//Watching it. A bit under the weather today so I may not be doing the usual, lol, exuberant liveblogging, but I will say I can’t believe I predicted Graham’s moral dilemma and the Doctor’s exact dialogue in response, on a draft on my Thirteen blog a couple days ago.
I do wish her moral stance were not so absolute. It’s always what disorients me about the Doctor. The Doctor is always, in their own conduct, a gray amoral scientist, preoccupied with the how’s of the universe, often negligent to the why’s, often at the expense of other people’s comfort. Yet when they examine other people’s conduct, suddenly they become rigid and almost (or sometimes totally) sanctimonious. It’s an amazingly self-contradictory dualism.
But basically, much as I agree with her stance toward what Graham tells her at the outset of the episode, I wish she would understand the context of his wrong-headedness. Tim Shaw appears right after he’s just fought against the Solitract, which presented him with a tantalizing fantasy of everything he lost with Grace’s death. This is so raw and fresh for him, and she has already asked so much of him recently. She needs to be more patient, even as she removes him from the picture (which I think she should do immediately, rather than scold him: he’s not in his right mind).
Icarus 