Doctor Who: EVERY Doctor Ranked Worst To Best
9. The Fourteenth Doctor (David Tennant)
When Tennant returned for the 60th, it would've been so easy to just have him play the Tenth Doctor again, with his older appearance explained away as a temporal distortion (or whatever).
Fortunately for us RTD delivered something altogether more interesting: a second Tennant Doctor, who comes directly after Thirteen and carries the weight of everything that has happened in-between.
There are traces of Ten, but Fourteen is a very different man – more mature, more sophisticated and more relaxed with his emotions. This idea reaches its climax in The Giggle when he’s granted a more hopeful end, rather than a rehash of the Tenth Doctor’s regeneration.
His arc was, necessarily, constrained to three episodes… but you can’t help but wish he’d been given a full season, or even a full era.
The way he’s written and played – with Tennant bringing an old-school Doctor-y gravitas to the table, plus an extra thirteen years’ of experience – makes it a more satisfying performance than Ten in some respects. Also, admit it, his costume is better.
Of course, Fourteen has a better reason than any other to return to the show. So we’ve not necessarily seen the last of this incarnation yet.