As part of this year's Children in Need telethon, the BBC released 3 minutes from the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special. It seems the Doctor has recovered from his breakdown that caused my breakdown, is suppressing his emotions and rather than dealing with his own emotions regarding his mortality is gallavanting around, having misadventures, and making bad sexual decisions. (It's just shocking that I'd identify with this character, eh?)
But at least now we know why Elizabeth I was pissed at him at the end of :The Shakespeare Code". (Hint: Good Queen Bess is always known as "The Virgin Queen"; can you imagine that joke making it on a family show in the US. Probably not, but since the last episode ended with <spoiler> a suicide that was more or less caused by the show's hero<</spoiler>, it's pretty obvious we're dealing with a different standard.
