Eccleston explains why he left Doctor Who

[The4thDoctor]

I loved Eccleston as the Doctor

If he really was unhappy it sure didn't effect his acting as did Tom Baker during his last season.

I do wish he would have came back for the 50th Anniversary - especially since the people he disliked aren't even there anymore.

I'd bet if he returned the whole "War Doctor" plot wouldn't have even been written and it was McGann who pushed the button

I agree with you,all the way...He played a great part,loved his TARDIS Desktop too....His reaction to the first Dalek that he sees is priceless!!!! I miss him in the part....

[ctc]

>Was rtd really that much of a jerk director?

Sometimes it's not that someone's actually a jerk, but that there are personality clashes.... especially if those concerned have different takes on things and are serious about whatever they're doing.

Don C.

[samurainoir]

[jwyblejr]

I loved Eccleston as the Doctor

If he really was unhappy it sure didn't effect his acting as did Tom Baker during his last season.

I do wish he would have came back for the 50th Anniversary - especially since the people he disliked aren't even there anymore.

I'd bet if he returned the whole "War Doctor" plot wouldn't have even been written and it was McGann who pushed the button

He was in the special. They only showed him,Tennant,Hurt and Smith inside their various versions of the TARDIS. So I don't think that was a clip. If it was,why did they only show those four and not all of them?

[Mego Magyar]

Or the Doctor hadn't done those things yet.

True, just because he hasn't done something in his own personal time line doesn't that it didn't already happen in the outside time line. There is a line from a 4th Doctor episode, when he landed in a place that seemed familiar, that I remember - have I been here before or am I yet to come.

[johnnystorm]

I'd figure he ran off to have adventures whenever Rose wanted to visit her mother. God knows I'd rather be on the Titanic than spend any time with Jackie Tyler!

[bobws]

I always felt his scene checking out his face was there for the fans and a big mistake.
Maybe he didn't like being too politically Correct with kissing capt. Jack.
I know i felt RTD was Shoving down my throat all they Gay ideas.
John Nathan-Turner was gay as well and ran the show for 10 years without feeling the need to do that.

[Mikey]

All the gay stuff felt like futureshock at the time but I got used to it pretty quickly

My worst prob with RTD was he seemed to hate the USA and fat people

[jds1911a1]

I always felt his scene checking out his face was there for the fans and a big mistake.
Maybe he didn't like being too politically Correct with kissing capt. Jack.
I know i felt RTD was Shoving down my throat all they Gay ideas.
John Nathan-Turner was gay as well and ran the show for 10 years without feeling the need to do that.

The face check - sure it's for the fans as every regeneration story has him look in a mirror and express if it's an improvment or not over the last face going back to Troughton in Power of the Daleks, but I disagree, it wasn't a mistake

Gay (let alone openly gay) was alot less "acceptable" in the 80's (remember all the lash out when Freddie Mercury died), Overall the UK is more tolerant than the states but this was an area both were pretty rigid about back then.
JNT knew his national audience then wouldn't accept it, but his being gay made it harder for him to find the balance between sex appeal "for the dads" and totally covered up (Nyssa went from full body velvet to basically a slip at the end, and teagan's tube top) but the characters couldn't have an affection for each other or the Doctor, in earier era's Ben and Polly were affectioniate as were Ian and Barbara where you can see a romance there ( I think that Rose's love and Martha's infatuation were too far the other way as was Amy's)

It has been said that Barrowman's kiss was fulfilling RTD's dream but I think it is just an expression that since the late 90's gay isn't so taboo anymore RTD knew the audience wouldn't riot about it

we may never know exactly what issues he disagreed with specifically, it could simply have been the whole "angry" doctor, too many new aliens, or conversely too many classic show fanboy bits