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I've seen Baker.
I'm just saying that the other "New Whos" brought more drama and less humor.

Baconboy wrote:Indeed, but Christopher Eccleston had somewhat the same personality as David.
You could tell they were one person.
With Matt Smith, you're not really and truly sure.

I'm not sure I agree about Eccleston. He may have portrayed a more similar doctor to Tennant than Smith does, but I think there were differences. Too bad Eccleston didn't get a longer run to develop the role a bit more, but ah well.

Baconboy wrote:I've seen Baker.
I'm just saying that the other "New Whos" brought more drama and less humor.

Baker was definitely the quirkiest of them. But not all were dramatic. Sylvester McCoy was odd. Campy/humourous to begin with, then sort of got weirder and darker as his run went on.

Every doctor has been noticably different from the previous. Often there would be similarities, but how much of that is just the writing, as AHadley suggests? Probably a great deal.

The thing I find interesting is if you go back and watch a serial like Genesis of the Daleks (ok, specifically Genesis). Personality-wise you see some constants in the Doctor. The sets and special effects are worse but the writing for the doctor is similar to Tennant (although Tennant identified more with Peter Davidson).

Seen Time Crash?
That was cool!

I did. But seeing an old Davidson didn't really work, since he regenerated when he was much younger.

Yes, but it was still cool seeing Tennant give his feeling of inspiration.

Ya, sort of a nod to The Two Doctors, The Three Doctors, and the Five Doctors, as well.
Although in The Five Doctors Baker wouldn't film, so they used footage from lost episodes.

Reason why Baker wouldn't film?
I'd think he would out of all of them...

He thought it was too early for him to return to the role.

HitchcockGreen wrote:The sets and special effects are worse

The main reason I never got into DW is I am old enough to remember when it was extremely low budget in B&W and looked about like a slightly out of focus soap opera.

LOL
I saw the first episode of the first doctor and I wondered, "Why the heck can the camera person not focus in? Why the heck can the camera person not follow the actors when they move?"

It was very low budget and keep in mind that a great deal of the original tapes for the early episodes were lost. Anything you see now is a copy made somewhere along the way.

Yeah, but it was the first episodes BBC had. It was released on DVD.

Baconboy wrote:Yeah, but it was the first episodes BBC had. It was released on DVD.

Still a copy made from a copy made from a copy (etc.) of the master tape, though.

It looks like Doctor Who won’t be facing his most famous adversary for a while as Steven Moffat confirmed
to the BBC they’re giving the Daleks a rest. He said that the Doctor has only defeated them “about 400
times”, and it was time to find less familiar and easy to defeat enemies


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^ Garbage.