does this ruin shows for you?

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I was just rewatching Doctor and as I was watching the 10th Doctor I noticed the doctors ethics changed big time. In "The Sontaran Stratagem" The doctor is clear he hates guns. Then in "The Time of Angels" (Angels being my favorite Doctor Who monster) the 11th Doctor uses a gun when is SS would have been just as useful! Once I saw that I saw The doctor breaking a lot of his and time rules. From changing others time lines to changing his own time line T.T Once I start to see core ethics and core rules being broken I find my self not able to continue watching a show. does anyone else feel this as well? Or are you able to over look it?

It's an evil attendant on long-running and/or multi-writer shows (and other formats, like comics or book series). There are a couple of trade-offs they have to make. If they had just one person writing shows consecutively for a whole season or several seasons, it would take a long time, and would be limited to the ideas that one person could come up with. By spreading episodes out across different writers, they can have scripts ready quicker and without overtaxing one writer, and they can potentially be more creative, as there are lots of different people with different ideas. The downside is of course that what one person writes may not be rigorously checked against what others write. Who is an example, as it's progressed with little concern for continuity between very many writers for a very long time and across very many formats. They ought to have been able to keep the more recent reboot together better, I suppose. ^^

Star Trek OS did the same thing - they had a Starfleet 'Prime Directive' about non-interference with other cultures, but they flagrantly broke it every other episode. Sometimes they even discussed it, then went ahead and broke it anyway. But if they hadn't, there wouldn't have been much drama. They would have arrived at a strange planet, seen some horrible injustice occurring and said "Oh, well. Not our business" and gone on their merry way. Its a bit of a conundrum, admittedly, but its just a convention of episodic television drama. As a writer, I understand and I can overlook it up to a point, but sometimes it is so outrageous it just ruins the story for me. What I hate worse are writers who create epic and diverse threads of complex storyline and then just drop them as if they never existed and go off in an utterly unconnected direction with no explanation.

Starfleet 'Prime Directive is a good example but not what I am talking about. Starfleet find themselves in places where they HAVE to break the rules. I am talking about The doctor using a gun for no reason and going back in his own time line to not talk to a kid so the kid wont run home and get hit by a car.( I know it was the radio broadcast still)
Or in Avatar TLAB must master master the elements in order to unlock the next only to see him trying to learn a different element and able to use it.