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Death is the doctors worst enemy

Sara_PeplowSara_Peplow Posts: 1,579
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He hates losing. Look at his reaction when Rita dies in TGC. He takes his time lord rage out on the furniture in the room.
He has experienced it himself 10 times. Near deaths don't count only when he has actually fully regenerated into another form becoming a new doctor a new man. Death is sad and tragic :cry: but it is part of the natural order. People are suppose to be born,live their lives and if lucky eventually die peacefuly in their beds of old age. Sadly too many people in real life and DW die young. He can't save everyone but keeps trying. I accept he can't prevent or change the events of SITL and FOTD but he should one day return there. Just so he can unplug CAL and release her and the other souls into the ether.They are caught in a stae of limbo or even purgatory.Not alive but not properly "dead" either. Those souls will never be with their loved ones again if he doesn't help them.Plus it would give him a chance to properly grieve for his wife. He can't give her a funeral because her body burned to nothing. However he should do some kind of memorial for her."Professor Melody Pond aka River Song - beloved wife and daughter".

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  • outsideoutside Posts: 5,610
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    Sara_Peplow wrote: »
    He hates losing. Look at his reaction when Rita dies in TGC. He takes his time lord rage out on the furniture in the room.
    He has experienced it himself 10 times. Near deaths don't count only when he has actually fully regenerated into another form becoming a new doctor a new man. Death is sad and tragic :cry: but it is part of the natural order. People are suppose to be born,live their lives and if lucky eventually die peacefuly in their beds of old age. Sadly too many people in real life and DW die young. He can't save everyone but keeps trying. I accept he can't prevent or change the events of SITL and FOTD but he should one day return there. Just so he can unplug CAL and release her and the other souls into the ether.They are caught in a stae of limbo or even purgatory.Not alive but not properly "dead" either. Those souls will never be with their loved ones again if he doesn't help them.Plus it would give him a chance to properly grieve for his wife. He can't give her a funeral because her body burned to nothing. However he should do some kind of memorial for her."Professor Melody Pond aka River Song - beloved wife and daughter".

    The Saved from the Library are fine in their virtual world. If he "unplugs" CAL, they'll cease to exist.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 955
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    Also he can use CAL to visit... River saysso herself...
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 135
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    Why do you only ever post about River Song?
  • Sara_PeplowSara_Peplow Posts: 1,579
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    When did she say that ?. Still don't get how he put the other people there in the first place. Their brain pattern things had allready faded. Their was nothing left of their bodies or immortal souls to "save" in CAL.Would be interesting to see 11 or even 12 have to face it again. He will have to send River to her fate one day.
  • outsideoutside Posts: 5,610
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    The Doctor saved River ("Future me had years to think about it. All those years to think of a way to save her.") and CAL took care of the rest ("I was worried you might be lonely so I brought you some friends. Aren't I a clever girl?") as the Doctor had fixed the Data Core.
  • Shawn_LunnShawn_Lunn Posts: 9,353
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    Sara_Peplow wrote: »
    When did she say that ?. Still don't get how he put the other people there in the first place. Their brain pattern things had allready faded. Their was nothing left of their bodies or immortal souls to "save" in CAL.Would be interesting to see 11 or even 12 have to face it again. He will have to send River to her fate one day.

    Oh for crying out loud, no he won't. River's fate is the Library and should remain that way. Otherwise, her entire storyline becomes pointless and yet again. you've set another thread about River.

    I get that you don't seem to like her fate but you don't need to set up thread after thread in order to emphasise the point.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 955
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    In her voiceover at the end when she's telling stories she says something about the doctor visiting once every hundred years or something...

    You seem to have this obsession that the doctor has to atone for Rivers death. She flaming well knocked him for six... She knew he had to survive to meet her... Not his fault...
  • johnnysaucepnjohnnysaucepn Posts: 6,775
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    Torry_Z wrote: »
    In her voiceover at the end when she's telling stories she says something about the doctor visiting once every hundred years or something...

    She wasn't talking about visiting her, though. She was just talking about how the Doctor, once in a while, will manage to save everyone.
    Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair, and the Doctor comes to call... everybody lives.
  • Tom TitTom Tit Posts: 2,554
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    Boredom is his greatest enemy. That's what gets him into constant shink. It's been an established motivation for him since long before the more recently in vogue 'loneliness'.
  • Shawn_LunnShawn_Lunn Posts: 9,353
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    Tom Tit wrote: »
    Boredom is his greatest enemy. That's what gets him into constant shink. It's been an established motivation for him since long before the more recently in vogue 'loneliness'.

    The Power Of Three sort of reinforced that as well:D
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