Which style of Doctor do you prefer?

[rushy]

The more overtly eccentric, outlandish: Troughton, Tom, Colin, McCoy

or

The relatively straightforward: Hartnell, Pertwee, Davison, McGann

[Cherry Pepsi Maxil]

Definitely the Troughton/McCoy sort.

[Ludders II]

Hartnell/Pertwee/Earlier Tom (slightly more straight/slightly less eccentric. Genesis/Pyramids/Seeds of Doom etc...)

But I prefer Troughton/McCoy over Davo/McGann any day of the week, so..... you tell me. 

[Deleted]

Not sure I agree about Hartnell he could have his eccentric quirks.

[iank]

I think they were all quirky as f**k bar Davison, which is probably one of the reasons he's my least fave of the proper ones.
McGann doesn't count, not least as there's little time to assess what type of Doctor he would actually have been (not in the first 20 mins, doesn't know who he is for half an hour and spends the last 10 trussed up).

[Deleted]

Funny thing is Davison is more eccentric in campion

[henshin]

The more straightforward, the more alien he is.

Think about it; if the Doctor comes across as conservative and indifferent to human quirks, then that in itself makes him more alien than an alien who carries himself like a distant relative of Salvador Dali.

[megalomaniacal]

Tom was my Doctor...  I get that it all went a bit comedy at times, but he absolutely knocks it out the park on so many occasions that I will forgive him that. 

There is a moment in "Full Circle" which I think is probably close to being my favourite Doctor Who moment ever - his outrage at the "Deciders" following the death of the marsh child.

(OK, you also have the moment from the year before, during the climax of "Eden" which is excruciating, and I don't want to quote... even as a fan of Four.)

That said, I remember seeing "Unearthly" for the first time (think it was when they did the  "Five faces" repeats) and the whole atmosphere of it was incredible. The end of ep1. is brilliant, even given the limitations of the time. A genuine sense of difference, otherworldly. possibly danger from Hartnell, and something at the time unique and brilliant in terms of the way the story worked, introducing us via humans to the unpredictability of the actual First Doctor and his granddaughter. (Sorry, he was the first. F*** off Chibs. You talentless hack.)

Cut to 2024 and Gatwa squeezing out a tear as they take a poorly rendered CGI dog for a walk through a title sequence from over 10 years ago.

FFS...