On Sun, 15 Feb 2015, Darryl Perry wrote to mark lewis:   
      
    ml> i really liked Tom Baker as the doctor... i don't think any others    
    ml> have come close... having said that, though, i do want to go back    
    ml> to the beginning and see them all... i've seen a few of Jon,    
    ml> PeterD, and Colin but missed others up until Christopher and have    
    ml> caught all of them since... i'm still undecided about PeterC... i    
    ml> didn't like him in "Torchwood: Children of the Earth" but he    
    ml> played a good politician and played it how i tend to see many    
    ml> politicians... i just didn't like him in that role and i see the    
    ml> same or similar in his rendition of the doctor and i'm just not    
    ml> sure i like it either...   
    DP>     
    DP> I guess I had the benefit of not ever seeing Peter Capaldi act in   
    DP> anything notable before seeing him as The Doctor.   
      
   i wouldn't call the torchwood stuff notable but it is good... i wish they'd do   
   more with it, though...   
      
    DP> I really enjoy his portrayal.    
      
   peterC does do a good part... i just don't like the ""feel"" of it... i see   
   too much of his torchwood politician in it... grumpy, festering, angry, etc...   
      
    DP> I'm still trying to catch up on my Torchwood, as I'm just now into   
    DP> the 2nd season, so I haven't seen Peter in that role yet.   
      
   i don't know that the "Children of Earth" mini-series counts as part of a   
   season...   
      
    DP> But I did of course see him in Fires of Pompeii.  By the time I    
    DP> saw that episode, it was alrady announced that he would be the new    
    DP> Doctor. So I watched it with a critical eye.  I can't say that his    
    DP> role in that episode was very indicitive of his overall acting    
    DP> ability tho. So my exposure to Peter C is basically 99% from his    
    DP> portrayal as The Doctor.   
      
   understandable...   
      
    DP> I guess it boils down to, how much do you like the actor and his    
    DP> acting ability, and how much that actor made you feel for the    
    DP> character.  A    
      
   the acting i have no problem with... it is the character portrial that i   
   don't like... i prefer a happier, more free doctor than a grumpy stick up the   
   arse one ;)    
      
    ml> Clara, on the other hand, like many of the past companions, is    
    ml> welcome any time her heart desires ;) O:)    
      
    DP> Clara is certainly easy on the eyes, that's for sure.  But then so    
    DP> were Rose and Amy.  Martha was just ho-hum, and Donna was a good    
    DP> friend.  I'm pulling for having Shona from Last Christmas to be    
    DP> the next companion.    
      
   i would really enjoy seeing david tennant's (now) wife as a companion, too...   
   she was "The Doctor's Daughter" O:)    
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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