The problem with the "impressions" I get is that I have no idea where I get them from. They're just gut feeling. e_e So let's see if I actually had any idea what I was talking about.
I think what I said about the consequences thing I meant primarily for the Tenth Doctor. I can't vouch for how much personality usually changes between the Doctors prior to Nine, but I know there is some, at least, and this might be something that changed between Nine and Ten. On the other hand, remember 'Dalek'? Nine chose to shut the door without guarenteeing that Rose would escape. That wasn't about not knowing the consequences, but it was about putting history/current situation over himself/Companions. Granted, it was an entire country/world at stake then as opposed to a single woman, but the Doctor also probably knows better than we do how drastic the results of messing with the history of even one person could be on everything that ever happens following (ie: how much would Reinette's premature death screw the rest of history?).
And I don't know, it was something about the way he said that he knew he wouldn't be able to get back that gave me the impression that he KNEW, but he hadn't really THOUGHT about it. It was just kind of a knowledge in the back of his mind, because he really was in a hurry and sort of flustered in getting organized to go through the time window. Going back to what I said earlier, I do think Ten is less... level-headed? less concerned, perhaps? more nonchalant - about, well, everything than Nine was. Nine was more emotional; Ten seems more... eh, shallow - but on purpose, I think. I liked his bout of emotion in 'School Reunion' when he was explaining to Rose why it's so difficult for him to have Companions and why he'd never mentioned Sarah Jane before ("Humans decay, and I don't, Rose - you don't have any idea how hard it is to watch that happening," or something along those lines). I felt it showed that that was more his real feelings and the flightiness was sort of a cover - whereas Nine wore it all out on his sleeve.
But maybe that's just me looking for REPRESSED ANGST OMG.
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I think what I said about the consequences thing I meant primarily for the Tenth Doctor. I can't vouch for how much personality usually changes between the Doctors prior to Nine, but I know there is some, at least, and this might be something that changed between Nine and Ten. On the other hand, remember 'Dalek'? Nine chose to shut the door without guarenteeing that Rose would escape. That wasn't about not knowing the consequences, but it was about putting history/current situation over himself/Companions. Granted, it was an entire country/world at stake then as opposed to a single woman, but the Doctor also probably knows better than we do how drastic the results of messing with the history of even one person could be on everything that ever happens following (ie: how much would Reinette's premature death screw the rest of history?).
And I don't know, it was something about the way he said that he knew he wouldn't be able to get back that gave me the impression that he KNEW, but he hadn't really THOUGHT about it. It was just kind of a knowledge in the back of his mind, because he really was in a hurry and sort of flustered in getting organized to go through the time window. Going back to what I said earlier, I do think Ten is less... level-headed? less concerned, perhaps? more nonchalant - about, well, everything than Nine was. Nine was more emotional; Ten seems more... eh, shallow - but on purpose, I think. I liked his bout of emotion in 'School Reunion' when he was explaining to Rose why it's so difficult for him to have Companions and why he'd never mentioned Sarah Jane before ("Humans decay, and I don't, Rose - you don't have any idea how hard it is to watch that happening," or something along those lines). I felt it showed that that was more his real feelings and the flightiness was sort of a cover - whereas Nine wore it all out on his sleeve.
But maybe that's just me looking for REPRESSED ANGST OMG.