Christopher Eccleston goodness

[neadods]

A couple of YouTube links that were posted on Time & Chips for the Eccleston fans. Neither one worksafe. Both wonderful.

Music vid to "Damn, Wish I Were Your Lover"

Jude the Obscure in About Five Minutes (warning - put all drinkables FAR from the screen!)

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[jonquil.livejournal.com]

We've just started watching the Nine DVD, and now I miss Eccleston terribly. I have an essay percolating about Why Nine Works Better Than Ten.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I can say why Nine is my favorite over Ten - Nine has depth of character (and angst) and a general believability about being centuries old that Ten fails to show unless the director really smacks him around. (Tennant can do it - I utterly believed him on "It! Is! DEFENDED!" but usually when he does angst I want to pat him on the head and give him a cookie.)

I can say why Nine worked with Rose far better than Ten; Nine really loved her and needed her desperately as his talisman against his own PTSD and survivor's guilt. Once he got over that (thanks to her taking the burden off him), he was back to being bouncy and feckless, but he indulged her in ways that were bad for both of them.

Works better as the Doctor, though? I'm holding off until I see him on his own at Christmas and then with Martha. Rose was Nine's baggage; I want to see him step up to a clean plate and see what he makes of the role. I think he can be the Doctor, but he's been given a double sisyphean burden of scripts and a companion that doesn't match his new personality.