Doctor Who: David Tennant vs Matt Smith

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.

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.

Haha :P

I thought Tennant's Doctor was too 'human', whereas Smith's was how the Doctor should be - more crazy etc. I was really disappointed with the whole 'question that never can be answered' thing and a few other things in the recent episodes; it seemed too obvious and lazy from the writers.

Tennant all thee way! tried to watch Doctor Who with Matt Smith in as well as Steven Moffet writing the episodes (inact still watch them but find them rather confusing and switch off from them alot), but thought personally, they was awful! Amy Pond is an awful companion, she does **** all but stands there in her scottish accent shouting 'doctor' all the time, dont think she has ever saved the world. Rory is okaay i suppose, he reminds me of Mickey hehe. The writers have gotten so lazy as well. All the episodes are just based on earth, either in the past or the future. It's awful, it just doesn't feel like Doctor Who anymore. Although, i liked the last few episodes Russell T.Davies written, i thought he started to get a bit big for his boots a little and made the success go to his head, he was running out ideas which was evidential. i loved up until series 4, where i thought the end of it he ruined it by bringing back Rose and all the other companions. Although, i was a big fan of ten and Rose, i thought it kind of ruined her leaving from Doomsday from series 2.. I think David Tennants departure as well as saying goodbye to Rose would be abit more upsetting and heart wrenching as a fan.. for instance, us fans got we want - we saw Rose ending up with the doctor technically, but i think it would of made RTD'S Who go out a lot higher if they wasn't reunited until see them at end of Tennants scene! Other then that, i have nothing to complain about it. RTD was a great writer, and I thought the whole Doomsday story was written excellently as well as Donna's too! Moffett's earlier episodes was alright such as the Girl in the fireplace but jesus, as a head writer? hes terrible. He even managed to somehow ruin Doctor Who confidential, something which was quite fluffy and fun to watch afterwards with RTD's who, but with Moffett's, it seemed all to serious and boring..

Rant over.

I have another idea about why lots of people are saying they like Tennant! I think it's because we've actually seen ten die, we saw his character arc sort of decline until he was basically a sad, angry and lonely old man, and then he died alone and it was heartbreaking and really well written. And I think the trauma of actually seeing the end of his character stays with people a lot more than the beginning of the new character - i.e. eleven. So maybe once eleven leaves, when the next Doctor appears, everyone will fondly remember eleven and say they miss him, because they saw him go and it was upsetting and memorable.

That's is a good idea! We have seen Tennant develop as a character, and now we miss him.

I've seen the third, fourth, fifth, seventh, and ninth doctor die as well, and I can honestly say that the tenth doctor (Tennant) was the most upsetting (closely followed by the fifth)!

Matt Smith is by no means the worst doctor, that goes to Colin Baker! He just doesn't have that wow-factor that David Tennant has. And that is why Tennant is better in my opinion.

David Tennant. I watched every season with David Tennant but only watched one episode with Matt Smith and have never watched another one again, he's just not the same. Matt also looks incredibly weird.

I have another idea about why lots of people are saying they like Tennant! I think it's because we've actually seen ten die, we saw his character arc sort of decline until he was basically a sad, angry and lonely old man, and then he died alone and it was heartbreaking and really well written. And I think the trauma of actually seeing the end of his character stays with people a lot more than the beginning of the new character - i.e. eleven. So maybe once eleven leaves, when the next Doctor appears, everyone will fondly remember eleven and say they miss him, because they saw him go and it was upsetting and memorable.

I prefer Tennant but the more I watched Smith the more he grew on me. The writing was certainly better in the Tennant era, I think Smith would do just as good a job if he was given stories to the same calibre of Tennant's episodes.

And all these people saying "I watched one episode of Smith and didn't like him", get over yourselves. You're certainly not fans of Doctor Who if that is the case

Haha, I can tell you've probably wanted to say that for a while!

I agree with you that the writing isn't as good now, and some of the storylines are confusing!

But I will always love Steven Moffat, because of Sherlock!