YMMV / Doctor Who (Titan)

• Broken Base:
  • Whether the huge number of companions the Doctor takes on in The Eleventh Doctor: Year Two makes things interesting, or makes it harder for readers to deal with multiple storylines every time (especially as this title is far more serialized than its sisters).
  • The Twelfth Doctor: Year Two. Some like it for the improved art styles, returning Who villains and acknowledgement of the events of Series 9, which was one of the most critically acclaimed seasons for the revived Doctor Who series. However, some criticise it for falling into the same trap that Series 7 landed itself in: The inconsistency of the season as a whole when the companion is switched midway throughout it. Some fans would have preferred the original plan to have Clara Oswald remain the companion for all of Year Two instead of being switched out for various Canon Foreigners starting with Issue 6, while others were happy for Twelve to finally take on other companions instead of beating a dead horse long after the show itself moved on — and Clara got A Day in the Limelight anyway with Issues 1-4.
  • Year Two of the Thirteenth Doctor comics being a series of multi-Doctor crossover stories with the Tenth was highly unpopular with some fans for the apparent implication that Titan weren't satisfied with Thirteen's level of popularity and felt the need to team her up with another, very popular, Doctor. Add the fact that the first arc within Year Two takes place during "Blink" and has a lot of depiction of Martha's unrequited love for Ten and his clueless response to it, which is a major specific sore point for many of the fans who dislike Ten.
  • When The Thirteenth Doctor comics were announced, the comics for the previous three Doctors were cancelled despite there seemingly being plans for them to continue with a Year Four. This left several plotlines Left Hanging with no clear resolution which annoyed fans of the comics.
  • In relation to the above; Titan's change of focus from 2021 and onward into releasing gimmicky miniseries in place of actually continuing their unresolved storylines. One of the most divisive being Empire of the Wolf, a story that was advertised as a celebration of the Eighth Doctor's 25th anniversary, but was actually an unwarranted continuation of the story of the alternate Rose Tyler introduced in Alternating Current, with the Eighth and, for some reason, Eleventh Doctors arbitrarily thrown into the mix.
• Growing the Beard: The switch in artists for The Twelfth Doctor: Year Two results in a jump in the visual quality of the comic, particularly where Twelve himself is concerned. In addition the Year One stories, most of which ran alongside/between Series 8 and 9 and thus couldn't incorporate much of Twelve's televised continuity, are slightly generic Who adventures that could have easily fit other Doctor-companion teams. Year Two, which launched shortly after Series 9 aired, isn't hindered by this. Villains the Doctor has faced in the TV series appear along with original threats, his and Clara's Character Development is acknowledged, and from there it moves on to post-Series 9 adventures (albeit limited to between "Hell Bent" and "The Husbands of River Song"), giving Twelve a bigger Expanded Universe than he had before.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: "The Fourth Wall" features the one-off character Natalie, a comic book-loving teen. She appeared alongside the Twelfth Doctor in an uncolored preview image at the end of "Clara Oswald and the School of Death" Part Four, and turned out to bear a striking physical resemblance to his Series 10 companion, Bill, who was introduced to the public in the "Friend from the Future" short not long afterward, causing many fans to wonder if she wouldn't be making her debut in the Expanded Universe first with Series 10 being pushed back to Spring 2017. Rachael Stott, the artist on these storylines, assured readers that these were two different characters and the resemblance was purely coincidental.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: From the Eighth Doctor story "Music of the Spherions", during Josie's speech to persuade the Spherions not to keep killing the Calaxi for their survival, she states that "everyone matters", no matter who they are, where they come from, or what they have done. Three stories later, we find out that Josie is a portrait of a far-future aristocrat that came to life and only wants to be her own woman, which puts more weight on her speech.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The Twelfth Doctor saving Gabby after she fell out of the Tenth Doctor’s TARDIS. Even though he states he no longer likes hugs, he embraces her anyway.
  • Rose Tyler reuniting and later bidding farewell to the Eleventh Doctor, shortly after he lost Amy and Rory and centuries since he last saw her. Before leaving, she implores him to not travel alone.
• Like You Would Really Do It: The constant fakeout deaths in the The Ninth Doctor miniseries "Weapons of Past Destruction" can qualify as this. These said fakeout deaths mainly occur to the Doctor, Jack and Rose, making it harder for hardcore Doctor Who fans to be shocked if they die, as the miniseries is set between the Revived Series 1 episodes "The Doctor Dances" and "Boom Town", making the miniseries a Foregone Conclusion in which the trio will survive unscathed.
  • This is also a major issue in the annual multi-Doctor miniseries, especially Supremacy of the Cybermen; both of them involve the threat of the televised continuity getting gigantic alterations thanks to the villains — and that's just not going to happen.
• Shocking Moments: The entirety of The Eleventh Doctor: Year Two story "Fast Asleep", as it ties up many unsolved questions of the Doctor's supposed genocide.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The Tenth Doctor "retro-regenerates" into the Ninth Doctor! Surely this is going to be used as an opportunity to have some fun with Nine's character? Well, no; it lasts all of one page after the Cliffhanger and Nine never gets to show off his own personality before turning back into Ten.
  • Summaries for The Weeping Angels of Mons (both for individual issues and the trade collection) suggested that the Angels sending WWI soldiers back in time might be considered "salvation" for men who would end up dying in the conflict otherwise. The actual story not only doesn't dwell on this, but negates it by immediately showing most of the Angels' victims as no better off in the past, stuck on trains destined to crash or being tried for witchcraft by paranoid villagers.
• Unexpected Character:
  • The Twelfth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith appearing in the Tenth Doctor Year Three.
  • Abslom Daak from the Doctor Who Magazine comic continuity appearing in the Eleventh Doctor Year Two.
  • Margaret Jingatheen, the grown-up second life of Blon Slitheen, appearing in the Twelfth Doctor Year Three.
• The Woobie: Gabby's friend Cindy. Throughout the first two years of The Tenth Doctor, she gets into trouble for creating a mess in her friend's laundromat, has her ear drums blown by the Echoes, is forced into an extraterrestrial plot where she faints after coming face to face with Sutekh, misses the chance to travel with the Doctor and Gabby, ends up being hunted by Mr. Ebonite, is nearly killed by Gabby (who is being mind-controlled by Mr. Ebonite) in the Arena of Fear, has a friendship breakdown with Gabby during a trip to Dewbury, England, where she is also mind-sucked by the Wishing Well Witch, nearly gets lost in the TARDIS when an outside force attacks it, and finally, loses a recent boyfriend in New Orleans during the Jazz Age, affecting her greatly.