Jodie Whitaker's Doctor…perhaps a …3? .. per'aps as much as 7 w/ a good script.
The personality choice {cheerful scatterbrain?} I find tired : BillyNM's comment 'a female David Tennant' is accurate.
We've seen this Doctor before (Tennant) even if she emulates Colin Bakers fashion sense.
For comparison: I put Eccleston an 8 (tied w/ Tom Baker).
Tenant a 6 (though an 8.5 w/ a Good Script!) { You see, Tenant has this facial expression, gritting his teeth "just so", that he uses every…single…episode !
Once you See It, you Can't Unsee It …).
I quite liked Matt Smith, and was bored by Capaldi.)
John Hurt is a 10, of course.
@BillyNM~~>
Trust me, you aren't in the Minority.
I personally find the companions uninteresting at best, qnd cringeworthy at worst,
I find them desperately uninteresting to the point that the only one I can even describe
as a character is "balance-challenged guy". IMHO:
The best of the Lot was Grace (Sharon D Clarke). They killed the wrong spouse!
The writing…. myechhhh.. I found this quote, which explains it I think :
"With the exception of Chibnall, every writer and director who worked on the eleventh series was new to the programme."
…. Really … Do Tell.
( And were they also new to "writing", I wonder…? )
The only story I liked at all was "It Takes You Away", which I rate as a solid B+ SF story.
The episode as broadcast I actually rate an 'A', based on the performance of actress Eleanor Wallwork.
Oh, for the time-line where she was a Companion rather than "balance-challenged guy".
Kudos to Ed Hime; let's see some more scripts!
@Dynaman8789
I've been trying to determine just why the recent retro-active continuity has struck me as 'off';
It's certainly not Sacha Dhawan, who is IMO very good as The Master.
Far superior to John Simm, who I found grating, and unable to fill the role with any sense of menace;
(The Master is not the Joker, if you take my meaning…)
{ …and I find myself imagining (insert obligatory 'Remedial Chaos Theory' reference)
"_the Best of All Possible Timelines_",
wherein Derek Jacobi's Master and John Hurt's War Doctor wrestle through a multi-Season series of connected arcs
in a struggle to create Gallifrey by Destroying it, Ouroboros style…
But I Digress…! }
Yes, so the problem I have with the retro-active continuity :
There was a time when The Doctor was a bit of a ne'er do well,
a cosmic hitch-hiker and juggler of Realites ;
the least talented member of a species so advanced they were veritable Forces of Nature ,
so Advanced in technology that their views of Destiny were completely removed from any sense of involvement; I suppose a bit like ST:TNG's "Q" with an overlay of Brahman Detachment.
Except for the Doctor,
who found Everything interesting, because he could still be surprised.
A Cosmic Merry Prankster,
whose bus 'Further' is a bit blue-ish,
But Now…?
We find out The Doctor is in Fact
the the Golden Avatar, the Chosen One, The Messiah who raised the Time Lords to their Lofty position,
rather than that young kid who was just a bit bored sitting at the grown-up table,
and went "outside" to play in the Yard of the Universe.
Yes: I know;
my description has little or nothing to do with, say Hartnell, or even Troughton.
(Or Capaldi, who feels more akin to the first two Doctors than the next eight)
I started with Tom Baker, you see.
Again: I Digress….
Jodie Whitaker… The Doctor… Whitaker's Doctor… yes….
I wonder if there is a Time-Line where Whitaker's Doctor was modeled after, say:
Dame Judi Dench's "M" rather than Audrey Tautou's Amélie (which see:
'The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain'.)
Haven't we yet outgrown manic pixie dream girls ..?
Anywho, my last thought on the subject~~~>
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