Hard agree from me, there may be aspects of Fifteen’s characterisation I’m not super keen on, but I can’t fault Ncuti’s performance - he always gives 110%!
I was thinking about Fifteen today and I don’t remember ever feeling so devastated that we’ve lost a Doctor before. I think this incarnation had such massive potential, and while I still love what we got on screen, there’s a universe out there where we got another season to complete his character arc, or we didn’t spend quite so much time on dull mystery box plotlines, or didn’t go back to the RTD1 “last of the time lords” characterisation, and I wish we lived in one of those universes TBH. The Fifteen of The Giggle and The Church on Ruby Road is such a different and joyful take on the character, and it really bums me out that we ultimately end up with him torturing someone in The Interstellar Song Contest, or defeating the bad guy with a massive laser in The Reality War - it’s absolutely not what I wanted out of this incarnation, as the supposed “post-rehab” Doctor.
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While I mostly agree, I did feel like it was always inevitable for this Doctor to get hurt and become less kind. Mind you, it was to a significantly lesser degree than I expected, but the start of his character arc was being healed… makes sense that he’d get hurt again.
Funnily, my mom would always point out in episodes that he was crying (“he’s crying again!” “Yes mom, men can cry too”) but in Reality War, he didn’t cry, and WOW she was devastated. (“I want my crying man back”) Me too, mom. Kid really did put a sliver of ice in his heart…
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Much like Jodie, I loved the Doctor, but not the stories/writing.
So like Jodie, I hope he’ll get the Big Finish treatment to give some new writers a go with him.
His first season was rough and I really wasn’t a fan. his second season however, was nearly perfect, aside from that last episode that really put a stain on the season for me.
I honestly was expecting to hate the intersteller song contest, having some tie in with Eurovision just didn’t sound enjoyable, but it was such a pleasant surprise of an episode.
I do wish he got a third season regardless, there’s just something about a third season that really hits different for a Doctor. Like the first season is them creating the character, second is refining that character, and the third is them just living and being that character.
His energy, his being, the way he carries himself and talks, I loved almost everything about how he portrayed the Doctor.
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While I don’t agree with all of it, this video sums up a lot of the issues I’ve had with this era. Ncuti Gatwa deserved so much better
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