Favourite Doctor (in Doctor Who)

[Sjahd]

Mine is Matt Smith. I loved 11

David Tennant. Others not even close. Love him!

1 David Tenant
2 Matt Smith
3 Peter Capaldi

Matt Smith by a long chalk - and his stuff is still very watchable. Plus he had two of the best companions.

David Tennant era has not aged so well for rewatching and it was too soapy for me. He is my mums fav though as she thinks he is the most handsome 😁

Peter Capaldi is also better on a rewatch.

What did David Tennant do?

Christopher Eccleston.

Tennant followed by Matt Smith. Capaldi took awhile to grow on me but think he's great.

What about companions? Rose is definitely my favourite, followed by Clara

You got it @SquatBetty! The longest and the bestest!

Christopher Ecclestone by some distance. None of the reboot ones would exist without him.

Tom baker from my childhood, David Tennant for the modern version..... he's absolutely gorgeous 😍

Peter Davidson.

@Sjahd

He is very vocal about supporting the trans community and some people don’t like that.

Peter Capaldi and it used to be David but I don't like him anymore 😂

It's not because of his support for the trans community - it's because of what he says about anyone (women) who have different beliefs to him and campaign for the hard fought and won sex based rights of women

David tennant

@Sjahd yes, this. It’s less “support for the trans community” than public hatred of women, the most obvious example is that he gave a speech in which he wished Kemi Badenoch (female, black) out of existence. He seems to be one of the “activists” who at heart are raging misogynists. As far as I can see, his only real acts of support involve wearing t shirts/pins with woke slogans at events, and then laps up all adulation from the twitter crowd.

At an LGBTQ award ceremony, Tennant said that he wanted Badenoch to shut up and not exist, he also said that he didn't wish her any harm. Because of that, he apparently foams at the mouth incandescent with rage against women. I'd also like her to shut up so I guess I'm a raving misogynist too.

Ecclestone was a great choice for the reboot. Wish he had stuck with it. My daughter was watching Capaldi recently and he and Jenna Coleman were excellent together. Trouble is I keep waiting for him to become Malcolm Tucker and start ranting.

Christopher Ecclestone is the only actor that has ever made me want to watch Dr Who.

Christopher Ecclestone definitely for modern Who, Tom Baker for classic.

I believe his exact words were "a tiny bunch of whinging f*ckers who are on the wrong side of history"

3 and 13 for me

No 3 and 12! not 13 - found 13 was badly done - rewritten as a lively Labrador puppy

David Tennant
(although Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee were fab at the time)

"My" Doctor, by which I mean the first i remember is Jon Pertwee, never understood all the fuss about Tom Baker.

Favourite in the new era, Christopher Eccleston.

Matt Smith. Funny, endearing, so so smart and DANGEROUS. He was so lovely and gentle with small troubled humans, but then could turn in an instant to the all-powerful being DARING his enemies to strike the first blow.

Who could forget that joyful, provovative, but utterly commanding, "I AM THE DOCTOR!!"