Eccleston pretty much is my personal hot meter, but Tennant feels more Doctor-y to me. And Rose never did much for me at all as a character. So I was in it for the Eccleston, and then for Ten, and then finally for Ten and Martha.

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Tennant reminds me a lot of Tom Baker, especially the "I am not human" stare. Eccleston has the better outfit and yes his accent is scrummy. I wish we'd gotten more than one season of his Doctor.

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I was so truly-madly-deeply for Rose that I was determined not to like Martha but she won me over in the first episode with her delight at being on the moon overpowering her fear of Being On The Moon!

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I love Tennant's fierceness, wrapped up in that geeky wide-eyed exterior. He is most similar to Tom Baker's Doctor in that sense. His viciousness (as seen in what he does to the Family of Blood and even Harriet Jones) really pinged me as an interesting side to the Doctor I don't remember seeing too often in the past. Combine that with the sadness he also has (which Eccleston did so well, but it was a trait that defined #9 IMO, as opposed to just another aspect of #10), and I'd have to put Tennat as possibly my favorite Doctor ever. (Also, the fact that Tennant himself is a lifelong huge Doctor Who geek--I'm all over him!)

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Well, yeah, it wasn't sexual for me either, but sort of...coupley, don't you think? Because they've known each other for fifty billion years and Keith always knows that Dan's gonna have a shmutz because he thinks it's not very sportsy to, say, take some tape to the old blazer beforehand. Yes, more sweet than animal passion, for real. But easier to decipher for me than some look that Slasher!Friend goes on about that I missed. In many ways, I think there are folks who take "scoring at home," a bit literally, but I don't think it hurts anyone. But I come from a family where guys never ever touch...maybe at funerals. And these are guys at the epicenter of Guy, right?(although my man Keith has taken some hits of the "lefty, pinko, commie, chicken, faggot" stripe lately, of course. (I don't know what I expected them to do--punch in the arm like they're twelve. I'm still biased about the World of Sports, I suspect.)

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I prefer Eccleston because he seems more tragic, more "I am the last of my kind, wandering the universe alone". The connection with Captain Jack and Rose had more zing for me, because he seemed to need friends more.

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Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann picking lint from each other's jackets before going on "Letterman"

Sorkin didn't come up with Dan and Casey out of nowhere, you know.

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The connection with Captain Jack and Rose had more zing for me, because he seemed to need friends more.

This is why his explanation of why he left Jack behind doesn't really ring true for me. He was afraid of Jack's new immortality? I think the Doctor would be able to look past that, especially knowing Jack as well as he does.

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So I'm saying, Brenda.

• that* wasn't the mushrooms.

No offense to Aaron Sorkin, writer of good things where workplace dramedies are concerned. But we are lucky we didn't get President PufinStuff, aren't we? (on TV, anyway)

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Uh, I realize this isn't normally an issue, but should we be posting spoilers for current-season (more or less) TV in a non-TV thread?

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