For me, it will always be Tom Baker.
>>216990323The rule of thumb is whomever you saw most during the formative years. I started on Baker but my best years were Davison so I have a soft spot for him.Objectively speaking I think Troughton and Capaldi captured the character best.
>>216990323For me it's Paul McGann
>>216991221Ditto.
>>216990683>Troughton and CapaldiI do not particularly care for the Second Doctor, although I like the era in general. I do not particularly care for the Twelfth Doctor era in general, but I like the Twelfth Doctor. With Second I would say it is down just how much I prefer First and Third Doctors over him, not that I would say they are necessarily the best Doctors. With whatever Doctor I would say you can also separate the Doctor and the stories; by which I mean you can risk conflating the characterisation/performance by the actor with the scripts they are working with.>>216990323With Tom Baker it really depends on what period you are watching him. You have early Fourth with Hinchcliffe and Holmes, middle period with Graham Williams, and then the final outing with JNT - Baker is different in all three, and it is mostly the earlier period that he is remembered as.
>>216991295>ith whatever Doctor I would say you can also separate the Doctor and the stories; by which I mean you can risk conflating the characterisation/performance by the actor with the scripts they are working with.For me that is illustrated with the 5th and 6th. I don't like the 5th Doctor and enjoy 6th over him, yet 5th's serials are just better than 6th's.
>>216990323>Whose
For me it's 1, 2 ,3, 4, 5 and 12.
>>216990323Baker, for me. His mannerisms, gravitas yet occasional goofiness, and his tasteful sartorial flamboyance defines the character for me
>>216990323Personally I like Troughton's portrayal of Doctor Who, because he's not all powerful and can even be cowardly and sneaky. Tom Baker is great fun to watch though
Tom Baker is the quintessential Doctor.Best actor is either Troughton, McGann, Capaldi, or even Matt Smith maybe.David Tennant is super mid, and only knows how to do manic and intense
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>that time tom baker couldn't be fucked turning up to a promo shoot so they had to use his waxwork from madame tussaudsabsolute mad man
>>216990323As I get older, the more I appreciate Pertwee
>>216991496That was the Five Doctors. He didn't agree to be in it, so they basically faked it with unused footage, and this stunt.
>>216991496He also couldn't be fucked to turn up for the actual story. The footage of him is just reused from the incomplete and unaired Shada.
>>216991496Seems disrespectful to keep using K-9 as a chair.
>>216991627he's not only a robot he's also a self propelled vibrator
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>>216991726she was so cute
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>>216991221>>216991264Are there any recommendations for Big Finish 8th? For that matter Big Finish in general.
>>216991221I come back to this earkino every year and it's just as good every time
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>>216991469>even Matt Smith maybeSmith can be surprisingly kino on a rewatch. I like when Moffat writes him as a secret dickhead
I've really come to like Pertwee's Doctor. I like how well he meshes with UNIT, how consistently good his stories were, and how he conveyed the alien of the Doctor as well as his morality.He grew on me. When I was younger I was more fond of 4 and 7, the ones I watched on VHS in the 90s, mostly Dalek stories.When I watched the Classic run through (starting from 3, anyway), I liked them all, its hard to pick, but 3 wins just about.Nu-Who I don't really care for or count but if I had to answer, 9, Eccleston.
>>216991990For 8 I'd say it's best to start from his first audio play (Storm Warning), and continue on in chronological order. There are some really terrible audios you have to get through in the early 8 audios like Minuet in Hell or The Creed of Kromon, but I think the absolute kino stories like The Chimes of Midnight, Neverland, Scherzo and Terror Firma.For the other Doctors, I'd say the arc focusing on 6/Evelyn and 7/Ace/Hex is superb. However for more standalone stories that aren't part of some big arc I'd say the best for each classic Doctor are:>1: Home Truths>2: Lords of the Red Planet>3: The Last Post>4: The Trouble With Drax>5: Spare Parts>6: Davros>7: MasterAudios with new series Doctors aren't quite as strong as the ones with classic Doctors, although you can find some exceptions like Monsters in Metropolis or Broken Hearts.
>>216992377>how consistently good his stories wereI always think of Third as being the most consistent in a way that is all solid C and B tier stories, but none of them really standout to me as A or S tier. That is not criticism, by the same measure none Third's stories standout to me as D or F tier either. Even Third's weaker serials have enough aspects to save them from being terrible.
>>216990323I think Frank Skinner once said that Doctor Whos are like different cakes. All are pretty great but sometimes you are in the mood for one flavour over the other. He said this during the Capaldi era, so it obviously doesn't include Jodie or Ncuti because nobody likes them
>>216991990The silver Turk is a good one off 8th doctor story. But a better cyberman story is Spare Parts. Spare parts is a fifth doctor story and you can findit on spotify.
>>216992575That's fair, I get it isn't criticism, I think it fair to say personal preference defines A/S tier stories, and trying for objective fairness where possible measures the rest. For example, I view The Daemons as a solid S, but take no offence at disagreement.>Even Third's weaker serials have enough aspects to save them from being terrible.Exactly. Tom had some amazingly good stories, most of my favourites are his, but his duds stank to high heaven.>>216992831A good way to put it. It does depend on what you're in the mood for. That's why the Virgin/BBC books were hit and miss in my opinion, if an author couldn't nail the atmosphere and understand the Doctor they were writing for well enough, it falls flat, it lacks the flavour.
>>216992489For 7, I'd definitely recommend Colditz, and the Elizabeth Klein trilogy. It forms a nice story arc.
I know a lot of people like 12th and I am not saying Capaldi is a bad actor, but I do not see the point behind his whole 'Am I a good man?' thing they went with. I could understand 9th, 10th and maybe even 11th pre-Gallifrey being like that, but come 12th it is just re-treading circles for the character and does not make sense given the stage he is at. By 12th they had already done all that stuff with the previous 3 Doctors. It just comes across as angst without reason by 12th rather than making the character come across as complex or with depth. It as if NuWho decided self-doubt and massive self-reflection was the trait of the Doctor in general, when it does not make sense (or at least the way they do it) that it is and best only has superficial emotional weight as you can only play that card so many times.
>>216993240>Am I a good man?' It was supposed to be a mixture of 12 being a new regeneration cycle and 11 spending hundreds of years in a war on Trenzalore. But because they had to squeeze all that into one episode (the Trenzalore stuff was originally planned to be over a whole series, or at least more than one episode), it doesnt have as much impact. It was just an excuse to write 12 as more unreliable like the 1st Doctor
>>216993377>It was just an excuse to write 12 as more unreliable like the 1st DoctorIf that was the intention then I never felt it achieved that? The way First is unreliable is very early on where he is such a rat bastard in a way that no other Doctor is. Even if they were able to convey that I would not get the reasoning why as the Doctor as he is understood to be and the way the franchise operates on is effectively taking the First Doctor by his late stage as the template, not unreliable early First. Though saying that, I question if Moffat even understands the First Doctor given Twice Upon a Time is nothing like what First actually is like at whatever period, especially come The Tenth Planet stage that he explicitly is from.
>>216992377Inferno will always stand out as one of the best Who stories ever made.
>>216993240There was a recent interview where Capaldi said that a lot of people were always interfering with his Doctor and making changes just to make changes. He's also talked about how he remembers Doctor Who when he was a child. With Hartnell in particular being a bit scary to him at first. That's probably something he wanted to recapture with his Doctor Who. In all of his own artwork Capaldi draws 12 as dark, ragged and a bit creepy.
Jenna best companion
>>216993609God that was a good one.>>216993240Capaldi I view as the nu-Who Colin Baker, good actor, good Doctor, wasted on mediocre to bad tv stories.
>>216993240The way I picture the 12 Doctor is that all of the outright grief and rage of the time war has passed, and now he's just world-weary, and beginning to question where he even stands in the universe. He's also not putting on a smile and lying to himself like the tenth and eleventh incarnations were.It's the fallout of having faced the War Doctor, and reintegrated him, as a valid part of himself.
>>216993683>Capaldi said that a lot of people were always interfering with his Doctor and making changes just to make changesI wonder who he's referring to
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>>216990323For me, its the 12th Doctor
>>216994294The example he gives is about his Doctor's outfit (particularly people trying to give him a quirk). But the way he talks about you can tell it wasn't just the outfit that people were interfering on. He says the show he loved was a "strange small show" but now it's this giant franchise with many masters
>>216994430I think Lunch and Capo would've gotten along well
>>216994538the look does get a lot better in the third season, where he has the slightly longer hair, and the unbuttoned cuffs.Letting an actor more or less pick his own costume is questionable to begin with, tbqh.
>>216990323>On their ownTom Baker>Best TARDIS teamTroughton, Jamie and Zoe>Best overallPertwee
>>216994365Price Harry could have had this but he ended up with the prostitute
>>216994365Clara amazes me, because she's a great companion for 12 and war, but for 11 not so much.
>>216992377You know you're in for kino any time Pertwee and Delgado are on screen together. It's one of the cruelest twists of fate that we never got the final planned confrontation and got fucking Planet of Spiders instead
>>216994365>ass like a baby elephantcute face tho
>>216996030>ass like a baby elephantYou say that as if it's a bad thing.
Speaking of Whose is the best doctor, Whose is the most underrated attractive companion for the Doctor? For me, it had to be Grace from the 1996 film. Any thoughts?
>>216996282Mary Tamm or Jenna Coleman are objectively the most attractive companions
getting cucked by Jennay/n?
>>216996282>underrated attractive companion for the DoctorBy /tv/ and /who/ or by people in general?
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>>216996282someone post the poll
>>216996396/tv/
>>216996282You may be correct with Grace. I am running through my head about them and trying to think of lesser ones that get mentioned, but even someone like Liz Shaw who does not get that much attention still gets attention. Same with someone like say Victoria - seems more overshadowed by Zoe than anything. Someone like Nyssa gets probably more love here than many places. Meanwhile anything like Dodo is just a meme joke answer.
>>216996549>Nyssa
>>216996422From 4plebs https://strawpoll.com/e7ZJG2AK5y3Make of it what you will. The main problem with that is it not a weighted poll. I also don't get why there is Big Finish characters included and somewhat arbitrary selection at that. I am also curious if it got posted anywhere besides 4chan.
>>216996575AI Doctor Who when?
>>216991456>the only 4chan memes left are 20 years oldgrim
>>216996282If you search Grace Doctor Who now you get the character from 13th era coming up as the dominant results.
>>216996575Davison and Nyssa should have been his TARDIS team. Adric and Tegan were such buzzkills
>>216996715Was this site really that awful and unfunny back then?
>>216990323you are right about tom baker. he makes all other doctors look ridiculous.
>>216991720at no point did i understand the celery unless he's a walking talking bloody mary
>>216996903they've got some great Big Finish stories, the two of them
>>216997071There is no point beyond JNT thinking it would look quirky and distinct, and thereby working as a costume that is marketable.
>>216997133sovl...
All doctors have their charm. I like capaldi, though unfortunately his era was very hit or miss, though his characterization was enjoyable. Mainly, it was refreshing to once again get an older doctor. But he did best with specific companions. Clara was his best companion. They played off each other well. Nardole was fun, enjoyable as a companion who was mostly used to the doctor's nonsense, but worked best when he was a secondary companion.
>>216997035Only Dr Who to get fired.
>>216990323Jon Pertwee definitely has a soft spot for me, his era was something very different and he really was the perfect mix of silly and serious.Number 2 would be Peter Capaldi. He had some pretty bad episodes in his run but his peak, was fucking peak.
>>216996619>River above JoThe fuck is this shit
>>216997535The only thing I can think of is it got posted in threads where anons that had not seen Classic voted. If they are only familiar with NuWho, and a narrow section of NuWho at that, that limits who they will vote and they have to vote 3. Or maybe just anons with retarded taste or shitposting - who knows.
>>216997469>He had some pretty bad episodes in his run but...This doesn't really need to be apologized for any of them: it was a weekly show; they can't all be bangers.
>>216990323I'll always love 10. He could be a real bastard sometimes but aside from a couple of episodes of his run that kind of assholeness only really worked with 9 and 10 in the revival. But 10 had the benefit of a lot of good scripts even if the main plot of the series was usually naff. They recently just put out an artbook from one of the artists who worked on Series 2-5 of the revival that's a good look if you can track down a PDF.
>>216996641Didn't some Who fan recreate all the "lost" episodes with Ai because he was dying and wanted to see them before he died
>>216997469>>216997627The only "bad" episodes during Capaldi's run are those Mark Gatiss ones with stupid plots and rushed endings. Everything else was fine. Even Hell Bent. Well, the Monk trilogy was fucked by behind the scenes shit too.
He's literally me
>>216998102It's not just Gatiss' episodes that are bad. You have shit like The Caretaker, Kill the Moon, In the Forest of the Night, almost every episode with Maisie Williams, and Thin Ice.
>>216998201>The Caretakermeh>Kill the Moonoverhated for the wrong reasons>In the Forest of the Nightnot that bad>almost every episode with Maisie Williamstolerable>Thin IceaverageI've watched these a dozen times but would never watch anything from Whittaker or Fruity Gatwa more than once
>Trilbee has started making chud ragebait titles for his videosHe's always been a huge fag but I would have respected if he stuck to his guns being a fag and not bowed to the algorithm.
>>216998571why did the youtube crowd turn on RTD so hard? they used to suck his wrinkly gay man cock
>>216998725Ratings and MSM review scores got too low for them to bury their heads in the sand anymore.
The niggas who said "RTD will save NuWho it won't be bad, it won't be woke" back in 2021, where are they now?
>>216998985I admit that I was hyped when RTD was announced but my hope died when he was Shooty
>>216999061I actually kind of liked gaynigger from outer spacebut he was barely in his own showand then left after less than 20 episodes
>>216991627Lalla can sit on me anytime if you catch my general drift family
>>216999174Go to bed Tom
Apologize, /tv/.
>>216999370He really should. The 50th would've been much better with him in it.
>>216999370He's literally the most liked Nu Doctor here
>>216990323shota boy doctor when
>>216999174Enough of the technobable. Explain in clear terms.
>>216991221SPBP
>>216998725It is so shit just so shit they cannot defend it. Moreover, they thought there was going to be a huge increase in popularity. Which obviously never happened. Ultimately, if RTD2 had even goodish figures and quality that was at best meh then they would cling to that as cope, but the show has basically entered effective cancellation again in a state of affairs that is even more of a whimper than 1989 both in the end and the outlook for the future.
>>216990323>Whose the best Doctor?Classic? TomNuWho? EcclestonOverall? CapaldiWorst Doctor? Fruity Gatwa, and it's not even close
>>216999782Romanadvoratrelundar can reverse the polarity of my neutron flow in any time zone if one so happens to lock on to my trace artron energy F A M
>>216999936>NuWho? Eccleston>Overall? CapaldiCapaldi is NuWho though. This doesn't make any sense!
>>216990323HO HO HO
>>216998725It is just a trend you get with so many things from the last several years. You see it with a bunch of Star Wars, MCU, NuTrek, whatever game or anime they live-action mame and so on. A bunch of praise and defence for it and they anywhere from a month to a year later a bunch of people that defended it go through various levels and forms of 'actually it was not that good' or 'eh, I admit it had problems' etc. The worst is when they get excited for whatever next thing and thr cycle just begins again. Probably so many things have been helped being run into the ground as there is this drawn-out process where people act like it is good that just boosts the ego of the writers and thr clueless executives who think that whatever slop they put out is actually good popular just not capturing the audience somehow.
>>217000027Yes it doesn't
>>216999967>RomanadvoratrelundarJust call her Fred.
/who/ will never be comfy like it was in 2013-2017 ever again
>>216993800>>216994365>>216996142>>216996378>>217000296CLALA
>>217001269the bestest
>>216990323Why is it that whenever I go on /tv/, There's rarely if ever a /who/ thread?
>>217001467what about this one?
>>217001467We're all on Discord, pleasuring ourselves to Jenna
>>217001467We are all in a conspiracy against you as to have it that most /who/ threads, especially the active and good discussion ones, take place when you are not here.
>>217001467When do you go to /tv/?
>>217001467There is probable a certain period where there is enough Europeans (mainly Brits) and Americans awake that results in /who/ threads being made and surviving wirh engagement that you are just missing if this is your typical time you are coming to /tv/.
>>217001511This is the exception>>217001612Every few hundred cycles or so, why is that?
>It's a 9 is the Second Coming episode
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>>217002671lol
>>216993800 >>216994365 >>216996142 >>216996378 >>217000296 >>217001302>>217001534>small brown nipples
>>217002671Pathetic fecal matter addicted nonce.>>217002787
>>217002671>finds love with someone who was a child when he first produced Dr Who in his 40sPic has same energy as this
>>217002864<3 Flapjacks
>>216999492I'd stomp this faggot to death.
