Nu Who Meta: the "darkest" Doctor of the new era

[kilodalton]

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[viomisehunt]

My observation about the Nu-Who Doctor is similar to waht Sirius Black observes of Harry Potter's life. the Doctor is a decent person, a very decent person--I hesitate using the word good for anyone when speaking of ethical behavior--to whom extraodinary bad things happen to. Sometimes he is up to confronting these events, sometimes he simply is not, but that's okay. He can look outwards towards friends, towards other who are concerned to help

[nostalgia_lj]

Nine is angsty and sometimes mean but probably the least dangerous because he's scared of himself.

Ten and Eleven both have their moments, hrm. Ten idk kind of came across as a lot younger because so many of his moments are basically tantrums. He's right scary because of it.

[light_frost]

I think the Ninth Doctor had more dark moments, but Eleven's moments are more intense; especially in "A Town Called Mercy."

Ten meets somewhere in the middle, although I did find "The Waters of Mars" to be particularly frightening.

[nostalgia_lj]

I think I was more scared that Eleven might actually shoot someone than I was when Ten was pointing a gun at that dude that killed Jenny. Eleven's self-hatred spills over onto other people quite a bit.

[wake_the_dragon]

I agree. I believed more in Eleven nearly shooting someone than Ten because of what he said: "I honestly don't know."

Eleven can be very intense.

[nostalgia_lj]

I'd travel with Eleven rather than Ten but he has his scary moments when he could do just about anything.

[10littlebullets]

Nine is the most obviously wounded of the three and also the most abrasive, and he has his scary moments, but he never strikes me as hopelessly fucked-up the way Ten and Eleven do. I think it boils down to something he said, actually: "You know what a Dalek is, Van Statten? A Dalek is honest." Nine has no pretensions of being all right; unlike his successors, he has a fairly good idea of where "well-adjusted" is and waves cheerfully at it as it shoots past him. His wounds are still bleeding, but that means they haven't yet had the chance to heal over all funny while infection festers beneath the surface.

I think Ten is the scariest TBH, because he can never quite admit he's in the wrong.

[nostalgia_lj]

Yeah, I think Eleven does stuff as dark as Ten but seems more... aware of what he's doing? He does seem like he'd spend more (any!) time regretting that sort of stuff. Ten is the scariest because it seems like he really has no idea how far off the chain he really is.

[mengu]

I disagree with your use of the word subtle, hah.

I would say they come out fairly equal, but 9 is utterly honest about it, and 11, to quote someone from a previous point, "has given up the hypothesis he's a good person." Which leaves 10 the only one of our new Who trio pretending he's fine, which makes it worse.