Actually, the Doctor did give Solomon 'a choice'. Something like "Leave this spaceship while you still can". It was quite early in the episode, but it still happened. Very true. I was more thinking of the end and - in my head - comparing it to Ten offering to save Davros (who had just tried to destroy the whole universe). It's much closer to Ten in Human Nature/Family of Blood - initial lenience, but then absolute condemnation (although the punishment then was far worse and out of proportion). Here it is... 'I gave you a chance/I didn't realise how truly awful you were - now suffer the consequences'. Hope that makes sense> :)
Love the mirroring between the Doctor and Solomon. Piracy and genocide, crimes the Doctor won't forgive? Oh I think he's fine with piracy (just see Curse of the Black Spot), it's the crime of attaching a monetary value to everything I think.
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Very true. I was more thinking of the end and - in my head - comparing it to Ten offering to save Davros (who had just tried to destroy the whole universe). It's much closer to Ten in Human Nature/Family of Blood - initial lenience, but then absolute condemnation (although the punishment then was far worse and out of proportion). Here it is... 'I gave you a chance/I didn't realise how truly awful you were - now suffer the consequences'. Hope that makes sense> :)
Love the mirroring between the Doctor and Solomon. Piracy and genocide, crimes the Doctor won't forgive?
Oh I think he's fine with piracy (just see Curse of the Black Spot), it's the crime of attaching a monetary value to everything I think.