They never wanted to talk about the fact that I did 13 episodes. You know, we have a tradition of the gutter press in the UK, so I had to deal with them. And I learned about politics of power and money, and I got my confidence back.
And I would say: hold onto your soul, really, because that will affect your work. As the show was being celebrated, I was being abused in the press, and that was hard to take. And very confusing. With Eccleston out, the project would go on to cast John Hurt as The War Doctor, a role that presumably came about later in the script development process. In his oh-so-'00s signature long leather jacket, Eccleston's Doctor was more serious and stoic than his predecessors.
He was capable of great compassion, but also a level of cruelty that led some viewers to label one of his outings as the most controversial Doctor Who episode ever up until then, at least.
One ranking of all the Doctors so far put Eccleston's sole Doctor Who season as the third most popular in the show's history, and there's no doubt that its popularity kick-started the show's comeback. So why didn't he stick around to keep playing the Doctor?
There's a twist to this tale how very Whovian. This is the real reason Christopher Eccleston left Doctor Who after one season. At his worst, Eccleston was as cheesy as the lines that were written for him.
Yes, he didn't really look right, but what he lacked in the Doctor's trademark 'quirk' he made up for with a formidable presence. He painted a picture of a man always on the run for fear of looking back — who had purged two mighty civilisations and was paying for it every day with his conscience. In essence, despite all the hype of a man who burns at the centre of time, Eccleston's Doctor gave us something human.
Given a second chance — or a second series — he could have given us a lot more. TV and radio blog Doctor Who. He was well-liked and superb in the role. There hardly seems a decent reason he was cut. Well, he wasn't cut. We'll get to that in a minute. Who's Doctor Who? He's a Time Lord, from the planet Gallifrey, the last of the Time Lords; a wanderer, through time and space in his time machine called the TARDIS, which looks like an old English police box, and is vastly more expansive on the inside than it looks on the outside; he's a hero, saving the Universe with the help of his charming and attractive companions whom he manages to pick up along the way.
He's a genius, with knowledge of all time, of deep technology, and clever as they get. He can trick a whole army and defeat them, without a weapon, using only his grand intelligence. He's frenetic, hopping from one spot to another, only stopping when he has epiphanies on how to save the day, or to form a wild smile, flashed your way, to let you know he's still thinking about you.
He's a nerd, and a well-loved nerd; each companion falls for him and he falls for them. When his body dies, and if it is ready, he regenerates into a new body. The Doctor is still there, but in new form. So far this regeneration has happened 11 times.
Chrisotpher Eccleston was the 9th incarnation of The Doctor. He was a departure of sorts, a bit of a different Doctor than the audience was accustomed. But not less of a Doctor, at any rate. By Sceptre at en. Christopher Eccleston came in as The Doctor in , when the series hadn't been broadcasted since The show was making a come-back with a brand-new Doctor. Eccelston as the Doctor, as I said before, seemed to me a departure from former Doctors. Most Doctors had a clown quality, although some were quite serious.
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