Ten’s Era wasn’t all that good.

With the return of David Tennant to the role of the Tenth Doctor this November the revised fandom is started to really pick up speed. I’ve seen a pretty good fan made trailer for the 50^th anniversary episode and a whole load of Facebook posts about it and particularly about how awesome things were during the tenth Doctor’s run.

Thing is, things really weren’t awesome during the tenth Doctor’s run. They were pretty crappy to be honest. The love story with Rose was clichéd and over the top and a great chunk of the episodes (across the whole run) lacked inspiration or any essence of new ideas.

There have been a couple of crappy episodes since Eleven took over (that one the pirates, that one with the plastic people, that one with the Dinosaurs  - seriously, what were they thinking with that episode?), but overall Matt Smith’s run has been fairly consistent in terms of quality.

The Tenth Doc’s era was host to one series that I would be willing to sit through again (that being series 3) and even at that I’d choose any of the Eleventh era series’ over that.

Getting on to the elephant in the room, Ten’s exit, while being the pinnacle of sadness for some, was, as far as I’m concerned a boring, over the top and slightly self-indulgent trudge fest.

The only thing that got any kind of emotion out of me from “The End of Time” was the Tenth Doctor miserable musings about regeneration. And the emotion that that happened to evoke in me was a mixture of anger and annoyance. It seemed to me that Russell T Davies was using the opportunity to tell fans; “the new Who isn’t going to half as good as this one.” You’d think from it, that David Tennat was the first person to play the Doctor and that Davies was the first person to run the show.

The entire self-indulgent, somewhat confrontational monologue is not I the spirit of this show that has been constantly changing for the best part of 50 years.

There you have it, Ten’s run wasn’t all that good ad the series under Moffat is much better.