HOW IS HARVEY WALLBANGER ONE WORD?!

I wanna run home right now and re-watch!

I mourned the loss of Nine- he was my Doctor - but also accepted Ten pretty quickly.

I expected to hate DT and resisted, but it was, as they say, futile. I kinda love that the show made me love both of them.

EDIT: D'oh! Stupid grammar error! You think it'll never happen to YOU...

Hee. Truer words...

Juliebird, you might enjoy this, it's a virtual season 5 by the same person who wrote the virtual season 4 I linked to a little while ago.

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Believe you me, Sail, the second I finished that fic (epic! Awesome! Epicly Awesome! Thanks for linky!) I began stalking and searching and looking for more and set a tracker on the alternate season five when I first read of the intent for it. Read the first ep, waiting for more!

I can also buy Ten as capable of genocide or icily consigning individuals to their just desserts as he did at the end of "The Christmas Invasion" and "Family of Blood." If Eccleston had tried that it would have rung false in light of his prior performances as Nine.

I think if Nine was the one responsible for the destruction of both the Time Lords and the Daleks (ahem), or the first incarnation afterwards, he was so despondent with that kind of destruction he was incapable of such behavior (as much as he may have wanted when it came to Daleks) until The Doctor Dances. I suspect he would have kept that attitude had Nine continued, but Ten has the luxury of the memories of "everbody lives!" to draw on, and the distance of a new incarnation, so he's a bit more callous about those things.

I'm not sure I understand your point, Frank. How would experiencing the ebullience of "Everybody lives!" make him more likely to engage in genocide or dole out evil punishments?

How would experiencing the ebullience of "Everybody lives!" make him more likely to engage in genocide or dole out evil punishments?

He knows it's possible, so when he sees a place where he thinks mercy is undeserved, Ten's more willing to go to the extreme because he knows somewhere down the line another "everyone lives" may happen.

Um, if anyone's interested, I committed drabble about 4.13 in GWW. SailAweigh "The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?" Jul 8, 2008 2:34:57 pm PDT

Ten's more willing to go to the extreme because he knows somewhere down the line another "everyone lives" may happen.

I disagree, since genocide is anti-everyone living.

Austin, I was another big Eccleston fan initially, but Tennant has fully converted me into thinking he's better than CE in the role. Maybe part of it is that's he's had two years more to develop his character, but I love his maniac enthusiasm combined with that dark dark interior of him that makes him so very dangerous.

I think they were both perfect for the incarnations that they had. Nine, having survived the Time War and all that went with it, was very different from so much of what old school fans would have expected from the Doctor. It's perfect sense, though. Of course the Doctor would not escape all that unscathed, unchanged. Eccleston played that beautifully. Tennant as Ten was able to weave bits of Nine's damage in amongst the other bits of Five (my Doctor) and Four, not to mention glimpses of bits that must have been from other incarnations as well, as would make sense, him getting back to himself just a bit after all the trauma. Ten was a brilliant combination of the new with the old, history and future blending together, neither stale nor foreign. That said, Tennant, or perhaps more properly, Ten, could be a bit too much sometimes. The Doctor should go over the top sometimes, and being irritating and annoying never stopped him before. But Eccleston, or again perhaps it was Nine, was really more about restrained rage, grief, pain, power, not slipping the lead, not loosing control, not going over the top.