I'm not sure how far the Doctor by himself deserves all the credit for saving the Titanic; unhappy as I am with the 'I'm the Doctor... Kasterborus... save you... save planet below' speech, it did underline that while the survivors of the explosion, and the human race, were for the most part saved, most of the people around the Doctor were inspired to acts of bravery which ended in their own deaths. The Doctor ends up furious that he can't save Astrid (that she is an echo of Rose, whom he lost and now won't talk about, effectively denying her by insisting that he travels alone) and Mr Copper's rhetorical question about having the power of life and death here adds a more sinister tone to the Doctor's frustration.
My cousins' boys, aged between six and nine, spent much of Boxing Day prefacing sentences with 'Information' which shows that the programme had some effect...
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Date: 2007-12-30 01:39 am (UTC)My cousins' boys, aged between six and nine, spent much of Boxing Day prefacing sentences with 'Information' which shows that the programme had some effect...