it's eventually come back to bite him in the ass - his attitude toward Queen Victoria rather heavily foreshadowed Rose's loss, and by deposing Harriet Jones, he opened the door for the Master
*We've* seen that, but the Doctor has never, ever acknowledged it, or even given a sign that he's added 2+2. The only dialog to ever deal with it was a single line... and it was cut.
So this does seem to come out of the blue as far as I'm concerned, because he never dealt with it... and when he does, it's over in minutes. Literally.
That is one of the things about Ten that I've disliked, especially in light of Nine. *Ten* didn't allow his companions to be his conscience because he was Mr. "No Second Chances"... even though his very existence at the moment is an extended second chance for himself. Nine was so damaged and doubting that he usually let his companions make the moral decisions - "Do I have the right?" he muses yet again when he has the chance to blow up the Daleks. And as he did in Genesis, he just can't do it.
That's the Doctor I miss the hell out of, and not the judgmental git who never acknowledges how his own actions hurt the people he cares about most, including himself. No, *he* just whines about not being thanked.
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*We've* seen that, but the Doctor has never, ever acknowledged it, or even given a sign that he's added 2+2. The only dialog to ever deal with it was a single line... and it was cut.
So this does seem to come out of the blue as far as I'm concerned, because he never dealt with it... and when he does, it's over in minutes. Literally.
That is one of the things about Ten that I've disliked, especially in light of Nine. *Ten* didn't allow his companions to be his conscience because he was Mr. "No Second Chances"... even though his very existence at the moment is an extended second chance for himself. Nine was so damaged and doubting that he usually let his companions make the moral decisions - "Do I have the right?" he muses yet again when he has the chance to blow up the Daleks. And as he did in Genesis, he just can't do it.
That's the Doctor I miss the hell out of, and not the judgmental git who never acknowledges how his own actions hurt the people he cares about most, including himself. No, *he* just whines about not being thanked.