In the last week or so I've been watching back some of the Ninth Doctor stories, and it hit me - I was enjoying the show a lot more than I have been over the last year or so. ( Major spoilers for Waters of Mars )
I actually really like that happy babbly scene at the beginning of "The End of Time" because it's so transparent that the Doctor is only doing that superficially as an extremely nervous response.
I'm not sold on the idea that the scene was written with that intention. I can believe Tennant chose to play it that way, but with the writing we've been given recently, it just feels like 'well, have to have babbly Doctor to start things off.' (tick!)
I absolutely think that's the way Tennant's playing it - you can see it in the body language. It's more evasive, and even more 10th Doctory than usual.
...and, as I said in the comment below, according to the commentary his reluctance to go there is an entirely deliberate attempt to spotlight the tenth Doctor's character flaws. He's trying to laugh in the face of destiny, and not really succeeding...
It wasn't RTD's characterisation of the Doctor that infuriated me, or the mysterious sudden appearance of the Ood, so much as Brooke's suicide, which struck me as completely out of character for her (and also left me wondering why settlers on an otherwise uninhabited planet would carry sidearms). Up until that point, I'd quite liked the episode, but I thought of three better endings by the time the credits had finished.
It's like RTD is having a mid life crisis he wants to see played out on screen. The fact that he has changed the Doctor so quickly bothers me. The Doctor has never been worried about human conquests, he loves Rose and didn't even go there with her.
If Gallifrey comes back, I just might cry. Not looking forward to The End of Time, I just keep telling myself Ten2 will become 11 and Rose will live happily with Ten. *Im happy in my denial bubble!*
I preferred Eccleston all the way, and was very sad to see him go. David Tennant has had his moments, but, really as a whole I really really love Eccleston.
Why? He just pulls it off better - see the episodes with the little kid asking where his mummy is. (Ironically with a not too dissimilar flavour to the plot to GIJoe did anyone notice?)
I have a sample of Eccleston in an Orbital song, You Lot, where his rant always, always reminds me of the Doctor - I also think he did a similar rant in the doctor series although the sample was actually taken from a moive.
Anyway, point of my ramble is - yay Eccleston Doctor Who!
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It's like RTD is having a mid life crisis he wants to see played out on screen. The fact that he has changed the Doctor so quickly bothers me. The Doctor has never been worried about human conquests, he loves Rose and didn't even go there with her.
If Gallifrey comes back, I just might cry. Not looking forward to The End of Time, I just keep telling myself Ten2 will become 11 and Rose will live happily with Ten. *Im happy in my denial bubble!*
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Why? He just pulls it off better - see the episodes with the little kid asking where his mummy is. (Ironically with a not too dissimilar flavour to the plot to GIJoe did anyone notice?)
I have a sample of Eccleston in an Orbital song, You Lot, where his rant always, always reminds me of the Doctor - I also think he did a similar rant in the doctor series although the sample was actually taken from a moive.
Anyway, point of my ramble is - yay Eccleston Doctor Who!
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I am seriously not ananymous or a number...
Actually I am a number aren't? Grins...
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