David Tennant Voted Best Ever Dr Who

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personally I'd vote him 3rd bottom (ahead of McGann and Colin Baker), that accent he uses is ridiculous.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

He acts with his eyebrows, like all bad actors do.

How many votes did Peter Cushing get then?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't say he is bad. He was really good in a few of the episodes(and suffered from some poor scripts), but he's hardly ahead of Baker,Pertwee,Ecclestone who would be my joint top 3, and Davison(very underrated), Troughton, Hartnell, or even McCoy.

Let's pretend those 60s films didn't exist.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Docists.

― My Life in the Ghosts of Bush (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

People just voted for him because he looks so great in contrast to the godawful Eccleston. But he's definitely the best since Davison and possibly surpasses him.

― walterkranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

A hapless Dr Who male assistant poll would be much more interesting. Mickey vs Peter Purves vs Roy Castle possibly vs K9.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

He's not in the class of Ecclestone or Davison
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― pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

Eccleston is a good actor but was a shit doctor. Even Colin Baker's run was better than Eccleston's. Rose as best assistant is madness as well. Sarah Jane, both Romanas, Nyssa, hell even Tegan -- all greater than Rose.

― walterkranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

No way was Eccleston a shit doctor. He's one of the best!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

Eccleston similarly had an eyebrow problem.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

Still I suppose with the next series it will go back to being Doctor Who and not The Billie Piper Show.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

I just think he was miscast. He was certainly better than McCoy, Colin Baker (though Baker series as a whole better) or Hartnell though. He's just about right in the middle of the pack for me.

― walterkranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

i have only really seen two doctors, ecclestone and tennant; ecclestone is better.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

That's fine if they were the only two doctors but you're kind of missing the entire history of the character. Trying to make the doctor more edgy and street was a total dud and his black leather coat will ultimately look just as ridiculous and dated as McCoy's getup. And all of the crap about "oh woe is me I'm the only timelord left" was just unforgivable. Not that any of that was his fault as an actor but still it's his Doctor Who legacy.

― walterkranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

Keep in mind that

A: I'm American
B: I've only seen the first 4 or 5 Tennant episodes
C: I got into an long argument with my wife the other night over Doctor Who where she accused me of taking the show too seriously and which culminated in a discussion of which was more likely to be a reality: time travel or vampires.

― walterkranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

Next series, Dr Who is transfixed by a spear of frozen liquid waste from a passing aircraft and splits in two.

Ant: "Howay, where are we, mon?"
Dec: "Divven kna' like."
etc.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

1. Troughton
2. Pertwee
3. T.Baker
4. Tennant
5. Hartnell
6. C. Baker
7. Eccleston
8. Davison
9. McCoy

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

RTD would probably make them have a london accent ;)
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― pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

I thoroughly agree with the Eurovision-style voting of Dr.C, though I might give Ecclestone the 9 points instead of McCoy.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

Reverse Eurovision

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

David Tennant is the best ever Who in the same way Arctic Monkeys are the best ever band and in the same way Titanic was once voted best ever movie.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

no-one can match Connery

― sede vacante (blueski), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

I think Bruce Forsyth sometimes beats him on the eighteenth hole.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

What about McCann?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pmeb.org/

― sede vacante (blueski), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Mark I think you're confusing Paul McGann with the lovable rogue portrayed by Dennis Waterman in the long-running hit TV series Minder.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

A hapless Dr Who male assistant poll would be much more interesting. Mickey vs Peter Purves vs Roy Castle possibly vs K9.

How could anyone compete with Adric???

― Jesus Dan (dan perry), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

This is indeed true, yes.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

McGann, yes.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

How could anyone compete with Adric???

It's amazing the amount of hate for Adric that still exists!

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

RTD would probably make them have a london accent ;)
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Like he did with Ecclescake? Lots of planets have a North East, surely.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, surely this magazine is bought by a lot of kids, and they are the ones most likely to bother to vote out of their readership, hence winner is going to be one they can remember (or the only one they have seen). It's a bit like grumbling that Take That always used to win Best Band In The World Ever according to the readers of Smash Hits.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Also, David Tennant is ridiculously adorably hottt, which is probably why he won.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

It's a bit like grumbling that Take That always used to win Best Band In The World Ever according to the readers of Smash Hits

Eggzackerly what I meant by:

David Tennant is the best ever Who in the same way Arctic Monkeys are the best ever band and in the same way Titanic was once voted best ever movie.

― Blaze the Violet Flame (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I thought I'd put "in other words, OnimOTM" at the end of that post. I meant to :-D

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 7 December 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

Also, David Tennant is ridiculously adorably hottt, which is probably why he won.

NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST IN TWO SECONDS

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 7 December 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

Let's make this the Sandbox Who thread cause Aldo's old one has stupidly long thread title.

*SPOILERS*
(Doc #9 might be involved in the 2011 the Christmas special!)

http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/12/watch-two-doctors-in-one-trailer/

― Frobisher, Friday, 9 December 2011 16:31 (fourteen years ago)

!!!

I did not know that.

― Nicole, Friday, 9 December 2011 16:34 (fourteen years ago)

lol that was so misleading

― OH NOES, Friday, 9 December 2011 16:37 (fourteen years ago)

(Eccles is going to be in the Borrowers adaptation, not appearing in the Xmas special (which would be awesome (yay parens)))

― OH NOES, Friday, 9 December 2011 16:37 (fourteen years ago)

That is very disappointing, but at least the Doctor Who xmas special should be better than the Inspector Spacetime xmas special.

― Nicole, Friday, 9 December 2011 16:42 (fourteen years ago)

lol inspector spacetime...

― Frobisher, Friday, 9 December 2011 17:07 (fourteen years ago)

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvt4auw3CK1qbhcy2o1_500.jpg

― Nicole, Friday, 9 December 2011 17:27 (fourteen years ago)

bestest doctor
http://cdnimg.visualizeus.com/thumbs/f0/71/christopher,eccleston,comedy,dr,,who,sarah,silverman,science,fiction-f0711cfdacb3c77c2496eaaf320cdceb_i.jpg

― philip nunez, Friday, 9 December 2011 22:40 (fourteen years ago)

Meantime:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16136521

Doctor Who fans are getting a fresh opportunity to travel back in time with the discovery of two missing episodes from the long-running BBC series.
The 1965 and 1967 episodes star William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton, the first two actors to play The Doctor.
They are among more than 100 instalments which were not retained by the BBC.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 December 2011 23:06 (fourteen years ago)

More like Galaxy 1/4, amirite?

― la mujer de spirea equis, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 01:43 (fourteen years ago)

FUCK YOU, HETEROSEXUAL AGENDA

― paid, famous and sad (c sharp major), Sunday, 25 December 2011 20:08 (fourteen years ago)

I quite enjoyed the comedy in it. Not so much the (as usual) overly sentimental ending(s).

― aldo, Sunday, 25 December 2011 20:16 (fourteen years ago)

It's Christmas, we don't want bummerz (no heteronormative agenda implied).

― ledge, Sunday, 25 December 2011 20:20 (fourteen years ago)

you know what is a bummer? my gender being reduced to my reproductive and caring capacity, that's a total fucking bummer

SO MUCH RAGE

RAGE FOREVER

― paid, famous and sad (c sharp major), Sunday, 25 December 2011 21:51 (fourteen years ago)

I didn't get the reductive implication that because women can be caring and can reproduce, that is all that they can do.

― ledge, Sunday, 25 December 2011 22:00 (fourteen years ago)

men are strong and women are weak! because women can be mothers! it is the [base code or whatever bullshit] of the universe!*

she is not just a woman! she is a mother!

she contains everything! the ~mothership~!

he followed me home! he said he would not stop following me home! and then i married him!

* in the understanding of trees. which okay i'm no plant sciences specialist but 1. do they have consistent sexual characteristics 2. do they display anything we would associate with 'motherhood' 3. what the fucking fuck 4. if you think the idea that it's upending the ~traditional~ 'men are strong women are weak' binary is a good thing maybe you need to have a quick think about the gender dynamics of mainstream advertising

also, tbh, you may not have got the implication but here is a thing you would be advised to get: to me, that thing was manifestly sexist and really quite upsetting.

― paid, famous and sad (c sharp major), Sunday, 25 December 2011 22:10 (fourteen years ago)

Welcome to fright night.

― Jeff, Sunday, 25 December 2011 22:17 (fourteen years ago)

http://im.wk.io/images/v/5a0ab5/two-clips-from-the-new-doctor-who-christmas-special.jpeg

^ this guy is one of the school dads here. i had no idea he was even an actor, then all of a sudden, there he is

― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Sunday, 25 December 2011 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

I thought Moffatt was aiming to create a one-shot counter/corrective to Rusty's five year parade of All Maternal Figures Are Shrieking Harridans, in a soppy way that he wouldn't do outside of a "the whole family watching a fairytale together at Christmas" context, but it was pretty gross and exclusionary

― The Larry Sandbox Show (sic), Monday, 26 December 2011 01:27 (fourteen years ago)

When Moffat uses Who to indulge his sentimental streak, that's when I'm itching for more Sherlock.

― Ryan LZA (Leee), Monday, 26 December 2011 05:58 (fourteen years ago)

haven't seen this yet, but i asked my sister how it was and she was almost identically infuriated, c sharp major.

― reddening, Monday, 26 December 2011 08:17 (fourteen years ago)

The guy in the picture los kramps' picture 4 posts up is one of the gay couple in Benidorm. He's arguably one of the most famous sitcom actors on ITV (which probably says more about how few sitcoms are on ITV, but hey).

― aldo, Monday, 26 December 2011 08:35 (fourteen years ago)

Ha, well the last itv sitcom that i watched was probably Never The Twain or something, have never even heard of Benidorm.

― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 26 December 2011 10:51 (fourteen years ago)

OK, maybe I'm just a heteronorm, but my understanding of the treesouls was that they needed a lifeform with a womb, which isn't outrageous imho unless we're getting into putative biological fallacies?

― Ryan LZA (Leee), Monday, 26 December 2011 18:42 (fourteen years ago)

Treesouls and wombs you say? I'm glad I skipped this Christmas special...

― Frobisher, Friday, 30 December 2011 17:52 (fourteen years ago)

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