Favourite Doctor?

Jack B. Badd

The obvious question on this forum...
So, I'd have to say I'm a Tenth Doctor/David Tennant fan. Christopher Eccleston was good as the Ninth Doctor but I never really felt he was into the character as much as Tennant is. Oh, but Tom Baker is the man!!!

mike65

Wheres the flipping poll?????!

Anyway the answer is of course Tom Baker, as mad as a bag of cats.

Mike.

Jack B. Badd

Poll added.
I didn't add Richard E. Grant...feel free to give out to me.

popebenny16

What about the Radio Doctors? Richard E Grant played The Doctor on BBC Radio and so did, I am informed, Anthony Steward Head, which is ironic as he was a villan this year!!!

Edit to add: not giving out to Jack!

(Stands back waiting (fearing?) for "the radio shows aren't Cannon" debate......)

Oh, and I'm a Tom Baker man myself. Christopher Ecclestone simply played Christopher Ecclestone, like he always does, but for a embittered war-weary Doctor he was perfect for it. Tennant is a real Doctor, all right, nicely traditional.

Jack B. Badd

I love Tennant. I read somewhere that he got into acting partly because he wanted to play the Doctor when he was a kid. And now he is! How cool is that?! Would have loved him better if he kept the Scottish accent though...

I'm sticking to the 10 TV Doctors since I only have 10 places in the poll

ixoy

Tom Baker myself. I grew up watching old Baker repeats on "Super" Channel, and have fond memories of so many things. But what it is for me is Baker (I really should stress Tom shouldn't I, in due respect to Colin!) and how he brought both the humour and the darkness to the role in a balance that noone has seemed to match since - Tennant's not bad at it, but he doesn't have the same energy, I could never picture him bitching at K9, as in "Androids of Tara" and comparing him to a hamster with a blunt pen knife.

Having said that Baker2 is far too maligned and had plenty of potential - just not served by great scripts.

P.S. - A Doctor Who forum?! How the smeg did I not know (FWIW, smeg is perfectly acceptable as a Doctor Who swear as Ace used it in the Virgin Novel "Deceit". So there ).

popebenny16

Smeg is fine, obviously Ace was watching Red Dwarf at the time.

I think that McCoy and Colin Baker are unfairly maligned as they were victims of the BBC and the writers more than anything else. The BBC were on the one hand desperate to junk Doctor Who but on the other hand trying to make it "juve-friendly" and as such fell betwen two stools.

ixoy

popebenny16 wrote:

I think that McCoy and Colin Baker are unfairly maligned as they were victims of the BBC and the writers more than anything else. The BBC were on the one hand desperate to junk Doctor Who but on the other hand trying to make it "juve-friendly" and as such fell betwen two stools.

I kinda have a bit of a fond spot for McCoy and that's for two reasons:

1) He's the earliest one I can remember watching. The series stopped airing when I was 10 so I'd struggle to recall those before him. Your first Doctor always has that bit of an edge.

2) I really loved the Virgin New Adventures which all starred the 7th Doctor ('lest before they lost the license) and even though the "Dark Doctor" featured within wasn't like his TV counterpart, I kinda have the two intertwined - anyone else have the novels/comics/audios deepening one of the Doctors for them?

Jack B. Badd

ixoy wrote:

Your first Doctor always has that bit of an edge.

That could explain my love for Tennant. I remember watching repeats of the Tom Baker seasons when I was little but it was all over the place so I never had a sense of continuity. I watched a few of Eccleston's stuff but the latest season with Tennant was the one that I watched faithfully (bar missing a few episodes).

Sesheta

Yeah Tom Baker's your only man! Having said that David Tennant is doing a damn fine job! First time there's been a sexy doctor (though that could be coz I was watching the others before that particular concept hit!)...not sure how many female posters there are here though so that topic may well go rather undiscussed!:)

Jack B. Badd

Jack is female

Tom Baker gets my vote aswell.

CathyMoran

Tenant gets my vote though he had a rough start...being shallow he is the best looking though he also has a depth that none of the others had.

foxybrowne

"What a wonderful butler, he's so violent!" (City of Death) Go on the Tom Baker, yeow.

DerekP11

Tom Baker made Who his own. (eventhough he wasn't the first or last) Its a bit like the comparison between baldy Picard on Nest Gen and Capt. James T. Kirk on the original Star Trek..... a poor one.

aidan_walsh

I didn't add Richard E. Grant...feel free to give out to me.

Duely noted, and repremanded. At the moment I'm quite enjoying him as the "Shalka Doctor".

I'm not really familiar enough with many of the other Doctors (except a bit of Eccleston and a little of Tennant - right Johnny-come-lately, me) to be able to draw comparisions.

Jack B. Badd

Part of the reason I didn't add Grant was that there are only 10 options on the poll so I had to leave someone out

ixoy

And what about Rowan Atkinson or Joanna Lumley? Or does "Curse of the Fatal Death" not count?

Jack B. Badd

Maybe someone could start a polled thread called "Favourite Other Doctors"...

mike65

I'm guesing there is a certain generational bias here (okay own up whos over 35?!).

Mike.

deman

It's a pity you can't vote 1-2-3 here but my top three are

1. Tom Baker (as said above "mad as a bag of cats")
2. Chris Ecclestone (dramatic)
3. David Tennent (funny)

LilKitty

aidan_walsh wrote:

Duely noted, and repremanded. At the moment I'm quite enjoying him as the "Shalka Doctor".

I'm not really familiar enough with many of the other Doctors (except a bit of Eccleston and a little of Tennant - right Johnny-come-lately, me) to be able to draw comparisions.

Well since Star Trek had an animated series I suppose it's not that big of a surprise that Dr Who had one but until now I had no idea! Any good?

LilKitty

Why did you bother to put the movie Dr Who in there?:eek: He was in one movie and well in my opinion it was rather crap!

Jack B. Badd

LilKitty wrote:

Why did you bother to put the movie Dr Who in there?:eek: He was in one movie and well in my opinion it was rather crap!

Well, if you want to, you can always pull your thumb out and post you own poll...

LilKitty

Jack B. Badd wrote:

Well, if you want to, you can always pull your thumb out and post you own poll...

Can't you handle constructive criticism or what?

Anyway I'll put it in a more civil tone(though why I don't know after that response!) why did you put the movie doctor in there, seriously?

Jack B. Badd

LilKitty wrote:

Can't you handle constructive criticism or what?

Anyway I'll put it in a more civil tone(though why I don't know after that response!) why did you put the movie doctor in there, seriously?

Posting an obnoxiously phrased question and one line on your opinion does not make your criticism constructive, Little Kitten :rolleyes:
Nonetheless, now that you've decided to act like a civilised little human, I'll tell you why: Paul McGann's Eight Doctor (I assume you're referring to him) has actually been one of the longer running Doctors and, whether you like it or not, the character officially qualifies as an incarnation of the Doctor. Although he's only appeared once on screen, there have been novel, comic and audio series featuring him up until 2005 when Eccleston appeared on the scene. And despite what you may think of the incarnation in question, I've assumed that other people may in fact have differing opinions and therefore have added him to the list.
Happy now?

LilKitty

Jack B. Badd wrote:

Posting an obnoxiously phrased question and one line on your opinion does not make your criticism constructive, Little Kitten :rolleyes:
Nonetheless, now that you've decided to act like a civilised little human, I'll tell you why: Paul McGann's Eight Doctor (I assume you're referring to him) has actually been one of the longer running Doctors and, whether you like it or not, the character officially qualifies as an incarnation of the Doctor. Although he's only appeared once on screen, there have been novel, comic and audio series featuring him up until 2005 when Eccleston appeared on the scene. And despite what you may think of the incarnation in question, I've assumed that other people may in fact have differing opinions and therefore have added him to the list.
Happy now?

Well I'm not into Dr Who so much that I go beyond Movies or series so I had no idea he was featured at all in anything other than the movie and that was why I found it odd you added him. Yet since I now know otherwise it seems more logical.

Happy? Nah, I'm a depressed chick at the moment but just find me a man and that'll probably work!:D

popebenny16

chill ladies, please............ thanks.

Gavin W

Where's the option for "Splendid chap, all of them!"?:D

LilKitty

popebenny16 wrote:

chill ladies, please............ thanks.

I'm chilled now but ladies? I thought I was the lady and he was the man!:D

LilKitty

Gavin W wrote:

Where's the option for "Splendid chap, all of them!"?:D

Wait until there's an 11th Doctor, then the choices for the poll will be even harder!:eek:

Goodshape

There's a limit on these regenerations, isn't there?

LilKitty

Goodshape wrote:

There's a limit on these regenerations, isn't there?

I think it's supposed to be a max of 12 or 13 but somehow I think they'll find a way to get around that so Dr Who can continue.

ixoy

LilKitty wrote:

I think it's supposed to be a max of 12 or 13 but somehow I think they'll find a way to get around that so Dr Who can continue.

12 regenerations, so thus 13 incarnations (we can safely assume that Hartnell's Doctor was the first, despite the apparent contradiction of "The Brain of Morbius").

I must also agree that McGann has a huge chunk of material for him. The BBC EDAs ran for about, ohhh, 70-80 books? Thereabouts. They really developed his incarnation in that (including also

destroying Gallifrey, albeit nothing to do with Daleks

) and created fantastic concepts, like Faction Paradox, that would be brilliant to see on screen.
FWIW, McCoy's incarnation also had a huge run of novels that really developed him, making him perhaps the most Machivellian and God-like of all the incarnations. Would be interesting to have seen it displayed as it would have given the show a more epic feel (a fair bit of this would have been televised if the show hadn't been cancelled in '89).

LilKitty

Then there's the whole story with the sixth Doctor(can't remember what it was called but it was one of the longest Dr Who stories ever) where the Dr meets his evil future self and the stolen regeneration thing. It's all too confusing for me to keep up with!:eek:

Goodshape

I'm listening to (and watching in dodgy Flash animation) McGann at the moment in Shada, which isn't half bad. Story by Douglas Adams too.

I had no idea there was such an 'extended universe' for the series.

ixoy

Goodshape wrote:

I had no idea there was such an 'extended universe' for the series.

Yep - many of the writers working on the show now had written DW novels previously: Gareth Roberts has a few funny ones, Paul Cornell has a bunch and this season sees one of his adapted, RTD wrote one too, and many more too.

There's also a huge range of audios with most of the original cast (that live) reprising their roles. Haven't gotten into these yet but I hear (ho ho) they're quite good.

Jack B. Badd

LilKitty wrote:

I'm chilled now but ladies? I thought I was the lady and he was the man!:D

Fraid not, sweetheart. No man is as caustic as I

LilKitty

Jack B. Badd wrote:

Fraid not, sweetheart. No man is as caustic as I

Then what's your user name all about?

A female Dr Who fan, besides me I was wondering if there were many others out there!

Jack B. Badd

The username's something I picked up from a character in Pitch Black and I just kinda ran with it cos few other people had it as there nick on the interweb. And yeah, there's a few of us female Dr Who fans kicking about (possibly more so after the introduction of the 9th and 10th incarnations cos they're pretty easy on the eye. Tbh, I'm getting a bit annoyed about Tennent's sex symbol style Doctor at this point though. It's getting in the way of the story imo, having his companions lusting after him all the time.)
As for the issue of incarnations, I think there are 12 regenerations allowed so 13 Doctors in total but I'm fairly sure there was some loop introduced at some point which would allow that to be extended if needs be. Something about the destruction of Gallifrey, but don't hold me to that... :-s

LilKitty

Jack B. Badd wrote:

The username's something I picked up from a character in Pitch Black and I just kinda ran with it cos few other people had it as there nick on the interweb. And yeah, there's a few of us female Dr Who fans kicking about (possibly more so after the introduction of the 9th and 10th incarnations cos they're pretty easy on the eye. Tbh, I'm getting a bit annoyed about Tennent's sex symbol style Doctor at this point though. It's getting in the way of the story imo, having his companions lusting after him all the time.)
As for the issue of incarnations, I think there are 12 regenerations allowed so 13 Doctors in total but I'm fairly sure there was some loop introduced at some point which would allow that to be extended if needs be. Something about the destruction of Gallifrey, but don't hold me to that... :-s

To be honest I thought the 9th Doctor was more attractive than the 10th, it was a shame he only was there for one season:( . As for the other doctors, none really appealed to me attraction wise except for the 5th.

popebenny16

There is at least one other female Who fan on this board (but I'm not telling who she is)

the McCoy Doctor was the one who was destined for true greatness as he was to start meddling a lot more and using powers which have been hinted at...

now, this may simply be the auld late 80's superhero thing and fair enough if it was, but it was explored in the Extended Universe at least once.....

but even in the final story of the "old" Who (Battleground) there were many really good insights into the McCoy Doctor's charater, seemingly aloof, superiour and concerned with humands in a detacted but paternal sort of way.... it was a really great story to go out on but by then Who was being shown against Coronation Street.....

this leads into McGann and Ecclestone quite well (and has echos of the Colin Baker Doctor) but Tennant is a total break with that and all the better for it as he is a more happy and more rounded Doctor who is genuinely protective of humanity and loves mankind (awwwww shucks)

LilKitty

popebenny16 wrote:

There is at least one other female Who fan on this board (but I'm not telling who she is)

the McCoy Doctor was the one who was destined for true greatness as he was to start meddling a lot more and using powers which have been hinted at...

now, this may simply be the auld late 80's superhero thing and fair enough if it was, but it was explored in the Extended Universe at least once.....

but even in the final story of the "old" Who (Battleground) there were many really good insights into the McCoy Doctor's charater, seemingly aloof, superiour and concerned with humands in a detacted but paternal sort of way.... it was a really great story to go out on but by then Who was being shown against Coronation Street.....

this leads into McGann and Ecclestone quite well (and has echos of the Colin Baker Doctor) but Tennant is a total break with that and all the better for it as he is a more happy and more rounded Doctor who is genuinely protective of humanity and loves mankind (awwwww shucks)

Poor McCoy hasn't got any votes but the neither has Troughton and I kinda like him, well what I saw of him considering the lost tapes issue. I didn't mind McCoy but once they got to the 6th Doctor the wardrobe people went nuts and while his attire was less outrageous than the 6th Doctors', it was still a bit over the top. I'm glad to see the more recent doctors are wearing some more conservative attire(well in comparison anyway).

popebenny16

Survival was the last ep, not Battlefield. Sorry about that.

LilKitty

popebenny16 wrote:

Survival was the last ep, not Battlefield. Sorry about that.

I reckon that was his best story ever!:D Annoying thing about a lot of his stories was Ace insisting on calling him Professor!

a5y

Jack B. Badd wrote:

Christopher Eccleston was good as the Ninth Doctor but I never really felt he was into the character as much as Tennant is.

Eccleston was The Doctor when I started watching, so in a way its hard for anyone else to hold a candle to him in my opinion.

LilKitty

a5y wrote:

Eccleston was The Doctor when I started watching, so in a way its hard for anyone else to hold a candle to him in my opinion.

I think many fans would perhaps come across a similar situation, I started watching it with Tom Baker and even though I still consider him the best, I've seen many others and tried to evaluate them the same. There's just something about the character he played(every incarnation of the doctor has their own character as such) that appealed more than the others.

starn

Cant belive Im the ony person that oted for mc coy. Even Colin Baker has two votes and he was shaggin ****e

ixoy

starn wrote:

Cant belive Im the ony person that oted for mc coy. Even Colin Baker has two votes and he was shaggin ****e

He was my second choice. I grew up whilst McCoy was on the air (you too?) and I really liked the way they explored his character in the Virgin novels (his was the one in the novel of "Human Nature"). Just pipped out by Baker's madness.

LilKitty

starn wrote:

Cant belive Im the ony person that oted for mc coy. Even Colin Baker has two votes and he was shaggin ****e

I'm an Aussie so I'm not even going to guess what that word that was censored was!

Now the only doctor without any votes is Troughton, shame because I liked him a bit, he was kinda quirky, especially for his time. Although he's one of the least seen doctors these days because of the missing episodes(BBC had gone completely nuts:mad: !) and I would totally vote for him rather than Collin Baker, even when I became to like his character that costume was just too much!:eek: I'm from the generation that grew up without a doctor so to speak, they pulled the show when I was only a couple years old so I didn't even start watching it until I was around 10 and didn't get really into until I was a few years older and saw a lot of old re-runs. I suppose the one doctor I couldn't stand was the first, basically it was because of his old fashioned character, just was too boring for me.

Philemon86

Tom baker was the first doctor I seen on the repeats they used to show on bbc, for me he is the doctor, though having seen the others I think David Tennent is the best since, although that bloke form the 90's movie was quite good, he only lived on in the audio series though
Oh and I thought MCcoy was dreadfull, there was an episode on a resort planet with rival tour guide fighting gang wars Oh my god was dreadfull !!