I was pondering this, and I think it's the gulf between Old Who and New. Specifically the Time War. She feels more like a Classic Doctor, which is why I keep saying it's as if she's AU. She doesn't have the heft and the depth of someone who has been through what the War Doctor has. (Dhawan? More than yes.) Thought: the Second Doctor era, for all that it is deeply lovely, is rather lacking in the moral ambiguity department. It's like after One's slow realization that, actually, there's quite a lot of awfulness happening in the universe and, actually, he would like to be the one to do something about it, there's this half-oblivious honeymoon period where the Doctor gets to skip merrily about the universe vanquishing monsters and then literally leaving out the back door without a word of goodbye or thought for what happens next. The ultimate unencumbered Doctor. (This obviously all comes crashing to an end when the Time Lords catch up with him.) Possibly we might view Thirteen as a second attempt at this time, after the deep soul-searching and reaffirmation of his identity by Twelve, but when the Master shows up he's like, dude. In case you haven't noticed we are old now and everything is fucked the fuck up. GET IT TOGETHER.
And then Thirteen basically pulls the equivalent of sticking her fingers in her ears and going 'lalalalalala'
LOL. (It feels like Buffy days of yore, with the die hard Xander stans going 'THIS season will be Xander's season'... And now you're comparing me to Xander fans? Wow, just rub salt in the wound why don't you.
Oh I'm nearly done. 85 - 90%? I'm good. :) ETA: Of course I was delayed by my little 'extra stories' that ended up 19k words long. /o\ Why am I like this? /rhetorical question. Because it's funny?
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Thought: the Second Doctor era, for all that it is deeply lovely, is rather lacking in the moral ambiguity department. It's like after One's slow realization that, actually, there's quite a lot of awfulness happening in the universe and, actually, he would like to be the one to do something about it, there's this half-oblivious honeymoon period where the Doctor gets to skip merrily about the universe vanquishing monsters and then literally leaving out the back door without a word of goodbye or thought for what happens next. The ultimate unencumbered Doctor. (This obviously all comes crashing to an end when the Time Lords catch up with him.) Possibly we might view Thirteen as a second attempt at this time, after the deep soul-searching and reaffirmation of his identity by Twelve, but when the Master shows up he's like, dude. In case you haven't noticed we are old now and everything is fucked the fuck up. GET IT TOGETHER.
And then Thirteen basically pulls the equivalent of sticking her fingers in her ears and going 'lalalalalala'
LOL. (It feels like Buffy days of yore, with the die hard Xander stans going 'THIS season will be Xander's season'...
And now you're comparing me to Xander fans? Wow, just rub salt in the wound why don't you.
Oh I'm nearly done. 85 - 90%? I'm good. :) ETA: Of course I was delayed by my little 'extra stories' that ended up 19k words long. /o\ Why am I like this? /rhetorical question.
Because it's funny?