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This pattern isn't accidental but seems to suggest a covert narrative undercurrent: that this incarnation of the Doctor is being deliberately portrayed as weak or emasculated, perhaps as a form of "humiliation ritual" embedded within the series. The critique further posits that this may be a form of meta-commentary or, more cynically, a tool of the show's writers to diminish the hero figure, perhaps even as a commentary on modern Doctor Who storytelling trends.