unheard_secret | Updated Meta - Doctor's Characterisation

abossycontrolfreak:

I wasn’t convinced by Twelve even last episode, but now I’ve worked out what I think they’re trying to do with him and I love it, and I also think Capaldi is going to be amazing at pulling it off.
They’re stripping him of absolutely everything. It’s why he feels kind of generic-Doctor like, and...

Reading this was like looking into a mirror. Everything was the same, but different.

In my post here last night, I posited that this behaviour of the Doctor's was because he was growing very old and losing his focus.

I never, for a moment, thought that it could be because he has, in some ways rebooted to someone... well, young is wrong. But, someone in the midst of a birthing process?

I'm now heavily considering the implications of them both. What does it mean if, instead of finding himself defined by duty as I posited, it's in fact the opposite? The heavy guilt that pushed him to atone for his sins has been stripped way and he's not doing what he does out of 'duty' but instead trying to find out who he is without it...

Hmmm.

I still like my theory, but I'm beginning to think it will probably be proved wrong in the next few episodes. That makes me sad.

I still want to see the darker, more duty bound Doctor, who does what he does with stark, almost joyless, purpose.

Maybe I'll have to write him into a fic.