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LUMIC: You are proud of your emotions. DOCTOR: Oh, yes. LUMIC: Then tell me, Doctor. Have you known grief, and rage, and pain? DOCTOR: Yes. Yes I have. LUMIC: And they hurt? DOCTOR: Oh, yes.

And if I said this is the Doctor's actual turning point in Season 2 instead of The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit? In this essay I will -

#idiots lantern is a DATE and this is why!#rtd1 era villains are obvs the daleks for various reasons. in text it's the time war and rose is linked to that #but the cybermen ARE ten's villains to me. they are his direct foil #the most human doctor up against these former emotionless humans #he CANNOT fall in the satan pit if doesn't decide this here. that living with rose is worth the pain #this is the shift. this is why they are close and intimate in the second half of s2 #this doctor died for rose so he gets to live for rose. he WANTS to live for rose #and while i don't like the next doctor of course these same cybermen would be there #at the start of the end #thank you for coming to my tedtalk i'm sorry i can't gif #doctor who

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