Not Just “A” Doctor
Posted By Ardellis on April 1, 2006
Four episodes into the showing of the new Doctor Who series on SciFi, I think I can confidently say that Christopher Eccleston is the best Doctor since Tom Baker. No insult intended to Peter Davison or Jon Pertwee, whom I also adore, or to Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Patrick Troughton, or William Hartnett, whom I never got to see enough of, American television and the BBC being what they are.
Eccleston’s doctor has complexity. He has rough edges and sharp corners. He bounces from unfathomably alien to cheesily boyish and back again before you can blink. And having Billie Piper’s very feisty and very human Rose Tyler to bounce off of only makes him better. Too bad there are only 13 episodes in all before the next regeneration!
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