Viewers got a succinct briefing on Moffat’s vision in the Season Four two-part episode he wrote, “Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead,” in which Moffat’s creation River meets Tennant’s 10th Doctor. It was with Steven Moffat’s conception of the character. The problem was never with Smith’s performance.
His first season had its problems, but the individual episodes and the season-long arc had enough momentum that-along with the slicker direction and more polished production values compared to the previous rebooted Who -the whole thing hung together well. Smith’s approach to the character, and the obvious on-screen chemistry he had with co-stars Karen Gillan as Amy Pond, Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams, and Alex Kingston as River Song helped the whole ensemble sell the entire ridiculous package that is Doctor Who. Quite a feat, and utterly in character: The 11th Doctor was the oldest version to date. And in his stillnesses, he could look troubled and careworn in a way that few of his predecessors ever did, even those who played the role in their 50s. The fussy way he wrung his hands-directly borrowed from hipster-favorite Second Doctor Patrick Troughton-is an old man’s mannerism. Smith brought not just a youthful appearance (River Song once called him “an ageless god who insists on the face of a 12-year-old”) but also an endearing physicality to the role, what with all the Kermit-esque arm flapping and his tendency to stagger and spin about like a cross between Brian Boitano and a five-minute-old giraffe.īut he could also convey that his character was almost a millennium old.
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The Loss at the Heart of Guy Fieri’s Entertainment Empire Megan Garberįaced with a skeptical fandom after taking over for Tennant in 2010, the then-26-year-old, relatively unknown Smith turned in a series of winning performances in his first season, the fifth full slate of episodes since the series was revived in 2005. After his somewhat stretched-out three-season-plus run, Smith tends to come in second in “Favorite Doctor” polls, behind his immediate predecessor, David Tennant.īut, provided with meatier material from showrunner Steven Moffat, Smith might well have made a far stronger bid for the top spot out of the 13 men who have canonically played the role. Most notably: the energy, charisma, and likability of the show’s leading man. ) has to be attributable to something other than the stories. The writing and plotting shortcomings of Doctor Who have been so glaring for the past couple of years that the 50-year-old BBC sci-fi show’s growing popularity in the United States (even as its ratings have sagged a bit in the U.K. I keep coming back to a sentiment that’s been cropping up for a while now: He deserved better. What is a fitting epitaph for Matt Smith, now that his run as the show's title character has ended?
With last week’s Christmas episode of Doctor Who, the bow tie has fallen to the floor of the TARDIS and we’ve said our final good night to the Raggedy Man.
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