From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10gn5t2$2g2gc$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Don Macron   wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   Falme RTD for this.  As for Adric, that is JN-t fault.   
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