Doctor Who: Why Whittaker’s Crimes Are Even Worse Than The War Doctor

Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor committed a shocking war crime in Doctor Who: Flux episode 6 – worse than anything done by the War Doctor.

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This article contains spoilers for Doctor Who: Flux episode 6.

Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor performed three acts of genocide in Doctor Who: Flux episode 6 – and her actions are even worse than the War Doctor’s. The various incarnations of the Doctor have always considered themselves champions of peace, but time and again they have been drawn into conflict. As River Song reflected in the classic Doctor Who episode “A Good Man Goes To War,” “Doctor, the word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word Doctor means mighty warrior.” However, while conflict remains a defining force for every incarnation of the Doctor to date, evidence from the Doctor Who: Flux arc indicates that Whittaker’s version may actually be even more ruthless than previous bloodthirsty regenerations.

The Doctor’s greatest conflict was, of course, the Time War. At first, the Doctor tried not to intervene, but he was drawn into it, choosing to regenerate into a new form to become a warrior. Played by John Hurt, the War Doctor is the incarnation the Doctor is ashamed of – the one who broke the vow to be a healer, and who instead became an agent of death and destruction, fighting on the front lines of the Time War. He ultimately committed himself to an act of double genocide, intending to use an ancient device called the Moment to destroy both the Time Lords of Gallifrey and the amassed Dalek fleet. He would have done so, too – if not for the Moment’s own conscience, which led the device to bring future Doctors to the War Doctor’s side, helping him choose another course.

Although this represents a genuinely dark moment in Doctor Who history, Doctor Who: Flux episode 6’s dramatic ending saw Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor go further than even the War Doctor. The Doctor learned the Sontarans intended to exhaust the Flux by tricking the Cybermen and the Daleks to gather all their forces at the point where the last Flux event would emerge into the universe. Other Doctors would have been appalled at the idea, but the Thirteenth Doctor decided to improve on the plan by ensuring the Sontarans were destroyed as well. Her plan to prevent the Flux literally involved three acts of genocide. Even more shocking, there wasn’t even a hint the Doctor’s conscience was troubled at the idea. Even the War Doctor seemed shaken by the acts he was contemplating, and it literally took another two incarnations for the Doctor to find peace over it. But the Thirteenth Doctor engineered a triple genocide as though it was nothing.

Some viewers may believe the triple genocide was justified; after all, the Doctor was “only” destroying Daleks, Cybermen, and Sontarans. Doctor Who: Flux episode 6 actually pitched the slaughter of the Sontarans as an act of retributive justice, payback for Karvanista because the Sontarans had wiped out his race, the Lupari. But this argument falls short, simply because other incarnations of the Doctor have consistently refused to commit genocide – even against the Daleks. In “Genesis of the Daleks,” the Fourth Doctor insisted he didn’t have the right to decide who lives and who dies on such a cosmic scale; in “The Parting of the Ways,” the Ninth Doctor decided he’d choose to be the “coward” every time rather than make such a choice again. And the Thirteenth Doctor had herself been appalled at an act of retributive justice in Doctor Who: Flux episode 2.

Making matters even worse, the triple genocide wasn’t even necessary. The three fleets weren’t enough to exhaust the Flux, and Diane came up with the idea of using Swarm’s Passenger instead – which contained an infinite amount of matter. This could have been done at any stage, meaning three acts of genocide were committed for no reason. As a result, the Doctor’s crimes in Doctor Who: Flux are even worse than the War Doctor’s – especially because they were simply unnecessary.

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