tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post8614077484421188325..comments2024-03-17T20:50:21.456-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Doctor Who #443: The Face of Evil Part 2Siskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-49541576974582197912013-02-07T14:30:42.090-04:002013-02-07T14:30:42.090-04:00YES! Time Lords have an overdeveloped intellectual...YES! Time Lords have an overdeveloped intellectualism, which leads many to become pedantic specialists, but the Doctor is a passionate generalist. What he's missing is the more intuitive side of things (leading to companions saying something obvious followed by his "OF COURSE!!!!") and empathy.<br /><br />The look at his native culture in The Deadly Assassin certainly shows they have a lack of creativity, something that has to be in the Doctor's own DNA.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-64598884255924829462013-02-07T09:53:28.424-04:002013-02-07T09:53:28.424-04:00"...she has to be SMART ENOUGH to make the Do...<i>"...she has to be SMART ENOUGH to make the Doctor get out of his own head (one imagines literally, by the end of this serial) and see the problem from another angle. When the Doctor says you're brilliant or, in this case, a genius, it almost always means 'You allow me to be brilliant'."</i><br /><br />Compare with Journey's End, where the Donna-Doctor was able to do more than the Doctor and see solutions that he couldn't because of her human side. <br /><br />Perhaps something like human imagination or some rot is able to make intuitive leaps that a Time Lord can't. The Doctor is smart because he has a ton of accumulated knowledge--but sometimes he needs human guidance to see how to best use it...and that is what some companions are able to bring out in him...snellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06181997862745538999noreply@blogger.com