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

[hms42]

He makes an interesting Doctor.

Tom - If you CAN locate it, track down (via torrent) the Children In Need Special from 2005. Its about 7 minutes long and worth watching BEFORE seeing Series 2 (2006). It fills in a key hole that is NOT explained elsewhere and as far as I know, NOT on the DVDs (on either side of the pond.)

Harold

[neadods.livejournal.com]

So. I understand the Tennant stuff (which just went on sale today, what a co-inky-dink) is better...?</i. Different doctors, different strokes - some things Tennant does better, sometimes the scriptwriters do him worse in the stories they give him. However, episode three? Utter, utter, utter win if you liked old school Who. And that's all I'm going to say.

[skipjim.livejournal.com]

I think I like the Eccleston Doctor a little better, mostly because I had the experience of introducing my two young children to the good Doctor with his run of episodes.

Heck we even sat around this weekend and watched a marathon of the first season on BBC America this weekend.

Come to think of it there's an episode of it on right now..........

[opalcorn.livejournal.com]

"So. I understand the Tennant stuff (which just went on sale today, what a co-inky-dink) is better..." Well, yes, and no. I am besotted with the Eccleston Doctor Who, he's quite intense and more than a little sexy..imho. :) However, I do like the Tennant Doctor Who as well (I was so afraid I wouldn't). He's just very different, rather goofy and funny. What I don't like is how they dumbed down Rose for the 2nd season and turned her into a caricature. All in all tho, I do like both Doctors, and when I scrape up the funds, I will purchase both seasons on dvd.

[wwetuesday.livejournal.com]

Hard to find? Don't think so.

[druidsfire.livejournal.com]

The Children in Need special is important.

But I tend to prefer Christopher's run. David's was all fine and dandy, but I don't think it was rock solid the whole time... Christopher's was stronger the whole way through, IMHO.

But I'm still buying the DVDs when I have spare cash. :)

[aulayan.livejournal.com]

I have a long lasting man-crush on Eccleston so I can't find Tennant better...

However Tennant is GOOD. Just, IMO, many of the episodes of season 28 were disappointing to say the least. Having said all that, I've watched Girl in the Fireplace at least 8 times now.

[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.

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

I think Tennant is more in the line of classic Doctors of the past; Eccleston was something completely different. Which isn't a bad thing at all, really. If I'd been the Doctor and got to be in a spiffy new body like Tennant's, I'd be happy too. (My son calls Tennant the "Happy Doctor" and loves him above all things.) I do think Nine and Rose had better chemistry than Ten and Rose, but it would have been hard to duplicate that.

As for the strength of the episodes - I'll leave you to it. :)

[superherogrlcat.livejournal.com]

Wait...people are saying Tennant is better than Eccleston!? D: Blasphemy!

As good, maybe, but no one can beat out Ecclescake's glorious Doctor Number Nine! -_-


I love them both, mind. Besides, the two of them play such incredibly different Doctors it's hard to compare.

[sdorn.livejournal.com]

Our first disk (from Netflix) came today. Whooeee!

[allisona.livejournal.com]

I preferred Doctor number Nine, but David Tennant is lovely, too. There are some episodes of Tennant's season that really lingered for me- "School Reunion" is my favorite, but also "The Girl In The Fireplace" and the season finale. Tennant has some great moments in the recent Christmas episode, too.

[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

Just to throw in my own heretical (at least in this company, it seems) opinion, neither of them measure up to John Pertwee.

[the-gwenzilliad.livejournal.com]

I prefer David Tennant, but as you can see, people mileage is definitely varying. I'm afraid I'm a member of the "can't stand Rose" club. I was fairly disappointed they didn't kill her off at the end of the last series, leaving possibilities open for future spinoffs, I suppose. However, I didn't like the Christmas companion, either, and I hope they find someone better before the next series officially begins in a couple months. Then again, what do I know? :)

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

I think Tennant is -- amazingly -- a better Doctor. But the writing is more uneven in his first season, with some episodes that are absolutely incredible and some that are just plain awful. The first half is unfortunately the better. I can't wait to see him next season, though.

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

Extended honeymoon in Maui?

[batyatoon]

They are both so damn good. So, so damn good.

I cannot choose! I MUST HAVE THEM BOTH!

-- I mean, uh, ahem.



WHY do I not have a Doctor Who icon.

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

I didn't like Eccleston's Doctor at all. (I may have mentioned this once or twice.) He's allowed in the house now, on condition that he sits quietly in a corner and touches nothing, because he's a necessary bridge to Tennant, but I thought the actor brought far too much of his own baggage on board for someone who from the *outset* was only filling in for a year till they could get someone decent to do it.

Mind you, since the BBC officially denied that Tennant was planning to jump ship some time in the next year and a bit, he's on probation as well. Three years is a bare minimum for a stint as the Doctor. There are thousands of good (non-starry) actors who would be glad of the work, and would do well at it. If it had been me, they'd have had to pry the sonic screwdriver from my cold, dead fingers... (Somewhere I may still have the mockup of the Doctor Who magazine cover I did back in the eighties with my posterised face against a starfield and a little TARDIS floating in front. Yes, I am that sad geeky passionate.)

[lizreay.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't necessarily say better. If Eccleson's Doc is the most fun, most stimulating, best possible sex, Tennant's Doc is... the kinky wacky sex that you wish you could tell your friends about but it would break their brains. Both sexy, but in somewhat different ways. :)