How long does it take for you to adapt to a new doctor (part 2)....
chattswho
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As this series develops, capaldi is really beginning to grow on me as the doctor & i especially love how he has taken on a different persona as opposed to his predecessors. The only gripe is I do feel he has been let down by some stories so far which i haven't bothered to re-watch, but like matt smith, his acting & take on the doctor made up for the disappointing story.
As has been discussed before on other threads, the way around this is to cut out the awful stories* & turn the better stories into 2 parters.
*but what i & others might consider an awful story, others may enjoy.
As has been discussed before on other threads, the way around this is to cut out the awful stories* & turn the better stories into 2 parters.
*but what i & others might consider an awful story, others may enjoy.
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its normally by the end of their debut episode I take to them
With Matt I personally from first look at him wasn't fond of him but I give a shot and the second he put on the bowtie and jacket and just went "Hello I'm the Doctor!" I was hooked
now even before peter was announced and I just saw him on the bookies odds list I just thought "YES YES YES hes just perfect for it" I don't know why but he was the Doctor from the second I saw him
but that's my opinion on it
So normally I get used to them very quickly despite missing the previous guy. It's just down to how well they engage me with the performance.
Eccleston won me over from his first word. That first series was thrilling. I was excited about Tennant (been a massive fan of Tennant since Taking over the Asylum) but imagined him as a lovably-grumpy, scruffy Scottish Doctor, so it took me a tiny bit of time to adjust. I loved his big speech at the end of the Christmas one and then I think it was him in the Library in the second episode (the werewolf one) where he really won me over and I stopped missing the Doctor I thought he'd be. I liked Matt Smith from the Eleventh Hour. I have struggled with the writing since Moffat took over, but I always felt that Matt Smith was the best thing about his episodes. Peter Capaldi - not there yet. But I'm hopeful that this week (if there really is very little Clara) that it will have to be an episode focussing on the Doctor himself and we might get to understand him more. I'm very keen to like Capaldi, but sadly the great appeal this series has for many is passing me by.
I'd had the usual mix of sadness to see the last one go and end excitement to see what the new one would add - and then when CB took over, I stopped watch DW after a few weeks cos I couldn't stand his version of the Doctor - and still can't. (I've said before that I was also old enough to have "other interests" by then - but I have tried watching CB since then and he just irritates me)
With the 2005 relaunch - took Eccles to heart instantly (love that opening - all about Rose and suddenly, there he is) - VERY sorry that he didn't stay for at least another year. With David, the quips and smiles immediately after regenerating were great and made me want to see more - his first episode was odd for him barely being in it but the "action man" scene followed by the sudden flip to "Mister Serious" was brilliant and I was hooked.
Matt's the oddball - not only was I not keen on him, I thought they'd turned DW into a kids' show with the first couple of episodes (with the "sexy cop kissogram" to keep Dad's quiet). I started appreciating him when he lost it and beat the crap out of the obsequious Dalek and he quickly became my favourite Doctor ever.
Up to date and Capaldi. I can't say how long it took to accept him - cos it hasn't happened yet.
Accepted Peter Davison no problem - he's "my" Doctor.
I don't really remember Colin Baker that much the first time around, my mum used to take me and my sister into town every saturday afternoon and wasn't home in time for the programme (no video in those days), and I was at Scouts when his second series was on in midweek.
Took to Syvester McCoy straight away - though when I came back to the programme a few years later I reviesed my opinion of his earlier stuff.
Paul McGann got me from the word go.
Christopher Eccelston didn't grab me, until he started playing with the cards in Rose's flat.
David Tennant got me before the end of The Parting Of The Ways.
Matt Smith totally nailed it in The Eleventh Hour.
Peter Capaldi I liked from the start, but he's lost it a bit as he's got a bit too cold for me in recent weeks - though I think they're going somewhere with this, so I'm reserving judgement completly until the end of this series at least.
Tennant took a little bit more getting used to - his 'Lion King' speech had me punching the air, it took a little longer for me to properly get used to him - but Matt Smith made me giddy like a child from his first scenes. He hit all the right notes for the sillier mad-professor Second/Seventh-type Doctors, with much of Tennant's charisma and a bit of Five's vulnerability.
Capaldi hits a different set of notes, but they're still very distinctively Doctorish (more First, Third and Fourth), while bringing back a bit of Nine's prickliness. While he doesn't have the charm we've come to expect, I don't have any problem thinking of him as the Doctor.
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