Another example is how he dealt with the last "pure" human in the second episode. He wasn't very nice there, either.

SPOILER: I like the newest doctor (David Tennant), he's a lot more aggressive than the rest of the doctors, he also gets a lot more involved in the action.

Edited by Mashirosen because what did I just say about spoilers for the second season in this thread? I seriously don't want to have give someone a warning for something as goofy as this, so please don't force my hand.

I thought the second series is ok so far but all the referances to Spoiler Torchwood(end Spoiler maybe?) may get a little tiring. What does everyone else think?

I liked the first series, the doctor is played by a great actor, it's the first Doctor Who in many, many years and the writers were/are fans of the earlier series'.

Drax, I'm already tired of those references, but then Brian and I may be the only people on the planet who aren't looking forward to SPOILER a Jack Harkness spin-off.

Although I did think it was pretty interesting in that episode when SPOILER Queen Victoria bitched them out for being so flippant about everything. Rose in particular had been getting on my nerves the whole episode with her "tee hee, lookit the funny dead people in old-timey clothes, they act like fings that happen to them are important or sumfing, innit" attitude, so I liked that one of them finally stood up and asked exactly who the hell these two clowns think they are. Of course the lesson didn't stick, but it felt like another hint that they're being set up to take a fall later on.

oh come on, captin Jack's funny! They could be slightly less obvious about it though.

They keep making references to a war between the Daleks and Time Lords, in which both races are eventually wiped out with the exception of the Doctor and the single Dalek that landed on Earth. They hint that this mass destruction was somehow the Doctor's fault. Did this happen in one of the earlier series with a different Doctor? Or are they waiting to tell us the whole story in one of the later episodes? I've only seen the Fourth Doctor episodes, so I have no clue.

Well, It's not explained in great detail. And no, it's not something done before. You just get a basic idea of what happened over the series.

Looking at it on a practical basis, it also might be that there just isn't enough in the effects budget to actually show what happened then. Then too, leaving it unseen and having the Doctor never discuss it in detail also makes it seem even more nightmarish than any amount of effects could, since we're then obliged to imagine what kind of total armageddon situation could be so bad as to give someone like the Doctor, who's seen a lot of bad stuff go down in his 900-year lifetime, what amounts to PTSD.

Well, in the last Dalek episode shown here in America, the Doctor kinda let it slip that he was a coward and ran away or something like that. I think the Doctor and the Dalek gave enough hints about the time war in that one episode that we can kinda piece together what happened in the war.

I wouldn't be so sure.