I really disliked Ten's shorter hair after season2.
Not just me, then. Although actually, I got used to it until they attacked it with the garden shears at the end of S4!
What you say about the professorial garb is true, it is a stereotype. I know MS has said that he didn't like the original suggestions for the costume - I'm sure I read he thought it was "too piratical"?? although what on earth that means, I've no idea! I can't exactly see him done up like Jack Sparrow!
Clearly they wanted to get away from the suit, and also away from the Doctor as a) someone who acts the age he looks and b) a hottie. Mind you, Harrison Ford carried off the tweed and bow-tie and managed to look hot. Matt Smith, not so much.
I'm sure I read somewhere that one of the reasons Tennant adopted the glasses for Ten was so that it would show kids that wearing glasses was okay and maybe even cool (!) - which I think says so much about him as a person, an actor and a DW fan.
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Date: 2010-05-03 10:33 am (UTC)Not just me, then. Although actually, I got used to it until they attacked it with the garden shears at the end of S4!
What you say about the professorial garb is true, it is a stereotype. I know MS has said that he didn't like the original suggestions for the costume - I'm sure I read he thought it was "too piratical"?? although what on earth that means, I've no idea! I can't exactly see him done up like Jack Sparrow!
Clearly they wanted to get away from the suit, and also away from the Doctor as a) someone who acts the age he looks and b) a hottie. Mind you, Harrison Ford carried off the tweed and bow-tie and managed to look hot. Matt Smith, not so much.
I'm sure I read somewhere that one of the reasons Tennant adopted the glasses for Ten was so that it would show kids that wearing glasses was okay and maybe even cool (!) - which I think says so much about him as a person, an actor and a DW fan.
A bow-tie isn't going to have the same impact.