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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I don't know about him actually scripting anything but it's easy to see how his quite unorthodox interpretation would've been difficult for the writers to work with.I can also imagine the producers wondering what direction the show might take after three full series with Eccleston and if it was a direction they were that committed to going down. In a way Tennant was the far safer option, bringing the series back to familiar territory, while at the same time fully compliant with the show-runner's apparent obsession with upping the love-story angle.
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Hmm. See, the way I remember it, Tennant actually wanted to do a Scottish Doctor, and the network vetoed it. Tennant opted for a specific kind of Cambridge accent as a substitute... that was the level of control he had at the time. He could pick the "style" of high British.
Then a few years later another Scot comes along, and they let him keep the accent and do whatever he wants, including wearing his wedding ring (which he refused to take off, and which the writers had to work with and around). I'll bet that got to old #10 a bit.
Tennant was delighted to have the role. He didn't take over. He wa doing Shakespeare in the Park at the time. I don't think he rewrote a word, and his opinions weren't solicited, at least not early on. He DID do some improvising though... I can remember specific scenes but I don't know where Symbols is at with everything, so I don't want to spoil it.
Sigh.
Anyway, I'm team Tennant. I've enjoyed every Doctor, and honestly once I'm in the middle of one actor's tenure, I am totally "with" that actor -- thought I would hate Smith, ended up crying when he left, which I didn't do for Tennant -- but when I think "Doctor Who," I think of David Tennant.
