//Also since I’m in one of my bitchier more outspoken moods, I’m honestly really tired of everyone acting like Thirteen is a pure slice of uncomplicated goodness, because that is a disservice TO THIRTEEN.  And it makes me twice as angry because she’s a FEMALE muse and I swear it’s like if a muse is a woman she has to be flawless or people will drop her; meanwhile a male muse can be indefinitely angst-ridden, misunderstood and flawed–basically the formula for an interesting character REGARDLESS of gender–and nobody complains. In fact it’s perceived as an asset.  

Look, the Doctor has definitely improved in leaps and bounds. She’s far fairer, far less arrogant, far more compassionate, capable of short-cirtuiting her self-centered impulses.  

But she is still also cocky, intrusive, presumptuous, rude, occasionally fickle, distractible and sanctimonious.  

And cruel.  Despite Twelve’s own lesson to himself,  and though the Doctor will always be MORE than the sum of their mistakes, the Doctor will also always be capable of a cruel absolutism, the all-or-nothing madness of a fanatic and a vigilante.  That’s just THE DOCTOR.   The Doctor IS the Oncoming Storm. 

This face is a harbinger of hope, yes. She is highly evolved from her past faces.  But growth is not linear.  Goodness is not consistent. “Forgiveness is never going to be easy. Each day it must be fought for and struggled for and won.” ~Dead Man Walking. 

Let the Doctor be the Doctor. Allow flaws, and STILL love her.