Is the Doctor really “never cruel or cowardly”?
Andrew ponders the Time Lord’s morality… Its such a shame that this isnt true.
Still, it sounds better than The Doctor is sometimes cruel and cowardly but he means well.
Maybe the Doctor is a god for rational humanists?
We know he isnt real, after all, so thatd save time.
Equally, in the short term writers will ignore established concepts if it benefits their stories.
This comes through both mistakes and fuller realisations of those characters.
This is why we remember the Do I have the right?
You certainly should be, as thats a consistent part of his character: the Doctor is annoying.
He knows hes annoying.
The Eighth Doctor sticks rigidly to his absolute morality and loads of people die as a result.
This is what makes the character interesting.
That would be sanctimonious, cringeworthy, and dull.
Instead hes an aspirational idealist, a realistically flawed and influential version of heroism.
Really, I cant explain it any more clearly than that.
