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penfold_xOh thank goodness. I thought I was going insane. But I'm not the only one who sees it:
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devi42 in doctor_who starts a thread "The Oncoming Storm or The Oncoming Self Destructive Twit?" in which thehornedgod is Right. There. With. Me:
I think we're meant to be seeing the Doctor's genocidal tendencies as a bad thing. Unfortunately that's a tall order in the context of the Whoniverse as nobody would want the Daleks or the Racnoss or the Sycorax in their backyard. Lovely though the Master is, you wouldn't really want to live in a universe where only his emo ex-boyfriend was standing between him and Japan, either. The Doctor needs someone to stop him, but that isn't what his world needs at all.
But the Doctor doesn't want to be a butcher. Been there, done that. The conclusion of Journey's End seems to be that Davros has won. He may not have destroyed reality but he's shown the Doctor himself in a dark mirror. The self-loathing the Doctor has been projecting onto Harriet Jones or anyone remotely military, even his allies, his best friends, his daughter, is completely consuming him. He can't cope with the way the double-edged gift of travel with him changes his friends. He can't even tell Rose he loves her after she's crossed universes to be with him, or he won't because that would make it harder for her to choose. Donna's development was erased, but I think the Doctor's getting worse.
devi42 in doctor_who starts a thread "The Oncoming Storm or The Oncoming Self Destructive Twit?" in which thehornedgod is Right. There. With. Me:I think we're meant to be seeing the Doctor's genocidal tendencies as a bad thing. Unfortunately that's a tall order in the context of the Whoniverse as nobody would want the Daleks or the Racnoss or the Sycorax in their backyard. Lovely though the Master is, you wouldn't really want to live in a universe where only his emo ex-boyfriend was standing between him and Japan, either. The Doctor needs someone to stop him, but that isn't what his world needs at all.
But the Doctor doesn't want to be a butcher. Been there, done that. The conclusion of Journey's End seems to be that Davros has won. He may not have destroyed reality but he's shown the Doctor himself in a dark mirror. The self-loathing the Doctor has been projecting onto Harriet Jones or anyone remotely military, even his allies, his best friends, his daughter, is completely consuming him. He can't cope with the way the double-edged gift of travel with him changes his friends. He can't even tell Rose he loves her after she's crossed universes to be with him, or he won't because that would make it harder for her to choose. Donna's development was erased, but I think the Doctor's getting worse.
