The Doctor of the 2005 series is not domestic. This is obvious, and perhaps not
that interesting, except for the fact that Russell T. Davies has, arguably, gone to
extreme lengths to accentuate his non-domesticity as a critique of the obsessive human
tendency to domesticate the world, both ideologically and more concretely through
colonialism. . . The ultimate form of domesticity is imperialism, a rationalizing ideology that
justifies its more concrete counterpart, colonialism: Since the Doctor is above all
a time traveler, I address the issue of imperialism’s domesticating violence within the
context of history. I argue that it is because the Doctor cannot be “naturalize[d],” or
made “familiar” (OED) that he disrupts those stories which are too quickly writ large as
History.