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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhamin" data-source="post: 3645022" data-attributes="member: 1023">In Who Fandom, there is a theory that the "best" doctor is whichever Doctor was current when you officially became a fan.  Each era tends to tailor itself to what the audience expects from Sci-Fi at the time, so it tends to grab people differently than the earlier stuff (or later stuff) does.I became aware of Dr Who by watching reruns of the 4th, but became a fan watching the then current 5th Doctor on my PBS station.  So I have a soft spot for both.Whole new generations have been hooked on the 9th & 10th Doctors, so for them they will always be the best.The current crew is great, I am enjoying it quite a bit, but the creators seem to be having a lot of fun playing with the Dr. Who format (an story in which the Dr. is a secondary character, an story where he forgets who he is) and fufiling all the old "wouldn't it be cool if" fan scenarios that have been brewing for years (Daleks vs. Cybermen!! KEWL!!!)I'm wondering what place the 9th and 10th will have in another 10 years?  They are clearly the rebirth, but will they be remembered as the experimental era?  The depressed "last survivor" era?  The peak of the revival?  or "how did we used to think that was good?"</blockquote>