must say this is a pretty weak list, 2 jabs at who people look and 1 on the story lines Eccleston was given.

I have to say my expectations are low for the new Doctor, but high for Moffet. My wife claims he looks like George McFly- "Biff, you get away from my TARDIS". Really, it was the lack luster way he delivered the few lines he had, that inspires so little confidence in me. His delivery really seemed "acted", where Tennant never felt that way. I'll try to save final judgement, but he's got enormous shoes to fill.

David Tennant was the best doctor ever.

EVER.

While I do share the love a lot of people have of Tennant (both as the Doctor, and in other roles), I don't agree with the negativity a lot of people seem to have against Eccleston as the Doctor. I thought he was brilliant as his incarnation, which was a darker and more recently out of the Time War-version. It was extremely fun to see Eccleston mellow out his character slightly, in a way that opened up for the regeneration into Tennant.

In fact, if I were to choose, I would have a hard time picking my favorite of the two. Perhaps Tennant giving four years to the part might win out in the end, but my only complaint against Eccleston was that he left after just one year (although I can sympathize with him not wanting to be associated with one role forever).

Whaddya mean you don't remember Chris Eccleston? He was the one who made the Doctor cool again. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A SYLVESTER MCCOY EPISODE? That's something you should try to forget. But the Ninth Doctor? To save the universe, HE KILLED HIS OWN ENTIRE GODDAMN RACE. How hardcore is that? AND HE TORTURED A DALEK! TORTURED IT! The DVD got an NC-12 rating!

I will never forget the day Doctor Who Became a total badass. Tennant? He's just an Eccleston Stand-in with emo hair.

Tennant was a great Doctor. Tennant will be missed.

Ok, but seriously, Eccleston was "fantastic" in his own way. His Doctor was truly an alien, in a way that you never saw from Tennant's Doctor. Tennant was a bit crazed-looking, but also very huggable and approachable, but Eccleston interpreted better what an alien would actually think about us "stupid apes". I kind of liked the off-putting nature of that.

The point is, they were different Doctors, and they were both brilliant.

One last comment regarding the scripts. Tennant had some good scripts, yes, and Eccleston had needlessly farting aliens, yes, but Eccleston's doctor was also never rejuvenated by everybody on Earth saying his freakin' name, or dealt with the heartache of locking a character in another dimensions forever, FOREVER, with no chance of- oh, forget that, let's just bring her back and give her a human version of the Doctor to take care of.

WTF?

David Tennant is adorable and all but Eccleston was BAD ASS. He wasn't all sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows.

I love Tennant and I think he's a good actor but I only really started to like him as the Doctor when it became less about the whimsy and more about how crazy he had become. I blame bad writing though.

Where are the new guy's eyebrows?

i would defintly agree with numbers 1 3 and four not to mention David gave the doctor a chance to actully feel like finding love. plus the way David made the Doctor act with the companions showed why David doctor will be not be forgotten for a long time.

Of course, there's only one reason anyone should be happy to see him go...

... Russel T. Davies goes with him.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.

Oh and - sorry for the triple post, but this needs to be said - the big reason Tennant will be missed is that he was the first honest-to-God Who geek to get the role and ran with it. This is the guy who was starring in audio plays and narrating Confidential because he loved the franchise so much. The guy who basically had Moffat write a one-minute love letter to his favourite Doctor for the Children in Need special. The guy who was such a geek that he insisted on his credit being 'The Doctor' and not 'Doctor Who' since, well, that's what Peter Davison was credited as and DAMMIT, THAT'S HOW IT SHOULD BE.

Here's to the departure of the ultimate ascended fanboy.

10th Doctor actually wears hi-top Chucks.

http://chucksconnection.com/doctorwho/index.html

6 is my favourite, because, my god. Hot.

Doctor Who has sucked since William Hartnell left the role. There, I said it and I won't take it back.

Eccleston was cool as fuck. If Doctor Who was the Marvel Universe, Tennant would be Peter Parker and Eccleston Wolverine.

Yeah, I thought nine reasons might be pushing it...now I can see I was right...

The main reason I'm not looking forward to the 11th doctor is because it seems like his tag line is going to be "Geronimo!" which is really doofy in a bad way.

I wanted to not like Matt, but so far I'm finding it hard, "I have girls hair!"

hey, what's that on Eccleston's head? IT'S FUCKING HAIR. While close-cropped, hair all over the top of his head would seem diametrical to your claims that he was/is bald.

I'll miss Tennant terribly, but Eccleston all kinds of brilliant, scary, hard, and funny as the Doctor.

My favorite Doctor is whichever one I happen to be watching at the time. Seriously. I love them all in their own way. But Pimp-Daddy Pertwee will always be closest to the best, in my heart.

People sure overuse the word "brilliant". I'll remember that about Tennant's Doctor...every other thing was "brilliant" to him.

Now we get an age-regressed Lyle Lovett as the 11th Doctor.

I don't think it's fair to say Tennant had better stories that Ecceleston since Tennant was the Doctor for 3 1/2 seasons. (I'm not counting 2009 as a full season since it was 3 stories/ 4 episodes.)

I also don't think it's fair to judge Matt Smith by his first, 5-minute appearance. (Sorry for the spoiler, but we all knew he was coming.) Did we judge any of the other actors by the first few minutes after regenerating?
Some of the Doctors (including Tennant) took almost the entire first episode to regenerate, so even the first episode isn't a good way to judge the actor.

And speaking of this, the first few episodes of the 7th Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) shouldn't be used against him. The first episode (Time and the Rani) was written before they had even cast the role! I think most of his first season may have been written without knowing how McCoy would handle the character.
His later seasons (1988-1989) would be much better, but the BBC cancelled the series before we could get a real feel for this Doctor.

And let's face it- is there anyone on this site who even remembers seeing the 1st and 2nd Doctors "live"? Or are we basing our opinions on reconstructed episodes (especially the 2nd Doctor) and by looking at 1960's episodes from a 2009/ 2010 perspective? Sure, the 1960's episodes look cheesy now, but they may have been high entertainment back then.

So is it really fair to compare Tennant (who was on last week) to Hartnell, who was on from 1963 to 1966?

Yo David Tennant, Im really happy for you and Im gonna let you finish being the doctor, but Rowan Atkinson was one of the best Timelords of all time.

The 10th Doctor was a pompous, judgmental arrogant ass, by which I mean he was a talking mouthpiece for RTD's liberal and banal viewpoints. I loved 10's personality but his sheer pretension and smarminess really went over the line a couple of times with his references to 21st century problems. His "enlightened" views are supposedly coming from a nigh-eternal alien whose seen thousands and thousands of centuries and civilizations. We're stone age to him!

Doctor Who fans are, in my experience,some of the weirdest, worst fans in all nerd-dom. Why? Theyre even worse than Trek fans about not being able to agree on ANYTHING. But worse than Trekkers, Who fans tend to shoot their own wounded, or, heck, just about anybody. Recently a young lady met both Matt Smith and Karen Gillan on the street in Cardiff. She got her pic taken with these apparently nice folk and proudly put it on a DW forum to share her happiness. At which point she got ripped apart by the other Who folk for being a slightly 'big' girl. SO you can imagine she was shattered; I cant imagine what poor Matt Smith must be thinking these days. Probably reconsidering the whole damn thing. So yeah, Troughton was great, Tom Baker was great,Eccleston was, Tennant was, but bring on Eleven. Cause no matter, hes STILL the Doctor.

GEEKFIGHT!!!

Sorry, now that I've gotten that out of my system....

I've watched every incantation of the Doctor.
I've been watching Doctor Who since I was a child. Every doctor has their own merits and negatives, and they all have separate fan bases that could argue forever about why their particular Doctor was the best.
So instead of arguing and carrying on, there should just be a common agreement that he was insanely popular and even so much as to be voted Best. Doctor. EVER.

And honestly, I can't argue. In my humble, non fangirly opinion, he rocked my geeky socks. And I am sad to see him go.

That new guy...he's just...um...odd for lack of a better term...

So, apparently I'm one of the few that finds this new Doctor attractive.

Please do not take this the wrong way, but I tend to just kind of sit back and watch in odd fascination when you do Doctor Who coverage...

That as it may be, Tennant will be missed greatly, but bring on Matt Smith!

Listen if you are gonna post an article on why the 10th Doctor will be missed DO NOT diss the other doctors as part of that list. Every Who fan has their fav. Doctor and pushing one on top of a pedestal is fine as long as you don't discredit other doctors as part of the reason he is there.

Short version: I like 9. Don't make fun of 9 to show how 10 will be missed.

Poor move gentlemen.

I agree with Phoenixpen, stick to why 10 was awesome, On that note, the list forgot a really important thing to miss about 10...he wore an awesome suit that fitted him VERY well. I admit I drooled the first time I saw him in THAT suit. Plus he had a very expressive face...manically speaking.

But to everyone bashing the new doctor...I remember when Chris E left and there were LOADS of people prepared to hate David Tennant. See how well that turned out? Give the poor schmuck a chance. The guy obviously impressed the casting crew on Doctor Who enough to get the gig. And can you imagine how nervous he must be right now? Having to fill 10's shoes?!?

I am an old Dr. Who fan I have been watching for years and I even read many of the books. All Doctors have there fans and haters, strong anf weak points. We should be respectfull to each other and injoy the show we all love.

I also agree that making one of the resons hes better is he dosnt look like the previous Doctor, was not cool. How about these instead.
#7. His suits looked freaking bad a$$ in anything he did.
Also how about this as #10 he brought back old school Dr Who side kicks.

Yeah, dude, not cool bashing the other Doctors.

Eccleston chose not to stick around, and that was a shame, because he was only starting to get interesting when his time ended.

Tennant was fantastic--don't get me wrong--but the only reason people seem to know him best as the Doctor is because it's the "flavor of the month".

Many current Who fans in the USA are fans of the current show, and not only have never seen the classic stuff, but won't even give it a chance. Years from now, they won't even care about it.

So, the best-remembered Doctor is #4; I never said he's my favorite, but that's the "default" Doctor. And it's worth noting that #4 was not exactly a "sexy-looking casanova" either...

I did enjoy #7, though my favorites are #2, & #6.

If Steven Moffat picked Matt Smith, he must know what he's doing, so I'm gonna give Matt Smith a chance before saying "oh, he's wrong for this".

My first thoughts for why he was the best Doctor were his shoes(which you got) and his hair. He had this floppity-cool-cavalier hair that always looked good no matter what. Kinda like the Janeway bun of steel, but less severe. I will miss the floppity hair and sneaker wearing doctor.

Props must be given to Eccleston - without him doing such a sterling job, there wouldn't have been a 10th Doctor.

And does anyone else get an "Edward Cullen" vibe from Matt Smith? Perhaps the producers know which side their demographic is buttered? o.O

Argh, every time Topless Robot has a Doctor Who list, I always want to stab someone. The site is so good the rest of the time...

I agree with many of the other posters -- Nine was a rockin' Doc, and running him down while talking about Ten is pointless. Ten was cool all on his own.

Ditto dissing Matt Smith, the actor on deck. What he looks like has nothing to do with Tennant's Doctor, or even whether MS will be a good Eleven or not. *shrugs*

That said, gotta agree with you on #9, 8 and 3.

Finally:

David Tennant could easily murder a woman in a dark alley, because she'd never be expecting it.

Two words: Secret Smile.

ok... here's the thing. im speaking as the son of 2 parents who met because of doctor who and someone who has watched way too much of both the old who's and the new ones. what I have found is that almost every doctor has been put under a lot of judgement coming in. even tennant was thought to be too young and good looking by many whovians. my rule is to give a doctor at least half a season before you judge them. those of us who have watched the old series know how long doctors usually last which is about 3 years with the exception of tom baker who is still called the doctor by fans but that's what happens when you do a show for 8 years. I personally think eccleston was great! he played a darker yet still witty doctor. I personally believe that he would have ended up having a similar energy to tennant had he continued. I have noticed though that the form of the stories in the new series are far different in styles than the originals and it looks like the new season coming up will be more like the old series when it comes to stories and as for smith... while really young he has a really old-school who look to him and his entrance as the doctor was fantastic, epic even! so while tenant was amazing and ill miss him im excited to see the direction the show takes with both a new head writter (be ready for a lot of cliff hangers which is also old school who) and a new doctor!

Of course, it all went wrong when Richard O'Brien wasn't cast as the Doctor. More tea, vicar?

I think everyone's first favorite Doctor is the one they first see on TV, 'cause I noticed that the Eccleston-bashers always started with Tennant, then go, "Huh" when they see Eccleston. If you started with Eccleston I don't think you would be able to talk about him the way he's described in the article. I started with the 9th, so my initial (and ideal) concept of The Doctor is a badass alien man.

Well, oldies would probably say they love the older Doctors more, but there probably aren't much of them around, hehe (and are likely mostly just Brits).

I agree with you in that I totally will miss David Tennant.

But I don't buy into you anti-9th Doctor points, as I thought he was brilliant (even moreso than Tennant), and his one season was stronger than any of Tennant's.

This list includes a lot of the reasons I'll be glad to see the back of him. Also, this list is invalid for unwarranted Nine bashing.

Number 8 is wrong. If you'd even watched The End of Days, you'd know The Doctor is not thousands of years old - he's around the nine hundred mark.

As for the whole Tennant/Eccleston debate, I think they have different strengths and weaknesses. Eccleston came across as more alien and did lots of exploring. Tennant seemed tied to Earth a lot more, which is strange since his doctor is always going on about having the whole of time and space to explore. He even begs The Master to explore it with him.

My favorite line from Tennant's doctor: Oh I used to be so merciful.
You forgot to mention that the Yuuzhan Vong showed up in his first episode too. ;]

You forgot David's simply fantastic, crazy, expressions, how I will miss the looks of manic joy and surprise

Still recovering from End Of Time. Curiously this thread is now really bringing out nostalgia for Christopher Ecclestone's year: he might not have had the best episodes but maybe some of the best lines - lots of planets have a North, right?

Every new doctor gets stick from fans of the last one but Ecclestone had to overcome a different problem: coming into the role after a 20 year gap. Amazing as it seems now, a lot of his viewers had barely even heard of Doctor Who and he had to come in and make it cool again to old and new fans. It wasn't entirely down to him alone but that first series was incredible and he was a big part of it.

I really got into the series with Chris Eccleston. He and Tennant have completely different styles of playing the doctor. Eccleston was more of a badass and Tennant was funnier and a bit more crazy. We can only hope that the new doctor can be a bit of both styles.

David actually wore hi-top cons.

I just wanted to point out that the fabulous rock icon's name is spelled Morrissey, not Morrisey. There. The world is back in order.

They were HIGH-TOP Chuck Taylors.

David Tennant can murder me in a dark alley anytime. Brrrrrr!