So, QUITE a few of you commented on Search for the Truth #59 being all like "BUT HANDY IS THE DOCTOR'S SON TECHNICALLY" or something to that effect.
I'd like to clear that up for you now if I could, and at least give you my opinion on what Russell tried to explain to us.
Thanks to Russell T Davies, the whole 'Handy' situation doesn't make much sense. RTD claimed that Handy was half Doctor, half Donna, but he's obviously like 80% or at the very least 60% Doctor. He doesn't seem to have any of Donna's memories or identify himself as Donna in any way. He's the Doctor. He looks like the Doctor, acts (mostly) like the Doctor, dresses like the Doctor and likes the same ladies. Now, no one was terrifically clever in Journey's End, so it's a bit hard to tell if he's as clever as the Doctor. I mean, he ran at Davros like a bit of an idiot, but at least he was clever enough to build the thing he was going to throw at Davros' face or whatever. So let's just say he's quite clever and that wasn't affected too much.
Post-metacrisis Donna, however, is like SUPER clever. She's blowing the Doctor's MIND with how clever she is and kicking ass left right and centre and can't stop talking like the Doctor and whatever and stuff.
Handy and Doctor-Donna are both supposed to be 50/50 Donna/Doctor but I call bullshit. The Doctor is obviously the dominant half of BOTH of them. It seems to me that Handy is the only one who's biology was in any way modified, and Donna just got some Doctor info tacked onto her brain and her brain was all like "THIS IS COOL BUT I'M DONE NOW" after a few minutes. Like an hour at most.
So, I don't really think Russell knows what 'half' means. If he'd said that they're 70% whoever they were and 30% the other person I would kind of buy that, but he CLEARLY said "half Doctor and half Donna!" like EIGHT TIMES. And they're clearly not the same weird amalgam. I mean, completely different rules apply to Donna as they do to Handy.
Handy can get the girl and live happily ever after with his one life and one heart and I WOULD ASSUME his half-human brain with a bunch of Doctor stuff in it.
Donna on the other hand is burning up her half-human brain with Doctor stuff in it and has to get her mind wiped. AND ONCE SHE HAS HER MIND REBOOTED, SHE IS DONNA AGAIN. You can't say the same for Handy. He (omg look how conveniently) has one heart and lots of human emotions and crap. He's VERY human, like, genetically. (Except for his brain, his brain is fine, that's still TIme Lord for REASONS.)
SO, THAT IS NOT AN EVEN DEAL. Don't say it's an even deal WHEN IT'S NOT.
Anyway, that's not even my point. I totally got off my point. My point is that Handy is the Doctor. He's not the Doctor and Donna's son, (even though he sort of should be from the info/explanation RTD gave us) he's a clone of the Doctor with a bit of human DNA from a very nice lady that accidentally got mixed in there.
I guess.
If he were one of the Doctor's spontaneously generated offspring (like Jenny or something) then you WOULD NOT THINK he'd immediately identify himself as the Doctor. But he does. He has all the Doctor's memories and looks just like him. For all intents and purposes (and even if he is technically the Doctor and Donna's son for that matter) he's another Doctor. A copy. Not a very good one, but damn close.
Goddamn it RTD. Your complicated is not the kind of complicated that requires being clever.
So, basically, Handy could be the Doctor and Donna's son and sort of should be, technically, if RTD really knew what 'half' meant, but he thinks he's the Doctor. He's a weird clone of the Doctor and anything Handy says is from the Doctor's point of view NO MATTER WHAT HE CAME FROM.
I'm not tooting any horns, but good writing is not taking everything so f*cking literally. It's thinking about the perspectives of the characters, and from Handy's perspective, Professor Joyce is his father. I'm not going to say to myself, "Oh shit, I WANT to communicate that this man is the Doctor's father, but Handy can't say it because Joyce is not TECHNICALLY his father."
That's moronic.
So when the Handy of my comic goes (HERE ARE THE SPOILERS) "That's my dad." he's speaking from the Doctor's memories. If he saw the TARDIS again he'd go "That's my ship." or if he saw Rose he'd be all "That's the girl I'm rather fond of."
It doesn't matter who Handy is genetically, in his head he's the Doctor. So when I say that the Professor Handy's dad, what I'm saying is that he's the Doctor's dad. Because Handy thinks he's the Doctor. And, like, IS the Doctor. Sort of. I guess.
SO IS THAT SOMETHING CLOSE TO POSSIBLY CLEAR? I'M RUNNING ON LIKE THREE HOURS OF SLEEP BECAUSE I STAYED UP TO WACH STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE AND IT WAS SO BAD. NOT EVEN WORTH IT KIND OF BAD. (Sorry Trekkers I love you but OH MY GOD that was a whole lot of nothin'.)
