Originally Posted by jrmswfc:
“These polls are meaningless anyway, with such a small percentage of even the Who fanbase, let alone the nation, bothering to vote.
It's the same sort of limited poll which would probably place talentless crap like One Direction as the greatest band in history. Not that I'm comparing Tennant to talentless crap of course! I'm not even complaining about the result, Tennant is very popular even with us oldtimer Classic Whovians, however, the fact that 90% of voters picked someone other than the most iconic and many would say definitive Doctor of all time, and 3 of the New Who Doctors are in the top 4 does strongly suggest that the majority of the voters would be from the younger demographic.”
“These polls are meaningless anyway, with such a small percentage of even the Who fanbase, let alone the nation, bothering to vote.
It's the same sort of limited poll which would probably place talentless crap like One Direction as the greatest band in history. Not that I'm comparing Tennant to talentless crap of course! I'm not even complaining about the result, Tennant is very popular even with us oldtimer Classic Whovians, however, the fact that 90% of voters picked someone other than the most iconic and many would say definitive Doctor of all time, and 3 of the New Who Doctors are in the top 4 does strongly suggest that the majority of the voters would be from the younger demographic.”
Such polls will always have a few zeitgeisty results. I remember a late '80s poll of the greatest albums of all time had Push by Bros rated quite highly. These days, I doubt it would even get a sniff of the top 1000 albums of all time.
However, it needs to be acknowledged that Tennant remains the most consistently popular Doctor, almost four years after his departure. In the public consciousness at least, it would seem David has usurped Tom as the quintessential Doctor.
