The Doctor Who Appreciation Society
Reply #335 - July 23, 2017, 01:55 PM
They tried to make it "continuity" by making other Time Lords swap sexes which did feel forced. But, the new Doctor is a new character, so I'll wait and see. And we still have the Christmas special before we say goodbye to Peter Capaldi. I'm a bit pissed at this this because, unlike David Tennant. who defined his role with his fantastic acting, and scripts which allowed him to demonstrate his fantastic acting, Peter Capaldi is a fucking great actor, who got some shitty fucking scripts, which never allowed him to shine as Tennant did. There are some standouts. Capaldi's portrayal on the Christmas ep, with the cloaked Time Lord...AI? Demon? That was awesome. But he just didn't get the emotional range of Tennant. I mean Tennant, Jesus Christ. The stone angels? The three parter starting with the old man in Utopia who turned out to be the Master? His death? The demon two parter where he turned human? And just his random memories of Galifrey and the Time War. With just a few simple words he made me pray that in the Tennant/Smith/Hurt Time War special we'd see even a glimpse of the Nightmare Child. There was so fucking much. Tennant had the ability to make you laugh and cry and the scripts allowed that. Capaldi had the ability to make you laugh and cry and the scripts never allowed that.
`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'