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GregP
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I'm liking the way this is going. Nod is starting to look like a knockabout comedy :)
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When they made that film of Jude The Obscure (with Christopher 'too much of a proper actor to play Doctor Who but, oddly, alright with playing Malekith the Dark Elf in Thor: The Dark World' Eccleston) they really forgot to include all the humorous passages in the book. As did Thomas Hardy.
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:)
Badger
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I loathed the last chapter of Jude. Didn't even seem in character.

(Don't think that 'too much of a proper actor' was the issue for Eccleston; he's been tight-lipped about it, but implied that the working environment for a lot of the junior people on the series he was in was intolerable, and he didn't want to stay part of that. Heroes, 28 Days Later, GI Joe - not seeing him shying away from genre roles).
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I thought he was a cracking good Doctor FWIW.
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Me n all.
Badger
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Me too. I thought he gave the new series a lot of credibility at the start, playing the role in a quite down-to-earth (for want of a better phrase) way at the core of of this very colourful and off-beat presentation. If they'd gone for a Colin Baker-type approach, it might not have made it to a second season. (CB's audio work is great, but the production approach when he was on screen was awful). I was very disappointed that he left. Tennant took the best part of an hour to win me over, and he spent most of that in a coma :)
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Me too. I thought he gave the new series a lot of credibility at the start, playing the role in a quite down-to-earth (for want of a better phrase) way at the core of of this very colourful and off-beat presentation. If they'd gone for a Colin Baker-type approach, it might not have made it to a second season. (CB's audio work is great, but the production approach when he was on screen was awful). I was very disappointed that he left. Tennant took the best part of an hour to win me over, and he spent most of that in a coma :)
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That'll be [i]two[/i] hours, then.
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two?

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Appliance (J O Morgan)
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