Generic Gamer said:
Disaster Button said:
The more I think about the end of the episode, the less I understand it.
The Doctor spent the whole time explaining (mainly to Amy) that Gangers are no less people than humans are, then he went and dissolved her a reason that wasn't explained (yet). Doing all of that and then just to treat her like the other humans treated their Gangers just seems cruel.
You know...the more things the Doctor does this series the more I'm starting to sympathise with the coalition for locking him away.
The Doctor would appear to be a horrible person from what I can tell, he's basically killed his way indiscriminately through...I'll go with 5 episodes now because episode 4 seemed very reasonable.
As per usual I think I'm going to get quoted a billion times with people telling me that some time in the seventies he totally did that one thing but the Doctor is not an internally consistent character! He has no chain of reasoning that can be followed and frequently contradicts himself over what's morally acceptable.
You're basic beef is that the Doctor is murdering everything in his way with little or no morality compared to previous regenerations, yes?
Discounting pre-new series, which I myself have little experience in, let's start at 2005. I'll add one morality point if he tries to reason with an enemy, minus 1 if he doesn't and kills/deals with them. No points if the enemy isn't really an enemy (see; The Empty Child)
Series 1:
Rose: Tries to bargain with the Nestine Conciousness. Nestine dies. [1 morality point]
End of the World: No options, stands there and
watches Casandra die in front of him and Rose [-2 morality points for being a douche]
The Unquiet Dead: No options. Geth die [-1]
Aliens of London/World War 3: No options. Launches a missle at Downing Street to solve problem [-1]
Dalek: No option. Tries to kill the Dalek from the moment he knows about it. [-1]
The Long Game: No options. [-1]
Father's Day: No score, Reapers are by product of the death of the Time Lords. Unavoidable [0]
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances: No option, not really an enemy. By product of medical ship. Saves Jack from death [1]
Boom Town: Prepared to take Margaret Blaine to her death [-1]
Bad Wolf: Prepared to kill all Daleks out of spite, No options given [-1]
The Parting of the Ways: Doesn't kill Daleks, no options given [1 point for being nice]
Eccleston scores: -5 Morality Points
Series 2:
The Christmas Invasion: Gives the Sycorax a chance to leave. [1]
New Earth: Plauge Zombies not really an enemy. Cat people no threat. [0]
Tooth and Claw: Is prepared to kill the Warewolf without options. However, only kills it after it asks to die. No score [0]
School Reunion: Gives options. [1]
The Girl on the Fireplace: Doesnt give clockwork robots a chance. Not a real enemy to start with. Only doing their job. [0]
Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel: Only keeps Lumic talking so Micky can find the code to give the Cybermen back all their emotions. Subjecting thousands to personal agony of being trapped inside metal suits. Most die. [-2 for being a douche to half the world]
The Idiot's Lantern: Gives chance to leave [1]
The Impossible Planet/ Satan Pit: No options given to the devil. Didn't save the Ood. [-2, minus one per enemy he killed]
Love and Monsters: No options. [-1]
Fear Her: Gives options [1]
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday: No options given. Sucks all enemies into the void between dimensions [-2, minus one for Daleks, minus one for Cybermen]
Tennant scores in series 2: -3 Morality Points
Series 3:
The Runaway Bride: Commits genocide [-2 for being a douche]
Smith and Jones: Causes death of the Plasmavore without giving her a chance. [-1]
The Shakespeare Code: Doesn't actually kill them, but gives no options. No score [0]
Gridlock: Doesn't kill Macra. No other enemies. No score [0]
Daleks In Manhatten/Evolution of the Daleks: Daleks kill each other, tries to help human-Dalek. [2 points for being nice to the Daleks]
The Lazarus Experiment: Tries to reason with Lazarus [1]
42: Doesn't kill enemy. No options given. No score
Human Nature: Tries to save the family by running from them. [1]
The Family of Blood: Tortures each family member. I would really like to give minus 4 here, -1 for each family member but: [-2 for being a torturing douche]
Blink: No options given to the Angels, succeeds in trapping the Angels forever. [-1]
Utopia: Tries to reason with the Master out of lack of options. [1]
The Sound of Drums: Attempts to stop the Master and reason with him [1]
Last of the Time Lords: Tries to reason with the Master [1], makes no attempt to save the Toclofane [-1], tries to keep the Master as pet in his TARDIS [-1]
Tennant scores in series 3: -1 Morality Points
Series 4:
Voyage of the Dammed: Saves everyone who was saveable. Gives no options to Max, Astrid kills him though. [1]
Partners on Crime: The Adipose are saved. Nothing could be done about the people killed by the fat or Mrs Foster. [1]
The Fires of Pompeii: Kills thousands, however, fixed point in history that wasn't his fault. No score. [0] However, he gets a minus for not giving the Pyrovilles a chance [-1]
Planet of the Ood: Can't do anything about the Ood until too late. Can't stop Ood Sigma turning his boss into an Ood. No score [0]
The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky: Gives Stall a chance to leave (although I can't think why), is willing to sacrifice himself for it. [2]
The Doctor's Daughter: Doesn't kill in revenge. [2]
The Unicorn and the Wasp: No real enemy to give options to. No score [0]
Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead: Reasons with the Vasda Narada [1]
Midnight: No real enemy to bargain with. No score [0]
Turn Left: Doctor plays no part in the episode. No score [0]
The Stolen Earth/Journey's End: Dupe Doctor commits genocide. No score. Tries to save Davros [1]
Tennant's series 4 score: 6 Morality Points!
Specials:
The Next Doctor: Attempts to reason with the Cybermen [1]
Planet of the Dead: Promises to make sure the swarm are directed to other planet. [1]
Waters of Mars: Goes a bit mental. Gives no options to the Flood. [-1]
The End of Time: All prepared to kill the a Time Lords and/or the Master. However, does neither. [1]
Tennant's Specials score: 2 Morality Points.
Tennant's final Score: 4 points. If it wasn't for series 4, he'd be on minus figures.
Series 5:
The Eleventh Hour: Attempts to reason with Prisoner Zero. [1]
The Beast Below: Tries to do what's best. Despite that being vegetating a living creature to save humans. No score for being morally grey. [0]
Victory of the Daleks: No attempts to reason. All prepared to kill the Daleks until they reveal Gracewell. [-1]
Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone: No options given to the Angels. [-1]
The Vampires of Venice: Attempts to reason. [1]
Amy's Choice: Not a real enemy. No win situation. No score. [0]
The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood: Attempts peace. [1]
Vincent and the Doctor: Can't communicate with alien to reason. Death of the alien out of the Doctor's control. No score. [0]
The Lodger: No enemy to reason with. No score. [0]
The Pandorica Opens: Tries to reason with the Alliance out of desperation. No score. [0]
The Big Bang: Death of the Dalek not by the Doctor's hands. No score. [0]
Smith's series 5 score: 1 point!
Series 6 (so far):
Christmas Carol: Reasons with Sardic. [1]
The Impossible Astronaut: No enemies revealed. Attempts in vain to stop Amy shooting the astronaut. [1]
Day of the Moon: Uses the Silence's own powers of suggestion to turn the human race against them. Not genocide as the Silence have the spaceships necessary to escape Earth. [-1]
The Curse of the Black Spot: Nobody dies but the Doctor gives murderous pirates a spaceship. [-1 for being short sighted]
The Doctor's Wife: Doesn't reason with House, however, justified because he toyed with Amy and Rory and tried to kill his TARDIS by forcing her into a human mind. [-1 technically, but I think what he did was a-ok]
The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People: Attempt peace. [1] Kills ganger Amy for no reason. [-1]
...
Smith's score for series 6 so far: -2
The point of all that was that even taking out of the picture the old Doctor's, the new series Doctor was very morally grey/a douche even before Smith and Moffat came along.
Edit: Apart from the order of the episodes that I had to look up, that's all from memory but I'm confident that it's accurate.
. But though she didn't explicitly reveal it, the Doctor is smart, remember. He probably figured it out from what she was saying, even though he doesn't know the full story.