For during the month of July I watched it for the very first time, and lo! it was so wonderful that I briefly felt my hatred of all mankind ebb so that I was merely contempt for non-Rhymers.
(That didn’t last, of course.)
Anyway … I watched the 2010 season, with Amy Pond. As I understand it, each DOCTOR WHO season is pretty much independent of all the others, and the Doctor changes each time; what should I watch next?
The current (sixth) season of NuWho picks up threads left untied at the end of the last season, and for which clues have been being laid since the second or third.
My advice would be to go back to the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and get caught up in order.
And, FWIW, my parents had been married for like 3 years when I was born. 
It’s not every season, but he does change periodically, yes.
I never thought Christopher Eccelston was “Doctorey” enough, but the David Tennant ones are wonderful. Still waiting for Space to normalize their schedule before I watch the Matt Smith ones.
No, no, no! You have to start with the Christopher Eccleston Who, and have your miniscule heart broken.
Really, you need to start with season one of NuWho, especially so you can see The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances.
StG
Are you my mummy?
We thought you would want to discover this on your own.
The separate seasons are not completely independent, but I suppose you can jump around without getting too lost. I would recommend going back to the 2005 season, with Christopher Eccleston, and working your way forward. You will find the older ones to have a significantly different look and feel.
Seconded. Fantastic story.
I quite liked Eccleston, but he was my first serious introduction to the Doctor. I’ve only had glimpses of Tennant thus far.
Watch all the new Who. The first season has the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose Tyler.
The next two seasons are the Doctor (David Tennet) and Rose Tyler.
The fourth season had David Tennet and Martha Jones.
The fifth season had David Tennet and Donna Noble.
Then the one you watched.
And this season is the same Doctor and Amy Pond again.
Each season is not independant of each other, though they are not intrically connected either but they are loosely connected, and as you can see the Doctor doesn’t change every season either.
I started watching with Chris Eccleston and loved him. When they announced they were switching actors for the Doctor I was not happy but immediately I fell in love with David Tennet. When they announced he was leaving and switching actors again I was not happy, but as soon as I started watching the Matt Smith Doctor I now consider him my favorite Doctor.
Rose was only with Ten for one season. All your subsequent counts are off by one:
Season 1: Nine/Rose
Season 2: Ten/Rose
Season 3: Ten/Martha
Season 4: Ten/Donna
Season 5: Eleven/Amy
Season 6: … spoilers
Not quite true. There’s a fair bit of continuity throughout the show. Not to the extent that you’ll be lost if you don’t watch them all in order, but there’s a lot of little stuff you might miss if you don’t know what happened earlier.
Also, the Doctor doesn’t change with each season. They only replace him when the current actor wants to move on to different things. Matt Smith, the guy you just saw, replaced David Tennant. Tennant had the role through three full seasons, plus a series of TV movies that led up to Matt Smith stepping in. Before Tennant, Christopher Eccelston played the Doctor in the first season of the new series, but he left the show at the end of that season.
Prior to Eccelston… well, it gets confusing, and I wouldn’t worry too much about the previous fifty years of the show until you’re caught up with the new stuff. There’s some classic material from the original show, and it’s well worth watching, but it’s also old, low budget, and features a lot of uneven acting, to put it charitably. For now, I’d go dig up the Eccelston season, and watch them in order until you’re caught up.
My WHAT?
You know. The one you took from that orphan, and keep in a jar on your desk.
Of course he’s my favorite, as I know no other.
I do hope they let Amy Pond show the ferocious intelligence she had in the first two episodes then mysteriously lost for most of the rest of the season.
I loved the Van Gogh episode in particular.
That is a liver.
We thought you knew.
Because I’d be a liar?
Never appealed to me in the slightest.
I’m not entirely sure what you mean by ‘each season is independent’ - if you mean that the story arcs don’t carry over seasons, that’s more or less true, although they frequently set up upcoming arcs in earlier stories.
But, until the new series, season-long story arcs weren’t the norm - there was the Trail of a Time Lord (the last story featuring the Sixth Doctor), and eventually the Seven Doctor stories started building Something Big…but the series ended before they could do anything with it. Beyond that, the series is mostly standalone stories, even when there is an overarching arc - although the 2010 series incorporated the larger arc into the otherwise standalone stories much more than was done, say, with the 2005 series arc.
And the Doctor changes at random intervals, dictated mostly by real world concerns.
Mostly, the actors just thought it was time to move on, but a few cases otherwise:
William Hartnell (who played the First Doctor from 1963-1966) retired due to ill health.
Colin Baker (The Sixth Doctor, 1984-1986) was fired, at BBC’s request.
Sylvester McCoy (Seventh, 1987-1989) was replaced because the movie was meant as a fresh start.
Paul McGann (Eighth, 1996) was the same, only replace ‘movie’ with ‘new series’.
Christopher Eccleston (Ninth, 2005) had only ever intended to do one season.
Aside from Eccleston and McGann, every Doctor has appeared for at least 2 seasons - Smith’s Eleventh is currently on his second, and Tennant’s Tenth had 4 seasons (3 regular ones, then a brief hiatus, and the Season of Specials that lead into Smith). 2 and 3 is fairly common for the earlier series, aside from Tom Baker, who was an outlier at ~10 years. In the new series there’s a bit more turnover for Companions than there is for Doctors - Rose and Amy and Rory have all done 2 seasons as regular Companions (Rose with two separate Doctors), but Martha and Donna only had one season each, Jack, Mickey, and a couple others had only sporadic appearances, and the Season of Specials didn’t have any recurring Companions at all.
As to what to watch next…the only relatively consistent answer you’ll get to that is ‘the entirety of the current (2005-present) series’ - where to start on the older ones is a bit of a debate. My recommendation for that would be to start with the 1970 season (Jon Pertwee’s first as the Third Doctor)…mostly because that’s the first run that the majority of the stories are still intact. (Note that unlike the current series, the original series was done, mostly, as serials - mostly 2-4 half hour episodes each story, though there were a few that ran longer.) Also, you might want to give Torchwood a look (after watching the 2005 and 2006 series)…reviews of that one are mixed, but I find it mostly enjoyable.
Skald the Rhymer --you really need to get the DVDs of the Tom Baker years.
Lousy FX, totally nerd candy.
Little piece of trivia:Harry Melling (Dudley Dursley) is the grandson of Patrick Troughton, the second Dr. Who.
I don’t know what that means.
Dudley Dursley is Harry Potter’s cousin. Patrick Troughton was the second actor to portray the Doctor, from 1966 to 1969.
Now I know who Skald really is.
Henchman 21. Simply pretending to be a supervillain on-line.
