Twelfth Doctor Vs War Doctor : What Is A Great Character?

Great actors, matt smith and jenna coleman. 10/10. brilliant.it's a shame the bbc decided to perpetuate the doctor's character forever rather than give him a hero's end and face his mortality.

Now, he didn't press the button because the helpless bloodthirsty merciless time lords, on the verge of defeat, have to be saved under the hope of a better day in the future.i also question the necessity of adding the war doctor to the line of doctors possibly requiring a re-con of doctor's lives. i wonder if the script was written with the idea eccleston's 9th doctor would play the john hurt role, prior to eccleston turning it down, which would make more sense. or, alternatively, casting paul mcgann as the last days of the 8th doctor.likewise, i kept wondering why david tennant was there other than to have a multi-doctor episode.

And so we reach the end of another dr who series and with it, bar a one-off christmas special apparently reuniting this twelfth doc with his first self, peter capaldi's tenure in the role. i've enjoyed this latest series very much, due in no small part to the chemistry between capaldi and new girl pearl mackie as bill potts. i'm not keen on matt lucas or his character nardole but it was a delight to see the return of john simm as the master and michelle gomez as missy.told over two episodes scripted by show-runner steven moffat, unsurprisingly this was a deeper, timey-wimey story than usual involving an impossibly large spaceship with a multitude of differing time-zones, the return of my favourite of the doctor's enemies, the cybermen and a doctor striving to avoid his inevitable regeneration.bill's assimilation into an early version of a cybermen was cleverly shown as she portrayed her true self alongside her transformed self whilst her rescue by the water-girl from the first episode made for a neat circular finish to what has been an entertaining series, taking in as it has several excellent episodes like that involving the nano-bots, the terror under the thames, the mystery of the lost roman 9th legion and the return of the ice warriors.not as light or as flashy as some of the earlier episodes, this one took more concentration than usual but repaid its greater demands on the viewer.

The coup of getting john hurt to be the doctor was fantastic and well worth the required invention of an extra doctor and this little story makes perfect sense as the doctor is on the point of death and is given a choice of regeneration characteristics by the sisterhood of karn who had previously appeared in the classic 4th doctor story the brain of morbius. he realises a different kind of person is required to fight in the time war and so becomes the war doctor. we get a little glimpse of a younger john hurt as the newly regenerated doctor.the excitement of this idea and of showing hurt arrive is matched by the thrill of mcgann getting a tv appearance to follow on from his mostly audio based stories.

For the reviewer who said that the webisode would be incomprehensible to modern fans, i'm not even a fan and i found it comprehensible. all you really need to know to appreciate it is that paul mcgann was the eighth doctor but only appeared in a tv movie back in 1996.because it's been seventeen years, he's made enough of a physical change for him to look as if he's been hardened or wisened by events. mcgann gets a much better change to acquit himself and remind everybody that he's a very good actor.

For over a year now, when we first learned that matt smith would soon be leaving doctor who and that scottish actor peter capaldi would be his replacement, fans have been waiting to see a new doctor in action. with the series eight premiere episode deep breath, that wish has been granted. so does capaldi's twelfth doctor live up to expectations and what about the episode itself?much of the attention being focused on the episode was in regards to capaldi's new doctor.