10 Biggest Doctor Who Criticisms (And Why They're Wrong)

Here’s a little thought experiment: Try to picture the First Doctor listening to Ian Dury and talking about how much he loves The Muppet Movie. Or the Sixth Doctor disguising himself as a Welsh milkman. They don’t quite fit together, do they?

This is because even though the Doctor is one person, each incarnation has a different personality. Different attitudes, different preferences, and different opinions. Each Doctor’s personality can’t be compared to another’s because their personality changes after Regenerating. That was established fifty years ago in The Power Of The Daleks.

Which means that the Doctor isn’t being mischaracterised if he does something that another Doctor wouldn’t do. There are some aspects of his character that stay the same but he is prone to change as much as the next man. Even more, really. He’s never cruel or cowardly but beyond that he could be compassionate, light-hearted, brooding, arrogant, condescending. The list is almost endless.

And that’s not even considering the character development for each Doctor. The Eighth Doctor is a very different man immediately before his Regeneration than he was to begin with. Essentially, you can’t expect one Doctor to completely hold to the ethics and personality of another or to stay exactly the same.