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
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.
My first was technically Tenant, the Pompei episode. Just felt weird to me. Didn’t try the show again until Moffat & Smith’s Eleventh Hour, and fell in love instantly.
Oooh that’s a tough one. I just never got into the original Doctor Who series, but happened to catch the new run while I was laid up. Tennant’s episodes were playing at the time, and it got me completely hooked. I ended up going back and working through all the new episodes and by the time I finished that, Smith was just wrapping up. But Capaldi… damn I loved his acting, he was just so dramatic and I was really sad to see him leave the show. For me it would be a tough choice to select between Tennant and Capaldi.
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.
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
What special? Sorry
You’re absolutely right I must have hallucinated it. Apparently he was in some stock footage during one scene for the short introducing the war doctor so maybe that’s where I got it from
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
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.
Stated while Smith was in his last season, I’m a tenant girly through and through.
He did an interview show where he got up and told everyone that everything was gonna be okay, and even with his natural brogue it felt like the doctor saying it. The man was born to play the doctor
Eccleston is when I started watching, but Tennant is absolutely my favourite with Smith as a second place.
I’m worse: Whichever Doctor I watched most recently is likely to be my current favorite, if asked.
I love all the Nu-Who Doctors for different reasons. The fact that there are so many takes on the same character is just fun.
I started with Eccelston and would say Tennant is my favorite, but Smith follows very closely.
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.
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.
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.
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.
