For me, Ecclestone is first with tennant as a close second. Matt smith has a nice character, but i think that he is being let down by the writing and the episodes, like how in half of the episodes, its not him who saves the day but the assistant, which can work but should only be used rarely, and there should be somthing that should stop the doctor from being able to help (the episode "42" was a good example of this)if this is used. For me, the assistant should be slightly less clever and the doctor should be slightly cleverer. But there are plenty of episodes to go before i can really judge him against the others, and the most recent episode was excellent.
Poll: Who is the Best Doctor?
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Tennant was good due to the fact I have seen the most episodes staring him I have only seen like five episodes with Eccelston and as an American viewer I have only seen two episodes with stone and need more episodes to make an opinion on the new doctor.
I feel very much in a minority here, but I loathed Tennant. The bug-eyed faux-enthusiastic schtick just made my skin crawl - and then the bits where he got 'serious', those I believed even less.
I only have a dim memory of the old Dr. Who film and series from my childhood, but I do vaguely recall a lot of them being closer to Tennant (hyper-active, over-excitable, extremely quirky) than Ecclestone (reserved, mysterious, 'grittier'). So maybe he's closer to the archetypal Doctor, and I'm plain WRAWNG in my preference. Eh.
Oh yeah, other things that bias me against Tennant:
I renounce Catherine Tate, and all her works.
"Are you my mummy?" was the best Dr. Who ep I've ever seen.
Constant unfunny comic relief peppering his run.
I only have a dim memory of the old Dr. Who film and series from my childhood, but I do vaguely recall a lot of them being closer to Tennant (hyper-active, over-excitable, extremely quirky) than Ecclestone (reserved, mysterious, 'grittier'). So maybe he's closer to the archetypal Doctor, and I'm plain WRAWNG in my preference. Eh.
Oh yeah, other things that bias me against Tennant:
I renounce Catherine Tate, and all her works.
"Are you my mummy?" was the best Dr. Who ep I've ever seen.
Constant unfunny comic relief peppering his run.
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I can honestly say, you have enough hair to be the next doctor who.Wahful said:
Tennant plays it better than the others, still it's early days for Matt and his scripts haven't been as strong as David's have.
This pol is slightly unfair considering smith has had only 4 episodes, but he already seems a better, darker Doctor than Tennant, the type of Doctor I'd expect to turn up after all he's been through. Though Tennants leaving episode was absolutely superb and really made me feel for him, I think Matt as a Doctor, (not the series as a whole) is better.
Also Paul McGann and arguably Peter Cushing. I really liked McGann, it's not his fault the script sucked huge swinging donkey balls.Agema said:
But yes, no-one can beat the Baker at his best.
[/sub]Of those three, I pick Tennant. I do object though, since Smith has had all of four episodes for us to compare to three seasons and five specials worth of Tennant episodes.
David Tennant was really good. Matt is awesome as the doctor but has very big shoes to fill which might make people not realise his potential. Plus he is bang tidy.