Docter Whom!?

Grandolf party’s HARRDDD!!!1!

I did a painting of the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones for a buddy of mine, and the hours I spent working on the painting made me curious. So I started watching the show, beginning with the 2005 reboot starring Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor. Currently watching Season 3 (or as the Brits call it, Series 3) and enjoying the hell out of it. The Doctor is an awesome character. I never saw the old shows, but I’m certain that Douglas Adams (who wrote for the show for like a year back in the 70s) drew a lot of inspiration from the character when he was coming up with Ford Prefect. They are both manic and experienced space travellers with a fix-it-all super-tool (Doctor = sonic screwdriver, Ford = towel) who use “cool” to overcome situations where the wonder-tool doesn’t help.

I enjoyed the kind of dark, slightly gritty Eccelston Doctor. He was bizarre and manic, but he was also a dangerous sonofabitch with a brooding anger underneath his peppy, charming exterior. Tennant’s Doctor is much more intense and energetic. He still has that cold, dangerous streak in him, and he doesn’t shy away from violence when necessary, but he is a lot more magnetic and dynamic than Eccelston was. Eccelston was confident in the role and his character was less eccentric. Tennant is more mercurial and charming.

Pic of Gandalf is unrelated, but awesome.