To clarify: the "mourning" of Rose and the rejection of Martha, which was so totally unlike something the Doctor would actually do that I still can't make it make sense in my head. Even Ten seems less self-obsessed than that.
This. It held over a bit into season 4, but Donna called him on it and he stopped being quite as much of an ass. But the obsession with Rose in general after she was gone was just so out of character for the Doctor.
It always slightly freaked me out the way he acted and spoke of her like she'd actually died, to the point where I could believe Fan Theories about the Doomsday Norway tag being his fantasy that she survived somehow.
Everyone brings up Adric here, but I look to Susan and how the Doctor doesn't spend years moping about losing her. Family > Love Interests. Plus S2 really did the groundwork to Move The Hell On when it never mentioned Reinette or Sarah Jane after they were off-screen. (Heck, River may as well not exist when she's not in front of us, and we all know how he feels about her.)
I have a weird reaction to this because I have hardly ever had a moment where I thought "that's so out of character." When the character does something out of left field, I think my brain immediately begins to try to figure it out and solve the problem, rather than blame the writers, or whatever
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Hm, I have to admit I occasionally go 'Would they really do that?' but I put up with it and use it as an excuse to get off my backside and fill the gap with fic, sadly none of which have been uploaded since they are all mostly still in note format.
The most glaring example for me has to be the sudden retcon of River Song, the entire thing made me go 'Dude, what the hell?' then I settled to rewatch it after letting all my fangirl-angst out in one long and very shouty convo with a friend, the rewatch did take some of the angst out of the situation as I suddenly went 'Wait, this explains why she's so brutal with the Dalek...' and just started writing again, in note format, about what happened to young Mels, why she was such an all-out cow and why, when Mels became River, she was so incredibly harsh at first, then later scared, then became the bad-ass she was in the library.
You know, it's hard to pick out an entire episode where the characterization was off. I can think of instances in a few episodes where suddenly a character did something that seemed out of character for them
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Everyone brings up Adric here, but I look to Susan and how the Doctor doesn't spend years moping about losing her. Family > Love Interests. Plus S2 really did the groundwork to Move The Hell On when it never mentioned Reinette or Sarah Jane after they were off-screen. (Heck, River may as well not exist when she's not in front of us, and we all know how he feels about her.)
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The most glaring example for me has to be the sudden retcon of River Song, the entire thing made me go 'Dude, what the hell?' then I settled to rewatch it after letting all my fangirl-angst out in one long and very shouty convo with a friend, the rewatch did take some of the angst out of the situation as I suddenly went 'Wait, this explains why she's so brutal with the Dalek...' and just started writing again, in note format, about what happened to young Mels, why she was such an all-out cow and why, when Mels became River, she was so incredibly harsh at first, then later scared, then became the bad-ass she was in the library.
Basically, for me all roads lead to fiction.
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THIS IN A NUTSHELL.
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