Personally I'm torn. I love the Fourth Doctor to bits and he has a scarf! I scarf I lust after every time I see it for it is the greatest scarf known to mankind.
But then there's Eleven. Eleven who is so hilarious that I can watch almost any of his episodes on a bad day and walk away with a smile on my face. (The 'almost' goes to Vincent and the Doctor mostly. That episode is made of tragic tears.)
So what about everyone else? Who's your favorite Doctor?
TOMORROW: Who is your favorite Companion?
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Medli 141p · 740 weeks ago
And on the shallow end of things, it doesn't hurt that I think he's incredibly gorgeous, and we get to see him undressed twice. Oh my.
echinodermata 118p · 740 weeks ago
Eleven. Just, Eleven. He's played by Matt Smith, who does 'alien in a human suit' so utterly well, enough that I'm entirely un-phased by Amy thinking he's a space squid or a slug or something. AND, he does "old eyes" and an old face quite well, even though Smith's so young (relatively speaking).
"I'm the Doctor; I'm worse than everybody's aunt!"
"Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me because it's important and one day your life may depend on it. I am definitely a mad man with a box!"
"Amy: Have you ever run away from something because you were scared, or not ready, or just... just because you could?
The Doctor: Once. A long time ago.
Amy: What happened?
The Doctor: [gestures to himself] Hello!"
"A needle that looks like hay. A hay-like needle of death. A hay-like needle of death in a haystack of... uh, statues. [brief pause] No, yours was fine."
"No, I kissed her mouth."
"Rory: Doctor, something weird's going on here, the graves are eating people.
The Doctor: Not now, Rory! "
So, that's a lot of quotes, but I think they finely convey what I love about him: he is WEIRD and ALIEN and can do silly but it feels more like a part of his identity and less like he's trying to entertain others or himself the way I feel Ten's silliness reads. And he does compassion and grace and heartbreak and everything that I feel the Doctor has to have over his centuries of living.
One last quote:
"Annihilate? No. No violence, do you understand me? Not while I'm around. Not today, not ever. I'm the Doctor, the Oncoming Storm. And you basically meant beat them in a football match, didn't you?"
See, he's honestly a dork and responds and reacts to things in ways that are utterly incomprehensible sometimes. And that quote lets me hope that he's never gonna have an over-inflated ego. He deals with his baggage, and it sits there and I believe it's constantly informing his decisions. But, it doesn't define him the way it defined the Doctor in the past. And that's refreshing.
For me, my Eleven love is largely a response to all the stuff that's happened before on the show. He feels so much more like a fresh start, basically.
In conclusion, WEIRD AS HELL AND THAT'S WHY I LOVE ELEVEN.
psycicflower 114p · 740 weeks ago
I am one of those people that generally finds it hard to pick a favourtie Doctor. I've seen Nine, Ten, Eleven and some One, Three and Five along with clips of the other Doctors. I generally like all of them but I guess if I have to pick ... Eleven has stolen my heart. Obviously it's hard to say when we've only seen him in his first series but from the very first episode I knew he might end up being my favourite Doctor.
I love how he's human and yet completely different and alien, young and yet so very old. I love his belief that he's cool. I love his relationships with Amy, Rory, River and the TARDIS. I just love him.
“My experience is that there is, you know, surprisingly, always hope.”
Eleven gifspam!
echinodermata 118p · 740 weeks ago
Day 1 – Favourite Incarnation of the Doctor
Day 2 – Favourite Companion
Day 3 – Favourite Villain/Monster/Alien/Baddie of the Week
Day 4 – Favourite Character
Day 5 – Favourite Guest Star
Day 6 – Least Favourite Character Favorite Fan Work/Least Favorite Minor Character/whatever you want.
Day 7 – Favourite Episode
Day 8 – Favourite Series/Season
Day 9 – Least Favourite Episode
Day 10 – Favourite Scene/Moment
Day 11 – Scene/Moment that made you cry
Day 12 – Scene/Moment that makes you giggle
Day 13 – Favourite Era visited by The Doctor & Co.
Day 14 – Fave Doctor Moment
Day 15 – Fave Rose Moment
Day 16 – Fave Martha Moment
Day 17 – Fave Donna Moment
Day 18 – Fave Amy Moment
Day 19 – Favourite Ship
Day 20 – Prettiest Scene
Day 21 – Favourite Location
Day 22 – Something Silly
Day 23 – Something Epic
Day 24 – Favourite Accessory of the Doctor’s
Day 25 – Favourite TARDIS team
Day 26 – Scene/Moment that made you go ‘awww’
Day 27 – Scene/Moment that made you go ‘argh’
Day 28 – Favourite Series Arc
Day 29 – Favourite Music/Song
Day 30 – Why Do YOU Love Doctor Who
And thanks E.L.S.O.S. for hosting this!
NB2000 115p · 740 weeks ago
That said, it's a pretty easy choice: Eleven. I watched The Eleventh Hour determined not to immediately declare him my favourite, I was going to wait until he had at least a few episodes before deciding how I felt about him. Then he threw a piece of bread out of Amelia's front door, told it stay out and I fell completely in love with him. I love how he can seem completely alien at times but totally fits in at other times. I love how he interacts with Amy (the scene in Flesh and Stone with Jacket!Doctor is one of my favourite scenes of the series), Rory and River. I could go on but I have to save something for the review comments.
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redheadedgirl 120p · 740 weeks ago
And then Eleven came along, and he had me at "Can I have an apple?" I love how he's utterly convinced he's a lot cooler than he really is.
Openattheclose 99p · 740 weeks ago
Weeellll, I am going to go against what is probably the majority of people on this site and say that Ten is my favorite Doctor! Yes, I know he's rude, and not ginger, and he started to consider himself a god at the end of his run, which is arrogant even for the Doctor. He treated Martha and Jack horribly and he was irritatingly hung up on Rose. He was more than a little mentally disturbed by the end of his run, he went way over the line with "Time Lord Victorious" and possibly QE1 and it was way past time for him to go.
Despite all of that, he's still the one I can relate to the most for some very odd reason. I've read the Tenth Doctor described as, "the smile you put on your face when you're so fed up you just want to scream." That's how I feel a lot of the time. Only, unlike me, he does scream. A lot.
But probably the real reason I love the Tenth Doctor so much, is that I just liked his era. I love Donna, I love Martha, and I love Series 4, and until another Doctor has a Series that brings all of that awesome, I am sticking with Ten.
Lastly, I will admit that a little it of it is David Tennant, who brought so much enthusiasm to the role, that it was hard not to love watching him enjoy playing the Doctor so much.
__Jen__ 99p · 740 weeks ago
Eleven was my favorite from his first episode. I was definitely one of those naysayers when he was first announced who thought Matt was far too young to be playing the doctor, but I think he won me over by the end of the preview for season 5. As others have said Matt plays the ancient alien extremely well. He's a fantastic physical comedian, but it all feels true to the character. All the goofy oddness is just how Eleven honestly behaves- he's not trying to put on a show.
Eleven isn't quite so enamored of human-kind as Ten was, but still believes in them. I think this makes his responses to alien threats more reasoned than we saw with Ten. He love how Eleven really wants to give others the opportunity to save the day and themselves. This is really shown in the Lodger- not just that he enlists Craig's help but in the scene where he sort of subtly manipulates Sophie into realizing her dreams. It's just a little thing that doesn't necessarily matter to the big scheme of combating the alien threat, but it shows that he just wants everyone he meets to live their lives to their fullest potential. For all that he fails at understanding human social interaction, he does a remarkable job at understanding the hopes and dreams of those he meets and pushing them towards it. Another aspect of Eleven that I love is that we really get to see him working out how to solve the problems he faces in each episode. Getting to see some of the method to his madness is win.
I will say that Troughton is running fairly close in second and that if more of his serials remained in tact he might be able to tie for favorite, but sadly that won't happen.
Lol Matt
redhairedgothkitten 75p · 740 weeks ago
OldWho my favourite is (and don't tell my hyusbadn) Five. His quiet nobility, his air of vulnerability- wonderful.
In NewWho it's a toss-up, because I haven't really seen enough of Eleven to judge properly, but I think it's Ten.
Albion19 84p · 740 weeks ago
No my favourite is Five; very closely followed by Eleven. I don't dislike any of them frankly.
flamingpie 89p · 740 weeks ago
That big ol' geek right there.
When I started watching Doctor Who, I was expecting to love Ten. He was the one I'd heard the most about, he was the one everyone seemed to love... And I did. I adore Ten, and I always will. I figured I'd get through the first series and that was when my real enjoyment would start. Little did I know it would take about five minutes for me to fall head over heels for a certain big eared northerner.
"Rose", as an episode, is not the best thing out there, but I was totally hooked, not by the silly plot (though as a fan of 'narm charm', I was amused there too), but by Nine. In the following episodes, I just fell more and more in love. He was everything that I've come to believe "The Doctor" should be. Friendly and forward and sometimes unbelievably silly, while at the same time still so very obviously dangerous. And he was the perfect mix of the familiar and the alien. I loved Ten's humanity, but at times it reached the point where you just... forgot he wasn't. I love the more alien Doctors like Eleven and Four, but with Nine, he had just the right aspects of both. He could very easily function amongst humans, unlike we so amusingly saw in Eleven, but his affection for the human race was just that. An affection. He never tries to BE human, which Ten seemed to veer a little too close to at times.
Plus the lover of asshole characters in me loves to hate the bit in World War III where he basically manipulates Rose into bailing out on tea with Jackie. Much as I love Jackie and hate to see her hurt, it's nice to have a reminder that our hero isn't perfect, and is capable of being an enormous douchebag.
So basically, the Ninth Doctor? FANTASTIC.
And to end on a totally shallow note... Christopher Eccleston has the best smile ever and maybe I just have a thing for Northern men but that VOICE. JFC. <3 <3 <3
Hypatia_ 99p · 740 weeks ago
Nine is absolutely and unequivocally MY Doctor. He manages to be utterly alien and human enough to relate to, appear young and seem so old, be calm and joyful and yet have immense power and anger just below the surface. I'd seen some Classic Who before the new series started and am still very fond of Four, since he was my introduction, but Nine is the one I really started with. And no other Doctor, not even Eleven or Four, can catch up with him in my book.
flamingpie 89p · 740 weeks ago
http://www.tombakersays.com/ i stumbled across this yesterday. I can't decide if I should be amazed or horrified.
swimmingtrunks 92p · 740 weeks ago
I do wonder if it'll stay that way once Twelve comes along though, because I was pretty much a Ten fangirl a couple of years ago, so I might just go with the times? My love for Ten was getting a little weary towards the end of his run, and then was further subdued in comparison to my growing love for his replacement. I'm still working out some issues with him, but he's begun to settle in this hazy place with all the rest of the Doctors where I love each of them in their own way, and couldn't really commit to a ranking beyond that. If someone were to ask me who my least favorite was, I'd be stumped.
Whatever my fickle affection does in the future, right now I love Eleven's more mature and subdued manner. He's got every bit of Ten's angst, but he doesn't wear it on his sleeve- you blink and you'll miss it. (Don't blink!) He's a lot less into himself, quirky without being overbearing about it, and his compassion for others just resonates as deeper and more real to me. If there's one failing, I have yet to see him in a dangerous sort of fury, but after so much rage and posturing to threaten or intimidate in the last few years, it's nice to see a man whose strength lies in a different approach to problem-solving.
I'm not sure if I have encapsulated my feelings here, but this is the best I'm going to do. All these pretty gifs are really distracting!
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fauxkaren 115p · 740 weeks ago
TEN. Ten is my doctor because he is when I fell in love with the show. I watched the a couple of episodes of Nine on BBCAmerica (Dalek and The Long Game), and when I saw the preview for Father's Day, I was like "OMG I CAN'T WAIT ANOTHER WEEK TO SEE THIS", so I hopped online and downloaded what I thought was episode 8 of series 1, but was actually episode 8 of series 2. LOL. And watching that episode was what turned me into a Doctor Who fan.
Yes, he can be a bit of an ass sometimes, but then my favorite characters are usually the assholes of the group (e.g. Damon on TVD, Spike on Buffy, Puck on Glee), so it doesn't bother me. His hate-on for Jack cracks me up, idec. And he DOES feel badly later for how he treated Martha. So.
Anyway, I thnk he has a wonderful arc. He regenerates into Ten from Nine was was so messed up from the Time War. But Ten has found new hope in Rose. So he spends a series happily running around the universe. But then he loses Rose and that fucks him up right proper. He is really reluctant to open himself up to Martha and as a result screws that up. Then he meets Donna again, and he is once more able to find a friend. He's happy and it's awesome, but then he loses her too. So he has this self imposed exile. He spends the specials traveling alone because really, it's easier that way. He doesn't want to be hurt again.
Seeing Ten deal with loss is really interesting to me. He does the whole mourning thing in The Runaway Bride. He does the whole closing himself off to people thing in the beginning of series 3. And then later in series 3 we see him really just fighting to save SOMETHING. He tries to redeem the Daleks and he tries to save the Master. He's so desperate to not lose anything else. And then at the end of his run, we see him just being so fed up with losing things, that he tries to take control and change history.
And IDGAF. I LOVE THE TIME LORD VICTORIOUS STUFF. I judge you if you don't like Waters of Mars. Ten has just been through so much. He's lost so much and he's sick of it, so he goes a bit of the deep end and tries to give time and history the middle finger. It makes total sense for his character to end up in that place. LOVE IT.
But then in the end, he dies for Wilf. Just like Nine died for Rose, Ten dies for a person that he cares about. I love that it's not some grand gesture, sacrificing himself for the sake of the universe or something. I love that it's all about the smaller interpersonal relationships. Yes, he rages at the dying of the light, but in the end, there's no question. He's going to die so that this wonderful old man who has become a friend to Ten can live.
asherat 80p · 740 weeks ago
Anyway!
My favorite will always be Ten. Honestly it took me a year to get around to watching David Tennant's last specials and S5 because I didn't know if I could deal with Tennant not being the Doctor. RTD left, Tennant left, Catherine Tate was gone—I wasn't convinced that there was going to be enough continuity between Who under Davies' reign and under Moffat's for me to think of it as the "same" show that I had loved. I did watch it eventually (I just finished it!) and Eleven has totally charmed the pants off me. But...
There's a lot of criticism of Ten on Mark Watches for being morally inconsistent, and it's true, he totally is. But the Doctor is inconsistent, the Doctor is contradictory. The Doctor is "fantastic" in a literal sense. Of course he's inconsistent! And I think more than either Eccleston or Smith, Tennant's Doctor integrated all the contradictory things about him—the most wonderful man in the world, who is also the scariest man in the universe, the motherfucking ONCOMING STORM, 900+ and yet eternally young and renewable—into what felt like a single, coherent entity.
Mind you, a very very troubled and problematic entity! But I've always been an adherent of the Whedon Doctrine (happy characters are bad television), so I don't mind if the Doctor is troubled and troubling. Many of my favorite tv characters on other shows are as well.
nextboy1 77p · 740 weeks ago
So, to start off...Matt Smith Matt Smith 100 times Matt Smith. He is my doctor and starred in my series, the one that got me watching the rest, and he's is incredible. As someone said above, his line delivery is incredible, and the absent minded awkward genius is just a joy to watch. I love that 11 has dropped a lot of the baggage that was starting to weigh 10 down, and as much as I'm looking forward to seeing the mad man in a box face his own demons eventually, he's been a breath of fresh air.
Stand out performances? Eleventh hour - "you're Scottish, Fry something" - had me hooked to Who after a few minutes of watching.
AND The Big Bang, that whole episode shows Matt Smith off like a catalogue, the comic timing, the emotional realism, and the DANCING. Just amazing. Gush over.
nextboy1 77p · 740 weeks ago
11,10,4,8,9,2,5,3 and that's not to say I still don't really enjoy all of them. Those McGann audios have really jumped him up my list, what a great doctor!
deleted2468050 90p · 738 weeks ago
In all honesty, I simply cannot choose between 10 and 11 at this stage.
10 really revolutionised the role of The Doctor, and although there had been stunning performances from previous actors, it felt as if Tennant's enthusiasm for the role really shone through to his performance. If I ever doubted him it was purely down to the writing of certain episodes, and the underlying cheesiness I found throughout the entire RTD era, but stick him in a Moffat story and you have tv gold.
I often contemplate what the show what have been like if Tennant had stayed for say the first series of Moffat's reign, and always come to the conclusion that it would have been too perfect for us to even view, thus such a spectacle didn't happen.
11 had a tough act to follow, and I realise how gigantic that understatement is. But I feel as though even now, with one series and a christmas special under his belt, Matt Smith is almost on par with Tennant. I feared at first he would try to imitate 10 in certain ways but thankfully he turned out to be the whackiest Doctor yet. As people have already stated, it is so easy to believe this character is an alien with someone like Smith playing the role. It's those subtle facial expressions, erratic movements, and that excessive murmuring that make you realise this really is a 'mad man with a box'. He's funny, and funny is loveable. A funny character is welcomed with open arms and the fact that this is an incarnation of The Doctor that makes mistakes and doesn't claim to know everything is refreshing. Moffat's writing really brought out the best in Smith and gave him some fantastic, and even iconic, scenes and lines. A personal favourite of mine is his speech as he inside locked in the pandorica. Yes, he can do serious. Add to all this his chemistry with River Song and you have a Doctor who this fan hopes will stay for as long as Ten, and if not, longer.
ShayzGirl 67p · 738 weeks ago
I do also love Ten. I realized while watching the fanvid Handlebars that so much of those things are why I love Ten. His faults. His grief causing him to go a bit crazy towards the end. I think all of that is also part of the reason why I love Eleven so much. It's like the Doctor has calmed down again, gotten a new start that he really needs. And sure, he's a bit more alien then he was as Ten, but I think that if I could get a new start like that, new face, new personality, I'd be a bit alien, too.
It's hard to decide who is my favourite out of those three (I've only watched a couple of Old Who things that Mark watched, so I don't feel comfortable judging just yet...) I thought I loved Ten the most, but I fell so hard and fast for Eleven. When I started watching Series 5 I didn't even know that some fans had pre-judge him for being too young. I didn't think about it myself either. I just dived right in and went with it. I do think I love Eleven just a little bit more than Ten, at least. Rewatching "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead" that as much as I loved River Song, I couldn't see her and Ten together. It didn't fit. She definitely fits better with Eleven. (I know that this comes later on, but River Song is almost my favourite companion except I'm not sure if we really count her or not yet, since she and the Doctor keep meeting out of order. I'd like to know how they really met, in the proper order. I bet it's all in her Tardis Book. I wish they'd print a version of it with the full story the way it was originally supposed to be, before things got jumbled.) I'm rambling. Okay, back to point. If I had to pick right now, I'd say Eleven. Mostly because of "Vincent and the Doctor". My (new) favourite Doctor with my favourite painter. Even though it was sad, it was beautiful, and perfect. If I had a time machine, that's the type of thing I'd want to do. That was definitely the moment when Eleven ranked higher than Ten. :)
ch7pper 49p · 731 weeks ago
But only one gives me the complete whim-whams, makes me get all warm and gooey and tingly all over.
It's this CUTIE PIE!! *cue heart eyes*
Hello Sweetie
Also, there's this
Maybe I like my Doctor a bit soaked.
Time Crash made me so happy
And Caves of Androzani is one of the Best serials ever.
Of course Peter Davison being a doll helps
Message to Gallifrey One 2010
Message to Gallifrey One 2011
Some Tributes to my Fave:
Babelcolour Tribute
The Captain
Spaceman
One of Us is Gonna Die Young
Tauriel_ 109p · 727 weeks ago
Followed closely by Four and Ten.