I’m glad other people agree!

Also, I feel like all these seemingly arbitrary moments of jerkdom could be explained by the fact that he’s a Time LORD, emphasis on the Lord. Like the Judeo-Christian God, he’s full of mysterious, seemingly unfair ways and plans for everyone else.

You do know that there are many sociopaths out there who don’t know that they are sociopaths, right? They’re not power-hungry in any socially unacceptable way, they do “right” by the lights of their community and culture because they grok the manifold benefits of social approval, and that being an outlaw involves discomfort and risk. Simple risk/benefit analysis means they stay within social bounds.

Sociopaths just don’t find empathy and compassion compelling motivators in the same way as more neurotypical people. Unless they move outside the bounds of acceptably competitive behaviour they will never come to a psychologist’s attention to be analysed and written up.

Whether she was adopted or not, she was raised by the Doctor so it still seems cold to abandon her. Also, at the time that they wrote that episode the writers saw her as his actual grandaughter, so intended to write the Doctor as the kind of person who would leave his daughter stranded because he thought it was for her own good.

She wasn’t actually his granddaughter though- she was a follow timelord who was disguised as his granddaughter while they were on earth.

You know, I’m starting to think the Doctor is a Social Path.

I liked the way they re-introduced the 10th doctor to Jack at the end of the third series. The way Jack confronted him made the viewer stop and think about the doctors actions and attitudes. The doctor admitted to Jack that he abandoned him knowing full well he was alive and alone. The way that he always disables Jack’s time travel device reminds me of the way that the Time Lords stranded the third doctor on Earth. At that point the doctor’s tardis no longer worked and so he had to stay on Earth and help out with the various problems that Unit had to deal with. At that point he couldn’t just walk away at the end of each adventure without having to deal with the aftermath. However, here we can see how selfish he can be. He is constantly trying to fix the tardis and whenever he thinks it is about to work he tries to leave in it, despite the fact that it might be still in the middle of an adventure and the Earth is still in danger.

I personally really like the 10th doctor. I love the way the writers portray him, I love the greatness and the huge flaws. Although I was a little wary of Donna as a companion at first I rather like the way she constantly highlighted these flaws and made him face up to them. I enjoyed a companion who stood up to him rather than worshipping him with the doe eyed look that the last two had. I liked Rose and Martha a lot, but I loved the dynamic of a companion who doesn’t let the doctor get away with anything.