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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 7:50:43 GMT
Hey everyone,
Tomorrow, the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble are given voice once again by David Teannet and Catherine Tate! Three different new tales set during series four/season thirty-two! What do you think of the Tenth Doctor? What are your favourite? What do you think of the era as a whole? What do you think of the expanded media featuring the character? What are your hopes for Big Finish's take on the character?
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Post by Timelord007 on May 15, 2016 8:48:11 GMT
He's my second favourite Doctor after the Fourth & i loved 90% of Davids tenure as the Tenth Doctor & have no doubts these three audios will deliver the same high quality storytelling as his previous performances.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 8:58:15 GMT
I think he did a terrific job in the part, managing to balance that unshakable godlike, unearthly quality with an introspective assailability. Tennant's era under Russell T. Davies went from strength to strength, every episode feeling as though it was a film in miniature like a classic Gerry Anderson production. His Doctor is iconic and rightly so, being able to pick up even a stumbling story and make it something watchable, if not outright enjoyable. The tragedy he was able to convey as a battle-scarred survivor was heartbreakingly real and it was a pleasure to grow up with him as the current incarnation. He left an indelible and unconquerable mark on the series as a whole, a worthy followup to his equally wonderful predecessors that was able to step out from the shadows of the past and forge forward into new horizons. Besides, he was just so much fun.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on May 15, 2016 8:59:07 GMT
I'm giving it a chance, BF redeemed sixie and five in my eyes, it's possible they can do the same for the tenth (who I rate roughly 14 on list of favourite Doctors)
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on May 15, 2016 8:59:23 GMT
David Tennant is without a doubt my favourite Doctor and he and Donna were one of the best Doctor/companion partnerships the show has ever seen. They had so much chemistry, it felt like the 10th Doctor and Donna had known each other for years. David Tennant and Catherine Tate make for a great comedy double act and it's a wonder they haven't had their own sitcom yet.
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Post by chapwithwings on May 15, 2016 9:56:26 GMT
the glory days of Doctor Who - 10 & Donna were magnificent and I am sure they will be again on audio. The Tennant era really was the high water mark of NEw Who - it has never really recovered from his leaving.
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Post by agentten on May 15, 2016 17:33:34 GMT
Ten is my Doctor and has been since The Christmas Invasion aired. With Ten every episode feels fresh and exciting and always fun. Tennant is an immensely emotive actor who has a rare gift with his ability to demonstrate the inner life of a character. He could go from funny, to wrathful, to heartrendingly lonely in the same scene and it all flowed so organically. Series two is my favorite season of Who and the Davies era is my favorite era so I'm over the moon that Ten's adventures are finally landing at Big Finish (and with Donna, no less, a TARDIS team that is one of the best the show has ever produced). Hopefully adventures with Rose, Jack, Mickey, Martha, Wilfred, Jackie and River are not far off. I'm anxious to hear Ten's further adventures with all of them.
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Post by icecreamdf on May 15, 2016 17:56:35 GMT
He's my third favorite Doctor and my favorite New Series Doctor. Pretty much all of season 4 was great, and Stolen Earth/Journey's end is one of my favorite Dalek stories.
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Post by muckypup on May 15, 2016 18:26:43 GMT
10 for me is new who.
for all Mr moffats clever plots and linking themes, nothing for me has come close to RTD's 10th Doc era.
sure there are problematic episodes but I have to say each week I tuned in and was never disappointed, even when things got a bit silly like tardis towing earth I forgive it.
and I miss him as the doctor as I missed tom baker, so looking forward to him being the doctor again!
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Post by aztec on May 15, 2016 18:26:55 GMT
Hey everyone, Tomorrow, the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble are given voice once again by David Teannet and Catherine Tate! Three different new tales set during series four/season thirty-two! What do you think of the Tenth Doctor? What are your favourite? What do you think of the era as a whole? What do you think of the expanded media featuring the character? What are your hopes for Big Finish's take on the character? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure how I feel about Tennant's Doctor! I have quite a weird and possibly controversial viewpoint on this, admittedly I haven't watched any of Tennant's episodes for several years, and I'm looking back at his era through the viewpoint of someone who has now become a huge fan of the Classic series etc, not the newbie teenager viewer I was back in 2005. Tennant was 'my doctor' growing up, and the leading man for the majority of the episodes I watched as a teenager (I stopped watching mid way through Season 6, Capaldi's casting brought me back to the show, whilst NOTD and starting to watch the Classics got me interested in Big Finish), at the time I really liked his take on the character-on the surface a cheeky, fun loving chappy with an eye of the ladies but masking a great deal of anger and loneliness beneath...but to be totally honest in retrospect I've grown rather less fond of his Doctor and I think alot of my fondness for the era was due to my age/taste in stories at the time rather than the complexity of the 10th Doctor himself, I'd go as far to say he's one of least favourite Doctors...but weirdly enough I'd also argue he was one of the most charismatic and intelligent actors to play the part, so whilst I find 10 rather grating at times, Tennant plays the part very well and anchors the storylines, storylines which were by and large very enjoyable (Series 4 is perfect the whole way through i.m.o), if perhaps a little simplistic and too earthbound (and I'd also argue RTD's clunkers were much worse than Moffat's). (See I told you it was a weird opinion!) ...Tennant's a hugely charismatic and talented actor and played the character very well from the first to last moments, but looking back at his Doctor I don't find 10 particularly complex, alien or dangerous, most of the time he's written as almost too charismatic and 'human' to be believable and RTD practically pounds the audience over the head with the 'lonely tragic god' angle, I personally much prefer the sense of mystery and danger Eccleston and Capaldi brought to the role personally, and having listened to BF, I'd actually argue the 8th Doctor was 10 but done better (ducks for cover), the 10th Doctor is very watchable and does grab your attention, but I never truly felt like the TV series explored beyond his surface character. That's not to say I don't find his era without merit, Donna is easily my favourite New Who companion, Martha was great as well (though the less said about series 2 Rose the better i.m.o...), the storylines managed to hold a difficult balance between family friendly fun and tragic pathos and most importantly were tightly plotted and never lost the sense of fun, 10 does has a fair amount of room/hints for BF to expand on, and as much as I prefer the other 3 New Who Doctors, I'd probably sooner sit down and rewatch 10's era because it had a higher hit than miss ratio overall i.m.o (though series 9 is probably my favourite overall) and was mostly very good TV. As for my hopes for Big Finish: -I hope I get a clearer picture of where I stand on the 10th Doctor! -I hope they manage to nail the excellent character relationships the 10th Dr had with all his companions -I hope they tone down the Doctor/companion romance (in fairness I'm likely to skip any potential 10/Rose audios anyway) -As I said above, I admire the tone and storylines of his era, but wasn't always that interested in the leading man, now that 10 will be operating outside the constraints of TV, I hope BF experiment a bit more and explore the tragedy and alien danger that lurked beneath 10's charming exterior rather than simply relying on nostalgia, look at how far 8 has been developed. -Less Daleks/sonc screwdriver -More Wilf -A male companion -Stories set in his specials year with new companions, or exploring the timelord victorious thing a bit more
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Post by constonks on May 15, 2016 18:30:55 GMT
There's no Doctor I dislike and early in my Who exploration I would have even called Tennant my favourite (back when I could clearly pick a favourite).
I'm hoping he really shines on audio (he certainly did in James Goss's Dead Air) and that he'll be back for many more releases in the years to come.
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Post by aztec on May 15, 2016 18:39:53 GMT
There's no Doctor I dislike and early in my Who exploration I would have even called Tennant my favourite (back when I could clearly pick a favourite). I'm hoping he really shines on audio (he certainly did in James Goss's Dead Air) and that he'll be back for many more releases in the years to come. I admire Tennant as an actor, and I don't dislike his Doctor per se, I just never found him particularly interesting as a character (same with Pertwee). I wouldn't worry about Tennant's performance, he's a very experienced audio/radio actor (and seems to do the voiceover for at least half the adverts on British TV these days...), my only slighty worry is he might find it a struggle to recapture the exact same age/accent as he had 10 years ago...
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Post by icecreamdf on May 15, 2016 18:43:26 GMT
There's no Doctor I dislike and early in my Who exploration I would have even called Tennant my favourite (back when I could clearly pick a favourite). I'm hoping he really shines on audio (he certainly did in James Goss's Dead Air) and that he'll be back for many more releases in the years to come. my only slighty worry is he might find it a struggle to recapture the exact same age/accent as he had 10 years ago... Well, he was fine when he played the Doctor again 3 years ago.
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Post by elgranto on May 15, 2016 19:18:32 GMT
It took me awhile to get used to Tennant in the role, say, until midway through Series 3. I liked how he embodied the more playful aspects of the Fourth and Eighth Doctors whilst occasionally slipping in to a guise reminiscent of the Seventh, i.e. "Time Lord Victorius." My favourites from his era would be The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit, Human Nature/The Family of Blood, Midnight, and The Waters of Mars. As a whole I'd say his era was definitely strong - the strongest NuWho has had so far even - and I appreciate the emphasis on character RTD brought to it, even if his plotting wasn't particularly great. I'm unfamiliar with the Tenth Doctor in expanded media, so Big Finish will be my first of Ten outside the TV show.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2016 20:17:20 GMT
He's far from my favourite though that's mostly in the character rather than David's performance. I always like my Doctors to be a bit more other-worldly and not overly relatable which is perhaps why my favourite Doctors tend to be the grumpier, professorly ones. I do think David is a massively important figure in the shows history as he was the one who captured the public imagination more than any before and led the show to be top of the weekly ratings overall - something no Doctor had ever done (admittedly, the timeslots for earlier Docs didn't help) but put frankly, Tennant helped make the show THE biggest in the UK. That week before Journey's End EVERYONE seemed to be a Who-fan. It was the water-cooler show. Something it's not quite been again with the exception of regenerations and the 50th.
So, while not quite my cup of tea, essential to the growth of the show. Matt and Moff are the ones who took the show truly international and finally broke the US (as BBCA ratings show), but Tennant and RTD laid that foundation for sure.
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Post by elkawho on May 15, 2016 21:16:24 GMT
I wouldn't be here if not for the 10th Doctor. Tennant's era grabbed hold of my imagination, started my journey with The Doctor and I've kept on running with him through all of his incarnations. What struck me veery early on about Tennant was what a fantastic actor he was. Since then I have seen as much of his other work as I could find, and he never disappoints in any of them. I am looking forward to tomorrow's 10th Doctor Adventures more than I think any other BF audio, and that is saying a lot. As for my favorite Tenth Doctor stories, boy there are so many so I'm limiting myself to a few per season. Series 2: School Reunion (I loved this one even before I know who Sarah Jane Smith was.) The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit Series 3: Human Nature/FAmily of Blood Blink Series 4: The Fires Of Pompeii Silence In The Library/Forest of The Dead Midnight Turn Left Specials: The Waters Of Mars
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Post by Audio Watchdog on May 15, 2016 22:55:28 GMT
If this had been a 10/Rose box set I might not have gone for it. 10 & Donna is my favorite pairing in all of Nu-Who and I could have easily seen several more series of the two of them on the telly. I adore Tennant as an actor but had a lot of problems with the way the 10th Doctor was written towards the end. It struck me as very woe-is-me by the end and that just isn't a good place foe the hero of a piece to exist. I would obviously love to hear more 10/Donna and if the they dropped the whole unrequited love angle, I would enjoy listening to 10 and Martha stories. I also hope BF explores the gaps RTD providing with the specials. I may be in the minority here but I enjoyed both Planet of the Dead & Waters of Mars for very different reasons. I liked the former because it felt like the show letting loose and having some fun again and the latter because it really played with the darkness & anger that lurked beneath the surface of Tennant's Doctor. And whatever happened to Michelle Ryan? Anyway, in summation my feeling towards the 10 Doctor era would be mixed.
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Post by constonks on May 15, 2016 23:46:11 GMT
(...)and if the they dropped the whole unrequited love angle, I would enjoy listening to 10 and Martha stories. Honestly, there's nothing saying that the Doctor didn't travel with Martha again sometime after Donna.
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Post by elgranto on May 16, 2016 0:04:10 GMT
(...)and if the they dropped the whole unrequited love angle, I would enjoy listening to 10 and Martha stories. Honestly, there's nothing saying that the Doctor didn't travel with Martha again sometime after Donna. I'm in the camp that believes Martha's underrated, so I'd love to see.. or rather hear, more of her. Having new adventures set post-Donna rather than in Series 3 is an interesting prospect. We might even get an explanation as to how she ended up with Mickey.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on May 16, 2016 0:07:26 GMT
Honestly, there's nothing saying that the Doctor didn't travel with Martha again sometime after Donna. I'm in the camp that believes Martha's underrated, so I'd love to see.. or rather hear, more of her. Having new adventures set post-Donna rather than in Series 3 is an interesting prospect. We might even get an explanation as to how she ended up with Mickey. That would be fun.
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