But the consequences wouldn't be only to himself, if he lost control completely. He might have stopped the Master, but who'd be stopping him? Things could get way worse than WoM, or worse than the current situation. Anyone with a gun could have stopped him... Heck, he even told Wilf how to kill him for good. (OK, I'm ignoring the character-stuff for the sake of logic. Please ignore me, I'm tired. I know what you're saying, I understand what RTD was doing, I get where Ten is coming from.It just sits badly with me, and that's never going to change. If I look on him as Victorious, it all works much better. Also S5/S6 dealt with all this in great detail, so I'm OK really. He's the Oncoming Storm... He's an unarmed man who can't drive. Honestly, he is ridiculously vulnerable.)
I think we'll just have to disagree on that. Jack already went in there knowing he was unlikely to come out alive, and certainly not mortal, and he accepted that, right from the start of the last episode. We might be talking about different things, my apologies. Like your point about Gwen though, that's very good.
He struggles, but he also does understand the problem, and does the right thing in the end. He accepts it; that he doesn't like for me is both in character as well as understandable. Oh don't get me wrong, I don't think it could have gone any other way, and it both IC and understandable, and I adore him to pieces, because he's my beautifully broken Ten.
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Anyone with a gun could have stopped him... Heck, he even told Wilf how to kill him for good. (OK, I'm ignoring the character-stuff for the sake of logic. Please ignore me, I'm tired. I know what you're saying, I understand what RTD was doing, I get where Ten is coming from.It just sits badly with me, and that's never going to change. If I look on him as Victorious, it all works much better. Also S5/S6 dealt with all this in great detail, so I'm OK really. He's the Oncoming Storm... He's an unarmed man who can't drive. Honestly, he is ridiculously vulnerable.)
I think we'll just have to disagree on that. Jack already went in there knowing he was unlikely to come out alive, and certainly not mortal, and he accepted that, right from the start of the last episode.
We might be talking about different things, my apologies. Like your point about Gwen though, that's very good.
He struggles, but he also does understand the problem, and does the right thing in the end. He accepts it; that he doesn't like for me is both in character as well as understandable.
Oh don't get me wrong, I don't think it could have gone any other way, and it both IC and understandable, and I adore him to pieces, because he's my beautifully broken Ten.