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Please not another Top list DS!
dave_windows
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I cant fault the top 2 positions but damn its getting a little old now these lists on the greatest of all time.
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In the absence or actual news, people like to review to pass the time.
Its on the main page.
The one where DS say bring on the contraversy.
If you don't like it then you don't have to read it, or create another thread. It's not compulsory.
Well I have this forum bookmarked, so I come straight to this page when I come on and don't see any other pages. After a quick search I have now seen it, but anyway, like I said in my earlier post, everyone does it, not just DS.
Have you never yourself either posed a poll thread question regarding rating something that may have been done in some form before, or given a reply to such a poll thread?. I'm guessing you have, because, whilst on some level I sympathise with your point, mainly I acknowledge that everyone likes to do these polls, including us on the forum, and that things like 'best doctor/companion/villain/story' are going to be popular subjects to revisit time and again.
Quite honestly if it's an amusing way for people to pass the time then I think there is nothing wrong with it (I often post my opinion in 'best of' type threads, and occasionally create them). On the other side of that, if I saw a page that said 'the doctors rated' or something similar, and I thought to myself 'ugh, not again', i'd just simply not bother to read it.
Why does Digital Spy need to keep doing them? It seems the same argument over and over again who people think the best is. Its kinda getting boring at least they could come up with something interesting.
Because DS has a need to generate traffic I suppose and new poll, even if it's like the old polls, seems to do that.
Personally, I would have put Pertwee, Capaldi and Hartnell way higher than Tennant and Smith, but that's why we get to make threads.
If everyone agreed to stop doing these type of polls right now, then we'd never get to see how Doctor 13 ranks against the rest in peoples affections.
Same goes for the Companion/villain/best story polls. New stuff is always being created which creates new options for these polls.
Not to mention the fan base and people who might vote is always changing, with some just getting into the show, and maybe some veering away from it.
Point is, the results can be different at different times. In this particular poll in question for example, I was surprised to see Patrick Troughton in the top spot, because any of these poll's I've seen before have almost always had David Tennant and Tom Baker occupying the top two spots in one order or the other. This example proves what I mean about variances.
I don't think of any of the Doctor actors as 'the worst' and don't dislike any of them, and see many people saying the same thing.
Definitely didn't agree with the bottom section of the list, excluding 13.
Not unexpected, but it is a shame. I suppose Colin didn't really have much to root for when it comes to the TV show alone, but I think McCoy certainly redeemed himself within those confines, which is more than McGann got.