Hum, I see your point. And it's probably just me projecting actually ;-) (me, grow up? wasat?). Childlike perhaps. I can't help but think that choosing between an everyday-work-home-sleep "real life" and the chance to see everything and do a lot of good in the process (time-travelling sexiness notwithstanding), well, there's no contest really. But maybe that's just me not being overtly fond of "real life" in the first place either.
As for hubris, I don't quite see it, but then I'm not really Old Skool either. I mean, yes, the Doctor tends to show off, prancing around and the lot, and he does rubs everyones' face in it all the time occasionally. But at the end of the day, he *is* the higher authority, and the choices I've seen him made were for the greater good. Maybe he does know what's best, if he can see all just don't go lord over everybody, Ten! You know you're right, I know you're right, let's leave it at that Having said that, there's been a couple of times when he almost put Rose above the universe, so maybe not. Did you notice in Doomsday when he tells Pete about Jackie being alive in the parallel universe and how he didn't have to be alone? How Pete turned around and said there where more important things at stake? Maybe I'm reading too much into, but I swear there was a beat there where Ten was like "is there?". I like the Doctor because he's a flawed hero, too, and that's the best kind.
Wow, here I went again. Can you tell I *cannot* concentrate at work today? *g*
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Date: 2006-07-10 02:01 pm (UTC)As for hubris, I don't quite see it, but then I'm not really Old Skool either. I mean, yes, the Doctor tends to show off, prancing around and the lot, and he does rubs everyones' face in it
all the timeoccasionally. But at the end of the day, he *is* the higher authority, and the choices I've seen him made were for the greater good. Maybe he does know what's best, if he can see alljust don't go lord over everybody, Ten! You know you're right, I know you're right, let's leave it at thatHaving said that, there's been a couple of times when he almost put Rose above the universe, so maybe not. Did you notice in Doomsday when he tells Pete about Jackie being alive in the parallel universe and how he didn't have to be alone? How Pete turned around and said there where more important things at stake? Maybe I'm reading too much into, but I swear there was a beat there where Ten was like "is there?". I like the Doctor because he's a flawed hero, too, and that's the best kind.
Wow, here I went again. Can you tell I *cannot* concentrate at work today? *g*