11-10-2014, 14:53
^^^ On the good side, to add to those mentioned :
I'd add The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit : I thought that was pretty good overall.
"42" was also OK.
I'd like to second "The Waters of Mars" - I thought that was a really good episode for Tennant. If that had actually been his regeneration story at the end it would have been a whole lot more satisfying for me than the overstretched "End of Time".
The End of Time was spoiled by the Master teetering even more over into out and out parody and like the Stolen Earth there was a complete reliance on mumbo jumbo "prophecies " MacGuffins - "He will knock three times" ad nauseum (and from Dalek Khan in the latter, and also from an even more implausible "Time Lord Witch" character on Gallifrey in the End of Time -WTF? Since when did Time Lords have bloody "soothsayers"?.)
Also on the debit side : I'd agree with previous posts but also add New Earth (Cassandra again ! Aargh! Once was MORE than enough).
quite a lot of Series 3 for me was pretty forgettable.
"Runaway Bride, Smith and Jones, Gridlock" I could also do without. "Utopia" was pretty awful as well, it was like it just existed to bring back The Master right at the end, the rest of the "story" was meh imo.
And I felt the series really lost its way in Series 4. The Stolen Earth/Journey's End was trying far too hard to be the big climatic series finale and for me was just a mess.
Some of Tennant's stuff I feel was slightly hampered by the agenda of shoehorning all the peripheral Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures characters etc into the Dr Who canon : like Moffat's obsession with the comedy Sontaran/Lizard/human trio and Sherlock Holmes; I suspect RTD's heart by that time was really with the stuff that he personally created and not with the series as a whole.
I also feel Moffat pretty much writes the Doctor and Sherlock as the same character : which is a serious mistake imo. As others have noted - the Doctor ISN'T human.
I'd add The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit : I thought that was pretty good overall.
"42" was also OK.
I'd like to second "The Waters of Mars" - I thought that was a really good episode for Tennant. If that had actually been his regeneration story at the end it would have been a whole lot more satisfying for me than the overstretched "End of Time".
The End of Time was spoiled by the Master teetering even more over into out and out parody and like the Stolen Earth there was a complete reliance on mumbo jumbo "prophecies " MacGuffins - "He will knock three times" ad nauseum (and from Dalek Khan in the latter, and also from an even more implausible "Time Lord Witch" character on Gallifrey in the End of Time -WTF? Since when did Time Lords have bloody "soothsayers"?.)
Also on the debit side : I'd agree with previous posts but also add New Earth (Cassandra again ! Aargh! Once was MORE than enough).
quite a lot of Series 3 for me was pretty forgettable.
"Runaway Bride, Smith and Jones, Gridlock" I could also do without. "Utopia" was pretty awful as well, it was like it just existed to bring back The Master right at the end, the rest of the "story" was meh imo.
And I felt the series really lost its way in Series 4. The Stolen Earth/Journey's End was trying far too hard to be the big climatic series finale and for me was just a mess.
Some of Tennant's stuff I feel was slightly hampered by the agenda of shoehorning all the peripheral Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures characters etc into the Dr Who canon : like Moffat's obsession with the comedy Sontaran/Lizard/human trio and Sherlock Holmes; I suspect RTD's heart by that time was really with the stuff that he personally created and not with the series as a whole.
I also feel Moffat pretty much writes the Doctor and Sherlock as the same character : which is a serious mistake imo. As others have noted - the Doctor ISN'T human.