From: notemmanuel@mail.fr   
      
   doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote in   
   news:10gn1ir$1ap8$15@gallifrey.nk.ca:   
      
   > In article <10gmstm$3j0nh$1@dont-email.me>,   
   > Don Macron   wrote:   
   >>   
   >>Speaking of mirrors, the Doctor's behavior towards Belinda in The   
   >>Robot Revolution clearly mirrored that of Alan (who I like to call   
   >>"blond Adric").   
   >   
   > Ouch!   
   >   
   > We are still in a reality war!   
      
   It seems so.  There are fans who think the Doctor's behavior is always   
   excusable because he's the Doctor, even if the exact same behavior is   
   reproachable when done by another character.  He literally kidnaps   
   Belinda, makes up some bogus story about not being able to get her back   
   home so he has more time to "study" her, puts together some contraption   
   so he feels "vindicated".   
      
   It seemed like RTD was going for a "dark doctor" story arc (no pun   
   intended), starting with him identifying with the Bogey Man in "Space   
   Babies", making nasty comments while Adric, I mean Alan was dying, being   
   extremely cruel to Conrad in his prison cell at the end of "Lucky Day",   
   and almost torturing and unarmed prisoner to death in "The Interstellar   
   Song Contest".   
      
   It raises the question of whether the Doctor is irredeemable as each   
   other characters, or perhaps those characters were not as irredeemable   
   as the audience was led to believe.   
      
   On the other hand, maybe Adric would have eventually become just as much   
   of a monster as cyborg Alan if he had been allowed to live.   
      
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