One part of it is that Fourteen is not Ten. Same face, but oh, he's so much older.
Spoilers are fine, btw. I just need to know if this is a kind of fix-it, not by undoing what the writing did, but by confronting it head-on. See this is where the show has already tackled a lot of it - Twelve was going to mindwipe Clara to keep her safe and she gets to deliver the speech that Donna was unable to give:
CLARA: What were you doing to me? DOCTOR: I'm trying to keep you safe. CLARA: Why? Nobody's ever safe. I've never asked you for that, ever. These have been the best years of my life, and they are mine. Tomorrow is promised to no one, Doctor, but I insist upon my past. I am entitled to that. It's mine.
And then he gets a taste of his own medicine. (Twelve is the response to Ten - if you want to see the Doctor tackling consequences, Twelve is the one who does a deep-dive into who and what he is.)
So yeah, Fourteen is a very different man to Ten. He has neither the desperation, nor the arrogance, and I think you would like the episode.
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One part of it is that Fourteen is not Ten. Same face, but oh, he's so much older.
Spoilers are fine, btw. I just need to know if this is a kind of fix-it, not by undoing what the writing did, but by confronting it head-on.
See this is where the show has already tackled a lot of it - Twelve was going to mindwipe Clara to keep her safe and she gets to deliver the speech that Donna was unable to give:
CLARA: What were you doing to me?
DOCTOR: I'm trying to keep you safe.
CLARA: Why? Nobody's ever safe. I've never asked you for that, ever. These have been the best years of my life, and they are mine. Tomorrow is promised to no one, Doctor, but I insist upon my past. I am entitled to that. It's mine.
And then he gets a taste of his own medicine. (Twelve is the response to Ten - if you want to see the Doctor tackling consequences, Twelve is the one who does a deep-dive into who and what he is.)
So yeah, Fourteen is a very different man to Ten. He has neither the desperation, nor the arrogance, and I think you would like the episode.