“I began watching the present with Eccleston within the lead position, and this has all the time been my favourite interpretation of the Doctor. A cranky previous alien who would not actually wish to become involved in human shenanigans however retains reluctantly getting dragged in anyway.
When I heard they had been going to forged Peter Capaldi, I rejoiced. The most irritable of the irritable, as Malcolm Tucker says The bulk of it. If he introduced even a fraction of that power to the Doctor, I’d be thrilled.
But the writing for his run on the present was as boring as dishwater. They gave him so little to work with. I finished and stopped following the present, most likely midway by its run.
Absolutely wasted expertise. How do you rent an actor with that sort of power, put him in a job that may completely play to his strengths, and provides him the blandest writing on the planet? Damn disgrace.”
