Re: Enemy Within or Rose...


Michelle Monarch wrote:
> Q wrote:
> >
> > given what we'd already seen of their acting, i'd have to go with
> > mcgann - only because he'd gotten to show a sweet, naive and vulnerable
> > side of himself in his previous roles (which ecclestone hadn't)
>
> Really? I thought Eccleston's Doctor was quite naive and vulnerable


yes, indeed he was - i said as much in the very next line you cut out.
(and i'd go for sweet, too, although mcgann's portrayal played that
aspect up a lot more)

i was talking about their acting roles *before* they became the doctor.
eccleston had a history of playing pretty dour northerners, whereas
mcgann had done stuff like 'withnail and i'. based on their previous
work - their work as the doctor sight unseen - i'd probably have chosen
mcgann.

For all his 'stupid apes' talk and
> badass look, he makes a lot of mistakes - *snip* - I thought he was the most vulnerable
> since Davison, personally.


too bad he didn't go for the three-octave range though. :)

Q
counting on tennant to go for the squeak in his current incarnation

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