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Ah, but see that's what I mean about Number Ten. They wrote him, and Tennant acted, so obvious in his "threatening manners". The Doctor has always been threatening, in their own ways. And, I guess we were due for a Doctor that was so overtly full of himself as to place himself on a pedestal like that. And it fits, because Number Ten was the egomaniac, especially given how he acted in his final hours and words. But, unfortunately, David Tennant never sold it for me. Never once did I ever feel he was threatening in any real sense, up until his quiet delivery "Tough" at the end of Waters of Mars. He just came off "shouty" otherwise.

Eccleston and Smith, however, are imbued with a naturally threatening aura. Eccleston is the dark and regret and violence. Smith is all that barely tempered into the shell of a 'young fogey'. I believe them both, because I think they are both superior actors in that sense.