Doctor Who: 10 Reasons The Eleventh Doctor Actually Sucks

6. He Missed The Brigadier's Death To Hang Out With Craig Owens

So, the Doctor knows his death is coming and is having a grand tour of all his old haunts before returning to Lake Silencio to be blasted by Alex Kingston in a spacesuit. If you were to compile a list of the people who had been the most important to him, where would you place Craig Owens, the guy he lived with for a week or so? Where would you place Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, the man who saved him more times than you can count and who knew him through numerous regenerations? However, with time running out, the Doctor chooses to visit Owens again and lark about with some Cybermats. Closing Time is bad enough already (love for a baby stops a Cyber conversion?) but the knowledge later that he chose to come to Colchester rather than visit the Brig is just insulting and reflects very badly on the Time Lord. By the time the Doctor gets around to a quick phone call, the Brig has passed on, probably spending his final moments wondering where the guy who can travel anywhere in time and space was. He probably contented himself in the knowledge that he was saving the galaxy, not working in a toy shop. The Moffat era has not been kind to the Brigadier. It may have given us his grown up daughter but the poor Brig himself was subsequently reanimated as a Cyberman. What a reward for years of service to the Doctor, to fly aimlessly about knowing you're a decayed corpse in a tin can. He's had better days.