The Doctor is a character that has moved me many times since the start of my journey on this show. Sure he’s a bit fantastical, and there’s a lot of mystery and wonder and swashbuckling hero themes.. but a point is always made to emphasis just how like the humans he is. How he has faults and makes mistakes, breaks his own rules/ morals, and rarely he does kill or consider murder. He’s kind and merciful in nature but he is not without that very human-like temptation to rain hell on those he doesn’t agree with and I think this video really puts that all into perspective well. I’m also glad to see the first Doctor included in one of these, I don’t think I’ve seen one yet that acknowledges the classic Doctors. 😄
Love this reaction. And totally agree with the comments. This really shows all dimensions of the doctors character which I love. Hope to see more reactions! ❤ much love
In 1962, in his book 'Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible', science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated his famous Three Laws, of which the third law is the best-known and most widely cited: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. In the Star Trek episode 'Who Watches The Watchers', the Enterprise Captain, Jean Luc Picard is treated as a god because of the technology that comes with him and his knowledge. It's worth remembering that the Doctor's people are not gods via the same principle. The Doctor did start out as a traveller in space-time and the most extraordinary thing about him were his knowledge and his wits and the marvellous machine TARDIS that he travelled in. The series wouldn't have lasted had the series' producers at the time of the first actor's illness in 1966 not introduced the concept of 'regenerating' the character as just another aspect of his alienness. Various other traits built upon that which are no necessarily completely fanciful extensions which would make the character appear to be godlike. When it comes down to the basics, The Doctor is mortal, he can die, but he is meta in respects that he can act as a conduit for energies in a way that other mortal life forms cannot and regeneration can go drastically wrong and Time Lords can die. They are just more so resistant to it. Just as we have built up technologies in order to aid our continued existence, housing our vulnerabilities with ever increasing knowledge, we would seem 'godlike' to even the humans that existed just two centuries ago and just because we can tap away words on a laptop and have them seen mere seconds later on the far side of the planet.
The thing that annoys me with the new series of Doctor Who is that the Doctor is treated like he's some powerful god which he isn't he's just a 2000 year old alien scientist who travels in a spaceship in the appearance of a police telephone box who was bored on his home planet Gallifrey and wanted to travel and explore the universe plain and simple and meets trouble along the way as he's doing it.
Me too. But this has been a long running tension with the show. There are those who see the Doctor as he was originaly conceived as a scientist and a scholar who was bored with the bureaucracy of his homeworld and wanted to be a part of the Universe rather than just observe it. And those who wanted the Doctor to be super epically special. This started in the 80s with the Cartmel Master Plan. Unfortunately most of the today's showrunners grew up in the 70s and 80s and internalised this idea of the Doctor as this super special Lonely God, even though the Doctor himself at least up to 5 would have despised that characterisation.
The show certainly in the Moffat Era simultaneously revels in this part of the Doctor, whilst providing criticism of how cold and calculating the Doctor has become, of how much in universe the Doctor has shifted. Which is interesting, and certainly leaves room for a proper analysis by far more qualified people. Having the Doctor compare themself to the stranger with the suitcase of candy, and acknowledging that they’re not a hero, the assertion that the truly good don’t need rules, acknowledging that they’ve shifted to bringing people along to be adored, for vanity based reasons, that this is why a lot of the companions are younger people, which is to say young adults and middle-aged people, the way that their self-appointed title which was in Galifreyan seemingly created the human word for Doctor through the translation matrix of the Tardis, with the actual word being translated as Doctor which came to mean healer and wise individual, but with how the Doctor shifted over time in universe began to itself translate to mighty warrior, these are all interesting points which Moffat had the option of actually exploring in depth, but they sort of come up as lines of dialogue and are hinted at times through actions the Doctor takes, which are colder in their calculated nature which as you’ve stated started to be planted in the 80’s took hold through the attempted CMP, and were solidified in the revival by show-runners who grew up on the 70’s and 80’s eras of the show. We can’t really return to the pre-lonely god style characterisation, however the writers could probably tackle this without erasing anything. A better writer than myself could come up with a way to attempt a shift to a less god-like characterisation of the Doctor, whether that reverence came out of love, faith, or out of fear.
@@ripleyjlawman.3162this is why I don't watch past 11. 11 to me is my favorite Doctor, the reason is because out of all the other NuWho doctor- he's the one that feels the most like a Classic doctor. As you pointed out with the as for mention criticisms that where made in the moffat era, 11 feels like a man trying to move past his mistakes, while also trying to reignite that childlike spark he had once had back in his 2nd and 4th incarnations respectfully but always finding himself reverting back into the war-10th incarnation mindset.
