I know. I remember before I decided to bite the bullet and watch S2 last April -- yes, it took me two years to get over Christopher Eccleston leaving -- my sister and I were talking about it. She asked me what was the best episode I could show her to give her an idea of how good the show could be was and I said "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances." I'm surprised about that now. Obviously, even from S1, I wouldn't pick that now, but then ... having watched them all only once, well, you know.
And, it's even worse. When I hadn't rewatched S1, but just watched S2 after that two-year absence, I really, really liked "The Girl in the Fireplace," since I was just watching it casually still. It wasn't until I had gotten hooked by Tennant's Doctor too and Ten/Rose, and went back and rewatched it all that I was like 'FAIL!' So I can understand the acclaim for his stuff (well, not SotL/FotD -- but then those didn't get acclaim, and likely will not, hah!), from casual viewers, but die-hards who actually follow the character arcs and what-not, yeah, he's a huge disappointment.
(Speaking of icons - I've seen the image you have in your current dancing icon a few times, but I've never been able to figure out where it's from. It's not in the Confidential episodes and I was hoping you might remember either where it's from, or just where you found the image...)
The dancing David/Billie one? It was a picspam that featured them being silly where I first saw it. They were just dancing on the set of that episode, and it was from a magazine (I'm not sure which one). I've seen it in a few image galleries, but I don't remember off the top of my head, but here's the original:
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I know. I remember before I decided to bite the bullet and watch S2 last April -- yes, it took me two years to get over Christopher Eccleston leaving -- my sister and I were talking about it. She asked me what was the best episode I could show her to give her an idea of how good the show could be was and I said "The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances." I'm surprised about that now. Obviously, even from S1, I wouldn't pick that now, but then ... having watched them all only once, well, you know.
And, it's even worse. When I hadn't rewatched S1, but just watched S2 after that two-year absence, I really, really liked "The Girl in the Fireplace," since I was just watching it casually still. It wasn't until I had gotten hooked by Tennant's Doctor too and Ten/Rose, and went back and rewatched it all that I was like 'FAIL!' So I can understand the acclaim for his stuff (well, not SotL/FotD -- but then those didn't get acclaim, and likely will not, hah!), from casual viewers, but die-hards who actually follow the character arcs and what-not, yeah, he's a huge disappointment.
(Speaking of icons - I've seen the image you have in your current dancing icon a few times, but I've never been able to figure out where it's from. It's not in the Confidential episodes and I was hoping you might remember either where it's from, or just where you found the image...)
The dancing David/Billie one? It was a picspam that featured them being silly where I first saw it. They were just dancing on the set of that episode, and it was from a magazine (I'm not sure which one). I've seen it in a few image galleries, but I don't remember off the top of my head, but here's the original: