All New Who

Interviewer: "Are you the man we can thank for the rebirth of Doctor Who? You were well received, you're maybe not the fan favourite the way someone like David Tennant is, but if you'd stuffed that up, there would be no David Tennant, there would be no Matt Smith".

Eccleston: "I think the man you have to thank is Russell T Davies. He wrote it. And I always feel that the showrunners and the writers are the people who deserve and own the kudos. But what I will say is the first series of any show is always very difficult to sell to the audience, and I'm very proud that through what was a really badly organised and certainly badly produced first series-"

Interviewer: "-which everyone's acknowledged, haven't they?"

Eccleston: "I don't know."

Interviewer: "I think they have."

Eccleston: "I hope they have. They certainly didn't acknowledge it at the time and I wished they would've done, because then things would've worked out very differently... but I'm very proud that I managed to find a way through the chaos that they imposed, and get us picked up, so-"

Interviewer: "And do you regret that you didn't have another season?"

Eccleston: "There's always regret when you play a role like that, because what you do is you - I watched it back and I thought, OK, next time don't do this, do that, you know, calibrate the performance. It was kind of tragic for me that I didn't play him for longer, because you know, he's a beautiful character and I have a great deal of professional pride [in it] and had I done a second season, there would've been a marked improvement in my performance. I was learning new skills in terms of playing light comedy, etc, etc. I was not known for light comedy, and again production did not allow for that. It's very important on the first series that you make a very informed and intelligent choice - even if it means breaking the budget - about getting the first director who is going to set the tone for the season, for the way the actors relate, and that did not happen. Disaster. But the show has survived. Thank God. And Capaldi, and Matt, and David - are just brilliant. And I know how brilliant they are, because I've been inside it."

Interviewer: "It's hard."

Eccleston: "It is difficult, because you're doing the same thing in each episode, and you've got to keep that fresh, and you've got to suggest alien and you've got to suggest human."

Pettytyrant101 wrote:{{{Malick- thats the most conciliatory Ive heard him. Still dont know exactly what happened backscenes on series 1 but it sounds pretty unpleasant.
But f he has watched back his run, and considered how he would perform differently had he more time- then BF is the perfect place for him to find out}}}}}}

Pettytyrant101 wrote:{{{I had heard similar rumours about the issues on series 1, just the interviewer in that said others had spoken about it, but dont think I have ever seen anything 'official' or sourced. Just second hand and rumour.

I agree with RTD that 9 has not just regened. He has none of the usual symptoms, no apparent memory loss, no confusing, no uncertainty over who he is. Its just not a post regen performance. Which isnt surprising when trying to start up a show again- it would be confusing to new viewers and require explaining and you really don't want your main character not having a settled personality for almost his entire first episode- that works once your audience is onboard with what regeneration is. But it would not have worked I don't think in Rose. }}}

Spoiler:

Pettytyrant101 wrote: and 12 even blames himself for allowing it to go that far:

DOCTOR: I've lived for over two thousand years, and not all of them were good. I've made many mistakes, and it's about time that I did something about that. Clara, I'm not your boyfriend.
CLARA: I never thought you were.
DOCTOR: I never said it was your mistake. }}}

Mrs Figg wrote:The Ponds had a dysfunctional and unbalanced manipulative relationship founded on emotional blackmail. It was an appalling relationship.