I've always found a bit of subtlety more effective, because it allows you to draw your own conclusions, and - more importantly - allows you room to wonder what the character isn't saying.
Mind you, it can have its drawbacks - the Eleventh Doctor's opacity is intriguing, but here and there, for me, it's made it a bit trickier to grasp characterisation and story. (Of course, some of that may just be that I'm used to the particular "grammar" of David Tennant's performance! Some of it may be editing and direction rather than Smith, too.) Plus there's a bit of a trap here, I think - if we can draw our own conclusions, we can read whatever we like into the character. Actually, that may be deliberate!
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Date: 2010-06-30 12:24 am (UTC)Mind you, it can have its drawbacks - the Eleventh Doctor's opacity is intriguing, but here and there, for me, it's made it a bit trickier to grasp characterisation and story. (Of course, some of that may just be that I'm used to the particular "grammar" of David Tennant's performance! Some of it may be editing and direction rather than Smith, too.) Plus there's a bit of a trap here, I think - if we can draw our own conclusions, we can read whatever we like into the character. Actually, that may be deliberate!