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

How many votes did Peter Cushing get then?

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.

Docists.

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.

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

He’s not in the class of Ecclestone or Davison

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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.

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

Eccleston similarly had an eyebrow problem.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

1. Troughton

2. Pertwee

3. T.Baker

4. Tennant

5. Hartnell

6. C. Baker

7. Eccleston

8. Davison

9. McCoy

RTD would probably make them have a london accent ;)

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

Reverse Eurovision

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.

no-one can match Connery

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

What about McCann?

http://www.pmeb.org/

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

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???

This is indeed true, yes.

McGann, yes.

How could anyone compete with Adric???

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST IN TWO SECONDS

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/

!!!

I did not know that.

lol that was so misleading

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

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

lol inspector spacetime...

bestest doctor

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.

More like Galaxy 1/4, amirite?

FUCK YOU, HETEROSEXUAL AGENDA

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

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

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

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

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.

Welcome to fright night.

^ 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

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

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

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

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).

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

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?

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