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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWho is your Favorite Doctor? (Doctor Who Fans)
Okay, I'll admit I'm not a HUGE scifi fan. I will admit Gene Roddenberry and his franchise did a lot of great writting.
I don't like Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galaxica (sp?)
I will say I understand and loved Twilight Zone using ailens to explore human emotions and actions.
I will say I have become a HUGE fan of Doctor Who. I know Time Travel and aliens and all that isn't something I normally go for BUT I love the show BUT I will be honest my only knowledge of the character has been from Doctor's 9 (Chris Ecceston) 10 (David Tennant) and 11 (Matt Smith)
So knowing there are 11 total doctors I'm asking
Who is your favorite any certain reason?
I love 10
The Personality David gave the character over all with his greatness and flaws just really sold everything.
Chris got my attention and Matt is keeping it BUT Tennant just --WOW.
Anyone else?
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Doctor Seuss.
Brother Buzz
(36,478 posts)"I'm not a real doctor but I have a Master's Degree... in science!"
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Restricting it to New Who:
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)Not really restricting just who I know of.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Tom Baker! Thread over! Next discussion, please.
solara
(3,836 posts)Tom Baker for sure ( and oh that scarf!)
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Again, Tom Baker, though I retain a massive affection for Jon Pertwee as well. The scripts written for him just weren't as interesting, since he was very earthbound and he rarely got to use the Tardis. Dear Sarah Jane, your years were the best!
"Exterminate!"
"Oh no, Daleks! {sigh} all we have to do is go up the stairs; those overgrown Hoovers couldn't possibly follow us"
solara
(3,836 posts)Daleks, all we have to do is go up the stairs!!
mucifer
(23,576 posts)Archae
(46,358 posts)I met him briefly at a Whovian convention in Milwaukee about 30 years ago.
GREAT guy.
(But I lost my autographed picture of him in a move...)
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)(Tom Baker in 2008)
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Ooh, you have woman's face and hair, sir!
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)loli phabay
(5,580 posts)intaglio
(8,170 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)Not sure why.. I really enjoyed every episode I could find, going back to William Hartnell. I did like Peter Davidson and Tom Baker. Collin Baker was fun too...Thought that David Tennant was excellent. Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee were fun to watch.
Here are actors who played the Doctor in other appearances :
David Warner
Rowan Atkinson
Trevor Martin
Peter Cushing
David Troughton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actors_who_have_played_the_Doctor
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Okay, so he wasn't on TV. Doctor Figliozzi was my dentist in Granada Hills (in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley) when I was a kid.
What made Dr. Fig a superhero? After my appointment with him one day, he asked me if I would like to meet Bob Eubanks--then a top KRLA radio jock and later to be a game show host on TV. He was coming in for his appointment.
I was a teenaged boy. A KRLA fan. I swooned.
Dr. Fig is a superhero, and nobody's going to tell me different!
ceile
(8,692 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)my attention was Peter Davison because I am a huge fan of All Creatures Great and Small.
Dr. Strange
(25,926 posts)What's interesting about those two is that they really liked the character they were playing, and I think it shows.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19836_5-celebrities-who-got-famous-by-being-obsessed-fanboys_p2.html
a kennedy
(29,723 posts)haven't watched since he's been gone. Loved him and his looooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggg scarf.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)so we all loved him the most. Although we do enjoy the rest of them too.
When my son was in Jr High he had his grandma knit him a loooooooooong scarf just like Tom's.
He didn't wear it every day but they had a Dr. Who fan club and he wore it on meeting days.
To the best of my knowledge he remained a virgin though Jr High and into high school.
jobycom
(49,038 posts)David Tenant had a great range of emotions, and could switch from silly to serious in an instant, and often did both expressions in the same moment. He tried to capture Baker's quirky, mercurial flippancy, and I think he wound up outdoing him by the end. It didn't hurt that Tenant had some of the best episodes ever written, though, and some of the best companions to work with. Catherine Tate was flat out amazing, and the episodes about Pompeii and about the Ood Planet to me is some of the best sci-fi ever written. He also had the Madam Pompadour episode with Billie Piper, and that's also one of my favorite.
Baker was brilliant, but when I watch old episodes now he seems lifeless and dull. Maybe I've just watched the wrong episodes, or maybe expectations have moved on, but I think Tenant did what he did so well that Baker looks tamer by comparison.
I think Chris Eccleston was perfect to start the new series. His relationship with Rose Tyler carried me into the second season, so I could like Tenant.
It took me a while to warm to Matt Smith, but I really like him now. I thought he was just goofy and missed the whole point for the early episodes, but he showed flashes of depth, like in the Space Whale episode ('Nobody Human can speak to me today!' was one of the more powerful lines in the whole series, I think). He won me over in the episode about the subterranean Earth civilization, when the characters around him were freaking about missing loved ones, and the actor took charge and calmed them down. Good, believable acting that I didn't think Smith had in him at first.
Peter Davidson to me is underappreciated. He played the role serious and smart, while still being quirky. He knew he could never follow Tom Baker's act, so he didn't try to out-goofy him, and instead went for smart and sincere.
Trivia I'm sure Who fans already know: Peter Davidson's daughter played in a David Tenant episode called "The Doctor's Daughter," and David Tenant later married her.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Robyn66
(1,675 posts)He is my favorite Doctor and I love him in everything else he has done too!!!!
Xithras
(16,191 posts)Part of my affection for Baker may simply be the fact that he was the first Doctor I remember, and so he'll always be stuck in my mind as the "original". But aside from that, the Fourth Doctor was played brilliantly by Baker. His personality was fairly serious, but he had a witty sense of humor and was usually friendly.
Tennant brought something special to the role as well. I can't bring myself to say that he's better than Baker, but he's certainly his equal.
I don't think there have really been any BAD Doctors. All were well played by the various actors. Eccleston and Smith were and are great in the role, but Tennant and Baker will unquestionably always be remembered as two of the best.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)He was a fictional character and the hero of the "All Creatures" series of books and shows on PBS. His life was based on a real country vet, who authored the series.
KatyaR
(3,447 posts)played the younger brother, Tristan Farnon, in All Creatures. This was before Doctor Who.
Tindalos
(10,525 posts)David Tennant is probably my favourite overall, followed closely by Chris Eccleston and Tom Baker. I love them all though.