{"id":193262,"date":"2014-09-01T22:40:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T22:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/01\/is-the-doctor-a-good-man\/"},"modified":"2014-09-01T22:40:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T22:40:01","slug":"is-the-doctor-a-good-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/01\/is-the-doctor-a-good-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Doctor “a good man?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

rose-of-pollux<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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All this talk about \u201cwhether the Doctor is a good man\u201d has got me thinking.\u00a0 That post I reblogged a little while ago, I quoted Patrick Troughton in an interview where he clearly stated that he \u201cdidn\u2019t think [the Doctor] was a goodie\u201d (the post is here<\/a>, but my commentary contains some spoilers for \u201cInto the Dalek\u201d).<\/p>\n

To explore Pat\u2019s personal take on this, we need to look at his Doctor.\u00a0 The Second Doctor shows us incredible extremes.\u00a0 On the one hand, he is one of the most warm-hearted and fun-loving incarnations, as well as one of the least jaded and bitter (pre-Season 6B, of course).\u00a0 He loves life, and he loves his companions, who are his family, plain and simple.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot<\/em> of love in that TARDIS, and his companions have the best survival rates (correct me if I\u2019m wrong, but I\u2019m pretty sure the only \u201ccompanion\u201d Two lost was a fellow Celestial Intervention Agent that he was basically stuck with (i.e, not a companion proper) in one of the novels).<\/p>\n

On the other hand, as Pat himself said\u2026 Two isn\u2019t a goodie.\u00a0 In fact, Two can be flat-out dangerous<\/em>, one of the most dangerous incarnations of the Doctor (right up there with Seven).\u00a0 And the Doctor in general isn\u2019t a goodie, either.<\/p>\n

The rest under a cut because this got long (kinda Two-heavy, but does deal with other incarnations and the Doctor in general, too)\u2014<\/p>\n

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rose-of-pollux: All this talk about \u201cwhether the Doctor is a good man\u201d has got me thinking.\u00a0 That post I reblogged a little while ago, I quoted Patrick Troughton in an interview where he clearly stated that he \u201cdidn\u2019t think [the Doctor] was a goodie\u201d (the post is here, but my commentary contains some spoilers for … <\/p>\n

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