Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor

       I've been re-watching Doctor Who from the 2005 series, starring the ninth Doctor, played by Christopher Eccleston, onward. I never really gave this Doctor a chance, mostly because Rose Tyler irks me a bit, but also because it just never caught me like the later episodes did. During this re-watching of the series. I have come to love this ninth Doctor. He is so much darker and more moody than subsequent incarnations, making it more believable when he gets serious. He can say things like, "What is life? Life is easy; a quirk of matter, nature's way of preserving flesh." and it doesn't seem goofy or out of character, they just flow out, almost unnoticed.
     
       Steven Moffat only wrote one two-part episode to be starred in by this doctor ("The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances") which is disappointing to me. I think that Moffat's writing and Eccleston's dark demeanor meshed so well. All of the silly dystopian episodes of the 2005 series didn't suit Eccleston's depiction of the Doctor well. All in all, this rant was leading to the conclusion that I'm glad to have given the ninth doctor another chance. Watching his war-torn, hard shell soften as he opened up to the silly humans in his life was a fun experience. Now it's time to watch last episode of the season that I've been putting off because I don't want to see him go. I truly wish that he would have stayed on for a little longer, if only to see him spout out more gloomy, existential Moffat lines. 

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