WATCHING DOCTOR WHO AS A SINGLE GUY is always a bit unsettling.  Ever since the show returned a few years ago, there’s been an emotional edge to the character rooted in his relational deficit, which becomes obvious whenever he loses a “companion.”

What’s the deficit?  It’s most plain in some of the last things that Amy Pond communicated to him before she and Rory left the show: don’t be alone.  Turns out that the first thing the biblical story calls “not good” is the true real danger in the Doctor’s life, not Daleks or the Master.  His greatest threat is loneliness.  It does things to him.  How sad that a man who travels triumphant through all of time and space can be brought low by something so “simple.”

The recent “Children in Need” special (an annual thing in Britain) hints at the Doctor’s “dangerous place” as this year’s Christmas special looms.  Check it out here.  And be kind to those of us who all too often travel alone.