I'm really not sure that (for example) Colin Baker or Sylvester McCoy could have carried it off so well.
You've just made me imagine them trying, and the results weren't pretty... especially Sylvester McCoy, who in his very best moments had perhaps 1000th of the gravitas that Christopher Eccleston brings to the role.
More importantly, I never really liked and empathised with either of their Doctors, especially not compared to the way the current Doctor is portrayed, so it wouldn't have had nearly the same impact.
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Date: 2005-04-03 10:38 am (UTC)You've just made me imagine them trying, and the results weren't pretty... especially Sylvester McCoy, who in his very best moments had perhaps 1000th of the gravitas that Christopher Eccleston brings to the role.
More importantly, I never really liked and empathised with either of their Doctors, especially not compared to the way the current Doctor is portrayed, so it wouldn't have had nearly the same impact.