Doctor Who

OK, we all miss David Tennant. But isn't Matt Smith doing well?

He hit the ground running kicking ass and taking names from day one and has made the role his own in a very short period of time, not an easy thing to do.

When The Doctor regenerates his personality is all over the place and it's like he's on an extended acid trip. Who can forget Peter Davidson's fifth Doctor in 1982 taking over from the manic Tom Baker and spending time in the Zero Room? - which got jettisoned from the Tardis and left him increasingly unstable.

The Matt Smith "11th" Doctor has a lot of David Tennant in there, but is also very Peter Davidson, the old man in the young man's body. The old man is of course, William Hartnell, and that has been referenced on more than one occassion in the series already.

Taking over from a popular established Doctor is aways tricky. Look at Colin Baker's 6th Doctor, considered by most to be the worst ever having taken over from Peter Davidson. He was forced to leave the show, replaced by Sylvester McCoy who did a good job with the role til the show was axed.

It wasn't really Colin's fault as he was the most aggressive and unpleasant Doctor ever, the most abrasive, having taken over from the pleasant and mild Peter Davidson. He wore the most outrageous outfit, even more than Tom Baker's scarf, and had the blandest assistants, having inherited the pretty but vacant Peri, and then the annoying and totally miscast Bonnie Langford (!)

Ace was a good assistant, but she was more Sylvester McCoy's than she was ever Baker II's.

As we're talking assistants, we have to say that Amy Pond is one of the best ever, and the best since Billie Piper as Rose Tyler (no disrepect to Martha and Katherine Tate, but these two stand out).