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Doctor Who: David Tennant vs Matt Smith

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Reply 80

Ambry

Original post by Cephalus

I absolutely love Torchwood :biggrin:

Jack Harkness just makes the whole show :smile:

Torchwood fans *cries*

Torchwood was my freeking life a few years ago, I love it. A shame Children of Earth was so terrible.

Reply 81

Cephalus

Original post by Ambry

Torchwood fans *cries*

Torchwood was my freeking life a few years ago, I love it. A shame Children of Earth was so terrible.

I know right, Children of Earth wasn't great. But I enjoyed Miracle Day

Reply 82

Ambry

Original post by Cephalus

I know right, Children of Earth wasn't great. But I enjoyed Miracle Day

I think I am slightly biased towards disliking Children of Earth because they killed Ianto *cries* I have never got over that XD
We should really have a Torchwood thread.

Reply 83

A Mysterious Lord

Preferred David Tennant.

The Matt Smith era contains the only episode that's made me change channel - Amy's Choice. Only Midnight came close to that in the RTD/Tennant era.

Reply 84

Jellybeany

I prefer David tennant but Matt smith has grown on me!

I just love doctor who :smile:

Reply 85

AJCSShp

Original post by Ambry

I think I am slightly biased towards disliking Children of Earth because they killed Ianto *cries* I have never got over that XD
We should really have a Torchwood thread.

I cried for hours when Ianto died! I never expected it! :frown:

I thought Children of Earth had a really good story line, Miracle Day was too long and I didn't like half of the new characters!

You should make a Torchwood thread!! :biggrin:

<<< I made one about the Characters!

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 86

Flibble22

I think Tennant will be regarded as the quintessential Doctor for many years to come. Suit and trainers guys, come on

Reply 87

The Hedonist

Matt Smith is a better Doctor. However, the writing was better when Tennant was Doctor, making the episodes better, in my opinion.

Reply 88

Watch Key Phone

I feel bad for Matt Smith so I voted for him. :cry2:

To be honest, I couldn't call it between the two of them, they're too different.

Reply 89

Watch Key Phone

Original post by The Hedonist

Matt Smith is a better Doctor. However, the writing was better when Tennant was Doctor, making the episodes better, in my opinion.

Ooh, you've just clarified my own opinion on the matter, and it's the direct opposite of yours! I think Tennant's Doctor was a slightly stronger and better developed character (maybe just because he did it for such a long time), but the writing and plotlines of the last few series have been the best ever.

Reply 90

Norton1

Original post by Flibble22

I think Tennant will be regarded as the quintessential Doctor for many years to come. Suit and trainers guys, come on

Suit and trainers together are cool.

Reply 91

Flibble22

Original post by Norton1

Suit and trainers together are cool.

Absolutely. One day I'm gonna do the same thing just to shock the established order of things :cool:

Reply 92

Prince94

I honestly preferred Tennant. Him and Billie Piper made for good TV back in the good ol' days

Reply 93

Cerdog

Original post by A Mysterious Lord

Preferred David Tennant.

The Matt Smith era contains the only episode that's made me change channel - Amy's Choice. Only Midnight came close to that in the RTD/Tennant era.

I may be misunderstanding what you said here, but do you mean Midnight was one of your least favourite episodes? If so, I must strongly disagree. I'm currently re-watching from the start of Eccleston's series, and Midnight has probably been the best episode of the first four series.

Matt Smith is my favourite of the three newest Doctors, although none have been bad. While Tennant was amazing in the role (and I now prefer him to Eccleston), he feels like a person who happens to be a genius and really good at solving problems, whereas Smith actually seems like an alien who has come to Earth and tried to adapt certain customs.

It probably helps that I like long and ambitious storylines, which Moffatt has provided, whereas RTD's series were basically just collections of episodes.

Reply 94

Sarcastic_Sazza

11 is amazing, quirky, clumsy, brilliant with children and like everyone's best friend. I love him.

But 10 will ALWAYS be My Doctor. Tennant was superb and I miss his era dearly.

Reply 95

Watch Key Phone

Maybe part of what's going on here is that most TSRians are around the age where Tennant is the iconic Doctor from the right time in their childhood. Because all the children who are young enough to have started watching Doctor Who when it was Matt Smith would see him as 'their' Doctor. I reckon even if they later watched Tennant episodes they wouldn't be able to shake off the feeling of Smith being theirs, just like we can't shake off the idea of Tennant being 'ours'.

Reply 96

journalismus

David Tennant and Matt Smith are both good doctors; David got the best storylines though. The last series with Matt Smith was too...emotional. I wanted monsters - DALEKS, CYBERMEN, ALIENS!

Reply 97

A Mysterious Lord

Original post by Cerdog

That's exactly what I'm saying. I HATED Midnight, it took me ages to appreciate Blink and I never did warm to Love and Monsters. I know that's highly controversial, especially given one of my favourite episodes of the Matt Smith era is Victory of the Daleks, which had pretty bad reviews.

Reply 98

Cerdog

Original post by A Mysterious Lord

To be fair, Love and Monsters was arguably the worst-received episode of New Who.

Out of curiosity, what do you look for in an episode of Doctor Who? Alternatively, what are other episodes you strongly like or dislike? I ask this because I don't think I've ever spoken to anyone else who disliked Midnight or (especially) Blink, and I'm interested in why you feel differently.