RTD was so fearless and so was his Doctor...right up until those final few moments. And now the Doctor is intentionally crippled and to just say he's fixed...which is what it seems to me so many of the fans are expecting...is NOT what I expect of the creative forces behind the renewal of Doctor Who.
I expect RTD to do better. I expect him to be kidding frankly...misdirecting us with all of this angst...leading us down the path of hopelessness. Because that's what truly died in the end...HOPE! The Doctor is no longer the hopeful, happy space wander he once was. And I don't think he can just regenerate out of that mindset. He needs to embrace his love, his need of humanity...and with that...his love of Rose Tyler. In the end...it changes nothing about the lonliness of the character...Rose will still die and he will go on and he will have been married and had a family and watched them perish (though of old age rather than trauma). The only difference between the helpless coward we have now and a Doctor who has lived with and loved Rose...is that the latter Doctor is a person who truly believes in the "live life to the fullest" creed he's been preaching all these years.
Rae happy you liked my scene...let's let RTD do it. :grin:
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AMEN! YES!
Date: 2009-06-28 04:43 am (UTC)I expect RTD to do better. I expect him to be kidding frankly...misdirecting us with all of this angst...leading us down the path of hopelessness. Because that's what truly died in the end...HOPE! The Doctor is no longer the hopeful, happy space wander he once was. And I don't think he can just regenerate out of that mindset. He needs to embrace his love, his need of humanity...and with that...his love of Rose Tyler. In the end...it changes nothing about the lonliness of the character...Rose will still die and he will go on and he will have been married and had a family and watched them perish (though of old age rather than trauma). The only difference between the helpless coward we have now and a Doctor who has lived with and loved Rose...is that the latter Doctor is a person who truly believes in the "live life to the fullest" creed he's been preaching all these years.
Rae
happy you liked my scene...let's let RTD do it. :grin: