Plus it casts new light on why Jack is so wrong from the Doctor's perspective: It's death without change, and unnatural in the extreme from a Timelord's POV.
*Jaw Drop* That is one of the absolute most insightful things I have ever read about the Doctor's reaction against Jack. Brilliant. Your whole essay is in fact brilliant, but most I had thought of or read, but I never fit that bit into it. BRILLIANT.
One thing though- I don't think the Doctor would have been able to heal so completely though if Ten had not ended the way he had. Nine was still feeling guilty when he died and that carried through into Ten. But Ten--when he died--had finally decided he wanted to LIVE and, the way I see it, in having to make the choice again to doom Gallifrey he could finally forgive himself for doing it.
I think Ten in a lot of ways was always doubting his own actions in the Time War, but in having to confirm it was the only way by repeating them he could finally let go of the guilt.
And I'm rambling too now.
There's a fic on whofic that the total is not my favorite, but within it has one of the most brilliant analyses I've ever seen of how each doctor is a reaction against the previous:
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*Jaw Drop* That is one of the absolute most insightful things I have ever read about the Doctor's reaction against Jack. Brilliant. Your whole essay is in fact brilliant, but most I had thought of or read, but I never fit that bit into it. BRILLIANT.
One thing though- I don't think the Doctor would have been able to heal so completely though if Ten had not ended the way he had. Nine was still feeling guilty when he died and that carried through into Ten. But Ten--when he died--had finally decided he wanted to LIVE and, the way I see it, in having to make the choice again to doom Gallifrey he could finally forgive himself for doing it.
I think Ten in a lot of ways was always doubting his own actions in the Time War, but in having to confirm it was the only way by repeating them he could finally let go of the guilt.
And I'm rambling too now.
There's a fic on whofic that the total is not my favorite, but within it has one of the most brilliant analyses I've ever seen of how each doctor is a reaction against the previous:
http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=12441