– And so it comes to a head. Love Alex’s first line here. I am rather pleased with it. :)
– Funny, that’s exactly what Lucy said. :) Indeed. It's somewhat of a baseline for his life. (He's never been allowed to think otherwise.)
– As you’ve said, he decides what he’s going to do and then takes the consequences on the chin... Funnily enough - apart from it just being part of his personality - I think it's something he gets from the Doctor? As in, the Doctor is constantly in some fix or other and has one shot at saving the day. So he goes for it. If he fails, it's the end of the world, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. (If that makes sense.) Also Gallifrey plays a role. He knows what the Doctor did, but that it was necessary. When you've grown up in the shadow of the necessary genocide of your own people, it makes you rather callous.
– She makes a very good point. But I don't think he realised what would make her balk. (Can be insightful, but not THAT clever.)
– Again back to the Doctor and Donna and the mind-wipe. Why, Doctor, why? Why wasn’t that against your better judgement? Friends don't let friends burn to death.
– Same discussion as he must have had with Matt and Josh. I don’t know why any of them come around. He’s a wonder, and therefore it’s okay that the normal rules don’t apply to him? This feels like another essay. It sort of is. Although it gets touched on both in Alien Abduction and later on here - the Seeker is being brought up to be a hero (or evil overlord, depending which father-figure you ask). In either case, he naturally, being a Time Lord, has the abilities and awareness (Time Head etc) to make informed decisions about all this stuff. Also see imperialism etc. He's being brought up to make decisions for others. Matt and Josh know this, and (in Matt's case) want to use it for good, and (in Josh's case) initially resent it, even as he uses it for his own means. /ramble
– Because it should teach him that he’s not outside the rules? Only it isn’t doing that, is it? It’s teaching him to lie more effectively. It feels as though both Allie and Josh are seeing something that I’m missing... It's more that you see what they're missing. And both of them sort of default to the Doctor's POV - if nothing else, he is being punished somehow.
– Oh, ouch. But if you self-declare that the normal rules just don’t apply to you, that has to be an occupational hazard. M-hm.
– Lovely visual provides much-needed lightening moment from plot. Pretty people make for nice visuals. :)
Loved Josh’s breakdown of the sources of Alex’s action. A little bit of tell-don't-show. ;)
– This is indeed the problem. And a serious one.
– I might have sent her to History, as a Miss Hillyard standin, though the possibility exists that Alex saw that too and sent her to Modern Classics instead to confuse her. :) LOL. He sent her to the first thing he thought of. (Again - mild mind control. Not hypnosis, more like psychic paper. But with people.)
– Again with the quiet but portentous drum roll, though certainly true for normal circumstances. Yes, he can never be normal...
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I am rather pleased with it. :)
– Funny, that’s exactly what Lucy said. :)
Indeed. It's somewhat of a baseline for his life. (He's never been allowed to think otherwise.)
– As you’ve said, he decides what he’s going to do and then takes the consequences on the chin...
Funnily enough - apart from it just being part of his personality - I think it's something he gets from the Doctor? As in, the Doctor is constantly in some fix or other and has one shot at saving the day. So he goes for it. If he fails, it's the end of the world, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. (If that makes sense.) Also Gallifrey plays a role. He knows what the Doctor did, but that it was necessary. When you've grown up in the shadow of the necessary genocide of your own people, it makes you rather callous.
– She makes a very good point.
But I don't think he realised what would make her balk. (Can be insightful, but not THAT clever.)
– Again back to the Doctor and Donna and the mind-wipe. Why, Doctor, why? Why wasn’t that against your better judgement?
Friends don't let friends burn to death.
– Same discussion as he must have had with Matt and Josh. I don’t know why any of them come around. He’s a wonder, and therefore it’s okay that the normal rules don’t apply to him? This feels like another essay.
It sort of is. Although it gets touched on both in Alien Abduction and later on here - the Seeker is being brought up to be a hero (or evil overlord, depending which father-figure you ask). In either case, he naturally, being a Time Lord, has the abilities and awareness (Time Head etc) to make informed decisions about all this stuff. Also see imperialism etc. He's being brought up to make decisions for others. Matt and Josh know this, and (in Matt's case) want to use it for good, and (in Josh's case) initially resent it, even as he uses it for his own means. /ramble
– Because it should teach him that he’s not outside the rules? Only it isn’t doing that, is it? It’s teaching him to lie more effectively. It feels as though both Allie and Josh are seeing something that I’m missing...
It's more that you see what they're missing. And both of them sort of default to the Doctor's POV - if nothing else, he is being punished somehow.
– Oh, ouch. But if you self-declare that the normal rules just don’t apply to you, that has to be an occupational hazard.
M-hm.
– Lovely visual provides much-needed lightening moment from plot.
Pretty people make for nice visuals. :)
Loved Josh’s breakdown of the sources of Alex’s action.
A little bit of tell-don't-show. ;)
– This is indeed the problem.
And a serious one.
– I might have sent her to History, as a Miss Hillyard standin, though the possibility exists that Alex saw that too and sent her to Modern Classics instead to confuse her. :)
LOL. He sent her to the first thing he thought of. (Again - mild mind control. Not hypnosis, more like psychic paper. But with people.)
– Again with the quiet but portentous drum roll, though certainly true for normal circumstances.
Yes, he can never be normal...