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The problem here is that we get two contradictory accounts of the same event from the Doctor in the same episode. Given what we see later on in The End of Time and what we hear in other episodes, it\'s clear that in hindsight the Doctor was lying to Rose, possibly to justify both to her and to himself what he was about to do. But at the time the episode was written, it\'s clear which statement came across as direct and unambiguous, and that\'s the Doctor\'s statement to Rose that the Daleks destroyed his home and his people, not him. His statement to the Dalek, which you quote above, is open to interpretation.
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The problem here is that we get two contradictory accounts of the same event from the Doctor in the same episode. Given what we see later on in The End of Time and what we hear in other episodes, it\\\'s clear that in hindsight the Doctor was lying to Rose, possibly to justify both to her and to himself what he was about to do. But at the time the episode was written, it\\\'s clear which statement came across as direct and unambiguous, and that\\\'s the Doctor\\\'s statement to Rose that the Daleks destroyed his home and his people, not him. His statement to the Dalek, which you quote above, is open to interpretation when it comes to the fate of the Time Lords.
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And then there\\\'s \\\"The End of the World\\\" where he tells Rose \\\"There was a war. We lost.\\\" Again, implying that the Daleks won. It just seems to me that either the backstory changed over time for dramatic reasons, or else the authors portrayed the as Doctor simply lying out of guilt over what he had done. Either is possible.
