Chloe was never able to figure out which Doctor was her favorite.
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Now, I guess people who aren’t into Doctor Who won’t get this strip. I apologize, please don’t hate me. I’ve been wanting to draw this comic for a long time. :)
As for me, I’m all about Peter Capaldi now. He was the easiest for me to draw too. :)
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I was going to ask who the grey haired Doctor was and he didn’t look like either the 1st, 3rd or War Doctors.
Isn’t Peter Capaldi grey haired?
Sometimes.
Between this and the Christmas dreams I’m starting to think Chloé isn’t allowed a peaceful night’s sleep.
No rest for the non-wicked.
Nope.
Until we close our eyes for good.
@nothri, that music reference. i see what you did there.
Well, at least she’s sleeping!
Eh, I\m a big fan of the unpopular Baker from the original Doctors, just because he acted so different from the popular Baker, and was actually arrogant and somewhat alien and generally unlikable as a contrast.
I also like Eccleston quite a lot, but I’m not sure if I enjoy Capaldi more yet.
I thought no one liked Colin Baker.
I never saw any of the classic series, though. I know, shame on me.
And Eccleston was fantastic.
I really like Colin Baker. the show wasn’t very good in his years (mostly because of crap going on behind the scene) but he himself was pretty good. I’m currently listening to the Big Finish audio plays and I’m always happy when I start a 6th Doctor episode
So, like a 007 film starring Brosnan?
See? Colin Baker has some fans. Of the old cast, I was also especially fond of Pertwee, again, because he was a man of action, and a contrast in general to the majority of the Doctors.
I did prefer his blue coat of many colors as opposed to the red garish mess though, for Colin.
I mean, Colin Baker was the Doctor House MD of the Doctors… I suspect if he were to happen now, he might be more popular because of that.
Colin Baker got screwed over by the network executives, making him wear that horrid suit instead of the one Colin proposed for example.
He does have the worst outfit out of every doctor so far…
Apparently Colin Baker wanted his Doctor suit to wear would have looked something like THIS!
That looks really nice, actually… reminds me of both Pertwee and McGann. Ah, what could have been…
Once you learn about how the BBC was trying to slowly choke the series so they could eventually get it off the air, go back on “trial of the doctor” and listen to the speech the doctor gives to the elder time lords. That speech then clearly becomes Colin Baker openly berating the BBC directors for all their terrible decisions.
I’ll go fourth or fifth doctor. I’m an old man, so I gotsta give 80’s props…
How come everyone seems to be familiar with the old series but me?
I don’t know, man. You don’t even have your age to fall back on. You were around for these!
But but… I’m a French Canadian!
I had no idea Doctor Who even existed before I saw a friend of mine getting into the series when they revived it in 2005.
Have you watched any of the classic series at all, the effects are most CHEESY but there are some great episodes that could stand up to this day.
Nope, aside from some clips here and there. Got a suggestion?
French-Canadian? There’s your problem–if you were proper English Canadian instead, you’d have grown up with Dangermouse and Dr. Who instead of Asterix the Gaul and… hmm, what’s a good French sci-fi series?
(Yes, I’m teasing. From all the Canuks I’ve met, I’d say all of you on the north side of the border are like Americans, only better! -_^)
Try searching for Classic Doctor Who on Google, because there’s at least one video streaming site that offers the surviving episodes, but I can’t remember the name of it for all the Daleks on Skaro! (A number of Hartnell and Troughton episodes were lost to history because they were broadcast live and taped as they aired, and nobody at the BBC had any idea the show would develop as rabid a cult following as it did, so they destroyed the tapes, much to the chagrin of Whovians everywhere.)
But wait, we DID have Danger Mouse here. (It was called Dare Dare Motus in french, whatever that means, but I guess they needed to have the DM letters mean something)
(And I know all about the destroyed tapes, dude. ^^)
And considering “Canada” used to refer only to the french colony back in the day, I still consider “french canadians” to be more proper than our english overlords. :)
Dunno about everyone else, but I grew up watching them (mostly 4th and 5th, but some older ones) on PBS after school. I actually haven’t seen any of the new series. I don’t really watch TV anymore.
You’re like my total opposite.
This strip makes me wish I had bothered to care about Dr. Who, so it would at least be funny to me. >.<"
meh. all you have to appreciate is that any one of them could take you on cool adventures in space and time. all across the universe, any time frame. like, go visit famous philosophers or eng/scientists like tesla. on another planet. in a parallel dimension.
I watched a little bit way back, with an older Doctor and a buck-toothed blonde, so I’m at least somewhat familiar with the premise, I just never got into it much once the older Doctor became young.
There, there. I have a Clementine strip planned in two weeks.
Squeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I feel your pain Chloe. I’d have a really hard time choosing as well. I’ve like every doctor and find each one unique. My fav’s are probably the 4th doctor(Tom Barker) and the 10th doctor(David Tennant). If I had to choose, I’d say the 9th doctor(Christopher Eccleston) was my least favorite. But it matters little, as I like them all. I don’t think there’s ever been a bad actor playing Doctor Who. It’s one of the series greatest strengths. They consistently cast The Doctor and his assistant well.
Yeah, same. I really do like ’em all so far. (well, the ones I’m familiar with, at least, but I still think the old ones look quite cool too.)
I’ve never seen old doctors so I just have my list from the new but for me it goes
10
12
11
9
The 10th Doctor was also the 11th Doctor since the first time he regenerated, he just changed into himself, so the 11th Doctor was actually the 12th and so on.
Don’t get “Doctors” and “Regenerations” confused. The 10th doctor did regenerate into himself, but he was still the same doctor. Technically, with the War Doctor, the tenth doctor was actually at his 12th incarnation before he became Matt Smith’s.
Yeah, there’s a few regenerations that isn’t counted in your usual Doctor count, notably 10th’s partial regeneration and the War Doctor, who was retroactively added between the 8th and the 9th. A Time Lord is only allowed up to 12 regenerations, so if you do the math right, the Doctor had to be granted a new set of regenerations before regenerating into Peter Capaldi’s Doctor and therefore the series to continue.
Well, that’s a lot of regenerations.
I can’t even say myself… I guess…. 9, 12, 10, 11… but they’re all equal to me really.
David Tennant is my favorite doctor.
I stopped watching the last series though, but that has more to do with the writing than the actress playing dr. Who.
There is no doctor but The Doctor, and Tom Baker is his actor.
I grew up with a little bit of the 2nd, all of the 3rd and 4th.
It’s not a real Doctor if it hasn’t got a ridiculous scarf.
That scarf sure left an impression.
Well, it’s the only scarf that can be worn comfortably by two people and a mechanical dog! (For real–I once saw a publicity pic of Tom Baker and Lalla Ward both wearing the infamous scarf, with one end tied around K-9’s neck as a leash. From what I’ve seen, the scarf is something like three or four meters long!)
Fun fact: A fan of the series knitted the scarf but she went overboard and made it too long, but it worked out for the best in the end.
The version of that story that I heard was that it was knitted by a woman who worked for the BBC’s costume department, but nobody told her who long to make it, so she just kept knitting until she ran out of yarn, and that’s why it’s so long.
I own a replica of it, and mine is so long that it reaches from the floor around my neck, hanging down in a 1′ (~30cm) loop, and then back down to the floor again, and I’m 6′ (182cm) tall. Doctor’s scarf is LOOOOONNNGG!
I now have a replica as well, thanks to my good friend Genevieve Morin. :)
I’m glad to see Peter Davison / 5th Doctor getting a literal look-in as well as the modern Doctors and Tom Baker.
I was only gonna use the 4 modern ones, originally, but I decided I’d throw in my two favorite doctors (design wise) from the classic series too at the last minute.
Tom Baker was the best doctor of the classic series.
Number 11. Matt Smith. Hands down. There are better actors, and maybe better Doctors, but he’s the perfect combo of super smart and a big kid. He’s basically what I would be if I was a Time Lord.
You know, the first time I saw Matt Smith, I decided that if there’s ever a movie or TV series made of Christopher Stasheff’s “The Warlock In Spite of Himself” novels, Matt would be perfect in the title role because of his homely but cute face–it makes me think of an old, broken-down couch that’s not much to look at, but it’s surprisingly comfortable. Stasheff describes Rod Gallowglass (the Warlock of the titles) as having the kind of face that children and animals trust instinctively, even though it’s not very handsome, which describes Matt nicely IMHO. There’s just something about him that makes you want to trust him completely for some reason.
That’s the best part about Doctor Who–50+ years, two series plus several movies, fifteen (!)* different actors, plus the radio plays and novels, means that there’s enough Doctors for everyone to love!
*Before anyone contradicts me on my count,
1) William Hartnell
1a) Richard Hurndall standing in for Hartnell, “The Five Doctors”
2) Patrick Troughton
3) Jon Pertwee
4) Tom Baker (longest running at 7 YEARS in the role! Is the Curator also a future Doctor? “Who knows…?”)
5) Peter Davison
6) Colin Baker (only one to be fired?)
7) Sylvester McCoy
8) Paul McGann (also shortest run with 1 1/2 epsiodes [BBC/Fox movie + one webisode]
8a) Peter Capaldi, Big Finish Radio Drama version
9) Christopher Eccleston
10) David Tennant (two regenerations plus human version in alternate reality)
11) Matt Smith
12) John Hurt (technically #8b because he occurs between McGann and Eccleston, but listed here because he appears in 50th Anniversary episode)
13) Peter Capaldi (also #8a, but only counts once because he was “filling on” for McGann between TV series)
Peter Cushing (!)–NOT part of the regeneration sequence; he appeared in the first two Doctor Who movies in the late 1960s. Technically counts because his character was listed in the credits as “Doctor Who”, despite being a human inventor instead of a Gallifreyan Time Lord.
Yep, 15 Doctors, across three timelines (Time Lord #1-13, Tennant’s human version from the new series in the alternate dimension where the new Cybermen come from, and Cushing’s human version from the classic movies). Impressive, isn’t it?
The fact I never watched the old episodes doesn’t mean I don’t know everything there is to know about the old doctors. Notice I did draw Baker and Davison in the strip. :)
Your Fifth looks absolutely adorable.
Then again, he’s always sorta adorable, that celery wearing goof.
any chance of a revisit or update to this one? seeing how we’re on 13 now