However, I'm starting to have, well ... problems with the way that the Doctor and Rose behave towards the people around them. Rose and the Doctor aren't bad people, but they're not particularly nice people -- it's not that they're deliberately cruel, but they just don't bother to care. Like leaving Jack behind on the space station (not that, I gather, it's a big deal to him or that he even minds; but it's the principle of the thing, dammit -- abandoning your allies on a space station full of dead people in a dead solar system is very bad form) or the way Rose has been treating Mickey, especially given how often he goes out of his way to help her.
Just wanted to also respond to this specific comment of yours - without wanting to spoil anything for you for future episodes... this specifically is actually touched upon in a late Season 3 episode. And how much do I love that a show like this will leave what seems a loose end like that, something that niggles and seems off, and then actually reference it nearly two whole seasons later and make you look back at that original event with a new perspective? Fantastic. :)
I also feel to a certain extent (and this is reinforced by the following seasons) that in some ways the Dr's selfishness is a deliberate, even forced light-heartedness, almost an avoidance technique. He has been through so much and seen such darkness and I often feel like he is kind of running from him own past, taking Rose on a whirlwind trip of adventure and fun and games through time and space and very deliberately NOT letting himself dwell on the negatives and the consequences. He was had to make terrible decisions in the past - and often has to take those hard choices again and be the responsible one, when he has to - and I feel sometimes he has deliberately taken on the role of a wanderer, a thrill-seeker, to escape even for a short while from that terrible responsibility.
Can't wait for you to get into the Tennant episodes
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Just wanted to also respond to this specific comment of yours - without wanting to spoil anything for you for future episodes... this specifically is actually touched upon in a late Season 3 episode. And how much do I love that a show like this will leave what seems a loose end like that, something that niggles and seems off, and then actually reference it nearly two whole seasons later and make you look back at that original event with a new perspective? Fantastic. :)
I also feel to a certain extent (and this is reinforced by the following seasons) that in some ways the Dr's selfishness is a deliberate, even forced light-heartedness, almost an avoidance technique. He has been through so much and seen such darkness and I often feel like he is kind of running from him own past, taking Rose on a whirlwind trip of adventure and fun and games through time and space and very deliberately NOT letting himself dwell on the negatives and the consequences. He was had to make terrible decisions in the past - and often has to take those hard choices again and be the responsible one, when he has to - and I feel sometimes he has deliberately taken on the role of a wanderer, a thrill-seeker, to escape even for a short while from that terrible responsibility.
Can't wait for you to get into the Tennant episodes