David Tenant was the best Doctor

Here is my final rebuttal: D10's relationship with companions I alluded in R3 to the fact that I considered Rose to be a really bad person to base a story around, and this is based on the truly awful ways she behaves, whether it be treating her loyal and caring boyfriend Mickey horribly (such as Aliens of London where she doesn't care he got suspected of murdering her), she's flat out rude to anyone who shows an interest in the Doctor (like against Sarah Jane in School Reunion), she's completely disrespectful even of people who are clearly allies of the Doctor (getting irritated at Martha Jones when she's contacted by Harriet Jones instead of her - "Nor me, and I was here first", is that REALLY appropriate when the future of the world is at stake? ) and then she kisses the Human D10 right in front of Time Lord D10 in an astounding display of callousness in Journey's End. It's for this reason I generally always considered the D10/Rose relationship to be deeply flawed as well as preachy and condescending. D10 ought to have been happy that Rose was at least safe and alive, which was more than can be said of other companions (see Adric). For that reason, while I do like D10's relationship with Martha, I think it was incredibly tainted by Martha being the first Post-Rose companion which meant that we had to put up with a LOT of unjustifiable emo behaviour from D10 as well as a lot of disrespect towards her which detracted somewhat from enjoying any chemistry they had. Donna Noble is the only character I have no complaints about, aside from the ridiculous Reset Button that was pulled in Journey's End. But again, I do not believe the Doctor even remotely "accepted his fate", or at least not for selfless reasons. He gets chided by Ood Sigma for having "delayed" in Part 1, and there's the mentioned unjustified whiny outburst against Wilfred in Part 2. Overall, while D10's relationship with his companions were certainly enjoyable, they certainly cannot be considered better than D11's. Pro argues against Amy and Rory having stayed for two seasons and essentially thinks it became stale by the first part of Series 7. While I could understand that logic, personally I believe that the process of trying to fix a relationship broken by Amy's woes about having a baby as well as the considerably better process that they built to the departure of Amy and Rory by having them reconcile and then spend the rest of their series run balancing their normal day to day lives with traveling with the Doctor, with the tragic outcome that their choice at the end of The Power of Three to continue doing the latter leads to their deaths. I would also argue against the notion that it took away any "sadness and remorse", as those episodes were full of discussions about how distant D11 had become from the two of them and the possibility of endings, leading to the tear-jerking finale in their final episode. And I'm glad that it didn't "define" D11, because in Amy's farewell message we had her telling D11 to move on, which was good because it meant we didn't get an entire series with him moaning about Amy's death. On Rory, he becomes human again as a result of the reboot to the universe caused by D10 flying the Pandorica into the TARDIS explosion, and Clara developed plenty in her first two episodes as well as in Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS and Name Of The Doctor, not to mention all of the times D11 spent wondering just who the "impossible girl" was. Quality of D11's achievements I will point out to Pro that if D11 supposedly relying solely on the impact of his previous companions in the Eleventh Hour (not actually true, considering he did in fact catch Prisoner Zero while utilizing his D11 abilities) can be disqualified, then we can also disqualify D10 on the same basis for doing exactly the same thing to the Vashta Nerada in Forest Of The Dead. As for the Weeping Angels and the crack, I will point out that it also hindered the heroes as the crack wiped the soldiers from existence as well, so utilising the crack to destroy the angels was a stroke of genius, and furthermore I will also point out that if the loss of a whole load of lives is enough to disqualify a Doctor's achievements, then D10 would hardly benefit from such a rule as many people died during his "saving" attempts too (indeed, Journey's End contains almost an entire compilation of them). With D11 trying to "weasel" his way out of ceasing to exist, I strongly disagree with Pro's logic, as we've already seen D10 delay meeting the Ood as well as actively trying to fight regenerating at the end of The End Of Time, and canonically there's no reason to suppose that ANY Doctor would not have tried to find a way of escaping their doom, so D11's actions are entirely in character. And as for D11 "merely watching his back" as opposed to trying to protect the cosmos, as we've found out in The Big Bang and The Name Of The Doctor as well as in his battles against Madame Kavorian, the two motives amount to the same thing, as the loss of the Doctor from existence directly correlates to the loss of numerous stars that the non-existent Doctor was unable to save. Indeed, this forms a huge basis for the plot of Turn Left, so my point is supported. And as for badassery, I present this exchange in The Doctor's Wife: "House: Fear me; I've killed hundreds of Time Lords. D11: Fear me, I've killed all of them. " Seasons/Finales Quality I will concede the weakness of Vampires of Venice, but I believe that is more than counter-balanced by the high quality of other episodes, and I certainly don't believe that Victory of the Daleks is anything like as bad as Pro makes it, certainly not in comparison to Daleks In Manhattan from Series 3, for example. Pro concedes the sheer quality of S6, admitting it to be his favourite series of DW. His sole criticism is leveled at the "one-off stories", but I would disagree and say that The Doctor's Wife especially as well as Night Terrors, The Girl Who Waited, and The God Complex were astounding episodes that did much credit to the series. As for Series 7, I will say that giving attention to the Ponds' departure in The Angels Take Manhattan added real depth and gravitas to the story as well as real emotional output as D11 began to despair at the notion that he wouldn't be able to change the fate of his companions. And it had companions leaving the show in a way that was completely dignified and smoothly enabled a transition (in contrast to the Rose departure of S2). Furthermore, with Clara, pro contradicts his own argument. On the hand, he wanted the River story arc to have run all the way through S6 and the fact that it didn't spoiled S6 for him, but on the other hand the attention given to Clara's story arc (which, if anything, played only minor roles in Cold War, Hide, Crimson Horror, and Nightmare in Silver) is apparently "too much" and ruined the series. I'd argue there was plenty depth in those episodes, however, especially in Nightmare In Silver where D11 battled his own Cyber-induced alter-ego as well as the constant questions about Clara's identity especially from Vastra and Clara when they are baffled by re-meeting in the Crimson Horror. Conclusion I would be foolish to deny the strengths of David Tennant in his role as the Doctor, and I'm certainly looking forward to seeing him again in the 50th Anniversary Special. However, I believe I have put the best case forward as to why Matt Smith must be considered, out of the two, to be the best Doctor, having explained what is great about him, rebutting successfully the criticisms of him, and landing some pretty strong arguments against the Tenth Doctor, many of which have not been rebutted.