Peter Davidson had the unfortunate luck to follow Tom Baker as The Doctor.

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For me, The Doctor really is, and always will be, Tom Baker. He's my personal quintessential Doctor.

He was then replaced by Colin Baker whom nobody liked.

See, I liked him. And I felt just dreadful for him, because he had to fight against that bloody idiotic pantomime dame outfit they'd saddled him with. It was during the Colin Baker years that I bought and read all the novelisations (75p a pop, iirc) and thus was all backstoried up for my fannish love of the show.

And then Sylvester McCoy came along, and I could never get past the fact that he'd been a sort of comical presenter character on a vaguely educational kids' show called - er, possibly Jigsaw.

::sighs::

Why oh why don't the DVD stalls in Bangkok stock New Who Season 3 yet?

I think Omar explains my feelings well:

Things taken an even stupider turn when we find out that Boy Editor is actually Lex's dead brother, Julian. Now, here's the thing: if Lex had cloned him from his dead brother's DNA, cool. That's interesting. But instead, we get a badly written, weak-sauce explanation that Julian never died: it was all a Papa Luthor ruse and Julian's been alive this whole time, given up for adoption in secret. Lex has helped him get to where he is, career wise, and wants to keep his identity a secret. Which makes absolutely no sense and really screws up the show's continuity. And isn't Boy Editor way too old to be Julian? Dammit, show. Just when I thought we were going to be friends again. Grrr!

Maybe his "adoption" and life are a ruse. He is a replicant with planted memories!

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I liked Sylvester McCoy--not knowing anything about his kid show history--because his Doctor had that element of actual menace that pleases me. Plus, he had Ace.

For modern, so far I prefer Eccleson to Tennant. Eccleson came across as more tragic.

I watched the Children in Need special with a few friends last night, and we were all flailing with joy. God, I love this show. They're really trying to make a catchphrase out of "wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff," aren't they? That was very cute, especially followed by the one-sided high-five. The line about the beard was priceless too. Can't wait for the Christmas special now!

I could never get past the fact that he'd been a sort of comical presenter character on a vaguely educational kids' show called - er, possibly Jigsaw.

I freaking loved Jigsaw. McCoy was an O-Man, along with David Rappaport (who starred in "Time Bandits"); they always appeared whenever anybody said three words with a double-o in them. But yes, I could never get my head around McCoy as the Doctor because of it (though I wasn't watching much at that point anyway).

I could have sworn that Tom Baker was David Tennant's Doctor (he is mine; he's most people's, because he was Doctor longer than anybody else), but what do I know.

The Children in Need bit was written by Steven Moffat, who also wrote "Blink" with its wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey-ness. Hey, how else are you going to get away with all that stuff?!

Tom Baker may have been my first Doctor, but Peter Davison was My Doctor.

Possibly for different reasons than he was Tennant's.

For someone with such a baby face when younger, Davison has managed to become quite distinguished looking. He doesn't mean Teh Sex to me like Rutger Hauer does, but I don't think my crush on him has abated much.

My Davidson crush was pretty much killed by "At Home with the Braithwaites" .

Baker and Davidson are pretty much both my first Doctor's because of how we got the shows in the US. Love em both (from my distant memories) for different reasons. There was a lot of Pertwee mixed in there as well (the fact that I was in college at the time, and drinking and drugs and...well, it all gets mixed up, but I know Who comes first continuity wise). But Pertwee was like the gasbag politician who thinks he knows what's best for you - it almost makes it worse that he turns out to be right. Baker was more the eccentric uncle with the crazy theories that turned out to not be so crazy after all. Davidson CARED. I don't care that he was too squishy - he was like the Al Gore Doctor.

However, the two new guys blow doors as far as I'm concerned. Tennant is awsome and loveable and touching and HUGELY frightening at various moments.

But I think Eccleston's short run may have actually helped to clinch him as my favorite. He was so THERE. So in the moment. Like he knew he was a short timer and needed to get everything he could out of his time (there's probably a bit of meta there, sadly).

Also, much as I liked Rose, I wish the 9th Doctor had met Martha. Cause Martha rocks.

My Davidson crush was pretty much killed by "At Home with the Braithwaites" .

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll continue to not be at all aware of its existence avoid it. Dare I ask what about it killed the crush?