Jacey Bedford's Journal

Tennant was 34 when he got the role - 35 when it began. That's a big difference from 26/27. Eight years makes a lot of difference at that age.

But I was leery about Tennant at first (and I'm still in two minds as to whether I liked Eccleston better) however I was proved utterly wrong abiut Tennant being too young and pretty.

As to whether Ecclestone or Tennant is the better Doctor, I don't think I could ever really decide because they're not competing on a level playing field. Eccleston didn't get three/four seasons and all the subsequent character development and romance with Rose to show what he might have done with the role. He did a lot with his one season, though, including the beginnings of his attraction to Rose. I liked Eccleston's war-damaged Doctor a lot and The Empty Child remains my favourite (double) episode.

Of course that also introduces Captain Jack...
:-)

You have seen him before. He played Jim in Ruby in the Smoke and Shadow in the North - the televised Philip Pullman stories with Billie Piper as Sally Lockheart. I think you watched them at our place - the first one at least. I don't know that he's pretty. He's got a kind of weird shaped face with an enormous square jaw. Not being too pretty might be his saving grace.