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I rewatched all the reboot last year after petering out with Capaldi first time round.
The David Tennant episodes haven't stood the test of time. Great stories and one or two stone cold classics, but DT becomes too messianic, the Rose relationship is icky and post Brexit the WW2 stuff doesn't land well. Very much of its time. Donna is much more interesting than the doctor.
Matt Smith great of course, right mixture of hero, maniac and morose. Capaldi also good doctor with good plots and nice to have a spiky doctor without sexual tension. Still a dolly bird assistant though, because we can imagine a man who flies through time and space in a box that's bigger inside than out but we can't imagine a woman who doesn't wear mascara. She can be clever too, but the mascara is non negotiable.
I liked Jodie Whittaker's era. It was cringe at times but DW is always cringe about something and I liked the dynamic of the different charcters.
Haven't seen much Ncuti Gatwa yet but I've enjoyed the ones I've seen. I get really split by the trans characters because in general I like openness, blurred gender presentation and acceptance of difference so the emotional hits work for me, but intellectually I always know it's such a one sided ideology and they always say something so clunky usually about women being ridiculous to think they exist outside a man's projection of womanhood that the manipulation shows its ugly side and the whole thing topples over.
Plus of course, every time a woman character is played by a trans woman it may be great for trans visibility but it's one more female face off the screen and one more female voice out of culture and one less opportunity for a female actor.