# "I'm the Doctor." "Doctor who?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-doctor-doctor-who/453385 "2008-06-18T19:04:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![XaMcQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f9ae1b/32.png) [@XaMcQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XaMcQ)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-doctor-doctor-who/453385/61 "2008-06-20T20:42:14Z")
Tom Baker was The Doctor for me until Tennant came along, and now it’s a draw. To me, Tennant’s incarnation works as portraying the Doctor as the same person Tom Baker was playing, with his sense of playful wonder and childlike delight, but now darkened and changed by the Time War and the loss of Galifrey. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-doctor-doctor-who/453385/62 "2008-06-20T21:25:22Z")
[QUOTE=glee] [Romana II (Lalla Ward)](http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/companions/page23.shtml) (and Tom Baker married her 🙂 ) [/QUOTE] So did Richard Dawkins - they were introduced by Douglas Adams. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-doctor-doctor-who/453385/63 "2008-06-20T22:47:51Z")
[QUOTE=Monkey Chews] No, only half-human. . . [/QUOTE] Sorry, no. I don’t buy this. Even if BBC decides to make it cannon, I’m ignoring it. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-doctor-doctor-who/453385/64 "2008-06-20T22:58:55Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Well the good news is that ‘Blink’ was Moffat and not Davis and there is talk of Moffat getting more involved in the show. [/QUOTE] [Considerably more than talk.](http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/20/bbc.television2) [QUOTE=Monkey Chews] No, only half-human. [/quote] On his mother’s side. Boy, I remember all the speculation, near the end of the Virgin books, around the time of _Lungbarrow_, when the biggest theory was that Leela was the Doctor’s mother. I never did quite wrap my head around the Loom and the Other. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-doctor-doctor-who/453385/65 "2008-06-20T23:39:26Z")
Wow, it’s astonishing how little enthusiasm there is for Paul McGann. Come on now! He’s McGann! The Eighth Doctor! And “8” sideways is the symbol for INFINITY oh yeah! Infinitely, positively, totally canonical McGann! Stepped out o the TARDIS and BOOM he’s McGann! Keeps the Master in a box! Oh yeah! Hanging with fey-voiced Daleks! Uh huh! He’s half-American on his mother’s side! Made for Americans! Produced by Americans! Filmed probably somewhere in Canada! AND IT’S ABOUT TIME! McGann! Hell yes! Give it up for him! You know you want to! McGann! A man! A plan! A canal! McGann! Yeah! Woo! Rockin’ this town with McGann! Damn straight! Can I get a witness! McGann! Hallelujah! Can you feel the power! McGann! He lifts you up where you belong! Where the eagles cry, on a mountain high! Whoooah! McGann! He’s McGaaaa-an, he’s McGann, he’s McGaaaa-an, he’s Mcgann! ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-doctor-doctor-who/453385/66 "2008-06-21T00:40:03Z")
I like McGann. I wish I could see more of him. I’m glad he got to finish Shada, even if it was only semi-animated. I just don’t buy the half-human bit. Has anyone else ever seen the patched-together VHS version of Shada? The one with Tom Baker explaining the plot of all the unfilmed scenes? I rented it from Blockbuster once and have never been able to find it again. TB was wonderful in it. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-doctor-doctor-who/453385/67 "2008-06-21T00:41:39Z")
I liked McGann, too. He does a great job on the audios, actually. Yeah, I’ve got the VHS Shada here somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-doctor-doctor-who/453385/68 "2008-06-21T03:10:17Z")
[QUOTE=Rhiannon8404] Peter Davison will always be “my doctor”. He was my first. I was like 13 when I discovered Dr. Who on PBS. I like the stories, the companions, the Master, everything about his series. David Tennant is my next favorite. Of course that may be because he reminds me so much of Davison’s version of the doctor. [/QUOTE] Peter Davison was Tennant’s “doctor” too, apparently. I’m sure I’ve read it in an interview (but, of course, I can’t find a cite) and it’s referenced ‘citation needed’ in the Wiki page for [‘Time Crash’.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Crash) Peter Davison is my “Tristan Farnon”. I was too old by the time he played the Doctor. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-doctor-doctor-who/453385/69 "2008-06-21T03:21:27Z")
Actually, David Tennant’s first Doctor was Tom Baker, and he lists him as his favourite for that reason. But I think when he said “You’re my Doctor” to Peter Davison in “Time Crash”, it was more about personality similarities and characterisation inspiration (even within canon). At least, that’s how I interpreted it. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-doctor-doctor-who/453385/70 "2008-06-21T08:21:29Z")
Tennant asked for Davison to be the other Doctor in _Time Crash_ (last answer in the first column in [here](http://www.team-tennant.com/article/pd3.jpg) and said that both Baker and Davison were ‘his’ doctors halfway down the first column [here](http://www.team-tennant.com/article/pd6.jpg). He also claims that he takes part of his performance from both of them, which is what **Rhiannon8404** noticed. Whatever article I read may well have nicked their material from here or another interview. It was about the time of _Time Crash’s_ screening, so they probably focussed on that connection. I love how Davison says that _his_ Doctor was Troughton. Later in the article he says that Tennant’s Doctor reminds him of Troughton. Aw. There’s possibly some wee tyke out there right now, watching the series and planning their acting career to the point where they can take over the role. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-the-doctor-doctor-who/453385.md?page=3)