Doctor's Wife - Disturbing Realization - Spoilers

[jhumor]

So I just realized something that I haven't seen anyone mention anywhere:

I was actually disturbed that again the Doctor didn't give the bad guy a chance.  Nor did the TARDIS, oh yes, cool special effects.  And no, House and the TARDIS can't co-exist, but why not make it about them not being able to co-exist?  Why make it about 'killing House'?  I don't know, but this "Doctor is a bad-ass killing right and left" is getting to me.

As is all the Rory dying bits.  Why is the Doctor so into killing people and SM so into killing Rory?

Comments

[xtricks]

I guess I kind of feel that if a 900 year old super-genius alien that can travel time can't 'figure out' how to save x, y or z aliens from death there must be failure of will as well as failure of ability (plus, the writers like the angst).

As to 11s liking of that sort of thing ...11 very much seems to be a person determined not to regret, or angst or otherwise feel bad for actions he takes. After 10s over-the-top emo, I'm rather glad of that.

I've always seen the Doctor as a very morally gray person -- he's basically controlling human history and sometimes even to our detriment (Former Prime Minister Jones, for example -- remember, Nine said she'd bring about a new golden age and what is almost the first thing 10 does? Undermine her). There's a lot of thinky stuff about colonialism and gender relations and etc that goes on in Dr. Who and the Doctor is often on the not as sympathetic side of that as we might all wish.

[jhumor]

But I'm not talking about any of those things. Yes, the Doctor has been morally 'grey' in some situations. But, where is the Doctor who debated about ending the Daleks when he had the chance (and ultimately deciding against genocide?) where is the Doctor who THOUGHT about his actions before making them? Where is the Doctor who thought about what impacts his actions might ultimately have? Being morally grey doesn't mean you never think things through.

And who's to say Nine and Ten weren't BOTH right about PM Jones? Remember, if it hadn't been for her, the sub-wave network would have never worked. I happen to think the Daleks invading Earth and England being the location of the sub-wave, might have lead to Jones leading in a Golden Age for England, don't you? Might not have been the way she expected, but it doesn't mean it didn't happen.