What a fine looking bunch

Haven't put up anything in a while, so I thought I'd do some digging.

I've a fair few friends who say that the modern Doctors are a lot easier on the eye than Classic. Personally, I think it's just the relative youth, just about every actor who has played the Doctor on screen looked pretty damn fine in their early days - I'd argue most of them looked good as they acted the Doctor too, but assuming they didn't for a moment...

William Hartnell 

 

Patrick Troughton

Jon Pertwee

Tom Baker

Peter Davison (youngest to play the Doctor, at twenty-nine, prior to Matt Smith stealing the crown)

(on the right)

Colin Baker (I'll give you, he's not the most typically good looking, but are any of them, really? Don't say Tennant, he's skinny, Scottish and has mad staring eyes. Face it.)

(scary 70s porno tache)

Sylvester McCoy (not easiest guy to find photos of, but I actually think he's alright looking these days too... I mean, look at Eccleston)

Compare to:

I personally don't think, other than who had the best hairdos* as the Doc, there's much to choose between...

(* Pertwee, Smith, Tennant.)

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Also, film/extra Doctors (in some cases young, in Lumley and Broadbent's case, too awesome to bother with younger pics):

Paul McGann

Peter Cushing

Rowan Atkinson

Richard E Grant

Jim Broadbent (played the Doctor for 2 spoofs, one with Victoria Wood the other as REG's regenerated self)

Hugh Grant

Joanna Lumley (wins, hands down, title of best looking Doctor, old or young)

I love Matt Smith.

'Nuff said.

I'M ALIVE

Well, I have been silent a fair while. Blame it on life. Too much blasted work. It's insane. And stupid. And for a week I have been in the remote Scots north, robbed of internet.

Couple of things, just to flesh out this I'M ALIVE post:

1. LOOK, IT'S A WEASEL! My good partner-in-crime has a blog. Spiffy.
2. And throw Morby's Tumblr in, else she'll claim I'm neglecting her.
3. I saw Tinker Tailer a few weeks back. I thought it was excellent. I am in love with Benedict Cumberbatch.
4. I am a cheater. This is true. I am watching Grey's Anatomy with two different people, and I feel somewhat adulterous.
5. I did a crossword on Thursday. Yes, it was an 'quick crossword', but I did it all. I finished it and I did it with my aunt mocking me because whoever set that one in the Guardian is clearly on a dry spell as one of their clues gave you 'turn on' and another 'virgin'. I rest my case.
6.  I also just burnt my tongue on hot chocolate. Seems I put it in for longer than I thought I did. Oops.

And here's a Doctor Who (Tenth) fanvid I stumbled upon and rather liked.

Never mind Dalek Caan, meet Dalek Holmes

A friend forwarded me this, I've had it open in a tab a few days now because I know I lose and forget about things if I don't. Decided to shelf it in here.

Whovian fix

Every year, a week after the series finale of Doctor Who, I go buy myself a copy of the Doctor Who Magazine (too expensive for me to get more regularly). This year, awesomely, I have to buy two. One for the mid-series finale and one for the finale. I did feel a little odd. Went to my local newsagents - I had stopped buying papers, but I couldn't keep to it - laid down The Grauniad, New Statesman, The New Yorker and Private Eye on the desk... and my annual (well... biannual) DWM.

All my geekery, laid out bare before the local newsagent - usually I sneakily buy them on different days, but due to a hole in my foot I'm trying to cut down walking until I can get to the chiropodist. 

Sherlock: Quick Note

Thoroughly looking forward to the BBC's Sherlock (Series 2). Irene Adler will be making an appearance and The Hound of the Baskervilles has been updated and written by Mark Gatiss. He just posted this picture via Twitter:

Sherlock and the second part of Doctor Who Series 6 will be on in the Autumn, the further Americanised (I am keeping an open mind, I am keeping an open mind) Torchwood in the summer. Good end of year. Spiffy. Time to go set up for the mid-series finale now though.

Going to see X-Men: First Class with my sister tomorrow with my sister. Looking forward to it despite the hideous lack of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen.