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hedgie:
I must say, if he had taken the role, he'd probably have been able to overtake Tom Baker as my personal favourite doctor.  And no, I'm not being a hipster here, preferring the old Who to the new one, but I really think that RTD's shitty writing helped hurt the new series in my mind.  I know he's long gone, and there were some good eps during his run, but even now, it seems rather hit and miss for me, especially since each series is trying to out-do the one before it in over-the-topness (sic).  I think the serial format suited the show a lot better, since there was enough screen time to tell the story, and didn't have to end with something potentially earth-shattering (perhaps literally) nasty that had been building up over the previous twelve episodes.

And yeah, I'm sure the whole Who 2.0 thing got off on the wrong foot a bit when my first thought when seeing Rose is "what a chav".

BeoPuppy:
That joke even got made in the series, so you are not alone.

hedgie:
Oh, I know.  And I know that Billie Piper can act, so it's not a slam on her.  Aside from Martha, (and I haven't seen the current companion(s), it seems as though with Rose and Amy, The Doctor has been travelling with rather immature, selfish, people.  It's rather annoying (and, it seems to me, somewhat sexist) how both Mickey and Rory were the dutiful boyfriends when their SOs are off travelling the universe for some unknown amount of time (gah, they could have at the very least called), and facing whatever, for women who seem to rather prefer being around a strange man in a police box.  No matter how wonderful someone else is in other respects, I'd show someone the door if they treated me like that.

BeoPuppy:
Mickey, oh, certainly. He strated out as a bit of wet rag. Tried to spruce him up later on and the last time we see him he's married to Martha and shooting at ... soemthing or other ... but overall he's a big ol' softie. I feel that Rory was turned into quite the hero by the end of their stay in the Tardis. The whole roman thing, you know. Rory was far more badass than Mickey ever got close to being.

ev4n:
Rory Grew.

Also, which RTD wrote a ton of cheese, including the truly dreadful Love & Monsters, he also co-wrote the Waters of Mars, so I give him some credit.

But yeah, it's a serial with a huge array of writers.  It's never going to be anything other than hit and miss in this format.  And nobody should ever argue that the weaker episodes are in some way superior to most of what's on television these days.

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