On Doctors and Such.

[fangrrl_squees]

I'm indulging in some Ninth Doctor tonight - and, okay, a bit of Jack Harkness, too - with The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances. It's been quite a few months since I've seen them last and I think I better understand the fans who weren't terribly happy with the the Ten/Rose dynamic. There really is a heck of a difference, one I somehow failed to notice - too busy squee'ing at David Tennant, no doubt.

Contraiwise, I'm seeing points of commonality between Nine and Ten (You humans really are remarkable, that whole riff) and that's rather reassuring, because I'd sorta dismissed them as being almost impossible to compare - except via Rose. Hm. Hmm... Methinks I'll have to have an organized sit-down and rewatch all of CE's season, fairly soon, as clearly my initial memory's faded and my opinions weren't that firm to begin with - beyond 'woot, I like!', of course.

I've said it before, and I'll no-doubt say it again: Chris Ecclestone was an excellent casting choice.

A Whovian co-worker of mine just started watching it - like 'last night' and so I'm looking forward to hearing his opinions. It's always nice to have someone to squee with.

Dr. Constantine's sprouting a gas mask, I'll wibble at y'all later.

Comments

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Have you seen Second Coming? In some ways, it's kind of an interesting expansion on Nine (even though it's not Who.)

For all my whining about how things changed with Ten, yadda yadda yadda - I do actually see some solid consistency/continuity in the character through both actors. I think the only way they really differed is in emotional vulnerability/accessibility. But I don't see any differences as unacceptable - The Doctor *does* change in various ways when he regenerates. I actually kind of like that. I just Eccleston had stuck around for another season or two - One season just wasn't enough time to play out some of the threads he was following.