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DW 4.2
Just very quick thoughts. (meta, as usual)
I have links to longer and more in-depth reviews below. For me *this* stood out:
Doctor: "Don't you think I've done enough? History's back in place and everyone dies."
OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH! We really see the consequences of S3 here, and I love it. He lives to save, and yet he can't save those he most wants - couldn't save the Time Lords, couldn't save the Master. And then of course we get Donna, whom I adore so very much, and who I really think needed the cuteness and happy solution of the Adipose, because she - more than any of the other companions so far (bar Jack maybe, but that's different) - gets to see the dark side of the Doctor, and has since the beginning. And she is just so wonderfully human:
Donna: "Not the whole town - just save *someone*."
And I think he does it for her.
Because this *also* ties in with 'Voyage of the Damned':
"But if you could decide, Doctor, who lives and who dies... that would make you a monster." [from memory, sorry if it's inaccurate]
There is a sense of 'damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't'... if he saves someone on a whim, what does that make him? I think this is why he needs a Companion - someone to be his moral center, because he is totally messed up, and he knows it. He knows what he has to do, but when it comes to what he *can* do, it gets complicated.
This of course again ties in with the Master storyline in S3, and what happens when a Time Lord decides to play god for real. Yes, the Master was evil and insane, but what he did the Doctor *could* do. (Of course I dealt with this at great length in this essay, so won't do so here.) Where to draw the line is the problem - he has so much power, but using it without becoming a monster (and oh, we saw him cross that line in 'Family of Blood') is the balancing act he keeps trying to get right.
Finally, I LOVE the waterpistol - can't you just see little kids running around playing Doctor Who all summer? "I bloody love you!" indeed! :)
Obligatory pimp:
Review by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
neadods.
Review byselenak.
Both really excellent, go check them out!
wendymr has been converted to Donna here. :)
I have links to longer and more in-depth reviews below. For me *this* stood out:
Doctor: "Don't you think I've done enough? History's back in place and everyone dies."
OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH! We really see the consequences of S3 here, and I love it. He lives to save, and yet he can't save those he most wants - couldn't save the Time Lords, couldn't save the Master. And then of course we get Donna, whom I adore so very much, and who I really think needed the cuteness and happy solution of the Adipose, because she - more than any of the other companions so far (bar Jack maybe, but that's different) - gets to see the dark side of the Doctor, and has since the beginning. And she is just so wonderfully human:
Donna: "Not the whole town - just save *someone*."
And I think he does it for her.
Because this *also* ties in with 'Voyage of the Damned':
"But if you could decide, Doctor, who lives and who dies... that would make you a monster." [from memory, sorry if it's inaccurate]
There is a sense of 'damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't'... if he saves someone on a whim, what does that make him? I think this is why he needs a Companion - someone to be his moral center, because he is totally messed up, and he knows it. He knows what he has to do, but when it comes to what he *can* do, it gets complicated.
This of course again ties in with the Master storyline in S3, and what happens when a Time Lord decides to play god for real. Yes, the Master was evil and insane, but what he did the Doctor *could* do. (Of course I dealt with this at great length in this essay, so won't do so here.) Where to draw the line is the problem - he has so much power, but using it without becoming a monster (and oh, we saw him cross that line in 'Family of Blood') is the balancing act he keeps trying to get right.
Finally, I LOVE the waterpistol - can't you just see little kids running around playing Doctor Who all summer? "I bloody love you!" indeed! :)
Obligatory pimp:
Review by
neadods.Review by
selenak.Both really excellent, go check them out!
wendymr has been converted to Donna here. :)
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