Reverse Unpopular Opinion Meme: Something good about your least favourite Doctor. And maybe your favourite Doctor too, just so you have an excuse to talk about them if you like :D
oh interesting!
thereās a couple of Doctors I connect with less than others but Iām going to go with Ten for this (I know this is meant to be a positivity thing but for context - I donāt enjoy the jesus-figure writing, plus I associate him with being a teenager in the superwholock years and people trying to emulate that super-snarky-genius character gjfk)
only... I want to like him! because I really like David Tennant as an actor! I think heās great in Broadchurch! at the end last year he got cast as a voice actor in my fave game/a spinoff show and Iām massively excited for it!! I was going to go for theĀ āno missed opportunitiesā version of this meme but you know what Iāll say it. I wish they hadāve let him keep his accent for Ten.
and writing decisions aside, thereās something about him thatās just very likeable. I see gifsets on tumblr and I thinkĀ āoh, thatās such a good bitā. I rewatch episodes and I enjoy them. thereās a lot of episodes from his era that I genuinely love (I have very fond memories of just having gotten into Torchwood, going on holiday without access to the internet/without having bought the dvds yet, and just. rewatching The Stolen Earth/Journeyās End over and over for the Torchwood content ghfjkd). so whenever I rewatch I always feel like I dislike Ten in theoryĀ and because of the things I associate him with more than because of what he actually is.
& then my favourite Doctor is obviously Two. who very much isĀ the Doctor to me. I remember earlier in Thirteenās run a lot of people were wanting for her to get darker, and I was a bit like, no!! let me have a relatively happy fun Doctor again, please!! Twoās fun and friendly and has great found family dynamics with all his companions and heās personable in a weird sort of way. like, heās not necessarily likeableĀ in the same way Ten is, he just carries on doing his own thing (sometimes oblivously) until people canāt help but go along with him. which now I think of it seems quite like Eleven (probably deliberately so and, hey, coincidence, Eleven was my favourite new series Doctor for a loong time) - like, that bit in A Christmas Carol where Eleven tells Kazran his bow tie is cool because he wears it and he doesnāt care what people think? Two is that, but not articulated so openly.
but then he also... isnātĀ entirely cuddly. heāll send a fleet of Ice Warriors into the sun without a second thought. he doesnāt seem too worried about Salamander being sent into the vortex. heāll bash a guy over the head and joke about it. and unlike later Doctors, he never seems to angst over it, like he can justify it to himself. his philosophy is probably the definition ofĀ ātotal tolerance requires some intoleranceā. he figures itās morally okay because heās helping people. which is something that the Doctor doesnāt get to do much anymore, and I wonder if itās because thereās still a little bit ofĀ āwe donāt quite know what the Doctor is and heās slightly untrustworthyā about him. but itās interesting. and itās often been said that he settles down after meeting Jamie - and he does! and Evil of the Daleks very much shows Jamie as his moral compass. but for all that Jamie has a super strong set of moral codes, they also happen to includeĀ āitās ok to bash someone over the head sometimesā. thereās literally a short story where Jamie almost throws someone out of the TARDIS because he thinks theyāve killed Two. so they probably feed into each other with that.
on the other hand Patrick Troughtonās portrayal of him is just so littered with tiny mannerisms and characteristics and he really shows how much input the actors got to have with those sorts of things in the early series, because he feels so organic. heās kind to Victoria when sheās grieving, and he can relate to that grief. he plays cards when heās cornered by soldiers. heās from an alien planet and (badly) pilots a time machine but he hates computers. heās vain and thinks he looks wonderful but is a complete mess. heās alien in all sorts of ways, but still feels very much like a person.
