DJjaffacake said:
TimeLord said:
DJjaffacake said:
TimeLord said:
DJjaffacake said:
I want to know what happened to a man who never would.
He died with 10? The Doctor has always exacted judgement against those who wronged him. Tennant put the Family Of Blood in states of perpetual torture for what they did. Eccleston let Cassandra die in response to her attempting to destroying the station they were on.
With Eccleston, it was justified (from a story perspective) because this was the immediately post-Time War Doctor. At the end of Journey's End he said that he was incredibly angry back then (I can't remember the exact wording). And the Family of Blood was very specifically not killed. If it was a one off with Eleven it would be acceptable as a moment when he was angry enough to let his morals slip, but this has been a recurring theme with him.
And thus that's his character. Would you rather he was a carbon copy of Tennant?
No, but I'd rather there was a sense that he was the same person, not just another man calling himself the Doctor.
"I can still die. If I'm killed before regeneration, then I'm dead. Even then. Even if I change, it feels like dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away. And I'm dead."
-10th Doctor
Smith's Doctor is a new man compared to Tennant's. He's show and said in series 6; "Oh and this is my friend River. Nice hair, clever, has her own gun. And unlike me she really doesn't mind shooting people. I shouldn't like that, kind of do a bit"
He is clearly more open to violence but it still has to be the absolute final option. There was no other way to save the Silurian ship and Soloman caused genocide against the crew of the ship plus killed the dinosaur despite the fact that it was not a threat. So the Doctor had no qualms in using Soloman to save the ship and themselves.