splott,
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Poor Clara. she traded her cute, sweet, funny, playful Doctor for one that was grumpy, cranky, cynical and never smiled. and who initially didn’t know how to fly the tardis or who she was. and somehow that one episode, it was somehow painted some sort of failing of hers. 🤦‍♀️

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@splott I think Vastra was trying to say to Clara that, no, this is the same Doctor — you’re just seeing who he really is instead of who he wants you to see, and it’s on you to accept that. Which, I admit, I can relate to just a bit.

splott,
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@mighty_orbot he did it too, though. “ i’m right in front of you, Just see me!"
Talking like he really was the same person with a different face.
when he’s really not the same at all. it’s just not fair to her. "i’m the same person!" the hell you are. Non-tardis-driving non-person-recognizing non-smiling grumpy pants...
I really hate the way they wrote him. I suspect the guy himself is perfectly fine. It’s the way they wrote him.

mighty_orbot,
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@splott Opinions differ, of course. I found Peter Capaldi to be the most personally relatable Doctor yet for precisely the same reasons you dislike him.

splott,
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@mighty_orbot I can imagine him being relatable. He just bears no resemblance to any of his previous incarnations in New-Who. he's supposed to be the same person on the inside, and somehow here we are...

mighty_orbot,
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@splott Capaldi does remind one of the Third and Sixth Doctors, though.

Edit: and the War Doctor, as much as we know about him anyway.

splott,
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@mighty_orbot The originals? I was thinking he reminded me a little bit of hartnell. he rarely smiled or joked either.

mighty_orbot,
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@splott Hartnell was always portrayed as a warm grandfather. Pertwee was… well, the wiki calls him “authoritative,” which sounds fairly accurate, and Colin Baker was definitely arrogant.

If I had to describe Capaldi’s Doctor in one word, it would be “cranky”, but my second word would probably be “tired”.

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