So What If I Was Slow About Catching Up? It's A Show About Time Travel

[filkertom]

Here's how it's bouncing around in my head.

Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings is like the greatest love you will ever know, the greatest possible romance.

The Eccleston Doctor Who (which I finally just finished) is like the most fun, most stimulating, best possible sex.

So. I understand the Tennant stuff (which just went on sale today, what a co-inky-dink) is better...?

Comments

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

It like comparing Tom Baker's Doctor to Peter Davidson's. Both are wonderful but vastly different. Baker was much more whimsical, Davidson a lot most wistful. Tennet has the whimsy, Eccleston has the wistful.

Personally, I liked Eccleston's Doctor of the two.

And I disagree they dumbed down Rose. I think part of it is that in the first season, Rose was still pretty innocent, by the second season, she's lost her innocence and has lost the bravado of innocent. She's a lot more aware of how dangerous and scary the universe is.

[aulayan.livejournal.com]

For a bit there, I think the writers didn't know what to do with Rose. So she felt extraneous. Luckily they remembered who she was, what she saw, what she's been through, and even through some of the suckier episodes, wrote her properly.

All in my humble opinion of course.

[solarbird]

Eccleston had the haunted, and is the only Doctor Who of that sort. (Which makes sense, given what he'd been through in the books before the series started.) That makes him a big favourite of mine.

Tennet's doctor, I also like a lot. I agree that the writing in some of the episodes was not what it had been in Series 27, but I just look at it this way; in Series 27, you had, what, 15 years of script ideas bouncing around in peoples' heads? And you could pick from the best of those? You're going to do really well. And they did!

I still like Series 28 a lot, tho', even with "The Impossible Planet," which I thought was just an awful mess. It had the standout episode "Girl in the Fireplace" - that's the one that made me post about how you're going to love 18^th Century France - the whole Republic of Britain series, and the last few episodes running up to the series closer. So nice.