Angelus Lupus
Sr Member
The real question now is, what to do with all the dinosaurs the Doctor has saved? Can't just let them loose on Earth.
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phez
Sr Member
Didn't he drop them back off in prehistoric times at the end (post card Amy and Rory received)?
Angelus Lupus
Sr Member
Ah! That makes sense...
So long as it doesn't change history, of course :lol
So long as it doesn't change history, of course :lol
Goodwolf
Sr Member
As they said in Lost, "Whatever happened, happened." Maybe this is a case of that.
Goodwolf
Sr Member
WRT to the Doctor's killing of David Bradley's character, keep in mind that the different regenerations have different personality profiles. They've all been relatively benevolent, but just because 4 allowed Davros to live doesn't mean that later ones will be that lenient if pushed far enough. When Solomon demonstrated what a useless life support system for an *sshole he truly was, perhaps the Doctor was ok with a bit of justice dispensing.
Kerr Avon
Master Member
The Doctor has still always had a certain moral code though. And this one has essentially broken it with this act. I'm wondering if that act is going to have further impact later on.
I was honestly a little shocked when he took the bounty hunter out. However there is a part of me that thinks this may not be the last time we see the bounty hunter character.
jazzygeoffery
Well-Known Member
I guess I missed the part about him wiping all data about him, which episode was that in, and why is he doing it?
Did anyone else recognize David Mitchell and Robert Webb as the robots? That was great :lol
Did anyone else recognize David Mitchell and Robert Webb as the robots? That was great :lol
I didn't have much of an issue with him leaving the pirate to die. The Doctor has offed many folks in both the classic & new series. 99% of them have been aliens but IIRC there has been the odd human in there. To be completely fair, we don't know if this pirate was human. He doled out pretty harsh punishment to the family of blood that one might say was even worse than death.
Risu
Master Member
I KNEW they sounded familiar! That's just awesome.
Yes, really appreciated that! :lol
First episode Asylum of the Daleks
B-Movie Zombie
Sr Member
What about Lady Cassandra?
Not to mention the second episode ever to air the Doctor tried to kill a wounded man so that he wouldn't slow them down...
But that was just the Dalek records no?
I think so. But during the second episode I kind of got the feeling when he smirked after the results came back from being scanned that he had a plan to remove himself from the grid so to speak. Just my opinion.
Fair enough. I got the impression that he was anxious to see what it said and then relieved when it came up as not knowing him. Who knows, maybe the Dalek records are the source for everything in the universe! :lol
It's good that he's anonymous now. Anonymous is cool...
I know alot of folks have been having a problem with the Doctor killing Solomon, but to ne honest, I'd have had a bigger problem if he hadn't.
The 10th Doctor was a man of "No Second Chances". He gave the Sycorax, the Krillitane, & the Family a chance to do the right thing. The 9th was taking the Slitheen back home to be executed when that particular situation resolved itself. Either way, there is a history in the new series of the Doctor either being complicit or active in the punishment of others when their own actions caused the problem.
That being said, if the Doctor hadn't arrived on the ship, it would have been blown up & Solomon would have died...because of his own actions. He had stolen the ship, massacred the Silurians, found he was unable to control the ship & was going to be blown up. The Doctor simply saved the innocent lives on the "original" ship.
Solomon had tried to sell the Doctor, injure & threaten to kill Brian, killed all the innocent Silurians & was willing to kill the dinosaurs, & finally kidnapped Nefertitti with a promise of "breaking her", before threatening to kill her.
IMO, the Doctor didn't KILL anyone. He saved the innocents from the consequences of a wicked, nonredeemable man's actions.
The 10th Doctor was a man of "No Second Chances". He gave the Sycorax, the Krillitane, & the Family a chance to do the right thing. The 9th was taking the Slitheen back home to be executed when that particular situation resolved itself. Either way, there is a history in the new series of the Doctor either being complicit or active in the punishment of others when their own actions caused the problem.
That being said, if the Doctor hadn't arrived on the ship, it would have been blown up & Solomon would have died...because of his own actions. He had stolen the ship, massacred the Silurians, found he was unable to control the ship & was going to be blown up. The Doctor simply saved the innocent lives on the "original" ship.
Solomon had tried to sell the Doctor, injure & threaten to kill Brian, killed all the innocent Silurians & was willing to kill the dinosaurs, & finally kidnapped Nefertitti with a promise of "breaking her", before threatening to kill her.
IMO, the Doctor didn't KILL anyone. He saved the innocents from the consequences of a wicked, nonredeemable man's actions.
greatwazoo42
Master Member
That'd be because the story was originally a 7th Doctor Novel and we all know that 7 was capable of more cruelty than any of his other incarnations. That darkness made him more compelling to watch. As for 11's treatment of Solomon; he didn't murder the a-hole; he just saved everyone else from the situation that a-hole created and gave him only the sliver of a chance to save himself. He could have tried to make a blind hyperdrive jump or anything else but instead he just sat there screaming.
Like Batman said in Begins: "I won't kill you...but that doesn't mean I have to save you."
He merely left Solomon to sort out the situation he created and took all the innocents out of harms way.
Also, that "picnic with a view" he gave Rory's Dad...that is something I want to see too in my life; the Earth from Up There.
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