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pinky0926 posted...

This is it. That feeling that the doctor is always the smartest person in the room by several light years. Where did that go? Because that IS doctor who.

I think there's a point where it gets to be a bit much. That aspect really choked Eleven for me, because he was such an insufferable wanker about it at times. But Ten had these great moments where he's putting everything together on the fly and has that amazing breakthrough moment. I would argue that Thirteen represents the latter more than the former.

There's a very particular plot beat that I adore where The Doctor gives a character 2 and 2, and they help them along to eventually make four. Ten did it a bit, and Thirteen does it too. That's my favorite aspect of the character, and with Thirteen being an engineer or a tinkerer sort of character, it comes across as her being a lover of knowledge and really enjoying being able to share that with others.

I couldn't fucking stand when the Doctor would spout some wanky exposition, glance at the characters who couldn't grasp what he was talking about, and then tell them to keep up. That's my least favourite Doctor trait. Sometimes it's okay, sometimes it's funny, but it felt like most of Eleven's run was that and I'm so fucking sick of it.

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