10 Doctor Who Moments More Important Than You Realised

One of the things that made the Fourteenth Doctor different to the Tenth is the fact that he was so much older, carrying the weight of everything that had happened to Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen.

We see evidence of this in all three of his television adventures, but most notably in Wild Blue Yonder when the Not-Thing Donna taunts him about the Timeless Child and the Flux.

Directly after this we see the Doctor crash out in a corridor, having just been tricked into opening up by an alien pretending to be his best friend. Yep, that'll certainly do it.

But according to the script for Wild Blue Yonder, it also goes much deeper than that.

In this moment, the Doctor’s actually thinking about everything that’s happened to him since he last had this face, including all the people he’s lost. And one person in particular? Clara. The script notes:

"THE DOCTOR runs. But he’s ragged, wild-eyed, desperate. Everything the Donna-2 said to him rising and rising, the Flux, his losses, Clara, 15 years, everything."

So David Tennant wasn’t just doing some generic angry acting in this moment. He’d been told to think about the person who arguably had the single biggest impact on the Doctor in those intervening years. Something that, as a fan himself, he’d have completely understood.

They might not always be obvious, but it’s touches like these that make Fourteen’s character arc truly special.