Is Peter Capaldi the worst Doctor in Doctor Who?

Answer 1

Some people think so, for sure. Especially people who never watched Doctor Who when any Doctor before 9 was on the show. In comparison, Capaldi is older and ruder, and it is hard for the newer fans to accept that, as noted in the following response:

• In my opinion yes because I liked the previous renditions of the Doctor because he was someone I wanted to be like or someone I wanted to be around. None of the earlier doctors acted so mean and rude as no.12. Some of the earlier doctors may have been arrogant, a bit condensing and dismissive but I don't remember one doctor calling humans pudding brains or being so mean to children.

For people who have watched the show for a long time though, there are a number of other Doctor Who incarnations that we might think were worse. I mean, Capaldi's outfit is fairly tame compared to some of the other outrageous things that we have seen the Doctor wear, and his rudeness is no more a grouchy old-man exterior than he has had in the past.

In my book, all the incarnations of the Doctor are amazing in their own ways. The whole idea of being the same person with a different personality is a great one, and I think that it enlarges the story as we see differences. Capaldi might be playing a rude version of the Doctor, but his character is also very emotionally vulnerable, and we see the Doctor as what he is a little bit more... a very, very old being, trying to hold the universe together all alone.