7. His Performance Was Well Balanced
While many critics (professional or otherwise) claim McCoy's performance often errs on the side of comical, it could also be said that the seventh incarnation of the Doctor is balanced in both humour and gravitas. Indeed, some performances are darker than others (i.e. Colin Baker, Christopher Eccleston, and Peter Capaldi) and people seem to remember this as being, mostly, a good thing. Why, then, do fans regard more humorous performances, such as McCoy's, to be inherently negative? With each regeneration the Doctor gets a new personality and his seventh is one that managed to see the funny side in most situations. That's all there is to it. When considering his entire tenure, however, it's more apparent that McCoy's interpretation of the character is less black and white than viewers had previously thought. If one rewatches all of the Seventh Doctor stories, it becomes clear that there's a darker, more serious undercurrent throughout McCoy's episodes. Not only do fans get spoon-playing and flippancy, they also get moral lessons, rants and some truly chilling moments which would be deemed more impressive if given to any of the other incarnation of the Doctor.