No, that's an oversimplification. Around the start of the Doctor Who, the Gallifreyan Time Lords were strict arbiters of non-interference (I'm guessing they've got some shameful meddling in THEIR past long before the Doctor came along to provoke this isolationist "for the good of everyone" stance). Thus the "no, we're going to arrest you for trying to save these people from painful and undeserving deaths" antagonist role they'd played early on (heck, they tried and 'executed' the Doctor once because he kept up his good-intentioned meddling with the timeline, forcing him to regenerate {presumably into a persona that would be more compliant with their rules})
Eventually, shit went down so harshly that even they were forced to abandon their isolationism and get involved in the 'temporo-geo/astro-political events' (I don't care - NOW it's a term
)......and they were TERRIFYING. In some ways, they made things worse.
The simple fact is, The Doctor *is* an aberration of his people. But not just because he is 'chaotic' "bend the rules to achieve his goals" to their 'lawfulness'...
...but also because he's 'good' - kind, helpful and MERCIFUL. I leave it up to personal preference as to whether the Gallifreyans were the implacable, pitiless 'Lawful Neutral', or the use-the-law-as-a-yoke-to-bind-them-all-to-my-will 'Lawful Evil', I'm kinda leaning toward them swaying back and forth between the two as 'time went on' (sorry) Case in point: Timothy motherfucking Dalton.
Yep; The Doctor's got a bit of burden - being the last of his kind, whom he had to get rid of to save everyone else.
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