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The Doctor was prepared to kill. In the end, he didn't have to, but this was the first time he was fully prepared to.
Despite what The Master said when he initially had the gun pointed at him, something about "you never would, you coward!", if the idea hadn't occurred to The Doctor that the machine could be destroyed, I have no doubt that either Rasillon or The Master would have died that day.
Hell, he was prepared to crash the ship into the mansion to kill all of them, and the only thing (IMHO) that stopped him was the thought of Wilf dying, and Wilf's selflessness in declaring "I won't stop you, but is this it?"
So we come to this: The Doctor was prepared to kill, with forethought and on purpose...TWICE.
I was a bit let-down, intensity-wise, by the "victory lap" (from the show's perspective, "defeat lap" from The Doctor's), but I liked to see all the companions again.
Something brought up my a friend of mine (and I think it was here, too), is that this breaks a longstanding tradition: this is the first time that The Doctor has regenerated alone. And I think it was fitting, given that he'd had his heart broken by the companions that he'd lost and especially by Donna, who he'd had to change and make the decision to leave behind. In the end, he ended up alone because he cared too much.
He died/regen'd because he cared too much. He could have left Wilf in the chamber, and Wilf truly wanted him to, selfless to the last. But The Doctor couldn't do it. |
