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I'm not so sure -- I think the clothes work precisely because they're sufficiently normal so as not to distract from how off-the-wall the performance is (judging by Rose, at times more so than Tom Baker at his most self-indulgent) -- if both performance and clothing were completely eccentric it'd be too much. And to be honest they don't look all that normal to me -- the jacket doesn't fit him properly (but maybe it fits Fitz?), and the whole ensemble is clearly the choice of someone who just wants to throw something on for the sake of not being naked.

As to the whole issue-that-dare-not-speak-its-name, it looks increasingly clear to me that all concerned knew that CE wouldn't be carrying on past this series from, if not the beginning, at least very early on in the process, and the inevitable consequence of that was intended to be the Killer Surprise Twist at the end of episode 13. But then some combination of the tabloids' uncontrollable scoop-lust and Eccleston's honesty went and blew it.

I was a bit upset about it for a couple of days*, but I got over it again. I'm popping off to visit my girlfriend this w/e, and the simple act of putting setting the video for ER on my to do list somehow filled me with a deep sense of joy that it really is really back, that for the second week in a row I can tape it. Of course, coming here to talk about it is confusing me greatly, 'cos one of the other items on my list is "take ER tape" (gf gets lousy C4 reception, so I tape the-show-actually-called-ER for her).

* Incidentally, my sister, who hasn't paid any attention to the ER since we were both little and liked to pretend that our parents' yellow car was the 3rd ER's Earth-based transport device, seemed more bothered about it than I was. She went off on one to me on the phone the other day about how they were using up regenerations too quickly, and if they did end up finding a way to circumvent the Rule of Thirteen at some point in the future it'd be a betrayal of the series! Clearly, a lot of the mythos is more deeply embedded in the national consciousness than the production team seem to believe.