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| Anonymous #633483 8 months ago |
seriously the 1 thing I could not stand about this new doctor who series is how whiney the doctor is. In the older series he was never this emotionally pathetic. |
| Anonymous #633506 8 months ago |
To be honest they got rid of that with Matt Smith. I honestly haven't seen him whine about his past or angst once.
Russel T. Davis on the otherhand made The Doctor quick the whiny bitch, even with David Tennent's performance. I mean, I haven't seen the The Doctor moan or cry about Gallafray. Except in "The Doctor's Wife" where he just gets angry about it. Despite Moffat making the series very long winded with it's continuously unanswered questions, at least he did make The Doctor pathetically state, "I don't want to go." Ugh, RTD is such a hack. Wait, what was I talking about? |
| Anonymous #633526 8 months ago |
^ You were very respectively expressing your distaste for Russel T. Davis' writing and his interpretation of the Doctor.
Although to be fair, the Ninth and Tenth Doctors had just recently suffered the loss of his entire race, by his own hands no less. So it makes sense for him to be sensitive and upset about that. One could certainly argue that RTD laid on the Doctor's angst too thick sometimes, but I don't think it's right to view that as a mistake on RTD's part that was corrected by Moffat. Moffat took over with a new Doctor, and had enough sense to realize that after living through the pain of loss and guilt literally through two life times, the Eleventh Doctor would more or less get over it. There's no guarantee that RTD wouldn't have decided the same thing if he had continued writing into Matt Smith's run as the Doctor. Of course whether he would have or not, it hardly matters since he stepped down to let a new writer take over with a fresh perspective on the Doctor as a character. Which is the way it should be, no matter how good or bad of a writer RTD may have been. |
| elementofchaos7 #635613 8 months ago |
I never really found Nine annoying with his angst, and Ten only on certain occasions (*cough*post-Doomsday*cough*), but I'm still glad that he's moving on since regenerating into his Eleventh self.
I don't think he'll ever quite forgive himself though, and as "The Doctor's Wife" (one of my fave episodes of Series Six BTW) demonstrated, he still longs to not be the last of his kind. "Let's Kill Hitler" also made clear he still feels guilt over the fates of past companions. Unlike Ten, though, he never really brings it up, and when asked about it he usually responds off-handily. IIRC, I can vaguely recall him referring to the Time War as a "bad day" in one of the Series 5 episodes, "The Beast Below" I think? Arguably he isn't the last of his kind anymore, because of Jenny (sort of, even if he doesn't know she's alive) and River (again, sort of), but I'd find it odd if he DIDN'T miss Gallifrey and his people... /nerd XD Anyway, time to comment on the actual image! I like it, and seeing Eleven!Doctor Whooves is nice. For reasons obvious to anyone who watches Doctor Who, I imagine this is after "The God Complex", but it doesn't really matter. I find it oddly easy to read the narration in Matt Smith's voice... |