[ SECRET POST #5523 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5523 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[tei]

is that what the she looks tired" line was about? Why would he... essentially criticize his own behaviour on the show?

[(Anonymous)]

He wasn't. He was justifying it.

[tei]

Huh. I haven't watched Doctor Who in a very long time, but I do have that moment very firmly imprinted in my mind as a brilliant "the main character is doing something terrible, and you understand it and sympathize but it's still terrible" moment. Could be accidental, I suppose! But I think I'd have to read the details of the incident and rewatch the episode to be sure, which tbh I am probably not interested enough to do...

[(Anonymous)]

Textually the way that the storyline ends up playing out on the show is that this line is an example of the Doctor's hubris and ultimately (indirectly) leads to his regeneration, no?

[(Anonymous)]

No. That interpretation assumes that Harriet would have been anything more than a road bump on The Master's quest for revenge. No matter who was in the PM's chair when The Master set out to use the Doctor's favorite country on his favorite planet to hurt him, they were doomed. If anything, The Doctor saved Harriet's life. Plus, since Harriet herself invited him to come solve the world's problems for her, she had no right to object to how he did it. The Doctor was Judge Judy, and Harriet was the disgruntled plaintiff who was upset she didn't get all she wanted and got smacked down.

[(Anonymous)]

Back in the day, an aide mentioned that Margaret Thatcher looked tired. Many have drawn a direct line between that and the challenge to her leadership that ended her career as Prime Minister. RTD himself has cited this as what he was thinking of when he created this moment of the Doctor being incredibly awful to Harriet Jones (and, you know, democracy of a sovereign nation, but whatever).