NuWho Annoyances
After watching Doctor Who for the last several years, there has bee something that vaguely bugs me about it and I think I finally figured it out
1. An irritating sense of moral smugness: Has anyone noticed this? It's very similar to the First season or so of Star Trek: The Next Generation , where in the Crew of the Enterprise would swoop in and enlighten the local savages (read: alien of the week) about the Moral Superiority of the Federation (and themselves) and have a moral that would always put them in the right....but make them look like arrogant assholes. Nu Who seems to suffer from this a lot, and there is no one to gainsay the Doctor as he seems to be the top power in the universe. I seem to remember the Various Guardians, Chronovores. and a lot of other powers that outstripped the Time lords in sheer power, thus having to make the Doctor be more like a clever man up against the big nasty. Now, he's Ultimate authority lecturing to everyone who can't escape his sense of Smug. So.....A Gallifreyan Timelord from The Second Doctor Era, Not the Doctor.
2. "The Man Who Wouldn't Kill": RTD and Moffet really have missed the mark on this one. Classic Who Had the Doctor kill at least once per incarnation, And body count got rather impressive during incarnations 5 and 6. Now perhaps I could have bought this if instead of the moral smug approach, I could have seen the remorseful approach. "The Man Who Wouldn't" becomes "The Man Who Stopped" because he remembers all the carnage he's caused. That would have been a more interesting, and logical take, on the character.
3. The Doctor on a Sugar Rush: Okay, people here have watched classic who and has anyone noticed the Doctor seems to behave like a spastic teenager? The Classic Doctors at least had some sense of dignity. The 9th was at least a stream of restrained anger (but still, restrained) after The Time War (which makes sense) , But 10 was....lets be honest....a Self-Absorbed Jerk, and 11 was a walking Poster Boy of Denial. Luckily 12 (or 13, depending on how you view it) seems to have largely worked out the Guilt from the Time War, but still has occasional RTD/Moffetisms which are annoying. I'll be curious to see where it goes, but some of the tone is getting very old.
4. The over use of the Sonic screwdriver: This thing is now a magic wand that does what the plot needs to move things along. I remember when it was a screwdriver, and only occasionally used to open doors. Now it's a Lazy plot writers tool. Half the time I wish they would break the thing....
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Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Now We Are Alone"