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4th Doctor

7 (17.1%)

11th Doctor

7 (17.1%)

Other

5 (12.2%)

Don't know/Don't care

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14 (34.1%)

Total Members Voted: 30

Voting closed: September 30, 2011, 01:27:45 pm

[klingon13524]

Actually I'd suggest starting with this,

Is every episode like that?

[RedKing]

Maybe I just haven't seen enough of him for him to grow on me, but I don't care for Matt Smith. Seems too.....prissy, for lack of a better word.

[Darvi]

Actually I'd suggest starting with this,

Is every episode like that?

No, they usually have more casualties.

Also: Yo dawg, I heard you like the Doctor...

[klingon13524]

You seem to be divided, so I added a poll!

[Duke 2.0]

 At this point you could just watch the stuff put out while Matt Smith is the doctor. It's pretty separated from previous characters and only minor callbacks are made. And it has one of the best Doctor companions of all time.

 Nononono not Amy, Rory! He punches Hitler and stuffs him in a closet! He is the Centurion.

 I would want to suggest starting with the Eccleston episodes but they are pretty much an inversion of the Matt Smith ones. A good doctor but terrible, Horrible scrips and companions.

[Darvi]

Yes, Rory is awesome. He dies all the time and is afraid of nothing. Mind you, he's the medic of the group.

[RedKing]

Tom Baker pwnz all the other Doctors. And then offers them a jellybaby.

[Darvi]

I dunno, he never had a chance to compare himself to any others.

Or, well, he did, but never got to do anything. Stupid real life screwing with our TV shows.

[Leafsnail]

The Five Doctors. 'nuff said. Got watch it.

It's funny, because I have actually watched that on an old VHS my friend had.  I remember it being fairly good if you ignore some terrible acting and the complete lack of one of the 5 doctors.

[Darvi]

Two of them actually if you count Hartnell.


"No, not the mind probe..."

[Sowelu]

Start with Eccleston.  (Two doctors before present, the start of the "new series")

Doctor Who has always suffered from widely variable script quality.  But for every "I will channel my time lord DNA through this lightning strike!", there is a Blink, or an Impossible Planet, or an Ood episode.  Doctor Who is at its best when scary-ish.

Also, pretty much all the new companions are best companion.  And so smart and /catty/, not like the useless weak women of the old series.

[Heliman]

Ok, I'll look at it from the top.

[Duke 2.0]

/catty/

With the large exception of Riversong.

[ein]

Going to recommend starting with both the new series, starting with Eccleston, and 4th Doctor/Tom Baker~

Also,

The funny thing is that Tennant was the worst of the last three doctors. Eccleston is pretty up there but was brought down by perpetually bad scripts in that season, which Tennant also suffered from. Matt Smith is hitting a happy medium between a good actor and good scripts.

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Except for Riversong but whatever the awesomeness of Rory makes up for that character.

* rips Duke to shreds

Oh yeah, meanwhile, watch Torchwood after Jack Harkness is introduced~

[Leafsnail]

With the large exception of Riversong.

She's not really an assistant though, so much as a side character who appears now and then to indicate that an episode is BIG.

Although whatever reservations you may have about her, I wouldn't have said her faults included lack of cattiness.  Eh.