she could see what motivated and made 9 and 10 tick, but 11... eh
That's one of my issues, too. I've said before that one of the problems is that I don't feel that I really know Eleven - and that anything I do know of him is informed by what I knew of Ten. For example- it makes sense that Eleven is more emotionally reticent becasue of the way Ten repeatedly put himself out there and got both hearts ripped out and stomped on,
I think that the "not-knowing" is also a deliberate move away from the Doctor as the heart of the show. He's still at the centre of the action, but no longer it's emotional heart, if you see what i mean. And that was often the case with the older Doctors, who were more enigmatic and unknowable than Nine or Ten were.
That said though, if the Gaiman episode at the weekend delivers all its promising (and I have no idea what that is!) then perhaps the emotional heart will return.
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That's one of my issues, too. I've said before that one of the problems is that I don't feel that I really know Eleven - and that anything I do know of him is informed by what I knew of Ten. For example- it makes sense that Eleven is more emotionally reticent becasue of the way Ten repeatedly put himself out there and got both hearts ripped out and stomped on,
I think that the "not-knowing" is also a deliberate move away from the Doctor as the heart of the show. He's still at the centre of the action, but no longer it's emotional heart, if you see what i mean. And that was often the case with the older Doctors, who were more enigmatic and unknowable than Nine or Ten were.
That said though, if the Gaiman episode at the weekend delivers all its promising (and I have no idea what that is!) then perhaps the emotional heart will return.