Eccleston did a really great job, but the writing for Tennant's episodes was fabulous. I watched them again recently after the newer seasons and I loved it. The episodes were tense. The Monster of the Week was actually developed and scary if not terrifying. The overarching theme of The Doctor is God was really well done. That doctor was worshiped. At the end of Season 3 he defeated The Master by use of faith, which was a bit silly but well executed. The Waters of Mars really drove that home, just in case it wasn't obvious in the preceding seasons.
The Tennant/Tate series was the best of the new ones, really. They were more entertaining. Even the reasonably rubbish first episode of that season was saved by the way it built to the scene with the window.
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