I definitely think you’re right. Tennant and Smith almost set a standard that maybe she felt like she had to tap into. Tennant gave us an energetic performance that Smith took to another level, so we get this lovable quirky energetic insanity.

Each doctor has had some sort of quirk about them though, if you go back and watch some of the older stuff they were always oddballs, but I think each actor brought something else to the role that I don’t know if Whittaker tapped into.

But the whole series was largely pretty rubbish, so I almost feel like she’s a little hard done by. We’ll never know. I would have like for her to have stayed on one more series under RTD. Maybe we actually see what she can do.