Allan Quatermain was created in the 1880s.
I know that. 
I just found myself watching the episode and thinking to myself “Wait a minute, I wrote this guy.”
I felt that character was more a shout-out to The Mummy, which would tie in better with Nefertiri.
That actually made me think of Eccleston letting Lady Cassandra dry out in “End of the World”, a bit that I’d just watched on one of those retrospectives that aired in August and I’d kept sitting on my DVR hard drive.
The Doctor doesn’t like getting his own hands dirty with the violence, but when somebody’s really pissed him off, he doesn’t mind arranging their deaths.
It has ben a ploy he’s used before: “Remember who you are messing with here. Are you sure you are villan enough?” Using his past reputation to bluff his way out. At the same time it was indeed a foreshadowing of the end in the context of the Doctor now officially being dead, no longer the inter-Galactic legend, in scope a near mythologic character across the universes … to the degree that even the Daleks will have no future memory of his existence and Solomon could find no record of him having ever existed or having value. (And why that would be I can’t deduce.)
I also thought about how Rose Tyler–I seem to recall (fuzzily) that her memory had some sort of special status among the Daleks because of her contact with the one back in Series 1.
I thought the episode was mostly a fun little romp, but it’s hard to picture the trail of dead Silurians that Solomon had airlocked without saying, “Damn … that’s a little dark, isn’t it?” I mean, I know that pirates aren’t supposed to be pleasant folks, but it might’ve fit the tone of the episode to have chosen a less grisly fate for the crew, like stranding them somewhere.
Paul Cornell wrote Human Nature.
Still haven’t seen this yet - trying to download from iPlayer but it’s being really slow for some reason grrr :mad:
He didn’t just “arrange” Solomon’s death. That was straight up cold-blooded murder. He targeted the missiles on Solomon’s ship and then locked him inside. Damn.
[QUOTE=The Doctor]
Good men don’t need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.
[/QUOTE]
He’s always had a certain streak of ruthlessness to him, especially when he believes it serves justice. And considering what Solomon had done, there’s a good bit of justice involved in that.
That’s true, but has he ever murdered someone before? That is, has he ever taken a direct, deliberate action to kill someone when it was completely avoidable? I mean not simply failing to save someone or killing someone to stop them from doing something, I mean something for which, were he tried under common law with the facts presented on screen in evidence, he would with certainty be found guilty of murder. Because that’s what happened here, no doubt.
Hypnotizing the human race to kill any Silents they see for the rest of eternity?
Kicked a bad guy out of the TARDIS into the event horizon of a black hole?
In David Tennant’s premiere, he dropped the leader of the Sycorax off the wing of his spaceship.
He drowned the newly hatched Racnoss by diverting the Themes in the Christmas episode that introduced Donna Noble.
I thought Rose did that. Or are we think about different scenes?
He killed a metric shedload of Racnoss babies in The Runaway Bride, committing genocide in the process.
Doctor: I’ll take you and your babies to a new planet.
Racnoss Empress: Get stuffed, ya skinny pillock.
Doctor: Fair enough. Oh, by the way; I’m a Timelord.
Racnoss Empress: Wait, what? Shit! Hang on a mo.
Doctor: Too late. You had your one chance.
[Floods room]
Racnoss Empress: My babies!
Doctor: Merry Christmas, kids.
ETA: Beaten by Miller while recreating the scene.
I’m positive it was the Doctor. Martha was his companion; it was the two-parter featuring the Family of Blood.
I don’t think that was unnecessary, though. It was self-defense.
I think it was said that the one kicked into the event horizon would fall forever, and it was implied that they would be alive the whole time. Brutal, yes. Murder, no.
Again, self-defense. Arguably avoidable, but not without at least some risk, especially since the Sycorax had already cut off his hand. Definitely proportionate force in any common law jurisdiction. He couldn’t even be questioned for it in Florida.
This one, maybe. I’m not sure how avoidable it really was. Yes, the Racnoss Empress started begging for mercy, but once the babies were released, she’d have been pretty much unstoppable, and she’d already made it clear that she wouldn’t willingly accept the Doctor’s offer of peaceful relocation. Sure, she said she’d changed her mind, but wouldn’t the Doctor have been risking Earth on her keeping her word? I don’t think you could get a jury to convict.
Solomon was an incorrigible pirate. I suppose killing him qualifies as defense of others. It may have been practical than taking him back to the ship, keeping him contained, then finding some place to incarcerate him,
Oh right, I was think of the one where Rose kicked the Satan guy out of the spaceship into the black hole.