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Hurray for Eleven! I always thought it was funny how he wears his watches on the inside of his wrists, and that was pretty much the inspiration for this pic. He looks worried about something! It's the world ending (for the hundredth time)Still need to get around to actually watching the rest of Series 6, instead of just my sister summing them up for me. Long live the Doctor!
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To me it seems like he's sad about something he knows will happen, but out of all of the times he has and in the future will he can't stop what will happen this time, akin to Ten's goodbyes to all of the companions he had before his inevitable regeneration during the last part of The End of Time. All he can do now is wait, constantly looking at his watch until whatever it is happens. Besides the descriptive similes this is a great drawing of Eleven, it definitely seems like him and at the same time fits your style very well. Good job
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Thank you! Though I'm sure 11 won't be all, "WAHHH I'M GONNA DIE" like 10 was in EoT. I just watched "When a Good Man goes to War" yesterday, it was really good! Though I can't believe that we're gonna have to wait until school starts for the second half of the season.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh WHAT!? Didn't know it was going to take that long :\ Also to me it's funny because when Amy kissed the doctor she basically kissed her son-in-law, and whoever paired the two together in the first place is going to take what they proclaimed and (unless they just find it kinky or something) finally clam up! XD
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Yes! AmyxDoctor is the most nonsense pairing in DW, since first of all it supports an Electra/Oedipal Complex relationship AND the reason you just said. It's all topsy turvy, since the Doctor was like Amy's surrogate father in a way, since she was an orphan when they met.
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Well technically you have to have parents in the first place to lose them and become an orphan, Amy to anyone other than the doctor (since the aunt is mentioned only once I can assume she gets erased from existence as well) is a being that wasn't born, but just came into existence some time ago. And in the very beginning their interactions just came to show that Amelia thought of the Doctor as an imaginary friend, but when she grew up to become Amy and it turned out he wasn't imaginary what stuck was that he became her friend, I'd label their current relationship on the borderlines between what Rose and Donna were to him; closer than friends, but farther from a couple. I get what you mean though I didn't approve of their pairing from the beginning, leveling with poor Rory
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Well, she had parents, but they just fell through the crack and became non-existent, but somehow Amy still existed, which doesn't make sense, since if her parents never existed then why would she still exist? But the Aunt appeared again in The Eleventh hour, but she was living in a different house than Amy after she grew up so it's not like they were very close.
The whole structure of Series 5 is very fairy-tale-like in its structure, with the Doctor being a bit like the fairy-godfatherlike figure; the link from the mundane, "inner" world to the extraordinary outer one. In Bruno Bettelheim's book The Uses of Enchantment:The meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, he discusses how in fairytales the way the protagonist develops to eventually break away from oedipal (parental) attachments instead of succumbing to them, like when Amy attempted to seduce the Doctor at the end of "Flesh and Stone." It also showed how Rory had to sort of "earn" Amy–since he seems to be rather timid by nature, but he later becomes braver and more worthy of her love. More fairytale/mythological motifs that appear:
-Amy's "death" and then two-thousand year sleep–sleeping beauty, anyone?
-The Doctor's mysterious appearing and disappearing just when Rory wishes for a "ridiculous miracle"
-An obvious one, the Pandorica and its allusion to Pandora's box
-Also, the part when Rory dies and becomes non-existent, and Amy forgets him, is very much like she is under a spell of forgetfulness, something that comes up a lot in myths.
-The settings themselves also have mythological or sacred associations; Stonehenge, the place where the ancient Celts congregated for ceremonies or burials (uncertain), the Cave of Angels, which had a very mummy/catacombs feel to it.
-Amy "invokes" the Doctor and the TARDIS from non-existence with a little rhyme or spell.
Not to mention that the Series ends with a wedding, a feast, and happy resolution for everyone, though unlike the traditional tale Amy and Rory still travel instead of exiting the story and settling down. Sorry for the realllly long comment, I've just given this a lot of thought, especially after reading The Uses of Enchantment, which, while permanently ruining Jack and the Beanstalk for me by psychoanalyzing it to death, had some pretty good points.
Can't wait for the next ep!
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I don't mind the long comment at all, I'm glad to see there's an artist my age that I can wage long-comments wars with 
The first phase belongs to Cristopher Eccleston, and can be phrased into 'The Introductory Veteran'. The pacing from the very start of this phase picks up fast to please old fans of the series, but only fast enough so people who are new to Doctor Who can get a clue. This Doctor is still reeling from the effects of the Time War that can be assumed to be relatively fresh in experience, and while he normally parades that wide smile of his he's been noted by many fans to be the most irritable of the Doctors, now that I think about it I remember how he took to calling humans "stupid apes" every time he was a bad mood. He was freaked out to the point of traumatization the moment he realized that the Daleks weren't finally gone and his destruction of Gallifrey and the Dalek fleets was all for nought.
(quotes from The Lost Child)
Doctor Constantine: "Before this war began, I was a father and a grandfather. Now I'm neither, but I'm still a doctor."
The Doctor: "Yeah. I know the feeling."
David Tennant is best seen as a 'Lonely Old Man', but not at first. After Rose finally starts to trust the new Doctor the times they spend together are most likely the best times of Ten's life, but then comes the day that Rose gets trapped in the other dimension, and ever since he's been drifting through all of time and space desperate to find a companion that would stay with him, only to tragically fail and have something horrible happen to everybody he gets near to. Because of Rose's presence Ten isn't as phased by the Time War as Nine, but his one crucial weakness, the one that gets him the most and makes him so jaded in the end, is that he can't move on. The more things happen to him the more he can't forget the past and look forward to a new day, I rarely saw Ten give a true, content smile during his last days. In Nine's time the styling of Doctor Who was still that of a cult show rather than a mainstream one, it had definitely lived up to the expectations of being a remake of the original but only to so far of a point. It it during Ten's time that the modern Doctor Who to me truly makes an identity for itself in all fronts. Nine himself was an amazing Doctor in his own right and a very underrated actor but to me he was only the show-starter, when he regenerated in the end and became Ten what set him apart as just an introductory character was this crucial detail: Who he regenerated with. Nine had Rose, and as he became Ten he was able to say goodbye to her and their adventures could continue, but Ten had nobody in the end he could be with as he was regenerating, making when it finally happen climatic.
Now why have I spent the time to type up a ridiculously long body of text such as this telling you stuff I'm sure you already knew about Doctor Who? Part of me felt my inner writer taking your last response as a challenge, but I also wanted to get those two eras clear and out on the table so I can explain what I think of Eleven so it makes sense.
Eleven has moved on.
The Time War no longer bothers him, that was too long ago and in The Doctors Wife he actually made a point of using that to supplement his boasting against House.
(Paraphrased quotes)
House: "Fear me, I have killed thousands of Timelords"
The Doctor: "Fear me, I have killed them all"
He has accepted the fates of his past companions, as he has made his final goodbyes to all of them except possibly Jack Harkness (He would have recruited him in the most recent episode if Jack wasn't filming in America), probably because he has met new ones that seem like they'll stay with him for a very long time
From the new opening (indeed, cracks in time would make the time vortex more difficult to ride in) to the new screwdriver and the Tardis, to the fairy-tale feel of the series that you've just explained yourself, heck to even the Dalek's PAINTJOB, everything has been changed. But why make everything so drastically different? Sure marketing and style trends explain a lot, but in-universe it serves a deeper purpose for Eleven's Character.
Eleven has moved on, most likely out of fear of the memories of his past two incarnations and what not moving on could possibly do to him.
If you apply this, then the pain Eleven's ganger goes through as it regresses through past regenerations and practically rips his hair for sounding like Ten for even just a moment is much harsher in hindsight. It's just interesting to me to think about it like this because when I do I see a duality to Eleven's eccentric behavior and various mannerisms, and the subtexts behind them. I can't wait for the next episode either, but I'm flat-out confused about what could actually happen in Lets Kill Hitler since the titles aren't always accurate (Vampires of Venice anyone?). Also wow this is a pretty impressive load I've put down, I'm not even sure if you're the type of person that reads all the way through ridiculously huge bodies of text, although it isn't hard to imagine
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I'd apologize for taking so long, but it took a long time to think of what to say.
I agree with you about 9's era being more like the starter, or the trailblazer–he did the very hard job of re-introducing Doctor Who to this time and making it enjoyable and relevant to this time. I know some people don't like the Time War thing that much, but I think it was a good idea and it makes the New series understandable without having to watch all the older eps. We also have to remember that it's not just the person playing the doctor who determines what that certain doctor will be like, there are writers and scripters and demanding fans as well. 9 did a good job introducing the series, and got it off to a good start. After many embarrassing efforts to introduce DW to friends via Youtube videos and "The Christmas Invasion" (which failed miserably), I realized that the best place to start them was with "Rose." It introduces everything you need to know (the Doctor is an alien who travels through time in a blue box that's bigger on the inside and it's just "the Doctor," not "Doctor Who) and since it's told from the perspective of the companion, we don't mind not knowing some things. Now, however, I prefer to introduce Whonewbies to "The Eleventh hour," which I think works better than "Rose" as an intro episode. More on that later.
After Eccleston, we had Tennant, who defined DW more and whose pretty face is probably just as responsible for the growing female DW fanbase as his acting and absurdities. No pun intended, but 10 became the "face" of DW then, the new iconic Doctor, with several humorous idiosyncrasies (and facial expressions.) He was a very good Doctor indeed, but I still can't get over the fact that they made him kiss every single one of his female companions, and give a bunch of excuses for it. "Genetic Transfer" "shock value," meh. I noticed that 10 was very prone to nostalgia and bouts of guilt ("You should have seen it, that old planet!"), which made sense that he would feel more of the pain after he lost Rose, but it could have been written better I think. Most of the time he came across as "poor angsty Doctor." and I just got annoyed with him. Granted, I haven't been able to watch Series 4 yet, but still.
I also agree with you about 11's having moved on in his life. A prominent theme in ALL of Doctor Who is the idea of change. No, not "prominent," obvious. When the main character himself changes his costume, face, and (to an extent) personality, change has got to be a theme. Change is inevitable, and we need to deal with it and not fight it. It's one of the reasons why Doctor Who is the longest running sci-fi tv show. It changes, it's adaptable, old things pass away, and new things come. We can miss the old things, but we must face the new things too. This was a theme that I actually had to deal with when I left my old school. Whenever I visit my friends from there, we’re still friends but we’ve both moved on from when we “left off.”
Another thing I admire about the Doctor’s overall character is his ability to “live in the present.” Even though he’s 900+ years old, and knows that “a longer life is not necessarily a better one,” he still knows how to enjoy himself with his friends and companions, even though he knows it won’t last. 10 stumbled somewhat in this regard, since during his post-Rose period (Picasso reference, hahaha) he started to wallow a bit too much in nostalgia and guilt, and didn’t quite get over it until he regenerated. I think it was a good time for him to regenerate then, since 10 was at the peak of his vulnerability then, although due to the lack of quality in the writing of EoT it came across less as vulnerability than self-pity. 
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He looks so sad.....maybe because he has to wait 3 months till the series comes back? I like how you could put alot of emotion in a simple picture like this.
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Hehe, glad you like it, and thanks for the watch!
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I love Doctor Who! (But mostly just the tenth Doctor! I mean he is on my webcam...)
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Unless Amy Pond gets in the way...
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Yeah, she'll be stuck with pointy nose.
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