Ok, throwing my towel into the ring for a moment... :)

One of the things I love about the new Doctor Who is something it's kept... its cross-generational appeal. Last night, I had to promise my 5-year-old daughter that I would video the first episode of this new series, so that she could watch it later. Ok, so she lives with a guy who creates horror make-up as a hobby and as (part of) his living, so maybe she's not an average kid... but it's still good to know that it's something a whole family can sit down and enjoy together.

As to Messire Tennant in the leading role... I liked him. In fact, i said as much to my beloved about five minutes in to the new series. I (sadly) missed the Christmas Invasion, so this was my frst proper chance at seeing him in action, and within five minutes, I was hooked. He's a lot more open anf reidnly, and a lot less condescending and egocentric, than Eccleston's Doctor (these aren't faults of the actor, mind: I liked these traits in Eccleston's Doctor!). What impresses me is that, all through the decades, I don't think we'vve really had a repeat character as a doctor's incarnation... Hartnell's partiarchal grandfather, Troughton's galactic hobo, Pertwee's man of action, (Tom) Baker's pure eccentricity, Davidson's cricketer, (Colin) Baker's arrogance, McCoy's mystic, McGann's innocent.. and now Eccleston's saviour of mankind, and Tennant's... charming rogue? Time will tell.

And for those complaining, the Doctor DID one turn into a woman... although not in any of the canon episodes. There as a Comic Relief Special called Doctor Who and the Case of the Fatal Death, and starred (as the Doctor)... Rowan Atkinson, Richard E Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant, and... Joanna Lumley.

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