On Jan 5, 1:10 pm, Jeffrey Kaplan  wrote:
> Previously on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, Mel said:
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> > What about the new guy playing the Doctor at the end? I only saw the
> > short glimpse of him in this episode, but just based on that he seems
> > way too young. I'm not sure he can get that haunted look in his eyes
> > that both Eccleston and Tennant pulled off so well. But we shall
> > see....anyone know when new eps will be showing in the U.S.?
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> Maybe he won't have to.  That haunted look was likely the result of not
> truely facing what he did in the Time War.  We already knew that he was
> instrumental in wiping out the Daleks, but we were also given the
> impression that the Daleks had destroyed Galifrey and wiped out the
> Time Lords, and now we know that is not what happened... it was The
> Doctor.  He destroyed his own people.  Even knowing that doing so saves
> the entire universe, it's still a heavy burden.
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> And now that he's admitted it out loud...
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I always got the sense that the Daleks could only be defeated at the
cost of the destruction of the Timelords, and thought it an
interesting twist that the Timelords had in fact become as great a
threat as the Daleks and had to be destroyed not as a side effect, but
in their own right.  That being said, I agree with you that now that
the Doctor has really faced that fact and taken responsibility for it,
there will likely be less brooding to result.  Not that there's
anything wrong with brooding, mind you.
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> Jeffrey Kaplan                                        www.gordol.org
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