BA on Journey's End
Jul. 8th, 2008 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylBad Astronomy has a good post that really nails everything that was good and bad about Journey's End.
I totally agree that the moment when Davros taunts the Doctor with his failings was excellent and necessary. The Doctor gets things his own way far too often and needs to be taken down a peg or two from time to time, if only to prevent him from becoming completely insufferable. What's more, Davros' points were completely valid: for someone who abhors violence, the Doctor seems to be responsible for rather a lot of it and the fact that it is enacted by proxy in no way diminishes his ultimate moral responsibility for it.
Perhaps the Doctor's moral culpability is no less than that of Davros, for although the latter explicitly sought to create killing machines to do his dirty work for him, his hands remain almost as clean (or as dirty) as those of the Doctor. Better yet, Davros doesn't seek to evangelize and to project standards to which he himself fails to adhere. Davros is a monster, plain and simple. He doesn't pretend to be otherwise — except when he was pretending to the be The Great Healer, of course! — but the Doctor, on Davros' evidence, is worse: he's hypocritical.
Also, Gwen? From Cardiff? Yes it ties up a loose end but, given her accent, not particularly convincingly...
I totally agree that the moment when Davros taunts the Doctor with his failings was excellent and necessary. The Doctor gets things his own way far too often and needs to be taken down a peg or two from time to time, if only to prevent him from becoming completely insufferable. What's more, Davros' points were completely valid: for someone who abhors violence, the Doctor seems to be responsible for rather a lot of it and the fact that it is enacted by proxy in no way diminishes his ultimate moral responsibility for it.
Perhaps the Doctor's moral culpability is no less than that of Davros, for although the latter explicitly sought to create killing machines to do his dirty work for him, his hands remain almost as clean (or as dirty) as those of the Doctor. Better yet, Davros doesn't seek to evangelize and to project standards to which he himself fails to adhere. Davros is a monster, plain and simple. He doesn't pretend to be otherwise — except when he was pretending to the be The Great Healer, of course! — but the Doctor, on Davros' evidence, is worse: he's hypocritical.
Also, Gwen? From Cardiff? Yes it ties up a loose end but, given her accent, not particularly convincingly...
