favourite and least favourite doctor?.

[CaptainMatt]

Possibly, I think it had more to do with what Russell T Davies wanted to see than any in-story reasoning. Hopefully this can be considered a thing of it's times and a thing of the past

 

[C.E. Evans]

I think the Doctor was going through a midlife crisis during his Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth incarnations. He seemed to have settled back down in his Eleventh.

 

[DWF]

I think the Doctor was going through a midlife crisis during his Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth incarnations. He seemed to have settled back down in his Eleventh.

His midlife crisis would've happened during his sixth or seventh incarnations. The ninth Doctor went though the fire of the Time Wars after that he went back to normal or as normal as he is anyway.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I think the Doctor was going through a midlife crisis during his Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth incarnations. He seemed to have settled back down in his Eleventh.

His midlife crisis would've happened during his sixth or seventh incarnations.

Not necessarily. It depends on the average life-span of a Time Lord because some can go through regenerations rather quickly, while others can go through them slowly. For all we know, the Doctor could be considered middle-aged for a Time Lord, even though he is in his eleventh incarnation already.

 

[DWF]

I think the Doctor was going through a midlife crisis during his Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth incarnations. He seemed to have settled back down in his Eleventh.

His midlife crisis would've happened during his sixth or seventh incarnations.

Not necessarily. It depends on the average life-span of a Time Lord because some can go through regenerations rather quickly, while others can go through them slowly. For all we know, the Doctor could be considered middle-aged for a Time Lord, even though he is in his eleventh incarnation already.

The vast majority of Time Lords don't put their lives in danger like the Doctor and the Master do, so it's higly unlikely that they'd go though their regenerations as quickly as the Doctor did.

 

[C.E. Evans]

His midlife crisis would've happened during his sixth or seventh incarnations.

Not necessarily. It depends on the average life-span of a Time Lord because some can go through regenerations rather quickly, while others can go through them slowly. For all we know, the Doctor could be considered middle-aged for a Time Lord, even though he is in his eleventh incarnation already.

The vast majority of Time Lords don't put their lives in danger like the Doctor and the Master do, so it's higly unlikely that they'd go though their regenerations as quickly as the Doctor did.

Exactly, so the Doctor might not be considered all that old (i.e., retirement home ready) for a Time Lord even in his current incarnation.

 

[DWF]

Not necessarily. It depends on the average life-span of a Time Lord because some can go through regenerations rather quickly, while others can go through them slowly. For all we know, the Doctor could be considered middle-aged for a Time Lord, even though he is in his eleventh incarnation already.

The vast majority of Time Lords don't put their lives in danger like the Doctor and the Master do, so it's higly unlikely that they'd go though their regenerations as quickly as the Doctor did.

Exactly, so the Doctor might not be considered all that old (i.e., retirement home ready) for a Time Lord even in his current incarnation.

I'm not quite sure age matters all that much, just how many lives you have left. By putting his live in danger so often he might be younger than other Time Lords are in their 11th regeneration, but he's still that mch closer to his death. But given how eratic the sixth Doctor was I'd still say that was midlife crisis.

 

[sonak]

The vast majority of Time Lords don't put their lives in danger like the Doctor and the Master do, so it's higly unlikely that they'd go though their regenerations as quickly as the Doctor did.

Exactly, so the Doctor might not be considered all that old (i.e., retirement home ready) for a Time Lord even in his current incarnation.

I'm not quite sure age matters all that much, just how many lives you have left. By putting his live in danger so often he might be younger than other Time Lords are in their 11th regeneration, but he's still that mch closer to his death. But given how eratic the sixth Doctor was I'd still say that was midlife crisis.

was the Sixth Doctor really that erratic after "Twin Dilemma" though?

When Peri tries to claim that he's still a little unstable in "Attack of the Cybermen" he says that he's no longer unstable and that how he is is how he is by that point. I think the rest is just that incarnation's personality, and not any kind of midlife crisis.

 

[C.E. Evans]

The vast majority of Time Lords don't put their lives in danger like the Doctor and the Master do, so it's higly unlikely that they'd go though their regenerations as quickly as the Doctor did.

Exactly, so the Doctor might not be considered all that old (i.e., retirement home ready) for a Time Lord even in his current incarnation.

I'm not quite sure age matters all that much, just how many lives you have left. By putting his live in danger so often he might be younger than other Time Lords are in their 11th regeneration, but he's still that mch closer to his death. But given how eratic the sixth Doctor was I'd still say that was midlife crisis.

A few Time Lords have probably burned through their entire regeneration cycle in just 200 years. They'd probably be considered children in Time Lord society at the time of their passing.

But I believe the Doctor still has many lives left. Definitely more than thirteen.

 

[DWF]

Exactly, so the Doctor might not be considered all that old (i.e., retirement home ready) for a Time Lord even in his current incarnation.

I'm not quite sure age matters all that much, just how many lives you have left. By putting his live in danger so often he might be younger than other Time Lords are in their 11th regeneration, but he's still that mch closer to his death. But given how eratic the sixth Doctor was I'd still say that was midlife crisis.

was the Sixth Doctor really that erratic after "Twin Dilemma" though?

When Peri tries to claim that he's still a little unstable in "Attack of the Cybermen" he says that he's no longer unstable and that how he is is how he is by that point. I think the rest is just that incarnation's personality, and not any kind of midlife crisis.

I think he was erratic at times but that doesn't mean unstable, being that way meant that you never quite knew about his actions in the Trial Of A Time Lord season. He wanted his Doctor to be unpredictable.

Q: How did you prepare yourself for the role of the Doctor?

A: John Nathan-Turner lent me a lot of tapes; of Pertwee, Toughton, and Hartnell, and Baker mark one. I watched the tapes, not with a view to copying any of them, but simply to assimilate what it is that is the Doctor, that is, in addition to whatever the actors bring to it. But it is very much a part that depends on the personality of the actor. Producers cast because they see something in you that they want to bring to it. But I did have meetings with John and the script editor and the Head of Series and Serials, and I said what I thought I could do, and what I’d like to do in addition to that, and they seemed to like that. I wanted to bring unpredictability to it, and I wanted to highlight the fact that he was not an Earth person, and that he came from this place called Gallifrey, and therefore he was not going to behave in the way human beings would expect him to behave. I wanted to do things quite deliberately – like not crying when a person dies, but being extremely angry about other things.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I think the Doctor was going through a midlife crisis during his Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth incarnations. He seemed to have settled back down in his Eleventh.

His midlife crisis would've happened during his sixth or seventh incarnations. The ninth Doctor went though the fire of the Time Wars after that he went back to normal or as normal as he is anyway.

Well, humans are often called "middle-aged" when they're in their 50s despite the fact that few people live to be 100.

 

[Cutter John]

Favorite: Third
Least Favorite: (I'm gonna catch hell for this) Fourth

 

[Starkers]

Even I'd never go that far

That said I do think Baker is overrated, he definitely stayed in the role too long, and particularly towards the end he clearly couldn't be arsed half the time. I think as well that for all the 'definitive Doctor Who' malarkey you hear, he wasn't that Doctroy, or to put it another way I think of all the actors who played the role he was the one who seemed to take the least from his predecessors.

I mean Colin will always be my least favourite Doctor, but he did at least endeavour to incorporate aspects of past Doctors in his portrayal. Of course it depends on whether you think an actor should lift elements of his portrayal from other Docs.

Of course the flipside of this is that Baker had great screen presence, and was one of the few actors in the role who genuinely felt alien.

He tends to sit around the middle for me though.

 

[Cutter John]

Well you pretty well summed up my problems with his Doctor. Not saying I disliked Baker, just that I found him a lot less interesting than the others. I like my Doctor to be heroic (which is why I'm such a Pertwee fan), while Tom was more of a spacegoing tourist, just dicking around the universe having a laugh.

Not that it was all bad. I liked his first few seasons with Sarah, and most of the Leela stories were good, but once Graham Williams arrived on the scene (not that I'm blaming him specifically) it all just went wrong, going from Doctor Who to The Tom Baker Show. (of course Tom being a bit of a loony doesn't help either).

All in all, the last few seasons were a prime example of the Doctor "Needing someone to stop him." I actually give JNT a lot of credit for helping get the show back on course.

Even I'd never go that far

That said I do think Baker is overrated, he definitely stayed in the role too long, and particularly towards the end he clearly couldn't be arsed half the time. I think as well that for all the 'definitive Doctor Who' malarkey you hear, he wasn't that Doctroy, or to put it another way I think of all the actors who played the role he was the one who seemed to take the least from his predecessors.

I mean Colin will always be my least favourite Doctor, but he did at least endeavour to incorporate aspects of past Doctors in his portrayal. Of course it depends on whether you think an actor should lift elements of his portrayal from other Docs.

Of course the flipside of this is that Baker had great screen presence, and was one of the few actors in the role who genuinely felt alien.

He tends to sit around the middle for me though.

 

[Sindatur]

For many, their First Doctor, is their favorite. I think the reason so many Americans choose Tom Baker as their favorite, is because he was the easiest one to find. Even when the PBS Station that regularly aired Doctor Who was on another Doctor, there was still another PBS station or 2 that carried Doctor Who less frequently, and it was generally Tom Baker. So, for most Americans, that followed the show from the early 90s and before, Tom Baker is most likely their first. He was my first, but, I like them all and have a difficult time saying who my favorite is, often when I rewatch a Doctor, he becomes my favorite during that time frame

 

[Zeppster]

Tom Baker does the best and most unique protrayal while not completely being that different in some of the key principles of the Doctor for the first 5 seasons and I think the theme of the shows being more a gothic type feel also helps him out. And a lot of the shows were kinda unique and different compared to the 2nd and 3rd doctors being invasion oriented a little too much. The only doctors I end up really not liking to were the 6th and 7th doctors. And the 7th doctor was more because the show's writing was at it's worst IMO. And it wasn't that good for Colin Baker also.

 

[Admiral2]

Well you pretty well summed up my problems with his Doctor. Not saying I disliked Baker, just that I found him a lot less interesting than the others. I like my Doctor to be heroic (which is why I'm such a Pertwee fan), while Tom was more of a spacegoing tourist, just dicking around the universe having a laugh.

Not that it was all bad. I liked his first few seasons with Sarah, and most of the Leela stories were good, but once Graham Williams arrived on the scene (not that I'm blaming him specifically) it all just went wrong, going from Doctor Who to The Tom Baker Show. (of course Tom being a bit of a loony doesn't help either).

All in all, the last few seasons were a prime example of the Doctor "Needing someone to stop him." I actually give JNT a lot of credit for helping get the show back on course.

Even I'd never go that far

That said I do think Baker is overrated, he definitely stayed in the role too long, and particularly towards the end he clearly couldn't be arsed half the time. I think as well that for all the 'definitive Doctor Who' malarkey you hear, he wasn't that Doctroy, or to put it another way I think of all the actors who played the role he was the one who seemed to take the least from his predecessors.

I mean Colin will always be my least favourite Doctor, but he did at least endeavour to incorporate aspects of past Doctors in his portrayal. Of course it depends on whether you think an actor should lift elements of his portrayal from other Docs.

Of course the flipside of this is that Baker had great screen presence, and was one of the few actors in the role who genuinely felt alien.

He tends to sit around the middle for me though.

I name thee blasphemers!

(Sorry...someone had to...)