Nu Poo as artistic torpedo

[cyberhat]

From the good to the great, once they set foot in Cardiff, a once defensible artistic reputation crashes down like a tightrope walker during a hurricane.

David Tennant - perfectly good actor, my least favourite Doctor. Ruined from the beginning by the choice of Mockney. An accent privately educated English people use to sound like they work at Billingsgate Fish Market. Exemplified by that neck stretching 00's comedy voice that every f*cker on telly was doing back then. Really, he is the worst Doctor. I don't think I find any of the others as unwatchable as him. Even Jodie I can often get through by thinking of her as the hot Victoria Wood.

RTD - Enjoyed his Jeremy Thorpe drama. Second Coming not bad. His New Who put me off ever watching the BBC again, let alone Doctor Who. The only half decent sci-fi he's ever wrote is Children of Earth. A script for a show that is not Doctor Who.

Christopher Eccleston - One of the most exciting new actors of his generation to an industry boycotted sc-fi convention guest.

Derek Jacobi - I prefer his early work.

John Hurt - Decent shot at greatest actor ever claim. His CV is bulging with great after greatness. Brought in to play the lovable, amiable 'War Doctor'.

Saying hello to Cardiff means instant artistic decline.

[rushy]

I can't agree. Tennant and RTD were both moderately successful before they joined Doctor Who, and have since gone on to be powerhouses as far as the British arts are concerned. RTD has had critical hit after hit (more so than Moffat, who was seen as the better writer in the 2000s), and Tennant's in the Shakespearean actors' club, drinking cognac with Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and the rest.

Jacobi and Hurt have both done far too much iconic work for Doctor Who to even have an impact on their careers.

Eccleston arguably suffered the most from his boycott, but at the same time, we can't really tell how well he would be remembered as an actor if he hadn't done Doctor Who. It's his biggest claim to fame, at least so far.

[cyberhat]

New Who was a massive commercial and critical success, do not care. It is worthless. 

In fact I'd say the drastic decline in the worth of reviewers started with New Who. Which has ended with, it seems, every mix of the woke and the neocon that Hollywood vomits forth nowadays getting a 98% rating with reviewers and 1% with the public.  Saying somethings brilliant cause it's got a lot of hype behind it, used to be the public that fell for that, after New Who, it was the reviewers.

Eccleston's performances in Shallow Grave and Cracker are a King to his Doctor Who cat.

PS Don't rate Tennant's Shakespearian performances at all. That's all about hype too. And Patrick Stewart. He was a support slot till Star Trek.

[iank]

And the same guy who did it is coming back next year to "save" the show. Excited yet?

[Spark Doll King]

Oct 9, 2022 21:00:35 GMT iank said:

And the same guy who did it is coming back next year to "save" the show. Excited yet?

About as excited as a man waiting to be hanged.

It’s inevitable, but he desperately wish’s it weren’t.

Still I can enjoy the chaos it shows among the herd, it’s about the only joy it could ever bring me these days.