Doctor Who: 10 Times The Doctor Was Out Of Their Depth

7. The Slow Invasion

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Normally, the Doctor is used to whizzing around the universe at lightning speeds, going on grand adventures, saving the day, and bringing his companions home in time for tea. He lives life in the fast lane, constantly on the move, always exploring something new. So what happens when the Doctor is forced to slow down and just... wait? Turns out, he struggles with that. A lot.

In The Power of Three, millions of small black cubes suddenly appear all over Earth overnight. And they do... nothing. For months on end, they're completely unresponsive, and soon they're subsumed into ordinary life, not given a second thought by the public. The Doctor, however, is different: he needs to know. He can't stand an unsolved mystery. So he waits with Amy and Rory to find out what the cubes do, acting like a fidgety child as his boundless energy preventing him from sitting still.

Soon, he gets so frustrated with doing nothing ("patience is for wimps!") that he does everything he can to keep himself busy, including painting an entire fence, mowing the lawn, vacuuming the house, rewiring a car, and playing keepy-uppy to five million points. After all that activity, he's passed a whopping... one hour. Good thing the cubes soon started showing signs of activity, otherwise the Doctor might just have regenerated due to dying of boredom.

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