Now it's all over (kinda)

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1584929]

Personally, I'm torn between Ecclestone and Smith for favourite Doctor.

I've had an odd feeling from this season - it's seemed less dramatic than the previous ones, and part of me has felt less excited. But I've also enjoyed it a lot more. I think that part of me has been confused by NOT BEING SHOUTED AT ALL THE TIME, and has been wondering if that means the show isn't as good any more. Clearly not :->

Comments

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

I love Rory. I think he's brilliant.

But I'm still warming up to 11. Not quite there yet. I do like him, I just don't adore him yet.

[andrewducker]

Yeah - but this is one of the things I like about this series. I don't feel The Doctor is someone who should be adored in a Cullen-like manner, he should be more complex than that, and not nearly as likable. Pulling back from that makes me happier :->

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

It is perfectly possible to adore a character you don't like :)

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

DCI Jim Keats in Ashes to Ashes.

Great actor, horrible character!

[andrewducker]

Oh, absolutely. But it was more that I didn't necessarily want a Doctor that the audience fell madly in love with - at least not immediately. I'd rather have one who we liked and were entertained by. I sometimes felt that Tennant dominated the show, and I'd rather it was the other way around :->

[marrog.livejournal.com]

One of my vivid memories from the latest episode was the shot of the Doctor, strapped into the Pandorica, semi-conscious , head lolling back, and the blue light from the box hit his face and he looked completely alien - more like I dunno, Odo in DS9 than a human being. Like as his regenerations wain on he's becoming less and less human. And I just thought, how did I ever doubt that Matt Smith was anything less than perfect as the Doctor?

[andrewducker]

Well, I did doubt before he appeared. But I didn't leap into the "WHO IS THIS MATT SMITH? NOBODY CAN REPLACE OUR DAVID TENNANT. GIVE HIM BACK TO US!" fray. Partially because it seemed very silly, and partially because I remembered the "WHO IS THIS DAVID TENNANT? NOBODY CAN REPLACE OUR CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTONE! GIVE HIM BACK TO US." affair :->

But yes, he manages to be both young and old, human and alien at the same time, which is a damn fine achievement.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

My problem was never with David Tennant going - his time was up. I had just dearly wanted to see them do something different with the Doctor, and didn't want to see yet another easy-on-the-eye young heartthrob type take the role, which seemed to be the way they were going, picking up on the pale, silly-haired, skinny boy thing to cash in on the Edward Cullen effect.

My only hope at the time was that they would have a young man playing a very, very old, very alien Doctor. And to my delight, that's exactly what they've done.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

The more I've seen of Matt Smith, the more he reminds me of Patrick Troughton in that slightly mad-cap jester sort of way. Specially when he talks to himself in ways that are nonsensical to the other characters and occasionally to the audience too. But like Troughton he could also be deadly serious when he had to and then you got that glimpse of the ancient and weary being underneath.

Matt Smith feels more like an 'old' Doctor (in the 1960's/70s/80s sense rather than 900 years) than the other two did. I like that.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Matt Smith feels more like an 'old' Doctor (in the 1960's/70s/80s sense rather than 900 years) than the other two did. I like that.

Yeah, the whole of this latest season feels a lot more timeless, and I love it for that.

[blearyboy.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'd go with the slightly heretical view that Eccleston wasn't actually that good. Or rather, he was brilliant in his own way but not very Doctor-ey. Matt Smith, on the other hand, seems to have regenerated directly from Sylvester McCoy.