky after a while), but it's perfectly possible to get more - as we saw. (And there might still be a price, other than becoming a grumpy Scotsman... We've seen the lengths the Master will go to, and how it can all go wrong - Skeletor!Master in EoT.) But human death is something much more final, presuming it's a natural death. ETA: Meant to tie this into Clara's speech at the beginning of Dark Water about how she's seen the Doctor change time, and she has of course done it herself. He was going to die, and she got him more life - but humans of course work very differently to Time Lords. [Insert stuff about Rose's dad]
I read your comment earlier and was a little puzzled about what you were so excited about, but I see it now. Yes, obviously. Perfectly, utterly obvious.
It was the Great Epiphany Moment. Which was especially ironic since Owls has been talking about how Missy is a Companion-mirror for weeks... It just didn't quite ignite before.
Which kinda begs the question why it took weeks for one of us to see it. Are we that dense? Or are we that tied up in our own analysis?
Um, probably? Also, the whole thing is a big Missy/Doctor showcase-thing. It's very distracting.
Not that I have any desire to be bludgeoned over the head with the point, as would happen on so many shows, but I have a feeling Moffat might have been just a bit too subtle for his own good on this one. Or possibly hadn't quite realized yet where the emphasis should be falling.
I think the latter one? It's a tight script, it works beautifully, it's more like the 2D/3D thing? Hey look - it's all about Clara!