Vespiion
01.16.13 | Tennant's the man |
WeepingBanana
01.16.13 | more like doctor who the fuck cares about this show anymore |
silentstar
01.16.13 | I would rank them the same way. While Eccleston had a much more mature and darker personality, Tennant carried the magic all the way. Matt Smith is the fun, childish one, so it's quite nice to see the contrast among the three of them. Eccleston's episode about the gas mask kids was brilliant though. |
Rowan5215
01.16.13 | Matt Smith > Christopher Eccleston > David Tennant. They all rule though. |
Vespiion
01.16.13 | @Weeping, seeing as the last season's premiere broke BBC's records, a lot of people. |
Vespiion
01.16.13 | And I agree, they all portray the Doctor really well. Tennant is just my personal favorite because of how dynamic he is. |
iwasnvrurbf
01.16.13 | 10>9>11 |
Rowan5215
01.16.13 | Eccleston is so underrated though, almost no-one mentions him cos of how popular Tennant got. But he's fucking awesome, his series > all of Tennant's. |
WeepingBanana
01.16.13 | just messin around bro. never watched an episode but i just have a lot of negative feelings towards the show |
GnFnRs87
01.16.13 | Tennant's Doctor had more range because of Tennant as a great actor but Eccleston brought a darker side that I enjoyed and his episodes were better
Personally I enjoy some classics too, Sylvester McCoy and Jon Pertwee especially |
Rowan5215
01.16.13 | @GnFnRs87 Yeah the classics are just as good. Sylvester McCoy is my personal favourite out of the first eight Doctors, he was fantastic. @WeepingBanana any particular reason why? |
GnFnRs87
01.16.13 | You're also forgetting 'The Unquiet Dead' and 'Dalek', only laughably bad episodes were probably the fucking Slitheen ones. The finale was great, they didn't ruin the Daleks like they did at the end of series 4 |
kris.
01.16.13 | if eccleston had better writing omg |
Vespiion
01.16.13 | ^Pretty much my sentiment. He has several golden moments. |
iwasnvrurbf
01.16.13 | The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances were the best Eccleston episodes, along with one of the scariest Doctor Who monsters, that in the end weren't that scary |
Polyethylene
01.16.13 | Tennant easily |
Rowan5215
01.16.13 | The writing for Tennant wasn't much better than the writing for Eccleston anyway, they made the Daleks the most easily defeatable enemies in the show. S1 has more great episodes than Series 2, 3, and 4 - S1 had Dalek, Father's Day, Empty Child/Doctor Dances and the finale. |
AtomicWaste
01.16.13 | Tennant's my favorite, though I really like Matt Smith these days as well.
Eccleston didn't really get enough time to draft a true comparison. |
Polyethylene
01.16.13 | Agreed |
Rowan5215
01.16.13 | The "biggest dues ex machinae ever" was the way they defeated the Master in S3 - god that was an awful ending. |
AtomicWaste
01.16.13 | "The "biggest dues ex machinae ever" was the way they defeated the Master in S3 - god that was an awful ending."
Yeah, the more I look back on that, the more I really dislike that ending. Though I do love the Master.
"rose is infused with time energy to become god, beats the bad guys, gets it stripped away and has no further repercussions. woo boy."
Same thing kinda happened with Donna, though I guess there were more repercussions. |
Rowan5215
01.16.13 | Yeah the Master is amazing I just hate that ending - hey let's get everyone to say Doctor and chuck in a reference to the Archangel network and everything'll be fixed! My god. The point is, the writing in S2, 3 and 4 was no better than the writing in S1. |
kris.
01.16.13 | all of the master episodes in the new series have been pretty bad imo |
silentstar
01.16.13 | ^^ definitely agree with that. they took the concept of time travelling a bit too seriously and the whole world ending and reviving, as well as remembering the doctor and thereby causing him to exist again was a bit over the top. Moffat was a better part-time writer than a full time-writer |
silentstar
01.16.13 | whoops, I thought you were talking about series 5 and 6 exclusively |
Rowan5215
01.16.13 | He said "Master episodes", lol. The End of Time was alright I guess but Tennant deserved a better send-off. And Series 5 and 6 are written so much better than the previous ones. |
silentstar
01.16.13 | right right., i read master episodes as the finales.
while I do feel that series 5 and 6 have more interesting ideas, I just found the endings a bit lacking. however, the new season is shaping up to be quite nice. I still have to watch the Christmas episode though |
kris.
01.16.13 | nah i like moffat's episodes
tennant's departure was like 10 minutes too long and tried way too hard to be 2 EMOSHUNAL
i was like omg im cryin and then i was like okay when does he finally die ugh |
Rowan5215
01.16.13 | ^ Yeah it was a bit long. That cafe scene in Part one though, goddamn.... ten times sadder than the actual regeneration. And yeah, Moffat > RTD any day. @InnocentShadow I agree, S7 might just be the best one yet, we'll see. And the Christmas episode is easily the best one since 2005, IMO. |
Polyethylene
01.16.13 | John Simm is epic though, Life on Mars and Mad Dogs baybey |
kris.
01.16.13 | john simm played him perfectly but the writing was awful as well as the stories and RTD can suck it |
GnFnRs87
01.16.13 | Tennant's send-off was way overdone but the episode itself was good- agreed on John Simm as being a great Master but the end of Series 3 fucking sucked. They set it up brilliantly creating the Master's Earth and then went and fucked it with a shitty ending, same with the Daleks- they're defeated so damn easily, though I do still enjoy their episodes.
Always loved the Cybermen, here's hoping for a parallel Cybermen vs our universe Cybermen with the Doctor caught in the middle one day |