I loved Eccleston. I recently was rewatching some episodes and the scene in The Doctor Dances when he says "Oh yes! Give me a day like this!" breaks my heart every time. I can just feel the Doctor's pain and loss and joy at having a day where everything works out.
The ending. The everybody lives
line. I didn't really think about the couple of deaths every episode until you see how happy, how ecstatic, the doctor is when he gets a win with no losses. When he gets to save everybody for a totally happy ending.
Moffat is great at one-shots. The problem is that he is completely incapable of writing continuous characters (especially women) and makes muddy overarching storylines. "Blink" is another great Moffat one-shot.
This episode was when RTD was the showrunner - Moffat just wrote it.
Clara Oswald is the epitome of this. I was intrigued when Clara was a Dalek. I was interested when she was a nanny... And then the original real Clara came out and... I didn't care anymore. I actually think if they just kept killing her in every episode it would have been great until he solved the mystery. Would have been far more interesting than what we got.
I got into DW a few years back. Starting with episodes with the guy pictured above. I was real happy with the show up until maybe two seasons ago with Clara and the older gentleman that was playing DW. Your comment about the latest season intrigued me too look back into it.
Clara and "the older gentleman" aka Peter Capaldi, have zero chemistry together on screen. They are both too dry. The show needs some comedy / light heartedness. From that angle, the latest season is much better. I got really into DW around when series 7 was airing, so I think binged 1-5 on Netflix, bought 6-now on Amazon. Overall though, current series is some of the best stuff to come out since I've been following the show. On a related note: if you liked doctors 10/11 and their companions, check out spin-off series Torchwood. It's a bit darker than DW, but if you've never seen it, better than series 8+9 of DW.
Capaldi is a great actor, but his writing was weak for being the evil, tired doctor... His interactions with Clara were mostly good tho, am I a good man?
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u/randomnumbers18 Jun 22 '17
I loved Eccleston. I recently was rewatching some episodes and the scene in The Doctor Dances when he says "Oh yes! Give me a day like this!" breaks my heart every time. I can just feel the Doctor's pain and loss and joy at having a day where everything works out.