> > I clicked on your name when you commented on my rec, which made me squee, and I think I can shed some light?
I think the point was - if you don't want Gallifrey to be a presence anymore, destroying it is shooting yourself in the foot. Because it will be, it must be, just in a different way. So saying you don't want it to return and be significant is silly, because it is already.
Perhaps also that the effect of its destruction on the rest of the universe isn't explored very much, and seems to mainly just fuel the Doctor's angst.
(Personally, I'd like them back somehow - not entirely, maybe not Gallifrey itself, but I like the Doctor better as a rebel than a tragic last survivor. And we can entirely ignore the Time Lord culture of Deadly Assassin*, and make it a mix between War Games and later appearances.)
*I have fanwanked that to death and I have no shame.
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Date: 2009-05-04 04:55 pm (UTC)I think the point was - if you don't want Gallifrey to be a presence anymore, destroying it is shooting yourself in the foot. Because it will be, it must be, just in a different way. So saying you don't want it to return and be significant is silly, because it is already.
Perhaps also that the effect of its destruction on the rest of the universe isn't explored very much, and seems to mainly just fuel the Doctor's angst.
(Personally, I'd like them back somehow - not entirely, maybe not Gallifrey itself, but I like the Doctor better as a rebel than a tragic last survivor. And we can entirely ignore the Time Lord culture of Deadly Assassin*, and make it a mix between War Games and later appearances.)
*I have fanwanked that to death and I have no shame.