taiey:
can we just talk for a minute about Davros’ ~final revelation~ to the Doctor. Is it to do with anything that’s actually wrong with him? The rampant hypocrisy? The playing god? The increasingly dysfunctional coping mechanisms and self-justification for his guilt? The blood on his hands? The attitude that he knows what’s best for everyone and he can make their decisions for them? That it’s his responsibility to save everyone, and when terrible things happen to them, his pain is more important than theirs? HAHAHA NOPE. It’s that he “makes people into weapons.” Instead of puncturing his BS hypocritical ulterior-motivated prissiness about violence, Davros validates it. Never mind that his companions have agency and can make their own choices, never mind that there’s nothing intrinsically horrific about using the methods available to you to defend your planet from being exterminated by a bunch of omnicidal pepperpots and that this is actually ADMIRABLE. Nope. Somehow the Doctor is responsible for the fact that not all of his friends are as hypocritically judgemental about violence as he is. And as usual, it’s ALL ABOUT HIS PAIN and how nobly and prettily he suffers.Click through because there are even more amazing thoughts in the original post, but I want to focus on this one. Because—I thought I was the only one. Between that and the montage of people who died ‘in your name’—not to save the world, for Queen and country, to redeem themselves, out of recklessness or bravery or simple bad luck—and what happened to Donna, it’s like Journey’s End went out of its way to demolish everyone’s agency, including retroactively.