Doctor Who 30 Day Meme
Day 01 - Your Favorite Quote
Day 02 - Your Favorite Classic Series Episode
Day 03 - Your Favorite New Series Episode
Day 04 - Your Favorite Doctor
Well, my icon rather gives it away, doesn't it? Still ...
The First Doctor was my first Doctor, and I like him right well, but he isn't My Doctor.
The Third Doctor is my favorite of the Classic Series regenerations - polite and dandified irritation hiding brilliance, barely-concealed rage at his fate, and a bedrock of kindness - but he's not My Doctor, not quite.
This is My Doctor. He's a lot like the Third Doctor in some ways. He, too, rages against his fate, and he, too, hides it (although his mask is a half-mad and completely dangerous grin.) He, too, has a bedrock of kindness beneath a patina of irritation. But the Dandy is burned away, in a fire lit by his own much older, much more desperate hand. He is nothing but the basics, because, ultimately, that's all one needs.
I love the Doctor, and I've liked nearly every iteration, up to and oh, so defintely including, the unbelievably marvelous Eleventh Doctor.
But this is My Doctor.
Day 01 - Your Favorite Quote
Day 02 - Your Favorite Classic Series Episode
Day 03 - Your Favorite New Series Episode
Day 04 - Your Favorite Doctor
Well, my icon rather gives it away, doesn't it? Still ...
The First Doctor was my first Doctor, and I like him right well, but he isn't My Doctor.
The Third Doctor is my favorite of the Classic Series regenerations - polite and dandified irritation hiding brilliance, barely-concealed rage at his fate, and a bedrock of kindness - but he's not My Doctor, not quite.
This is My Doctor. He's a lot like the Third Doctor in some ways. He, too, rages against his fate, and he, too, hides it (although his mask is a half-mad and completely dangerous grin.) He, too, has a bedrock of kindness beneath a patina of irritation. But the Dandy is burned away, in a fire lit by his own much older, much more desperate hand. He is nothing but the basics, because, ultimately, that's all one needs.
I love the Doctor, and I've liked nearly every iteration, up to and oh, so defintely including, the unbelievably marvelous Eleventh Doctor.
But this is My Doctor.
- Current Mood:
exanimate
Comments
But then along came Ten wielding a broadsword in his pyjamas and needing to be revived with tea on Christmas Day... and I fell hopelessly in love and never, ever fell out again, wild variation in the writing of S2-4 notwithstanding, and possibly never will.
Most damningly, he succeeded the Ninth Doctor far too soon. Almost as damningly, his looks were less suggestive of "Doctor" to me than they were of "weasel", and the repellingly lizard-like Barty Crouch. I know - shamefully superficial to focus on the outside, when I say I've loved all the Doctors, but occasionally my love is shaped by capricious and purely personal aesthetic taste. And finally? He left Jack Harkness without a real explanation, and lied to Rose about it. And he took down Harriet Jones. Never forgave him for either.
After all that negativity, however, I want to compliment you on the elegant description with which you explained your love of Ten; fans of your deft written touch more than do him justice!
Edited at 2010-07-20 05:13 pm (UTC)
Succeeding Nine too soon - well, I quite agree, but I'd blame Nine for that rather than Ten, it was Nine's (well, CE's) decision!
Looks - well, there just ain't no accounting for taste. Personally, the floppy hair and the huge brown eyes and the skinny athleticism and the non-stop words... I melt into a big helpless puddle. Only thing missing was that they wouldn't let DT use his native accent, which tends to risk my spontaneous combustion.
Jack - I realise that logically that ought to bother me; but somehow for me it gets rather lost in the regeneration (and the six-month gap between series/specials...) - I never quite felt it was Ten that had abandoned Jack initially, and he was comatose and just-regenerated etc etc (though you're quite right, he did later make a conscious decision to abandon Jack, and lie about it)
And what he did to Harriet was terrible. But I forgave him for it when its consequences came so terribly home to roost for him at the end of Series 3...
Thank you for the compliment, btw! Broadsword, pyjamas, tea. Said it all really.