Doctor, oh Doctor, who are you? Goddess in the mortal body? The rooted question, a mistake in time? Or maybe just a being with whom we should identify ... Just like us, you have experienced a lot, from comedy to tragedy, sometimes only experiencing a peaceful life. Are you an unhappy killer? A mentally ill person? Fake heroine? The protagonist? What does your presence tell us? Looking for the identity of our beloved Time Lord, I will deal with these questions. Today, at first glance, the Tenth Doctor seems to be the most accurate incarnation. Allons-y! Molto bene! The Tenth Doctor is a walking charisma. Like most incarnations of this Time Lord, he likes to chair, and dominate - although he always makes sure to act in concert with others. Perhaps that is why he had so many companions. In the second series, Doctor Who the Tenth experiences a kind of great revival, much larger than typical regeneration. He wants to get rid of the traumatic memories of the Time War, he cuts himself off from it. And maybe that's why he even lets himself love Rose Tyler, maybe that's why he is susceptible to her. However, he forges her from overwhelming loneliness; I want to replace this great loss with a new bond.
Unfortunately for the Doctor, subsequent tragedy, sent by echoes of the past - Daleks, and Cybermen - events cause this bond to be broken. And here lies the main reason for his fate: the inability to cut himself off from the past. Being a powerful Time Lord (the last ... Time Lord) doesn't help. Time is closer to a confusing sphere than any line, happening more in parallel than in turn ... Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff. And so, time travel, instead of helping, only reinforces the strength of the echo that returns and returns to reap a generous harvest on the Tenth. Perhaps this is also another reason why he treated another companion, Martha Jones. He plays with her for a while, he slightly disregards her feelings. He broke down, he has had enough, at least for now. And maybe that's why he created such a good duo with Martha.
With time, the Tenth also begins to fool around and make jokes while traveling. Thanks to this, with time he manages to hide the great self-confidence that grows with every success, while grief and sadness only drive him to go on in this almost absurd, grotesque game that resembles some mental disorders - as the Doctor has in custom (as well as some other Time Lords, for example, Master). This dark aspect of his personality begins to grow stronger in the fourth series and reaches its apogee when the Tenth distances himself from the Master after the Doctor loses the fight with himself. He can't save the Master. The Tenth Doctor Epitaph could be just such a moment.
The next step in the life of the Tenth is the promised travels with Donna. Here, the Doctor simultaneously finds a part of himself, getting along well with his companion. Finally, he knew a sufficient relationship, one that suits him. And apparently, this time-honors confidence typical of Time Lords has grown, causing the Doctor's humanity to turn into some kind of aggressive utilitarianism
One example of such behavior is events from the "The Fire of Pompeii" episode, in which the Doctor once again wins fate. The tenth is the Victorious Time Lord. The viewer slowly notices this selfishness, absorbing his (fairly) normal and honest life. The tenth is already destroyed by what he has gone through - in this and previous incarnations. And suddenly we have a temporary miracle that saves him: he meets someone who knows him very well, Professor River Song. And it is in the episodes of ("Silence in the Library" / "Forest of the Dead") that the doctor is saved from victorious cynicism; he returns to his original personality - emphatic humanity.
Intrigued by the newly-met person, the Doctor feels that there is someone who cares about his fate, and thus his emotions diminish. Not for long, of course, because narcissism will return with another former enemy, Davros. And he knows the Doctor well - maybe not as well as River Song, but enough to tear out a bit of this humanity and shake his sense of the Tenth's identity. Enough for the Doctor to feel really bad remorse and say goodbye to everyone who his human self wanted to have as a family. So we have a final clash of forces that have so far tried to balance in the Doctor.
The tenth apparently thinks that he deserves more than just the traveler's poor existence. He has the right to do so, although we see more and more clearly over time what playing god means in any form of life. Maybe this was the message of the Next Doctor and finding his past and future self.
At this point, the Tenth already has that darkness in it. And it shows. He rules the laws of time and says them openly. Feels like a walking god. The Last Time Lord sees that he should act alone. Series four is the war of the Winners. The consequence of this divinity is portrayed as being lost, as a desire to undermine the Pompeian victory and deny yourself by changing the course of events on Mars. The suicide in "The Water of Mars" re-awakens his empathy. The Tenth Doctor feels a great bond with humanity; he must come to terms with empathy for them. There is even a likeness to the Bible: God created people in his image. We see the consequences of the immutability of the Doctor in the passing of time. The tenth realized that he had made a mistake typical of Time Lords such as Rassillion. The ones he had fled from ...
The time of the final end of the Tenth Doctor is coming, but he refuses to accept it. In the series of the Tenth, you can see his growing haughtiness towards everything, even his own companions ... And in fact, this is why it is the most human incarnation of Doctor (a), and David Tennant's masterful acting only emphasizes this.
The Tenth Doctor feels a great bond with humanity; he must come to terms with empathy for them. There is even a likeness to the Bible: God created people in his image. We see the consequences of the immutability of the Doctor in the passing of time. The tenth realized that he had made a mistake typical of Time Lords such as Rassillion. The ones he had fled from ... The time of the final end of the Tenth Doctor is coming, but he refuses to accept it. In the series of the Tenth, you can see his growing haughtiness towards everything, even his own companions ... And in fact, this is why it is the most human incarnation of Doctor (a), and David Tennant's masterful acting only emphasizes this. Finally, we have the penance of the Tenth in the final "The End of Time": a return to what he had escaped for so long; another confrontation with the possibility of losing. And so, in a sense, the Master becomes the alter ego of the Doctor throughout this whole story - he builds a schizoid personality and causes suffering, but in no way gives a sense of victory. And this is something that the Tenth Doctor begins to understand. He wants to kill not only living beings, but he also shoots deadly at the machine that survived the War of Time. He tries to get rid of guilt, a catalyst for his narcissism. Ultimately, he finds fulfillment in taking a lethal dose of radiation. He still wants and tries to fight it, although he finally begins to understand that he should sacrifice himself for Wilfred. By the same, he proves that there is more to the duty of saving others than just duty, but also a sense of the Doctor's worth. And here the chapter of the Tenth Doctor closes, and the Time Lord finally gets rid of guilt after the war in which he was to lose everything. This change will, however, also have consequences for his subsequent incarnations. In the meantime, I hope that my perspective on the structure of the Tenth character will be for you a fresh, different view of this hero from before. Vale Decem! Vale Decem!
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