The Ninth Doctor...

[fajrdrako]

doctorwho today posts an item from Entertainment Weekly about Doctor Who, basically saying how good it is. With which I can only agree. (It's a list of the 25 SF best SF shows.) But what I liked most was this part:

THE BEST BIT Check out the first season of the newest incarnation, featuring Heroes' Christopher Eccleston as the ninth Doctor (the best ever — apologies to Tom Baker) and the piercing, poignant wit of writer Russell T. Davies.

David Tennant is so popular I sometimes fear that Christopher Eccleston is forgotten; and I love Eccleston so much in the role.

Though I must say that the phrase "Heroes' Christopher Eccleston" made me smile.

Comments

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

The first season is my One True Love. I can't decide if Three or Four comes next.

[louiex.livejournal.com]

I realized, upon debating this with a friend of mine a few days back, that Ten really sort of pisses me off more than not :D And the more I try to defend him, the less a lot of what he does makes sense and/or is the best of options he could have taken~

Christopher Eccleston's Nine really will always be MY Doctor and it was a shame we only got one season out of him!

[laurab1.livejournal.com]

"Heroes' Christopher Eccleston"

The Who fandom hive-mind did decide that Claude and his spiky-ness was only-just-regenerated-into-Nine

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

I've always found it highly amusing that those Americans who only know CE through Heroes consider him blond and very, very funny. He's definitely the latter, and at some stages of his life has been the former, but it's so different from his British persona. I love that, proof of his chameleonic nature.

I've noticed that American publications are more likely to prefer Nine than British ones, and I have wondered if it's because Tennant is so self-consciously "fashionable". That style just isn't as popular in the US, where despite massive amounts of talent, charisma, and wit, Jarvis Cocker failed to register.