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dapperzombie

Nine and Ten

Jul 22, 2010 17:12

I just finished re-watching Doctor Who series 2, and now I understand more what versipellis had meant about Russel T. Davies' decline in quality. The series was still good, but it had a handful of moments where I went, "really? Seriously?"

That said, I've also concluded that I do like Chris Eccleston's Doctor more than David Tennant's. It's not so much to do ( Read more... )

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versipellis July 23 2010, 16:37:41 UTC

I hope I haven't prejudiced you against him. Curious to know what moments made you go "what?" though (as always!)

Chris Eccleston feels like "my" Doctor - he was certainly the one I was most upset about leaving! And yeah, I agree with you about his performance.

dapperzombie July 24 2010, 00:21:53 UTC

Oh no, you haven't done that at all :D Davies was still a good writer, and I still adore David Tennant. It's just that the former started to decline a little (this series) and the latter didn't feel as strong as Chris Eccleston. Unfortunately, Davies' writing did affect David Tennant, but more on a directorial level than an acting skill level.

Let's see, moments that made me go "what"...I think the biggest one was Rose being able to go "Yeah I could go the rest of my life without my mom" so easily. Like - seriously? I know the Doctor has shown you a fantastic life, but I'd like to think the person who brought you into the world and raised you for nineteen years would take precedence. When I first watched Doomsday, it struck a sour cord, but I was too busy enjoying it to notice. Now, though...Rose acting like her mom takes such a distant second to the Doctor is VERY "wut"-worthy, especially after we'd seen her confront Elton after he'd upset Jackie just a few episodes earlier. I expected Rose to actually be conflicted, to realize ( ... )

versipellis July 27 2010, 12:04:06 UTC

It's satisfying to have someone else agreeing with me about this who's been completely apart from the RTD-controversy when it was happening ^^

Yeah, I seem to remember feeling unimpressed with Rose at that point too. Especially as Jackie brought her up alone - you'd think their relationship would be pretty strong.

I liked the idea of the Cassandra tradition but I seem to recall it was quite sudden. Haven't seen that ep for aaages though ;)

I agree that it fit with the Doctor's character, but I felt like the writers thought it was a-ok for him to do that to Harriet and that it was funny and awesome when I thought it was hypocritical and sexist. Gyaaah. SHUT UP DOCTOR. *cough* Yeah, maybe still not over that.

*cuddles Mickey* he was awesome in this season. And yeah, the stuff about his gran was very sad.

Yeah. It's not IT'S ALL RTD'S FAULT OMG by any means; just a few trends that irritated me more as time went on. And some Torchwood stuff as well probably fed into it *cough*

dapperzombie July 28 2010, 06:37:59 UTC

I hate to say it, but I liken Rose's attitude towards Jackie to Bella's attitude towards her father in Twilight - where Bella is ready to throw her entire family away for this (non-meta) abusive, stupid vampire she's only known and had a high school-styled crush on for maybe half a year. Granted, Rose is so very NOT an idiot most of the time, and the Doctor is more than a shallow sparklepire and there's a valid basis for their relationship, but the parallel is still there and it makes me squirm.

I didn't really feel like it was sexist to have the Doctor depose Harriet, but I could just be annoyed at everything else surrounding the event ( ... )

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