What, precisely, do you hate about his portrayal?Meow wrote:I hate this new Doctor. He has to be the worst ever. Whats up with the silly sunglasses. Bring back the screwdriver. The ratings are pluming-ting. So IMO a lot of viewers out there are not impressed. It hasn't really recovered since September.
The impression I get from that article is that it was the second most watched-as-live programme, attracting nearly a quarter of all viewers over the many dozens of programmes being shown at the time. DW has only ever very rarely been the most watched on any day. Overnight ratings have been dropping for everything over recent years as more channels appear and more people take to recording, Web-viewing or catch-up services. According to http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-who ... -76154.htm, the final figure was 6.54 million and all the episodes so far this season have had Appreciation Index scores in the eighties.http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/s ... gs-for-bbc
Peter Capaldi’s latest outing as Time Lord watched by fewer than 5 million on Saturday night, down 2 million on opening episode of previous series
I felt they were going for a more cold and callous persona akin to Hartnell or Colin Baker (without the companion-strangling but with the costume Baker actually wanted). Now he seems to be morphing into something more jaded old rocker-as-bard (note the focus on storytelling in all of the stories so far).Cloudane wrote:As usual for new Doctors I've found him hard to get used to in the first season but quite enjoying him now. And having rewatched the first few, have liked those in hindsight - he was quite jarring after the warm hearted stuff of Matt Smith particularly when either he or the directors seemed to be doing a bit of an "ooh look it's Malcolm Tucker but without swearing" thing, but it seems different the second time around and more of the sort of 'socially inept' (with a dash of humour) sense I mentioned. Like many things I suppose, it's pretty funny in hindsight.
It stuck me the other day that, rather than being primarily inspired by any one previous portrayal (Tom Baker for Eccleston, Davison for Tennant, Troughton for Smith), he seems to be playing a sort of proto-Doctor; one that, in a quite timey-wimey manner, I can imagine all previous actors having based their own versions on aspects of.
