Wasn't Rassilion imprisoned by the Time Lords in yet another collapsing celestial body due to him being such a genocidal, crazy nutter? And while the Doctor imprisoning the Family would be unforgivably harsh if they were normal beings, they didn't seem like normal beings (if they had a very short lifespan) and they likely had non-human ultra psychopathic mindset so we would not know how they would suffer in possibly indefinite confinement. And they wanted immortality SO badly, hey, the Doctor merely gave it to them - but it does hint at the Doctor may be going off the deep end, but then again the Doctor from the onset always had a very nasty streak to him if pushed (I also don't think in LtW that the Culture was particularly out of order when they assassinated those Chelgrian conspirators, because they were plotting to kill billions of Culture citizens).NecronLord wrote: Am I to take it that you've not seen The Three Doctors, with Omega, one of the founders of Time Lord society rotting in a dimension beyond a black hole for ten million years or more? Of course, Omega, as far as we know, has never committed a crime in his life prior to that imprisonment, which was either accidental or contrived by Rassilon. While it seems highly unlikely that the Doctor could manage to build another Sash of Rassilon or suit of armour of Omega (especially as she wasn't wearing any such thing that we could see) just to punt Mother of Mine into a black hole and let her suffer there, it's at least possible to imprison someone inside a black hole forever.
Of course, given the writer's comments, it seems like Brother of Mine was just being pessimistic.
And yes, I would like the return of UNIT - the Torchwood Institute was not a bad idea per se, but the Doctor Who writers backfired the potential of this new organisation through the lacklustre Torchwood series.
