Dr Who

[malvolio]

You guys have never seen Tennant on stage....

Here's an exercise for you. Without moving, see if you can express the range of emotions he did standing there watching the colonists working to save themselves and knowing he had to walk away and leave them. It is ******* hard to do it as naturally as he managed.

Hartnell was OK in a Victorian mad scientist kind of a way, Troughton evolved the character to bring out the mild insanity of the Doctor. Those two, like Tennant, were classical actors: most of the rest played it not very seriously. Tom Baker was the ultimate, until Tennant came along. I can't really choose between them

[d000hg]

Tennant is a great Doctor. Whimsical and eccentric, yet serious and with a deep sadness. Anyone can do one side, but few can do both.

[cojak]

Tennant is a great Doctor. Whimsical and eccentric, yet serious and with a deep sadness. Anyone can do one side, but few can do both.

In the space of 5 mins we saw regret, sadness, horror, anguish, madness, realisation, guilt, fear (the way he scuttled into the Tardis and quickly shut the door behind him...)

Good one..

[VectraMan]

Here's an exercise for you. Without moving, see if you can express the range of emotions he did standing there watching the colonists working to save themselves and knowing he had to walk away and leave them. It is frolicking hard to do it as naturally as he managed.

He doesn't do anything naturally. It's like he's following the Acting for Dummies book. You can imagine the director shouting "David look concerened" - Tenant pulls a concerned face. "Look happy" - pulls stupid grin face. "Look contrite" - he doesn't know what that means so he goes for trademark stupid grin plus wild staring eyes.

Being able to pull 10 different faces in a minute does not a believable performance make.

[Diestl]

Utter crap

[oracleslave]

Utter crap

Never watched an episode but I suspect I might have the same opinion if I did.

[TimberWolf]

I saw it, but rated it closer to OK than outstanding. Great for kids I expect though. Tenant was on the Graham Norton show last week and seems to be an intelligent guy, although I can't really see the logic in giving up a role like Dr Who.

[cailin maith]

I quite enjoyed it - not looking forward to the new Doctor though - I like David Tennant.

[TimberWolf]

Type casting.

What happened to the last Dr Who? I can't even remember his name.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

I thought that the depth of the script, and the quality of Tennant's acting, easily surpassed the critical faculties of many of this board.