Christopher Eccleston can be so regal. ... Oh how I miss Nine on the show.
So do I! Though Tennant makes a delightful Doctor, I find him much less nuanced, and he seldom shows the simultaneous extremes of temperament that Eccleston seemed to portray so effortlessly. I found his version of the Doctor more integrated. And whether it was good acting or good writing or both, he made better sense.
when Ten said how he believed in Rose in the second series, he didn't really manage to convince me. While Nine basically said nothing at all, I believed that he believed in Rose, any day.
I believed in the love, but I'm not sure I believed that Ten had the depths of feeling that Nine had. Even in times of heavy angst - even though we saw the Doctor crying, for goodness' sake! - it seemed more superficial to me, while nothing with Nine seemed superficial. Nothing!
Another thought: it can't be just Tennant's acting, because I don't get this sense of transient emotion (or superficiality) in any of his other roles. Even in Casanova, where I had problems with the plot, but not with Tennant's acting or characterization of the role.
And 'superficial' might not even be the word I want, since even Tennant's Doctor doesn't seem shallow. But he oversteps a line between "deep and understandable emotional psychology" and "alien quirkiness" in a vaguely unrepairable way. He's elusive. Nine was *always* emotionally present. Visibly so. Ten seldom is. We just get glimpses of the emotional reality.
Come to think of it, David Tennant isn't that good at playing dark stuff, either, although he IS hot *g*
Yes. Very hot. He smoulders beautifully. They should give him more changes to smoulder. But ... it tends to be a short-term thing. He can be magnificent in his rage - but it does seem transient and maybe therefore, in the long range, insufficient. I get less sense of his underlying strength. Nine also lived by improvisation but gave the impression that his whims contained powerful and magnificent force. I don't get that with Tennant - which is okay - I'm really not sure how much of this in either case is the script or the action or simply the interpretation.
I do think they have shifted themes in mid-story, though, which doesn't help.
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Re: Part 2 reply: Jack and the Doctor
Date: 2007-07-23 02:24 pm (UTC)So do I! Though Tennant makes a delightful Doctor, I find him much less nuanced, and he seldom shows the simultaneous extremes of temperament that Eccleston seemed to portray so effortlessly. I found his version of the Doctor more integrated. And whether it was good acting or good writing or both, he made better sense.
when Ten said how he believed in Rose in the second series, he didn't really manage to convince me. While Nine basically said nothing at all, I believed that he believed in Rose, any day.
I believed in the love, but I'm not sure I believed that Ten had the depths of feeling that Nine had. Even in times of heavy angst - even though we saw the Doctor crying, for goodness' sake! - it seemed more superficial to me, while nothing with Nine seemed superficial. Nothing!
Another thought: it can't be just Tennant's acting, because I don't get this sense of transient emotion (or superficiality) in any of his other roles. Even in Casanova, where I had problems with the plot, but not with Tennant's acting or characterization of the role.
And 'superficial' might not even be the word I want, since even Tennant's Doctor doesn't seem shallow. But he oversteps a line between "deep and understandable emotional psychology" and "alien quirkiness" in a vaguely unrepairable way. He's elusive. Nine was *always* emotionally present. Visibly so. Ten seldom is. We just get glimpses of the emotional reality.
Come to think of it, David Tennant isn't that good at playing dark stuff, either, although he IS hot *g*
Yes. Very hot. He smoulders beautifully. They should give him more changes to smoulder. But ... it tends to be a short-term thing. He can be magnificent in his rage - but it does seem transient and maybe therefore, in the long range, insufficient. I get less sense of his underlying strength. Nine also lived by improvisation but gave the impression that his whims contained powerful and magnificent force. I don't get that with Tennant - which is okay - I'm really not sure how much of this in either case is the script or the action or simply the interpretation.
I do think they have shifted themes in mid-story, though, which doesn't help.