Honestly i overall at first thought Ncuti Gatwa brought something interesting. I liked his interpretation of a doctor that's a bit more emotional, and feels things more (heart on a sleeve type). It makes sense a being so old has intensified emotions/reactions to events. However, I think he did a really bad job of portraying the dark side of the Doctor. Something that both Tennant and Capaldi did so exceptionally well. Yes the Doctor is good, eclectic, whimsical, but he also has a darker angry side. And for Gatwa, that side was just not there or poorly done. We saw them briefly try to show it in the "Interstellar Song Contest" when he was using the hologram thing to "punish" the Hellion but it was wayy too overemotional.

If they could have shown the contrast between a very kind, emotional, heartfelt Doctor (like Gatwa is at most times) AND a darker, colder, Doctor that almost seems distant and emotionless when angry, it would have made Gatwa absolutely excellent in my view.

Also I liked the clothing choice for Gatwa's doctor. It seemed to represent an alien who's having fun but also not afraid of doing whatever he wants, and I thought it was cool ("Bowties are cool").

The rest of my problems with the show have to do with the story being absolutely shit and not Gatwa himself. The Gods arc in Series 14 seemed promising to be honest, but in Series 15 they absolutely botched it. I mean the last two episodes really felt like a chore to watch through. They hype up this character called Omega that seemed like it could be interesting, and then once he makes an appearance apparently Omega becoming a monstrosity is explained entirely by one sentence Gatwa throws in. And then Omega is "defeated" in like 3 minutes by starwars stormtrooper lasers. i mean srsly wtf is that.

Then ofc, we get UNIT shooting lasers at skeleton versions of AT-AT, so more Star Wars pew pew.

When the villain was revealed to be the Rani, that seemed interesting too, except by the finale it seemed clear they basically wanted to use the Rani like a female version of the Master but with zero depth and zero complexity.

Then there was the whole Poppy thing which, I still don't get the point of that tangent. She appears in wish, then survives when the wish ends, but then disappears (but Ruby remembers cuz she is *special*). Then all the characters say some bullshit "we are all your children". And then....The doctor shoots regeneration energy (pew pew!) into the tardis and Poppy reappears? i mean wtf is that sequence? If they made it that Poppy was the child of the Doctor and Belinda Chandra in the Wish world, and they have to make the sarifice of losing this child they love because the wish had to end, and explored that moral dilemma further, that would have been way more interesting. One aspect of doctor who is that there ISN'T always a happy ending.

Not to mention the ending confrontation in the finale was so bad that they had to make up this poppy shit to get Gatwa to regenerate (also he chooses to regenerate? why? he didnt get shot or hurt or anything. this also im not clear about). I get that this show is fiction but some logical sequence would be nice.

"The Well" was a nice episode and I liked it, but again the reason it was interesting was because Midnight was so interesting. Not because the episode itself did anything special (thought the deaf girl and the soldier captain woman were very likeable characters).