arron wrote: And as he is now only a few incarnations from the end
Isn't that an enforced thing? Enforced by the timelords... who are all dead?
The things I'm mulling over when not marvelling at how much each of these episodes imporves on the last are these:
1: Mme Pompadour looks through the 'open door' into the Doctor's head and then begins referring to him as an 'angel' as well as a timelord. Is this simply metaphor?
2: Are the rules that governed Timelord shenanigins still enforced somehow or does the Doctor have carte balnche to do whatever he pleases now he's alone in the universe, hence his little romantic moments and more assured vigilante attitude (see Tony Head face-off)?
It appears to me that Ecclestone's doctor was necessarily short - he was a lost being, searching for a way forward from a point of utter loneliness and despair, drawn to the place he was always more likely to call home even than his own planet. Then after the whole rose/tardis stuff he regenerates and this new doctor (who is clearly still settling into the new personality, in a less hammy version of the early Colin Baker episodes) has an altogether reinvigorated stance on the wrong-writing moral crusade stuff. Or perhaps there's some baggage from the time wars and pre-rose era that we'll find out about over the next couple of series?
I don't know. I wasn't even thinking about it until now... I'm enjoying the show too much. The last two eps have had me on the edge of my seat with suspense, laughing out loud, grinning like an Ecclestone and wiping away a tear in equal measure. I was actually willing the Doctor to spend his days with the fit bord, then hide away for long enough to stow away on the Tardis during the events of the last episode, jumping out of a tardis cupboard at the end and cracking a joke about his 3000 years of solitude suffered in order to have a nice fit bird. Didn't happen though, so I felt dead sad.
These threads make me think to much.
