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Thinking on it more, my Tennant/Baker thing might be because I can see Tennant being able to handle the humour better than the Eccles did.
Don't get me wrong, overall the Eccles was great, but his best moments were the small ones - just looking at the last episode, there's the real smile that accompanies the to-camera "have a fantastic life," the empty, hollow look when he fires Rose back off to her mum and Mickey, the heartbreakingly honest relief after he's let the time vortex guff back into the TARDIS. Those are things - yr real happiness and sadness - that the Eccles basically brought to the series himself. No Doctor before's managed to pull you along with him in those moments. I've never really felt anything for the Doctor before, other than 'cool guy, funny, wish I had his job'. It took up until towards the end of the second episode before the Eccles got me, with the bit where Jabe comforts him and his eyes well up, because that was the first time that the script, imo, asked him to do something that he's a master at.
But the humour, I don't think he cracked. Same goes for the BIG anger. When he yells at the Daleks to be quiet while he's talking, then turns back to the Emperor Dalek with a "now, where were we," it felt like a struggle. I've already seen Tennant do these things, switch from one straight into the other and make me believe every single moment of it, so I know he's capable of them. Humour and anger - those are the things that made Baker's Doctor who he was. Even just the delivery of "new teeth, that's odd" makes me trust the guy completely - I could see the Eccles pulling out a strained gurn after that one.
Or it's just that Tennant has a much more attractive grin than the Eccles. Either way, I can't fucking wait for the next series. |
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