You can tell that Doctor Who is more inspired by Comics than Sci-Fi though, which is why it can be so divisive. One of people's pet hates of Marvel, for example, is the fact that they tend to rewrite history and give characters 'one-off' powers or knowledge that never gets used again. When you deal with a show which is about mucking around in the timeline and changing history and alternate Universes etc, that becomes even more tempting.
I like the fact the Doctor now has a 'mission', to find Gallifrey, and it does sort of fit that Smith should be leaving at Christmas, his character has found a chance at the redemption the Doctor has been looking for over the last few regenerations, so a new Doctor for a new Situation sort of makes sense. Hopefully the Christmas episode will cover the Silence arc more completely, possibly even covering the destruction of the TARDIS, though that may be shrugged off as a 'Big Bang mk2 reset button' event, but I hope not.
I loved it, John hurt's doctor was amazing, i have heard people saying he wasnt dark enough, warlike etc but everybody seems to forget or they havent listened to the story, as he him self says he has been at war for many years and in the night of the Doctor, when the 8th doctor regenerates into hurts doc, he is a young hurt doctor. So his dark stuff was probably done early in his life, as in Day of the Doctor he is semi defeated, lost hope and tired of war and a old man.
They wanted darker than the cold blooded murder of 2 billion children?
I'll agree with you though. Even as a war like individual we shouldn't be seeing him being all grimdark all the time. He's still meant to be a good man who has been forced to do some horrible things. In the end you can't get much more horrible than ending the Time War in the way he does.
I loved it, John hurt's doctor was amazing, i have heard people saying he wasnt dark enough, warlike etc but everybody seems to forget or they havent listened to the story, as he him self says he has been at war for many years and in the night of the Doctor, when the 8th doctor regenerates into hurts doc, he is a young hurt doctor. So his dark stuff was probably done early in his life, as in Day of the Doctor he is semi defeated, lost hope and tired of war and a old man.
They wanted darker than the cold blooded murder of 2 billion children?
I'll agree with you though. Even as a war like individual we shouldn't be seeing him being all grimdark all the time. He's still meant to be a good man who has been forced to do some horrible things. In the end you can't get much more horrible than ending the Time War in the way he does.
But that's the thing. He didn't kill 2 billion. He didn't do what story to this point had said was necessary. He magicked his way out of it at the last minute. That's what I was looking forward to seeing, how does the doctor deal when all his tricks and magic have failed him. And he was never very grim dark at all. Nor warlike. Hell he only shot the wall with his pew pewy gun. It was almost a dues ex machina, but I think that's Dr. Who in general.