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[Dark Reaper]

Welcome to the Doctor Who Thread for all things relating to our favorite time traveler.

I got introduced to Doctor Who by the pinball game of the same name and then my first Doctor I watched was Tom Baker followed by Sylvester McCoy and so on. I still have some of the old classic Doctor Who on VHS's . My favorite actors who played the Doctor are:
1: Peter Capaldi.
2: David Tennent.
3: Sylvester McCoy.
4: Tom Baker.

This post has been edited by Dark Reaper: Aug 30 2018, 12:13 AM

[stargelman]

I am a William Hartnell man myself. He defined the role. He brought the quirk we came to love and expect of every doctor to the role. Ok, he went senile at the end, but even that fit the role to a degree. In his era also fell the struggle of the series to find itself, to decide if it wanted to be an educational program for children (teaching about history and all that) or more of an adventure programme.

I also really like Tom Baker because he really made the best of a difficult time for the show - when watching the episodes of his time you can really tell how much budget cuts had affected the show. That's why so much of it suddenly took place on Earth, in our time.

I also have a place in my heart for Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee, they each brought something of their own to the role.

The modern ones I think are okay in their own right, but I have a hard time thinking of this new show as the same show as the original. The pacing is orders of magnitude faster and in my opinion this ends up sacrificing too much of Doctor Who - but that's just my two cents.