Wow, I never thought of that. Brilliant *beams* I'm going to write a post, since I want it 'on its own' as it were, rather than buried in comments.
But Ten and John Smith... that's more like a Russian doll, he goes back to being himself, but the experience of death, of a life suddenly stopping, of all the possibilities lost, that's all still within him, it's not something he can look at from the perspective of an entirely new person. Does this make sense at all? Hmmm, Russian doll. *ponders* Maybe regeneration is more like a Russian doll? In that he's someone new, but with all the other dolls inside. But I'm not sure what to compare the John Smith experience to then. Anyway, you're definitely onto something. With regeneration there's a continuity, a building on what came before, where John Smith led to a reset, as it were. John Smith's life didn't lead to Ten, he just stopped. And... I think this must have been a very alien experience for the Doctor (and makes one wonder how TenToo copes).
That scene with Wilf in the cafe is one of my favourite New Who moments, I'll never understand how people can dislike it. I think most people love the scene in general - they just dislike the way Ten talks about his death, as if it's something much more final than the show generally portrays.
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*beams* I'm going to write a post, since I want it 'on its own' as it were, rather than buried in comments.
But Ten and John Smith... that's more like a Russian doll, he goes back to being himself, but the experience of death, of a life suddenly stopping, of all the possibilities lost, that's all still within him, it's not something he can look at from the perspective of an entirely new person. Does this make sense at all?
Hmmm, Russian doll. *ponders* Maybe regeneration is more like a Russian doll? In that he's someone new, but with all the other dolls inside. But I'm not sure what to compare the John Smith experience to then. Anyway, you're definitely onto something. With regeneration there's a continuity, a building on what came before, where John Smith led to a reset, as it were. John Smith's life didn't lead to Ten, he just stopped. And... I think this must have been a very alien experience for the Doctor (and makes one wonder how TenToo copes).
That scene with Wilf in the cafe is one of my favourite New Who moments, I'll never understand how people can dislike it.
I think most people love the scene in general - they just dislike the way Ten talks about his death, as if it's something much more final than the show generally portrays.