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Who is your favourite Doctor?
posted by wonder2wonderSTAFFMOD on February 18, 2017 at 12:29 AM
I have two: the Fourth {Tom Baker} and the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant).
Reply by MirrorMask
on February 19, 2017 at 1:47 AM
The 10th Doctor, and Martha was my favorite companion.
Reply by hardseasailor
on February 19, 2017 at 9:41 AM
wow hard question as ive been watching since the start in the sixties each generation has had its best of so to pick overall for me is hard but if I had to pick it would be david tenant and ace for a companion.
Reply by cloister56
on February 20, 2017 at 6:15 AM
Favourite, it's a common choice but it's Tom Baker number 4.
Now if I had to rank them
This is based on every appearance of the Doctor including all the Big Finish stuff I have read.
I'm leaving John Hurt (War) off the list as we didn't get to see much of him but I would imagine he would have been excellent.
The numbering of Doctors now that's another issue, I've gone with the simplest.
Reply by HawkManMike
on February 20, 2017 at 8:56 AM
I'll go with; 1.Baker T 2.Pertwee 3.Troughton 4.Capaldi 5.Davison 6.Tennant 7.McCoy 8.Hartnell 9.Baker.C 10.McGann 11.Smith 12.Eccleston
Reply by RodimusConvoy
on February 20, 2017 at 2:03 PM
McGann.
Reply by Notamymerrick
on February 20, 2017 at 2:06 PM
Mcgann
Reply by ryancaps
on February 20, 2017 at 8:28 PM
Eccleston - My first Doctor. I love everything about the Ninth Doctor, plus nostalgia adds to my adoration.
Capaldi - A very close second place.
Davison/McCoy - I'm always going back and forth between who I like better between these two.
After that, it gets too tough for me to rank them - I like all the Doctors.
Reply by cloister56
on February 21, 2017 at 10:39 AM
I think there is always a connection to "your" doctor. Mine was McCoy. Yes his early episodes are an assault on the eyes and ears.
But then he becomes something different. The manipulator, the planner, the game player. No more landing randomly this Doctor had a plan.
I even love his intro and music, but I know I am in the minority there. Cheeky little wink
Reply by Notamymerrick
on February 21, 2017 at 9:46 PM
I also like sylvester Mccoy.
Reply by AusFem
on February 22, 2017 at 12:56 PM
Eccleston and Tennant were my favourites. And I particularly enjoyed the episodes when Capt Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) popped in..
Reply by Anafd
on February 25, 2017 at 1:02 AM
I'm so happy to see some love to my Martha Jones. She's my favorite too. Although my love for Donna and Rose is immense.
Reply by okyesman
on February 25, 2017 at 2:29 AM
You all have been... so civil! Thank you! You have already shown this website to be leaps and bounds ahead of the (pretty much) deceased IMDb. Martha was a good companion, but I fret that "Batman v. Superman" has unintentionally laid ruins to the name.
Reply by cloister56
on February 25, 2017 at 6:15 AM
That's nice to say okyesman, hopefully these boards will grow in members like the previous ones. I notice they have added a ignore button so if the trolls do turn up we have options.
Out of the modern companions Martha was probably my favourite. Not as smug as Rose or as Pouty as Pond.
Reply by JollyDee
on February 25, 2017 at 7:14 AM
''My" Doctor is Jon Pertwee because he was my first Doctor. The first companion I remember watching was Sarah Jane Smith. I think I probably had seen some Jo Grant episodes the previous year but they didn't stick in my memory the way Sarah Jane's episodes did. Pertwee and Sladen became the benchmark against which I judged all the later Doctors and companions.
I didn't take to Tom Baker at all. To me it was as if he had murdered Jon Pertwee and stolen his job. I seem to remember being a complete pain to my siblings whining ''why can't Jon Pertwee come back ?'' for ages. I don't think I really grasped the concept of change within the show and that different is not necessarily bad.
I've really been enjoying Peter Capaldi especially his early episodes where he seemed quite harsh and pragmatic ( e.g. saying ''the guy was going to die anyway but I've used his death to our advantage. There's no point crying about it.'' I've paraphrased because I can't remember the exact quote.) I was quite disappointed when it was announced that he is leaving. I was hoping that he'd stay for at least one series with Chibnall.