10 Categoric Reasons Why Doctor Who Is The Best Show Ever

2. An Unique Hero

Again, Steven Moffat has out-worded everyone when, during a 50th anniversary panel, he was asked what a world without the Doctor would be like. "Heroes are important. Heroes tell us who we want to be, but when they made this particular hero, they didn't give him a gun, they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. They didn't give him a tank or a warship or an X-Wing, they gave him a call box from which you can call for help. And they didn't give him a superpower or pointy ears or a heat-ray, they gave him an extra heart. They gave him two hearts! And that€™s an extraordinary thing. Well, there will never come a time when we don€™t need a hero like the Doctor." As stated before, Doctor Who has never really stopped being educational. Many of those traits discussed by Moffat weren't even present during William Hartnell's run as the Doctor. Even if it has been a case of making stuff up as they went along, the result was a hero that abhored killing, hated violence and only used it when his friends' lives were in danger. At the same time, he taught people to run rather than fight. More recently, he decided that fear is a superpower. Here's a hero that will teach its fans that the mind is the best weapon that any intelligent being can have. The Doctor is a character who wins most of his battles by outsmarting his enemies and even though it has been established that there is a very dark side to this benevolent alien, he will never let his charm and humour be clouded by any gloomy threat.