Originally Posted by La Guardianista:
“Of this list of CE stuff earlier I'd recommend Shallow Grave, Jude and Let Him Have It. And, of course, Cracker, but that's been done to death on these threads already (not least by me). Elizabeth is excellent too but he's not in it tht much.
Bizarre thing is CE hasn't done much comedy before DW - tends to do very intense characters. I've really enjoyed seeing his portrayal of DW because it's shown sides of CE as an actor that surprised and delighted me.
So seeing what I've seen of DT, will his doctor be serious, brooding and intense? (although I think he did a lot of work in 7:84 theatre company in Glasgow which I never saw and was probably quite serious)”
I think DT is much more of an unknown quantity than CE was,at least to me. I had never seen him before Cassanova yet after I watched it I thought great-he will make an excellent Dr Who, now having watched Quatermass I am unsure.
Basically as long as the guy can act, then its up to RTD to set the tone and let DT run with it, lets face it, who actually thought Billie Piper would have pulled it off after it was annouunced she had won the part.
DTs Dr will be his own, and we will just have to wait to see what that is.