(DW) has the Doctor got more competent
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(DW) has the Doctor got more competent
Simple question really; over the whole of Dr. Who do you feel there is an increase in the Doctor's competence and intelligence or is there in fact a reverse trend, or no change. I would assume that since he gains centuries of experience of the time we see him he would gain in ability but I am not so sure that that is the case.
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"Yeah, funny how that works - you giving hungry people food they vote for you. You give homeless people shelter they vote for you. You give the unemployed a job they vote for you.
Maybe if the conservative ideology put a roof overhead, food on the table, and employed the downtrodden the poor folk would be all for it, too". - Broomstick
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I wrote this:The British Avengers fanfiction
"Yeah, funny how that works - you giving hungry people food they vote for you. You give homeless people shelter they vote for you. You give the unemployed a job they vote for you.
Maybe if the conservative ideology put a roof overhead, food on the table, and employed the downtrodden the poor folk would be all for it, too". - Broomstick
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Johonebesus
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Well, he's not a cavalier about time travel and meddling in history as he was at first. Before his first regeneration, he frequently didn't want to get involved in disputes unless they were really, really unfair. Usually he was more motivated by his curiosity than an interest to help people. At least that's what I remember from the few Hartnell stories I saw in the eighties.
It would have been nice if Davidson in the Five Doctors had told his younger version to shut up and trust someone with more experience. It was annoying that even around his future selves he acted like an elderly now-it-all.
It would have been nice if Davidson in the Five Doctors had told his younger version to shut up and trust someone with more experience. It was annoying that even around his future selves he acted like an elderly now-it-all.
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Patrick Degan
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The question isn't the Doctor's competence as much as his grip on sanity. This is a very damaged man we're watching now. The Time War destroyed him and before Rose came along he didn't care whether he lived or died. His intelligence is as effective as ever when he focuses, but emotionally he's all over the map.
The way things stand now, I'd say it would take one more major trauma, maybe two, to push him to dive the TARDIS into the nearest black hole and simply end it.
The way things stand now, I'd say it would take one more major trauma, maybe two, to push him to dive the TARDIS into the nearest black hole and simply end it.
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Ford Prefect
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Sylvester McCoy's Doctor was played and written as a chessmastery kind of guy, and he was really good at getting other people to do what he wanted. I'd have to agree that he was the cleverest of the Doctors. Tennant's Tenth just seems to stumble into the answer and win most of the time.Parallax wrote:The peak of the Doctor's competence and effectiveness was the 7th Doctor, who generally seemed to be in complete control all the time and had everything planned out rather nicely.
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While being increasingly pompous and inconsistent along the way. As Patrick says, he's clearly becoming more unstable since the Time War, as S3 shows. He's been trying to replace his anchor for nearly two years at this point, but what he really needs is counselling he'll never get due to his overweening arrogance.