Doctor Who: 10 Times The Doctor Acted Completely Out Of Character For No Reason

10. Setting Up Captain Jack With A Date

The end of David Tennant's final adventure, The End of Time, is full of great moments, but buried in the avalanche of mostly satisfying sentimentality are two scenes that just don't work. 

The forced and overly pat sequence where Mickey and Martha are shown to be a married couple so that Davies can make a joke about them being Smith and Jones is a let down because it simultaneously undermines Martha's earlier exit and unfortunately gives the impression that the two black characters have to wind up together. But even less successful is the scene where the Doctor arranges for Captain Jack to get laid.

It's not the fact that the Doctor is setting up Jack with a male character that seems so odd (or that the Doctor knows Alonso's sexual orientation or whether he would even be open to the idea of the tryst), it's that the Doctor has never previously shown any inclination towards helping his friends get some.

Yes, the Doctor can "dance", but that doesn't mean he's going to suddenly start micro-managing the sexual escapades of his friends. Only in Russell T Davies' mind does "worrying about a friend's sadness" equate to "get him some hot bedroom action".  Nope, the Doctor's vaguely icky interest makes absolutely no sense on any level.