I started watching Dr who when the reboot was 3 seasons in, I think David Tennant was the greatest doctor. A few years later I finally got wife to give it a shot as I started a fresh rewatch in preparation for Matt Smith’s second season, she was ok with Eccelston and Tennant but Matt Smith is far and away her favorite doctor. Does this pattern hold true for any other Dr fans?
Excelston was my first but I feel like the show really hit its stride with Smith and Tenant and theyre sort fo tied for my favorites
Was going to say the same. I don’t think eccelstone counts to the rule
Eccleston is when I started watching, but Tennant is absolutely my favourite with Smith as a second place.
I started with Eccelston and would say Tennant is my favorite, but Smith follows very closely.
Same here.
I think this applies to a lot of people, but I don’t like to pick a favourite, especially after listening to Big Finish stuff, coz each Doctor has their own quirks and whenever I try and settle on a choice, I get conflicted. If you forced me to pick thought I would say 4
I would never force anyone to pick! But we all have a preference, and sometimes that preference changes, just like Doctor.
I have a weird problem. I start out not liking the new Doctor, but by the time they switch, they have become my favorite. Every time.
I absolutely hated Capaldi at first, but after the infinite loop prison episode, I couldn’t imagine any other person ever being the doctor again.
Now I feel the same way about Jodie. She was such a fun Doctor that I’m actually sad to see Tennent back.
Heaven sent is truly one of the best episodes of the series. I was entertained, shocked, amused and sad.
Capaldi is my doctor. Started the series with Eccelston. Love them all, though.
“Came the long way around” is something I’ve adopted saying because of just how powerful it was when he said it. No one else in my family understands it of course, but it left a lasting impression on me.
Started watching before Tom Baker’s Dr. Who, but it only clicked when he became the doctor for me.
Tom Baker. Then Peter Davison (Tristan!) celery on the lapel and all. Then Eccleson. Then Capaldi.
Me too - Jon Pertwee was my first (older siblings) but Tom Baker was the one when I reached the right age I think
The first Doctor I saw was Pertwee, but Tennant is my favorite. Being a life-long fan, he brought such enthusiasm to the part, and was just completely amazing. I’m hopeful that Gatwa is going to wind up a favorite too, as RTD knows how to pick a great Doctor.
Eccelston was my first doctor, watched through the first season with Smith. Then I started from the beginning. Working through Davison now. So far, my favorite doctor is Pertwee, I just love how tough situations are solved with martial arts and my God, his wardrobe!
Pertwee did have a rather iconic run in his own right. Kind of a shame so much of Patrick Troughton’s series are lost though. I know I wish I could have seen more. Since he’s cited by a number of the Who old and new as one of the defining and influential for them. Tennant included.
The little I’ve seen of Troughton seemed like a trip and a half. Definitely meant to be an oddball in the best of ways. And hey, they’re still producing those animated reconstructions, which are surprisingly decent all things considered.
Who knows if it takes much longer we might actually see AI reconstructions. That would definitely be a trip and a half. Hell imagine if they did an enhancement of all the big finish audio stories etc.
The doctor when I started watching was Peter Davidson. Who was fine. But for myself I enjoyed Tom Baker and a lot of the stories he was in most. New Who Tennant, Smith, and Capaldi were all up there. Each really bringing something to the series and having a number of good arcs.
Started with eccleston, but tennent is by far my favorite. It’s a matter of writing also though ~because when they brought eccleston back for that special he seemed to do much better than during his season. ~
Edit: totally hallucinated eccleston returning in a special. He specifically did not
Same. Honestly it’s not even really close for me either. It’s Tennant by a mile. I think a lot of it has to do with writing, but also i just had a really hard time taking Smith seriously.
Nope, started with Eccleston and my favorite is Tennant with Smith a close second.
Doesn’t apply to me. Pretty sure Tom Baker was my first Doctor (via PBS reruns). Of the pre-2005 series Jon Pertwee was my favorite.
When nuWho started I was there from the start with Eccleston, but Tennant is my favorite.
Started with Nine but his one season felt like an intro to Doctor Who. Ten became way too over the top and exhausting for me. Eleven came in and immediately I knew, this was My Doctor. He was fun, zany and had that thrill of adventure and optimism. But also could be terrifying, quiet and sadly understanding of reality.
The others after that just never clicked in the same way for me. For me, the sense of fun and wonder was what drew me to Doctor Who.
Mine is Sylvester McCoy, and he wasn’t the first Doctor I saw, but he was the Doctor when the show sort of ‘clicked’ for me and I got properly into it if that makes sense.
I started with Eccelston and Matt Smith is my favorite, but I do think Tennant had better stories for the most part. But Tennant is definitely my least favorite of the ones I’ve seen (up through most of Capaldi’s run). He’s just too human and whiney, especially later in his run.
I’m ancient and started watching during the gap between the end of McCoy/Classic Who and the beginning of Eccleston/NuWho. I wound up watching a completely random selection of the 4th through 7th Doctors because that was what got played on PBS (KQED and KTEH ftw). The 4th Doctor was definitely my favorite and still is, simply because he really feels alien moreso than any of the other Doctors, to me anyway. Not that I don’t greatly appreciate the others - especially Matt Smith, who’s the most “fun” of all the Doctors IMO - but when I think The Doctor I still think of Tom Baker.
Also the 3rd Doctor was surprisingly badass and I think is my #3 favorite, surprisingly.
if you’re ancient i must be even ancienter. tom baker is my doctor, and i was highly traumatised at least 3 times i can clearly remember, in order from least to worst:
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the white maggots maggoting out of the mineshaft
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that shithead adric locking romana out of the tardis when the giant spiders were closing in outside
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when the doctor dropped off sarah jane & just after the fucker dematerialised, she realised she had no idea where (or when) he’d left her. IT WAS LIKE THREE DECADES before we found out she was ok. awful.
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