A nice talk, Una - it was good to see Gridlock again. It's intriguing, isn't it, that almost against his will the experience in the city seems to get the Doctor to open up in quite a unique way (I still think that's the most moving scene of the whole RTD era for me, and that includes Doomsday). For me that final shot represents not just the freedom and hope of the city's future, but the importance of the act of memory. Re-membering means, literally, reassembling the limbs of a body to make flesh what had been lost. And that is precisely what Ten finds himself doing when he tells Martha what Gallifrey was like.
I wish, so much, that Martha had been able to continue to offer him that profound healing, and that RTD hadn't been derailed by the romantic love business. Although I think he does see something beautiful in romantic love, recognising it as a kind of worship. It fascinates him, even though he can't resist the urge to deconstruct it. The low point of Martha's servitude to the Doctor is the moment when she receives the TARDIS key, a humble acolyte. Everything that follows tells the narrative of Martha's growing independence, making her strong enough to leave the Doctor behind. A very typically RTD conclusion.
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Date: 2011-09-12 09:26 pm (UTC)I wish, so much, that Martha had been able to continue to offer him that profound healing, and that RTD hadn't been derailed by the romantic love business. Although I think he does see something beautiful in romantic love, recognising it as a kind of worship. It fascinates him, even though he can't resist the urge to deconstruct it. The low point of Martha's servitude to the Doctor is the moment when she receives the TARDIS key, a humble acolyte. Everything that follows tells the narrative of Martha's growing independence, making her strong enough to leave the Doctor behind. A very typically RTD conclusion.