I didn't realize that Dancing on Ice conflicted with Doctor Who. I love John and if it were easier I'd probably be watching DOI over DW cause Jodie's Doctor has yet to overwhelm me and make me a great fan yet - I mean I'd probably be a Doctor fan forever but that doesn't mean I always love or even like the character at times. In all honesty I'm liking her companions more this series than I'm liking the Doctor. I don't know if it is just me and where I am in my life and thoughts or if it is truly the current incarnation of the Doctor how she's being written and/or portrayed but my sympathies for the Doctor are on the low ebb at the moment.
As much as I was ecstatic over Jack returning in his surprise appearance - part of me suspected from that very moment that in the end the Doctor would dismiss/ignore Jack's warnings. Add to that there is speculations that the nanogene thing that Jack mentions just before he leaves in that ep is the start of how Jack becomes the Face of Boe and yet it appears to have been a waste of Jack's time and efforts (as well as the personal cost to him) in regards to the Doctor - it just disgusts me. In the comparatively small amount of time that we've known Jack in comparison to the Doctor - I think John's portrayal of Jack has more depth, richness in it's detail and contradictions and pain and rawness than we've truly gotten with the Doctor over 50 years. Yeah - the early stuff with the Doctor was not a era when the depths of the Doctor were explored with detail or even resonating canon - how many times have things contradicted canon but we as the audience are just forced to swallow without pause. Not that the various actors portraying the Doctor haven't been good or even great actors or even that the writing has at times been superb, but overall the Doctor is not given a rich fabric to draw upon or even at times build upon. Contradictory character details are one thing, but the Doctor's background has been rewritten and rewritten and overwritten so many times that it becomes more and more difficult to simply accept what we were given. Along side the obvious bias of TPTB - RTD's absolute LOVE of Eve Myles and the character of Rose, other Showrunners enamour with Clara (Jenna Coleman) or hell the over the top love of Maisie Williams (and by extension her character Ashildr)... and yet the way they treat John and his character Jack in contrast.... *sigh* I don't know where I was going with that other than John and Jack deserve better treatment in the Doctor Who 'verse AND by TPTB in the production.
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As much as I was ecstatic over Jack returning in his surprise appearance - part of me suspected from that very moment that in the end the Doctor would dismiss/ignore Jack's warnings. Add to that there is speculations that the nanogene thing that Jack mentions just before he leaves in that ep is the start of how Jack becomes the Face of Boe and yet it appears to have been a waste of Jack's time and efforts (as well as the personal cost to him) in regards to the Doctor - it just disgusts me. In the comparatively small amount of time that we've known Jack in comparison to the Doctor - I think John's portrayal of Jack has more depth, richness in it's detail and contradictions and pain and rawness than we've truly gotten with the Doctor over 50 years. Yeah - the early stuff with the Doctor was not a era when the depths of the Doctor were explored with detail or even resonating canon - how many times have things contradicted canon but we as the audience are just forced to swallow without pause. Not that the various actors portraying the Doctor haven't been good or even great actors or even that the writing has at times been superb, but overall the Doctor is not given a rich fabric to draw upon or even at times build upon. Contradictory character details are one thing, but the Doctor's background has been rewritten and rewritten and overwritten so many times that it becomes more and more difficult to simply accept what we were given. Along side the obvious bias of TPTB - RTD's absolute LOVE of Eve Myles and the character of Rose, other Showrunners enamour with Clara (Jenna Coleman) or hell the over the top love of Maisie Williams (and by extension her character Ashildr)... and yet the way they treat John and his character Jack in contrast.... *sigh* I don't know where I was going with that other than John and Jack deserve better treatment in the Doctor Who 'verse AND by TPTB in the production.