So I’m wrong about that, then; fair enough! Shows, if nothing else, that my determination to wipe Journey’s End from my memory is doing a bang-up job so far ;)
*snickers*
But there’s still, in my opinion, a certain amount of value in this as an investigation of just what exactly “when we first met” could be intended to mean. The phrase as it stands is delightfully ambiguous.
My interpretation of it is that Ten thinks that since Ten II has just pushed the button, so to speak, he's reset to just after the Time War. So the Doctor thinks his other self needs to be "fixed" by Rose again, just like the first time.
However, I think an interesting take on it would be that Ten himself needs just as much "fixing" as Ten II. And what he really doesn't want to admit is that the genocide potential is still in him. It's much easier to think that the other guy is so much different -- and has reset to his old self -- but a wee bit horrifying to think that's all still in him as well. Which really has nothing to do with Rose, but is just him being his messed-up self. He had a mirror held up to himself, and he didn't like what he saw.
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Date: 2008-10-26 04:28 pm (UTC)*snickers*
But there’s still, in my opinion, a certain amount of value in this as an investigation of just what exactly “when we first met” could be intended to mean. The phrase as it stands is delightfully ambiguous.
My interpretation of it is that Ten thinks that since Ten II has just pushed the button, so to speak, he's reset to just after the Time War. So the Doctor thinks his other self needs to be "fixed" by Rose again, just like the first time.
However, I think an interesting take on it would be that Ten himself needs just as much "fixing" as Ten II. And what he really doesn't want to admit is that the genocide potential is still in him. It's much easier to think that the other guy is so much different -- and has reset to his old self -- but a wee bit horrifying to think that's all still in him as well. Which really has nothing to do with Rose, but is just him being his messed-up self. He had a mirror held up to himself, and he didn't like what he saw.