More different reaction to tonight's Doctor Who

[dira]

Oh Doctor. You always have to outdo yourself. Nevermind Ten having turned, what, seven or eight people into slightly jaded people who were willing to kill to defend their world from destruction. Eleven just turned the whole human race, for a thousand generations, into people who would kill aliens who weren't particularly hurting them as far as we can tell, without those humans having any choice in the matter or any memory of what they've done. Oh. Snap.

I mean, sure, maybe they're going to crack apart the universe. But what are the odds that they're cracking apart the universe because humans started exterminating them?

Comments

[wealhtheow]

There's nothing more fascinating than looking at a story from a different perspective!

To me, the Silence ordering humanity to kill them was more like a fulfillment of living by the sword, dying by the sword. They'd used their powers for so long to destroy people and control humanity, and now that very power was turned against them. It felt like poetic justice to me, but I think that's at least partly because I am easily sold by swelling triumphant background music.

[dira]

I mean, and the other half is--at the moment I was watching it, I was thinking, he's finally learned to think like a human, like Metacrisis!Ten did in destroying the Daleks and like Original-Recipe!Ten refused to. Because that is absolutely a glorious and triumphant human thing to do, to declare an absolute war against your oppressors no matter what it costs any individual person, because those aliens must be gotten the hell off our planet.

...But that hasn't been the way the Doctor's played it, generally, and the more I think about it the more it bothers me. Which is frustrating because I thought it was COMPLETELY AWESOME while I was watching it. *g*

[wealhtheow]

The more I think about it, the more I like your idea of the Doctor's plan being what pushes the Silence to crack the universe. Cuz yeah, the Silence are killers and show no sign of stopping--but since humans and their media spread across the universe, the Doctor just backed the Silence up against a wall. And there's nothing scarier than a cornered Silent!

Plus, I love when there are ramifications for huge sweeping choices.

(Also, I love the phrase "original-recipe!Ten"!)