The new series is about to start this weekend! Yay!
In celebration, I thought we' could take a walk down memory lane and talk a bit about NuWho so far.
So to kick things off,
How would you rank the Doctors (from worst to best)?
What is your favourite episode for each Doctor?
How would you rank each season (from worst to best)?
Overall, do you prefer the RTD or Moffat era?
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I tend to really get into the series and his episodes tugs at my heart strings, especially with eps like "Vincent and The Doctor".
TBH, they all do but Smith is my favorite.
Least favorite? Capaldi. I don't hate it or even mildly dislike his take on The Doctor. It was just that he wasn't given the best stories.
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For a complete opposite take, I picked Capaldi's Doctor as my favourite. His stories were very hit or miss (but that can be said for any Doctor really) but when he had good material he really hit it out of the park. He also brought a certain gravitas to the role. As much as I love Ten and Eleven (and picking one top Doc was damned hard as they coudl all be freaking amazing) their boundless youthful energy and so on got rather tiring. Capaldi also gave me the strongest sense since McCoy or Tom Baker's Doctor of a guy who wasn't human.
I would give a strong second place to the War Doctor, because John Hurt was amazing. However, I don't think his character/personality woudl have worked anywhere else but that story and maybe a series set during the Time War itself.
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David Tennant all around, for me. Not that I have any specific problem with any of the other actors, but I find Tennant to be all around the best actor the series has had (I'm a fan of his work outside of Doctor Who as well, to be fair). I also think he happened to be around for some of the best and most creative writing the series has had (episodes like "Midnight", "The Girl in the Fireplace", "Silence in the Library", and so on).
I just generally felt like some of the writing of the show started to go down-hill after that. Or at least more inconsistent. Not that there aren't great episodes with Smith and Capaldi, but I found there were just more forgettable episodes from those series as well.
Eternal_Freedom wrote: ↑2018-10-06 02:07pm
For a complete opposite take, I picked Capaldi's Doctor as my favourite. His stories were very hit or miss (but that can be said for any Doctor really) but when he had good material he really hit it out of the park. He also brought a certain gravitas to the role. As much as I love Ten and Eleven (and picking one top Doc was damned hard as they coudl all be freaking amazing) their boundless youthful energy and so on got rather tiring. Capaldi also gave me the strongest sense since McCoy or Tom Baker's Doctor of a guy who wasn't human.
I would give a strong second place to the War Doctor, because John Hurt was amazing. However, I don't think his character/personality woudl have worked anywhere else but that story and maybe a series set during the Time War itself.
Anyone who doesn't think Capaldi wins solely on the strength of his speech in "The Zygon Inversion" has a screw loose, IMO. That always moves me to tears.
A close second is his " hello sweetie" line in "The Husbands Of River Song."
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I've been impressed by Capaldi ever since that first brief glimpse in Day of the Doctor (best first appearance ever, by the way- I remember the audience reaction when I saw it in theatres). But the two that really stand out for me are Heaven Sent (especially his final speech), where he had to carry the old episode almost by himself, and his beautiful speech to the Master/Missy in the last season.
I've said it before and I'll say it again- as glad as I am to have Jodie Whittaker aboard, I'd have been quite content to see Capaldi stick around as long as Four did. He was just so good.
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U.P. Cinnabar wrote: ↑2018-10-08 07:04am
Anyone who doesn't think Capaldi wins solely on the strength of his speech in "The Zygon Inversion" has a screw loose, IMO. That always moves me to tears.
A close second is his " hello sweetie" line in "The Husbands Of River Song."
I don't think that. Mostly because Capadli's first series ended on such a godawful note I didn't watch any further.
And I attempted to watch series 9 when it came to Netflix only to splutter out on the viking episode. So... yeah. Capaldi's not high in my standing. Though through no fault of his own, more his plot arcs and supporting cast.
Another reason I wish Capaldi had stuck around post-Moffat. He's a damn fine actor, but he only occasionally got scripts that let him fully show off his talents.
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Capaldi was an awesome Doctor who got severely handicapped by terribly written stories. He had the potential to be the best nuWho Doctor but never got the chance to really manifest it.
My personal favourite is Matt Smith. He got just the right mix of zany, funny, weird, arrogant and if need be menacing to make it work, and unlike Capaldi, he got the chance to shine (possibly due to simple statistics because there's simply a lot more of him).
Eccleston worked well as the PTSD postwar Doctor but I don't think they could've made that work for more than another season
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I will always respect Ecclestone's performance. Tennant I liked, but he was not on the same level IMO....Smith I did not like at all, Capaldi was great in the few episodes I watched.
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I have the most experience with Eccleston. Tennant I've watched some of, but he was a bit too zany for my taste. Haven't watched any of the others, just read a bunch of picture-books for the fans and whatnot. Smith seems okay from what little I saw. All that stuff was pre-Capaldi, so no idea about him.
For me, the best was Tennant all the way. I discount Eccleston purely because he couldn't be bothered to stick around and fucked off after one season!
I never much cared for Smith, this was cemented for me when 'Day of the Doctor' aired and Tennant was the superior of the two. I found Capaldi to be between them as far as who was the best doctor.
She's a true Doctor, no doubt about that. I haven't seen enough of her to rate her alongside the others who have had multi-season runs yet, but she's solid.
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