He will be nasty.
McCoy observed that the first doctor would sometimes scold his assistants and the second was kind of capricious, and made a conscious attempt to bring both of those traits back to the character. (So did Colin Baker, although all that came across was a permanent air of panic.) Eccleston seems to have extended that idea into 'Doctor Who is a grumpy old sod'. With Capaldi, I expect an exploration of 'what if Doctor Who turned out to actually be Alastair Campbell?'
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