Meh, original flavour Ten is still awesome. Ten II is... what? Bit more human, bit more Donna, supposedly a bit more Nine? Wholly mortal, and that's not what I signed up for. I saw Doctor/Rose and RTD!Who generally, as if you can separate them, as a sort of fable about the marriage of the divine and the human. But RTD's ultimate verdict, unless the specials are very special indeed, seems to be that god and man cannot be fully reconciled. The god cannot bear to admit that he loves us in more than an abstract sense because it hurts too much. The god cannot even be reconciled with himself but has to cast himself out of heaven, incarnate as the son of a metacrisis. We learn that human kind cannot bear very much reality; when you get too close to the Doctor's perspective and power it means a kind of death. Nine gladly died in Rose's place when she became the TARDIS but Jackie saw how running with the Doctor was already changing her into someone more Doctorish by her symbolic 'death' in Doomsday and we see it in Turn Left. Donna became the Doctor and the person she'd become had to die too. So Rose and her Ten diminish and go into the West to ride on zeppelins forever, while our Ten endures. The story's darkened around him, he looks like he's on the brink of buckling, so fandom chirps 'Don't you think he looks tired?' like it's a clever observation, much as they love to call him out for his hypocrisy about soldiers, despite that explicitly being the point. It's not over; Russell can't leave the Doctor this broken, he has to find enough peace in the specials to pick up a new companion in the following series. I reckon Tennant's going to do at least another couple of years and there'll be a new generation on board by then, so the people sighing and glancing pointedly at their watches can diminish and go into the West and watch Merlin for all I care.