Comments | tempestsarekind: this is what happens to me late at night.

tempestsarekind

this is what happens to me late at night.

Aug 23, 2011 18:43

For tedious reasons, I wound up looking back at a bunch of stuff I'd written when I couldn't sleep last night. One of the things I found myself looking at was the post I'd written about RTD-era Doctor Who and its treatment of history: history as theme park ( Read more... )

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bookelfe August 24 2011, 05:14:39 UTC

These are all some of the many, many reasons that I enjoy Ten so much more than Eleven.

tempestsarekind August 24 2011, 23:13:12 UTC

I used to love Ten quite a lot, for quite a while, but toward the end of his time I just got so burned-out toward the character, and the way that the only narrative to be told about him was one where he was always alone.

Eleven is still all new and shiny for me--but more than that, he's so much more open. When his heart breaks--and it does--he doesn't close himself up, at least not to the same degree. He can be very private, and he definitely withholds information, but he doesn't hold back from affection.