and I didn't like it when he blew up the centurians
I write some very strange typos in comments, so I can't talk, but that made me laugh a lot. :-D I'm now envisaging a missing story. An incredible missing story with time travel, probably Roman Britain! The Brig blowing up centurions! :lol: Ohhhhh.... *coughs and tries to pull self together again before very daft fanfic ensues*
If you mean blowing up Silurians, and having thought about this a lot in my endless S7 fanfics and being eager to leap to his defence at all times, even against the Doctor, please note that:
he doesn't for one minute say anything about the Doctor's treacherous behaviour that nearly gets him killed. During this serial every other main surviving human character demands that people (usually the Brig) go off and shoot Silurians. He refuses. After having been given orders to seal the cave's entrance, he obeys (taking into account that the Silurians tried to destroy the entire human race) - and he assumes happily that the Doctor wouldn't do anything different. (He soon learns and his unsneakiness is very funny and the Doctor really should have seen what was going on anyway). It's the Doctor who says he's murdered them - that's not the implications elsewhere. All we know is that he's closed up the entrance. Then in Ambassadors, the Brigadier proves the difference between him and a military man who wants to destroy aliens (without wiating to see whether they're likely to unleash a plague first) and he and the Doctor tacitly 'make up' over it. In Silurians there is a genuine clash of moral interests between the Doctor and the Brigadier and the Doctor's not necessarily right - his scientific curiosity and near-naivety is also questionable in the light of what happens. (And the original line at the end was the Doctor talking about what as waste it was, because of what could have been learned - which shows the two opposing points Hulke was going for, although I think Pertwee was right to change it to "But that's murder..." but that line isn't in the original script.)
Oh. Sorry. I didn't realise I'd been quite that long. If the Brigadier ever needs someone to speak in his defence on that incident... :lol:
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Date: 2009-05-11 06:27 pm (UTC)I write some very strange typos in comments, so I can't talk, but that made me laugh a lot. :-D I'm now envisaging a missing story. An incredible missing story with time travel, probably Roman Britain! The Brig blowing up centurions! :lol: Ohhhhh.... *coughs and tries to pull self together again before very daft fanfic ensues*
If you mean blowing up Silurians, and having thought about this a lot in my endless S7 fanfics and being eager to leap to his defence at all times, even against the Doctor, please note that:
he doesn't for one minute say anything about the Doctor's treacherous behaviour that nearly gets him killed. During this serial every other main surviving human character demands that people (usually the Brig) go off and shoot Silurians. He refuses. After having been given orders to seal the cave's entrance, he obeys (taking into account that the Silurians tried to destroy the entire human race) - and he assumes happily that the Doctor wouldn't do anything different. (He soon learns and his unsneakiness is very funny and the Doctor really should have seen what was going on anyway). It's the Doctor who says he's murdered them - that's not the implications elsewhere. All we know is that he's closed up the entrance. Then in Ambassadors, the Brigadier proves the difference between him and a military man who wants to destroy aliens (without wiating to see whether they're likely to unleash a plague first) and he and the Doctor tacitly 'make up' over it. In Silurians there is a genuine clash of moral interests between the Doctor and the Brigadier and the Doctor's not necessarily right - his scientific curiosity and near-naivety is also questionable in the light of what happens. (And the original line at the end was the Doctor talking about what as waste it was, because of what could have been learned - which shows the two opposing points Hulke was going for, although I think Pertwee was right to change it to "But that's murder..." but that line isn't in the original script.)
Oh. Sorry. I didn't realise I'd been quite that long. If the Brigadier ever needs someone to speak in his defence on that incident... :lol:
*slinks away in embarrassment*