| ferretchucker |
11-15-2013 05:20 PM |
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Originally Posted by neverending
(Post 960200)
Sounds like a spot on description of my favorite Doctor- Tom Baker.
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There are definite parallels to be drawn between the two. Silly, playful, clumsy, dangerously curious. And in reference to both of these incarnations people say it is an intentional ruse to cover his darker self. However, despite Smith's best efforts he can't pull it off as well as Baker. Baker had such an enigmatic, layered performance that you truly didn't know where you stood with him, whereas Smith is far more transparent...
...or inconsistent. This isn't so much his fault as the showrunners. His incarnations morals are all OVER the place. One minute he's screaming at someone for making an idle threat, the next he's committing genocide against the Cybermen. Smith isn't amazing, but he's definitely a victim of a bad period of the show. Moffat's succeeded in getting the show to perhaps it's most prolific point in history, but to do so he lost the careful, in-depth, character driven stories of the past in favour of one-liners and moments of ridiculous spectacle that exist purely for the internet (the Doctor rides a motorbike up the Shard, fish fingers and custard etc.) |
