Through no fault of anyone, Eccleston being followed by Tennant and then by Smith really overshadowed his wonderful performance and all the credit he deserves for being the Doctor that brought the series back. I’ll always love him for that season. He really was fantastic.
"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common.
They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views."
-Tom Baker, The Face of Evil, Season 14, Episode 16.
"You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain."
-Tom Baker, The Face of Evil, Season 14
That scene was brutal. I cried like a baby. And it so encapsulated Tennant’s doctor, his sheer joy in life that kept him going no matter how bad things got. It also drove home the weight of a doctor that loved a human, and became friends with one in a way he never had before.
To me, there’s no bad doctors at all, only varying degrees of greatness. But Tennant is the only one that can match “my” doctor, Tom Baker. Everything about his run just worked for me. So, that scene? Perfect, andb the quote itself is the distillation of that .
“I don’t want to go” was originally said in The End of Time, but was also used by Tennant in the 50th Anniversary episode, Day of the Doctor. Tom Baker had a cameo in that one also!
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