"You're lucky." "I know."

[Brutal Strudel]

Anybody else find this exchange in "The 11th Hour" to be a little chilling. It seems as if the 11th Doctor, unlike 9 and 10, is fully embracing his good fortune in being the last of his kind. I know this comes right on the heels of "The End of Time" (more or less) but it still had a creepy (and thus pretty freakin' awesome) frisson for me.

Thoughts?

 

[Sci]

Anybody else find this exchange in "The 11th Hour" to be a little chilling. It seems as if the 11th Doctor, unlike 9 and 10, is fully embracing his good fortune in being the last of his kind. I know this comes right on the heels of "The End of Time" (more or less) but it still had a creepy (and thus pretty freakin' awesome) frisson for me.

Thoughts?

I think you're reading too much into that. He's not saying he's lucky he's the last of the Time Lords, he's saying he's lucky that he has his independence.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Hell of a price to pay for it.

 

[Professor Zoom]

Hell of a price to pay for it.

But then, it seems, the Time Lords were bastards.

 

[Sketcher]

The Doctor's always been a bit anti-authoritarian. I doubt he's actually revelling in the fact that he has no family at all, but rather that he doesn't have an oppressive aunt like Amy does. How else was he going to react? Scold the little girl that should already be freaked out by the fish custard-eating man from a blue box about the value of family? If I was the Doctor I'd probably try to stay on the kid's good side and keep her from freaking out more than she already shoud be, especially if she's the one providing food

 

[Brutal Strudel]

He could have simply said, "Eh, not really."

 

[23skidoo]

Actually, taken in the context of what had just happened in The End of Time, I thought the line was perfect, because considering all the "I don't want to go" business, there has to be a lot of built-up resentment between the Doctor and his people. Especially since the show spent 4 seasons essentially having the Doctor pining for the Time Lords ... only to have them return and for us to realize that except for "The Woman" and whoever that other "fallen angel" was, they had become not a very nice race at all. I think it was a natural comment for him to make. That and, of course, it served to help him bond a bit with Amelia.

Alex

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Exactly. Just as Professor Zoom said, the Time Lords were bastards, and not just during the Time War but during all of the Doctor's adventures--if we take 10 at his word, they murdered 2. I doubt Moffat put that exchange in there without expecting it to give at least some of us a "Whoa!" moment. As much as being the last of his kind torments the Doctor, there is a part of him who is glad to be rid of them and is even more glad that he kept them from coming back.

Sometimes reactions that are perfectly natural and perfectly honest are also perfectly chilling.