AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Tennant was a great Doctor, my favorite. He had terrible companions.

Except that episode with Sara Jane Smith.

I haven't seen her with any other doctors, or in her spinnoff, but from Tennant's 2 episodes, I think she's the best.

Donna was pretty good. It was kinda nice having a companion who was just kinda weird.

Oh shit, forgot about donna.

She was cool. I'm glad Rose is trapped in an alternate universe, though.

Donna was the best.

Tennant and Eccleston are tied for my favorite Doctor, really.

Only one thing as an actor, and that's the over-enunciating-ah of words-ah!

My beef with the Tenth Doctor is more about how appallingly inconsistent the writers were with his character.

Is he an egotistical monster who wants everyone to fall over at how clever his is while he sneers at them in contempt?

How much guilt does he feel about the ordinary people he destroys every time he lands somewhere? Most of the time he seems a lot more preoccupied with his own entertainment.

Seriously, stop crying. Nobody else carried on this badly when they were regenerating. Even Owen Harper managed to face a horrific radiation-death with more grace than you, and he categorically knew that there was nothing for him on the other end of it.

Even before the Waters of Mars he was showing a massive god complex. He derails history in his very first appearance by unseating Harriet Jones, whom he earlier described as the architect of Britain's golden age, because she shot down a ship of alien slavers.

During the events of Children of Earth he was off hiding/holidaying/installing stupid gimmicks in the TARDIS because he was afraid of regenerating.

And then despite everything he's seen, and making some very valid points at times, he is still obsessed with humans. He loves them (sometimes). How is that possible for a man who's seen what he's seen? Nine and Eleven, though both fond of humans too, at least have realistic reactions to them when they do stupid and downright villainous things.

I prefer to think of the Tenth Doctor as someone you're not supposed to like, because then a lot more little things that Ten brushes off become genius. Like Queen Victoria's speech banishing him in his third episode, pointing out how he delights in chaos and violence.


That's basically my case against the Tenth. There's a similar but better put argument here:
http://www.denofgeek.com/television/1253848/doctor_who_a_celebration_of_david_tennant.html

I really liked Martha as a companion in the few minutes when she was allowed to do anything. That whole 3rd series just disappeared into the gaping black hole of the Doctor whining about Rose.

Donna was great too, and had generally better episodes to work with. I particularly liked that she wasn't in love with the Doctor.

That and, from the article you posted, 10 just gets massively irritated with Wilf because he just had to save another person's life and fulfill the Knock Four Times prophecy. 10 was all "How dare you commit a selfless act of kindness and condemn me to continue living in a different form?!"

In my opinion, the tenth was the most human of the doctors. He had lots of flaws, was scared, etc. He held grudges and got taken in by the powers he possesses from time to time.
Humans are inconsistent. I think he was well written in that regard.

And shreds, he thought he was going to die, no regeneration. People get scared when they are told they are going to die. And yes, they do and say stupid selfish things when that happens.

And even then, the regeneration turns him into someone else entirely. Different morals, different ideas, with the same memories. Even if he DID know it was just regeneration, he'd still die in the sense that he would no longer exist in the same way.

Regeneration basically is death for The Doctor, even if it's not bodaciously his body shutting down. 10 even says as much when he almost regenerates, saying that he doesn't want to go just yet.

I've never really understood what the problem is. The Doctor's body may change but he gets to keep his memories, which are generally among the things people are most afraid to lose. Morals are forged through experience, so they shouldn't really change if the memories are intact.

He manages to zip around and see everyone important to him before he goes, too. How many people get to do that? But he still needs to whine to himself about how he doesn't want to go.

And by holding on as long as possible he's effectively trying to kill his regeneration, ensuring that he'll be born in a crashing TARDIS when the energy overloads from being pent up for too long.

A selfish, petulent war machine. Nope, not a fan of his.

Plus he's just terrible at flying the TARDIS full stop.

The first doctors basically came out at random places and times they were so bad at flying the TARDIS.

Let's not forget that the TARDIS is meant to be flown by a team of upwards to six people. I'd say he does a daisies good job for a one-man band.

Sure, but even 9 and 11 are better at flying it than him, and they're just as one-man as he is.

I'm putting this here because it's related enough.

Torchwood.
Torchwood is a great show

Also season 2's ending is the saddest thing since Donna's ending. I cried like a baby over Toshiko

Me too. Particularly since Tosh only died because she was in the way. In any other room of the Hub, and things might have been very different.

The Doctor has a new coat, is apparently trying to become The Joker.

Also, for filming of the documentary thing, they rebuilt the first TARDIS console room. This means it might see future use in an episode.