On the other hand, not everyone is mourning Tennant's leaving, for example today's Telegraph:
"it was Tennant who truly embraced the part, his childhood history of Doctor Who fandom informing the performance of a man genuinely having the time of his life.
There is, of course, a limit to the dramatic range you can show in what is, at heart, a children’s series: if we were being unkind, we could say the constant switchblade between gurning buffoonery and deadly-cold drama in Tennant's performance was becoming just a little too familiar.
The Scot was probably right to end it where he will – with the crowd wanting more. Indeed, it will probably be best for the show, too: for a traditional piece of drama, Doctor Who has succeeded by being surprisingly bold in its choices, tackling subjects and making casting decisions (Catherine Tate as the returning Donna; even Billie Piper as Rose) that were as unexpected as they were inspired."
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Date: 2008-10-30 07:55 pm (UTC)"it was Tennant who truly embraced the part, his childhood history of Doctor Who fandom informing the performance of a man genuinely having the time of his life.
There is, of course, a limit to the dramatic range you can show in what is, at heart, a children’s series: if we were being unkind, we could say the constant switchblade between gurning buffoonery and deadly-cold drama in Tennant's performance was becoming just a little too familiar.
The Scot was probably right to end it where he will – with the crowd wanting more. Indeed, it will probably be best for the show, too: for a traditional piece of drama, Doctor Who has succeeded by being surprisingly bold in its choices, tackling subjects and making casting decisions (Catherine Tate as the returning Donna; even Billie Piper as Rose) that were as unexpected as they were inspired."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/10/30/do3007.xml