I was rewatching some old eps of DW (my, how Ten's hair has evolved!) and watching the beginning of Series 3 it really struck me that (4x13 related) the Doctor has been put right back into the position he was in when he lost Rose the first time. Except now it's ten (pardon the unintended pun) times worse. Not only is Rose gone again, but a part of himself committed genocide, so now he's Nine and Bad Wolf Bay Ten all over again. And not only that, but he has Davros' condemnation ringing in his ears about his companions.

And I am so intrigued and eager to see how they deal with this aftermath in a way that is different than what played out in Martha's tenure. In Series 3 he pretended things were nifty, lied... but carried on remarkably well, even if it was just a front (until it became real: fake it 'til you make it).

So now he's in a more terrible spot, and I'm dying to know where his head might be at. Will he go totally emo? Will he harden and shun all potential companions, will he buck up and carry on, not really changing on the outside. I mean, how much sadder can he get on the inside as he continues to be adventurous and curious and gleeful about the mysteries of the universe? And where, oh where, does River Song fit into all this? Will we see her again in Tennant's run as Doctor, or was she just a glimpse of a brief happiness for Ten that we'll never see onscreen? God, I hope not.

And speaking of her, some have speculated that her remark of how young the Doctor was could lend itself to him being off for decades/centuries on his own before returning for Series 5 or even the Christmas Specials, and DT could be made to look older/his age. But I'm thinking, also, it could just be that when River Song knew the Doctor, he had this weight of losing Rose and Donna and his guilt renewed and his hypocrisy revealed aging him, and it's not really that far in his own personal future that he meets her .

Also, on rewatch, I didn't realize how physical David Tennant is! The way he leaps over furniture and sundry props and slides along floors and dances lightly over theatre chairs and flies up on boxes. My god, he f***ing Errol Flynn!

I mean, the theatre chairs I noticed in that one Dalek ep that was othewise horrid, but I didn't realize all the others, and it is AWESOME.

I mean, Nine had a great physicality. It's actually what hooked me into the show. I happened to walk through the room as Eccleston was loping down the stairs, all gangly limbs, somehow goofy and quirky in his daunting size and presence, in The End of the World, and honestly, that's what got me interested. The way CE walked down the stairs.

And DT is another amazing specimen altogether. Rewatching is so much fun! (Except for that Daleks in New York bit. That was slightly painful).

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Eureka!

What a great little skit! Colin can't really Sing sing, and he started out all quiet, and then when he's dragging Zoe away from Idiot Boy, the Talking singing is just awesome, and then the way he ends it with "my neighbor" is just so... Colin. Salli was fabulous, as was Jordan. The whole skit was great, and inspired. LOVE!

And, and, and . . . Henry?!!!! Why and how? Don't really care. HENRY!

Also, on rewatch, I didn't realize how physical David Tennant is!

I caught it from the first (but admittedly, he had a very large sword in his hand for a good bit of his first Xmas special, which tends to grab my focus just a little.)

I loved CE's Doctor, no doubt about it. But Tennant has had this... this ... manic ... THING from the first moment. That's very Doctor, in a loopy, wild way that CE only rarely was. And always on the edge of annoying, but rarely going over (for me, anyway; I know others feel otherwise). It's as if he never quite got over that huge hit of regenerating stuff and you can still see little gold sparks popping out of his fingers.

(But, yeah, some fucking cheese in the plots. Oh, RTD.)

(edited for verb tense logic)

I have to say that I totally accepted Ten(nant) as the new Doctor, but he did get a little too manic and high-pitched for my liking in some instances, but that seems to have gone away. I really need to rewatch his earlier eps to see if I just got used to him, or if he did indeed tone down.

Loved/Love both Doctors, and I still think that the first Christmas Special was brilliant in introducing a new actor to the role and a new Doctor to Rose. What better way to gain our sympathy than to have him in jim-jams and comatose and practically in a hurt-comfort fic before he went all awespome on our asses?

awespome

I read that as awespwn and thought, "that's a cool new word!" Then I realized it was a typo.

practically in a hurt-comfort fic

With a nice comforting cuppa tea and everything!

Ten is the spawn of awesome! He is awespawn! Erm, I need to go to bed now.

BSG: Just got up to "Collaborators" in Season Three. Dear God, I'm going to be upset when I run out of episodes.

Oh dear lord, that Eureka promo is made of AWESOME!!! Go singing, dancing CFerg!!!

Four is really my first doctor, and Ten evokes him in the exaggerated facial expressions and mania.