{"id":144,"date":"2004-08-25T07:59:50","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=144"},"modified":"2015-02-24T22:55:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T22:55:05","slug":"more-on-the-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"More on the Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the comments<\/a>, John S. Drew<\/a> wrote, “See, I got Tom Baker and I would have thought I would have been more like Peter Davison.” This was one internet quiz where I thought the final result wasn’t obvious from the questions. Too often the questions are few and rather pointed, so gaming the answers can produce the desired result. I was genuinely suprised to discover that, were I the Doctor, I would be the Colin Baker Doctor, at least according to this quiz.<\/p>\n

In thinking the result through I can see that. I can be stubborn, abrasive, even coldly cyncial, all traits the sixth Doctor displays frequently during season 22.<\/p>\n

John continues, “Quick question, is Colin Baker one of your favorites or your overall favorite? See, Peter Davison is my overall favorite.” I have a favorite Doctor to the same extent that I have a favorite Beatle<\/a>; I like and appreciate each of the Doctors on their own terms. I will say that in the audio<\/i> medium, Colin Baker is my clear favorite for the reason that he isn’t trying to recapture his performance for Big Finish<\/a>; instead, he has crafted a new interpretation of his Doctor. I always liked Colin Baker’s television performance, but none of his stories stand out as being something special (except maybe “Revelation of the Daleks,” though for being Doctor Who<\/i> it’s a rather Doctor-less story), and for that reason I would rank Colin in my top five Doctors, but he wouldn’t make my top three.<\/p>\n

On what basis do other fans pick their favorite Doctor? John notes, “In fact, it’s weird. Most people say their favorite is the one they watched first. Not me. I watched Tom first,” and he noted above that he rates Davison as his favorite. I’m often reminded of something a friend said to me some years ago. “So, who’s your favorite Doctor, other than Tom Baker, of course?” as if a person couldn’t prefer an actor in the role to Tom Baker’s interpretation. But I realized why that’s true for so many Americans–oftentimes it’s because Baker is the Doctor we’re most familiar with due to the way Doctor Who<\/i> was shown on this side of the Atlantic. When I discovered Doctor Who<\/i> it was with Tom Baker, and what a surprise it was a few weeks later to see “The Five Doctors” as part of a PBS pledge drive and have absolutely no idea who these other blokes were but the Doctor I<\/i> knew they certainly weren’t. Yet I wouldn’t say that Tom Baker is my favorite Doctor, either. I love Tom’s performance, and he has some classic stories (including my top three), but there are times when I prefer Peter Davison or Sylvester McCoy or even Patrick Troughton.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the best measure of who one is favorite Doctor would be which Doctor goes in the VCR or DVD player first. Which is as good a measure as any. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the comments, John S. Drew wrote, “See, I got Tom Baker and I would have thought I would have been more like Peter Davison.” This was one internet quiz where I thought the final result wasn’t obvious from the questions. Too often the questions are few and rather pointed, so gaming the answers canContinue reading “More on the Doctor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4082,851,292],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","tag-doctor-who","tag-mailbag","tag-sixth-doctor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}