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[fajrdrako]

So in BBC news, David Tennant wins the Doctor Who Magazine poll of fans as the best doctor ever, beating out Tom Baker for the first time - who came in second.

Cool. I must watch that Tom Baker at some point.

Meanwhile, I know the best Doctor was really Chris Eccleston. But that's okay, I can keep it as my secret.

(I wish the newspapers would stop calling the Doctor's companions his 'assistants'. Faugh. And I think his best 'assistant' was Captain Jack.)

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[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Yup. Eccleston totally outranks him. Then again, I like my chocolate bitter, too.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I do have some unusual tastes - Eccleston is something special. But then, so is Tennant. But I love Nine most.

[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

>>>Meanwhile, I know the best Doctor was really Chris Eccleston. But that's okay, I can keep it as my secret.

My secret, too...!

>>>(I wish the newspapers would stop calling the Doctor's companions his 'assistants'. Faugh. And I think his best 'assistant' was Captain Jack.)

Oh yes indeed...!

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

And yes, I also agree -- about the best Doctor being Number Nine *and* about the best chocolate being "bitter" or at least "semi-sweet."

But then, I'm also an *old-fashioned* Anglophile. I really don't care if my tastes are currently out of fashion. :-)

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Oh... Eccleston is just wonderful. (haven't seen a lot of the others, actually, but... he's got the drama, the irony, the tragedy, and is still... Doctor-full!)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

My secret, too...!

We don't need to tell the BBC. But we know.

I wonder what will happen when Jack turns up in Doctor Who series 3?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh... Eccleston is just wonderful.

He certainly is. He has impact and depth. Much as I adore Ten, much as he too has many levels of personality and (of course) the same experience, Nine seems more complex.

haven't seen a lot of the others, actually

Well, I haven't seen any of the others, except in pictures. Except one, once - I think it may have been Jon Pertwee, but I'm not sure. At the time, he bored me. Would he now? I don't know.

he's got the drama, the irony, the tragedy, and is still... Doctor-full!)

All of that - he's heartwarming and heartbreaking and thoroughly wonderful.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yay for the wonderfulness of the ninth Doctor!

No comment on chocolate.

I guess I'm an old-fashioned Anglophile... and not only do I not care whether my tastes are fashionable, I don't know what's fashionable anyway.

This is not to say I don't love Ten too, you understand!

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Hmph. Eccleston's not even in the top five. I wonder where in came in on the list?

I do think Tennant's awesome, but I couldn't vote in that poll, since I'd vote 1. Eccleston, 2. Tennant, 3. Pertwee (Three) as those are the three Doctors I've seen the most of.

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Wow, and I claim it being way too early for me and not enough caffeine. *facepalm* He is in the top five. Ooops. *slinks off in shame*

[skywardprodigal.livejournal.com]

Tom Baker is my first doctor. But that was so long ago and I was so small, I barely remember him. He is a voice and a presence, though: both aweinspiring and comforting. Even though I watched him on the telly, in my memories I experience him as way taller with a shadowed face and lots of hair and a big nose. But then, I was so wee.

[akaihyo.livejournal.com]

I must lean towards Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor too, but he was the Doctor that I first watched.

Need to see more of Tennant to judge him fairly, but I like what I have seen.

However, Eccleston was fantastic, I just wish he had done more than one season . . .

Wish that McGann had gotten a fair shot in the role. I like what I have seen of his presence and acting skills in other shows.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I do plan to watch the Tom Baker episodes of Doctor Who at some point, but I'm in no hurry. In some ways I'm hesitant to see him: I love Nine and Ten so much, do they need another rival to divide my attention? Or suppose I hate it, because he'll be different, and spoil my love of the current series? I don't really think it's likely that I'll hate it, but I don't feel the need to watch anything but the current series for a while yet.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You missed Eccleston; he was #3. Not too bad.

I guess I'd have to vote 1. Eccleston, 2. Tennant, 3. McGann, since McGann is the only other Doctor I remember having seen at all. (I have seen another one, but I don't even remember which one, and it was a long time ago, and I wasn't paying much attention.) The McGann movie was execrable but I always have a certain fondness for Paul McGann, whatever he's in.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I must lean towards Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor too, but he was the Doctor that I first watched.

He was the Doctor who was the Doctor when I first became aware that the show existed, but I never saw an episode with him. For twenty years he was my 'mental image' of the Doctor.

Need to see more of Tennant to judge him fairly, but I like what I have seen.

He is adorable, and gets better as series 2 progresses. In my opinion.

However, Eccleston was fantastic, I just wish he had done more than one season . . .

Oh, so do I. I miss him dreadfully.

McGann could have been a fabulous Doctor, but they gave him a bad script and storyline, and an unappealing co-star, so no amount of good acting could have redeemed it. Doomed before he started.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

As he should be!

Now, go have some coffee, and don't worry about it. Or just think happy thoughts of sexy doctors....

[lilithlotr.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, I know the best Doctor was really Chris Eccleston. But that's okay, I can keep it as my secret.

Actually, it's quite well known in some circles.

OK, maybe not, but *I* know it.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

There, you see? Well-known in the best circles!

[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

>>>I wonder what will happen when Jack turns up in Doctor Who series 3?

Is that in the works? Yay! (Shows how out of touch I am...)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think they're due to shoot it right after Christmas. I am happy. But at the same time, almost afraid....

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Like most English and Australian people of a couple of generations, I grew up watching Dr Who. Most people I know will talk about how they used to watch it from behind the couch. *g* From as early as I can remember, and I am of the age where Jon Pertwee was my first Dr, but Tom Baker was there for seven years of my childhood, so he was always the greatest. Then as I hit my teens, it was Peter Davison who was weirdly young and good looking (and from All Creatures Great and Small, another staple show from my childhood) and it was weird and maybe I was starting to outgrow Dr Who? And then came Colin Baker (Tom's brother) and his incarnation seemed angry and aggressive and I didn't like him and stopped watching until eventually quirky little Sylvester McCoy came along and it was just like Dr Who SHOULD be and I fell in love again...

I don't know if you'll enjoy old style Dr Who, this new version is stylish, and sexy and shiny and adult and not much like the show I grew up with at all.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

McGann could have been a fabulous Doctor, but they gave him a bad script and storyline, and an unappealing co-star, so no amount of good acting could have redeemed it. Doomed before he started.

Word.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

And too bad, too, but in the long run I think what we ended up with (in Eccleston and Tennant) has been magnificent.

Great icon there!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, I was getting a little carried away there just staring at your icon.... big happy sigh; I'm such a schmoop for my favourite pairing.

I love hearing comments like yours about the previous doctors whom I have not seen. Whether or when I will actually watch them I don't know; I don't know how I'll react to them, either. Meanwhile I have the joy of seemingly infinite pleasure playing in the playground of Nine, Ten, and Torchwood. When I'm ready to expand on that, I'll be able to visit those earlier Doctors. My fears are less based on the change in the 'stylishness', which doesn't bother me, but the sense that there was less relationship-emphasis.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Definitely less relationship emphasis, definitely no UST happening - of course, i was much younger I could have just been oblivious, but I don't think so. I know when Peter Davison (5) came along I was slashing him with Turlough..ooh watch those story arcs. Turlough was a public school boy (who was all grown up cos he was secretly an exiled alien) who wore his uniform the whole time and had a Sekrit Agenda. Turlough used to watch the Doctor with these hot eyes - I'm not joking - but the Doctor was pretty sexless in them days.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/gallery/fifthdoctor/01.shtml

Tom Baker had a companion called Leela, who wore the skimpiest 'noble savage' outfit ever. http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/gallery/jameson/13.shtml. First crushes of generations of British schoolboys. But I don't remember him so much as looking twice at her.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Peter Davison (5) came along I was slashing him with Turlough..ooh watch those story arcs.

That sounds promising!

Turlough was a public school boy (who was all grown up cos he was secretly an exiled alien) who wore his uniform the whole time and had a Sekrit Agenda.

I have to admit - that does sound like my kind of character!

Thanks for the photo-references! I'm barely at the point where I recognize the earlier companions' names, let alone which Doctors they fit with. But it's fun to peek at them and wonder.