or someone else in a flashback scenario. If they mean to explain about the metacrisis...they will need to reference Gallifrey for that. But, having the Time Lords back also works for rejecting the Time Lords.
Another possibility is that Dalton is playing a new version of the Valeyard.
I know...I know...I've gone to the Valeyard every season...but, dangnabit...it is the one really big question from Old School that RTD hasn't addressed and it is intimately tied in to the Doctor destroying Gallifrey. Also, it would underline the idea that the Doctor shouldn't be alone...and even underscore the use of the term "Naismith"...as in Not Smith...as in a Doctor gone bad. If the Doctor was sure that his enemy was the Master...then he learned that the Master was only a pawn in a hellish game that HE...the Doctor had set up...well...it might give us a grand enemy tie-in for S5, too.
Sadly, I am not a big fan of the revelation of your love in the moment of death scenario. Only because it, too, is over used. I do agree that there is something to be said for living that relatively short life with Rose...because it will be the same as loving for an hour...in our lifetime. But, I would rather see a hero who can embrace his desires than one who plays the martyr. I, also, feel that RTD sort of denies something very important in the gay community when he says the Doctor loves Rose but just can't be with her...because...he's a time lord and she's a human. That's very much like denying love...as you say.
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Timothy Dalton could also be The Other
Date: 2009-06-29 01:53 am (UTC)Another possibility is that Dalton is playing a new version of the Valeyard.
I know...I know...I've gone to the Valeyard every season...but, dangnabit...it is the one really big question from Old School that RTD hasn't addressed and it is intimately tied in to the Doctor destroying Gallifrey. Also, it would underline the idea that the Doctor shouldn't be alone...and even underscore the use of the term "Naismith"...as in Not Smith...as in a Doctor gone bad. If the Doctor was sure that his enemy was the Master...then he learned that the Master was only a pawn in a hellish game that HE...the Doctor had set up...well...it might give us a grand enemy tie-in for S5, too.
Sadly, I am not a big fan of the revelation of your love in the moment of death scenario. Only because it, too, is over used. I do agree that there is something to be said for living that relatively short life with Rose...because it will be the same as loving for an hour...in our lifetime. But, I would rather see a hero who can embrace his desires than one who plays the martyr. I, also, feel that RTD sort of denies something very important in the gay community when he says the Doctor loves Rose but just can't be with her...because...he's a time lord and she's a human. That's very much like denying love...as you say.
Rae