Was Peter Capaldi the worst Doctor ever?

By far the best new who Doctor for me. Before him it was eccleston but not this much. The only new Doctor I don't mind watching when in a bad story just for his performance. I know many new fans don't prefer this type of Doctor but they'll get a different one in a few years. Hopefully not too soon.

For the irregular adjective "bad" the comparative is "worse" and the superlative is "(the) worst".

No I don't think he's the worst of the five New Who incarnations. I personally think David Tennant was the worst. Other people will have other opinions. And that's fine.

So this is permanence, love's shattered pride.
What once was innocence, turned on its side.

My least favourite Doctors are John Pertwee and David Tennant.

I found the 10th Doctor quite melodramatic and over the top, written as far too human and brooding-it felt like they were pandering to casual viewers and teenagers by writing him as more of a generically flawed hero figure and 'oh so tragic wo is me' mopey ladies man, it was supposed to be accessible but it just annoyed me.

I missed the anger and sarcasm of the 9th Doctor, Tennant had a tendency to over act as times and the 10th Doctor was kinda full of himself, blustery and arrogant but unlike 6 and 12 didn't have a sufficiently interesting or alien personality to make up for it, I found the love story between him and pretty much every female character he ran into forced and cheesy rather than touching, and the writing practically beat you over the head with the 'woe is me I'm such a brooding tragic figure please love me', at times Tennant's Doctor feels like's he's strolled in from a different show and written by community.

Tennant's Doctor WAS my favourite Doctor growing up as he was the most accessible of the New Who Doctors, but in the years since his episodes first aired I've watched more and more of the classic series and started reading the books/listening to audios and as such his Doctor feels less authentic and in keeping with the usual character-paradoxically it was the more accessible, human 10th DR that got me interested in Who, and it was the wider series that made me loose interest in his personality..

Pertwee's Doctor I just found kinda...boring, he was arrogant, chauvinistic and vaguely misogynistic and I felt most of his storylines were overlong and repetitive.

Capaldi's certainly been let down by some arguably poor scripts - and at a far greater degree/pseudo 'failure' rate than his Nu Who predecessors though this shouldn't reflect badly upon him as an actor or his otherwise stellar performances of course.

It's a shame really as he (and we) deserve far better and unless Season 10 is a storming return to the form previously attained in Nu Who, Capaldi's Doctor (and indeed his legacy) might end up being under-appreciated by both fandom and audiences generally.

Fingers crossed for Season 10 then!

I still say Davison is the worst Doctor ever. The first of what I'd call the irredentist Doctors, for whom a complete character and creative heyday seems to constantly elude them because the show is looking back too much.

But Capaldi is up there.

A lot of fans seemed to want him to be the great white hope for the series, and saw in him what they wanted to see.

I tried to see it in him, but aside from a few isolated moments in Deep Breath, Mummy on the Orient Express, The Zygon Incursion and Heaven Sent I just didn't feel a Doctorish quality to him.

Many liken him to being Colin's Doctor 'done right', but personally with Colin I at least sensed a strength of will to him that made him the Doctor. Not so with Capaldi. He just seems to be some apathetic armchair Hitler for whom being the Doctor is some chore he can barely be bothered with.

I think perhaps it was the moments where the writing played up to his Malcolm Tucker persona or had him mid-life crisis-ing that really disconnected me from him. Right from Robots of Sherwood where everything he did in his sudden rivalry with Robin, just seemed so scripted and forced. From thenon I just couldn't make myself take him seriously as much as I wanted and tried to.

So a lot of it is the writing, making him utterly unappealing as a character and ineffective as a hero. But some of it I think is the performance. It doesn't help that his second story was a remake of Dalek, which made the comparisons with Eccleston's more raw screen presence inevitable. But the fact is, Eccleston's performance seemed to take nothing for granted. Capaldi's seems to take everything for granted that the audience is going to find his Doctor compelling and interesting and so he doesn't seem to ever 'fight' for it.

Paul McGann IS the War Doctor in my fic
http://dalekwars.blogspot.co.uk/

I think he's the BEST NuWho Doctor and the third best ever Doctor. He a million times better than Tennant, at least.

It's funny how people he has terrible scripts when he's been. Involved in some of the best and most loved episodes in a very long time

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