Originally Posted by doctor blue box:
“You can't effectively try and tell off or complain about who was the most mainstream popular. Capaldi is great in the role, and I'd agree that it would be deserving for him to get some recognition for it, but effectively slagging off another doctor actor, just because you don't like the fact that they were more popular than you think they should be seems rather mean and a bit childish.
Also, quite fed up of those who don't think Tennant deserves his overwhelming popularity just trying to diminish it by pretending it's all just fangirls. Tennant was popular because he was a great doctor and RTD wrote some great series for him. I'm a straight male, and think he's great for nothing more than his amazng acting, and I'm sure their are many others who feel the same. If he were only popular with fangirls and no-one else, that would still be a small proportion of the overall viewing audience, so he still wouldn't seem that popular overall, which is why that petty arguement is nonsense.
I think Capaldi would be recognised for his acting too, if the scripts appealed to the mainstream more, like RTD's did, but series 8 was a bit shaky (although an improvement on series 7), and whilst I liked series 9, it was a bit bleak and probably far too inward facing for many casual viewers.”
I love David Tennant who didn't just the other day on Watch Christopher Eccleston regenerated into David Tennant and my Brother got so much nostalgia, commenting on his trenchcoat and trainer swagger plus his stories were really enganging and actiony especially The Age of Steel and the Impossible Planet/Satan Pit infact I think his whole tennure was mostly running, sonicing, problem solving, arcs and companions comming and leaving.
I also LOVED Christopher I think I prefer him a little more to Tennant , I also loved Series 5 Smith but I think thats because he retained the formula RTD used in his era in that Series.
Capaldi rewatching Series 8 hes an Ok Doctor not shabby, love him to bits though, unconditionally, once you come into The Doctor's world theres no going back. But storywise I would put 8/9 above Series 7 but apart from that I have quite low ratings of it