Doctor Who: 11 Reasons We Love Matt Smith (And The Eleventh Doctor)

8. Bowties

Whilst it feels like I'm bashing Tennant, I assure you I love the guy but I must draw on his services once more to render a comparison between his Doctor and the current one.

One of the main things that is attempted when coming up with a new Doctor is to come up with a way to make him the same but different. Par example Whilst Pertwee's third Doctor was very proper, a scientist, an inventor Tom Baker's Doctor was a nutjob, floating about wherever the wind took him, still a thinker but a thinker of very scattered thoughts.

In this line the VERY human tenth Doctor who not only became human at one point but was so integrated into twenty first century human society that he pretty much had a mortgage and a regular parking space in the center of London is the opposite of Matt Smith.

With particular acknowledgment of his bow ties and the 2010 episode 'The Lodger' we get to see just how much he doesn't get (human) people. Despite being around them all the time he still kisses everyone in the outskirts of London on both cheeks as a way of greeting them, gets out thousands of pounds for rent money and (a favorite of mine) wears his tweed suit jacket over his football strip to go and play a game. These mistakes extend to the bow-tie, for ever on his neck. Does he think its genuinely cool? Is is an avante-garre fashion statement? Maybe he just doesn't care what you think... Moffat may be threatening to reveal his name, but when we have the answers to these questions we will truly know the answer to the oldest question... Doctor Who?