So did I. I'm trying to think back to the first time I saw TCI, but it's almost impossible to get back into that mindset. But certainly, he had me from "did you miss me?", and probably even from the minute he stepped out of the TARDIS and collapsed.
I like Eleven well enough so far, but he's not the Doctor yet for me, even after this week's episode. I read something yesterday which suggested that maybe Moffat is deliberately NOT defining him in the way that Nine and Ten were, in order to bring back or preserve that slight distance that the Doctor should have as an outsider, someone who's clearly NOT human. I just think that, coming after the most human Doctor of them all, who had one of the longest tenures iun the role - and who happened to be played by one of the finest actors of his generation - perhaps the contrast is too great to make it as easy a transition as the previous one from Nine to Ten.
I think he had me even from the CiN special in those first moments after the regeneration with his ongoing obsession with Barcelona, his knowledge about Rose's family, etc. Maybe it's that carrying on of knowledge and the clear understanding of the person/people around him that helped to boost the image. Not to mention the fact that he beat the enemy, first with a sword and then a satsuma. If that's not the Doctor, I don't know what is!
I need a moment that will set him in stone as 'the Doctor' for me. I thought it was going to be when he beat the Atraxi, but 'I'm never saying that again' kind of spoilt it. Then I kept expecting him to open his mouth about the truth of the star whale, but he didn't. If it doesn't come soon, I won't be happy...
And I don't object to the Doctor being more alien (which Nine patently was), just so long as he's ticking all of the 'Doctor' boxes. Sadly, so far, he isn't.
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So did I. I'm trying to think back to the first time I saw TCI, but it's almost impossible to get back into that mindset. But certainly, he had me from "did you miss me?", and probably even from the minute he stepped out of the TARDIS and collapsed.
I like Eleven well enough so far, but he's not the Doctor yet for me, even after this week's episode. I read something yesterday which suggested that maybe Moffat is deliberately NOT defining him in the way that Nine and Ten were, in order to bring back or preserve that slight distance that the Doctor should have as an outsider, someone who's clearly NOT human. I just think that, coming after the most human Doctor of them all, who had one of the longest tenures iun the role - and who happened to be played by one of the finest actors of his generation - perhaps the contrast is too great to make it as easy a transition as the previous one from Nine to Ten.
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I need a moment that will set him in stone as 'the Doctor' for me. I thought it was going to be when he beat the Atraxi, but 'I'm never saying that again' kind of spoilt it. Then I kept expecting him to open his mouth about the truth of the star whale, but he didn't. If it doesn't come soon, I won't be happy...
And I don't object to the Doctor being more alien (which Nine patently was), just so long as he's ticking all of the 'Doctor' boxes. Sadly, so far, he isn't.
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