It’s a year since Ncuti Gatwa took over as the Doctor properly in the last Christmas special, The Church on Ruby Road, and by and large it’s been a successful if occasionally puzzling tenure so far. Successful in that Gatwa makes for an appealing Doctor, with charisma and charm and a certain elusiveness that is put down to past trauma. An interesting take that separates him from the openly distressed David Tennant.
But it’s puzzling in that the writing has often made him so elusive that he’s been marginalised in his own show. In the 60th anniversary special, The Giggle, where he took over from Tennant, he promised a renewed devil-may-care confidence after Tennant’s weariness in which he was bearing the weight of the Universe on his shoulders.
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