First Doctor: Edward Everett Horton
This guy was one of Hollywood's greatest ever comic actors. While early Who was still edutainment (at the absolute utmost levels of edutaining), getting a bit of a laugh out of it all kinda works in the show's favour. Also, he was old as balls at the time, which fits with the character. Hey, it worked for Hartnell, right? =]

Second Doctor: Dabbs Greer
So he's a very different actor to Horton. So what? He feels like the Second Doctor to me. Different staging and acting directions, more a mischievous pixie than a cunning imp, but the spirit is there.

Third Doctor: Bill Bixby
A really interesting character actor with form in sci-fi TV; he'd been in Who's ratings rival My Favourite Martian for much of Horton's Doctorial tenure. He's good, he's dedicated, he's got a Third Doctor feel to him.

Fourth Doctor: Roger Smith
Smith's been asked to play someone else's character before, and he has form in genre comedy TV due to his stint as eight (count 'em!) characters in Dark Shadows. The TV show, not the festival of garbage with trash boy Johnny Depp.

Fifth Doctor: Lee Majors
The Six Million Dollar Time Lord. I rest my case, m'lud.

Sixth Doctor: Leslie Nielsen
The Sixth Doctor gets a hell of a bad rap, but with the episodes that exist - and the later audio adventures - this is the absolute perfect American for the role. Trial Of A Time Lord with Leslie Nielsen. Need I say more.

Seventh Doctor: Ricardo Montalban
You know his name. You know why this is here. You. Know.

Eighth Doctor: Robin Williams
Funny story - due to some budget reasons and it kinda being partially funded by the BBC, there were originally plans to cast a British actor as the Doctor! How weird is that? Hell, that's also why the Master is played by Pete Postlethwaite in this incarnation.

Ninth Doctor: Timothy Olyphant
He's done a lot of drama work, fitting the rather darker tone the series went in.

Tenth Doctor: Jay Mohr
Same as above, but skewing a little younger.

Eleventh Doctor: Josh Dallas
See above, skewing even youngererer. The fangirls are just as present and, in rather fewer cases, just as in need of a mop.

Twelfth Doctor: John Slattery
Rewatch early Mad Men back when it didn't suck as much.

Thirteenth Doctor: Christina Hendricks
Okay these last ones have been kinda short because my train is pulling in soon but you should definitely think on this choice. I know I am. Bonus points for thinking about Karen David as Tax being asked if she and Thirteen are dating. Send help.

See, the thing is, I think the actress is a brilliant choice to represent the Doctor's ongoing character arc. She's found that she can move past that original choice to be purely pragmatic and professional-- which we saw with Twelve, who embraced procedure, form, and professionalism to combat that loss of personal identity, wondering if he could even call himself a "Good Man" anymore-- and embrace the joy that the Doctor has always found in adventuring, without seeing it as a dangerous "addiction" like he did when he was worried it would infect Clara. (Say what you will about that season, that was the most compelling conflict in it)

Jodie is a perfect choice to represent the Doctor's pure enthusiasm and energy, and she's an amazing casting choice for it.

I think the openings to the episodes are strong almost across the board-- they're almost all intriguing, and set up interesting conflicts.

The only problem I do have is that almost all of the plot resolutions were... disappointing? I mean, your point about her being directly responsible for the death of the Kerblam antagonist is spot on, and Arachnids in the UK could have used a rescue arc. Some of the characters have odd moments-- like Ryan in It Takes You Away assuming that the girl's father has just run off, after having been adventuring with the Doctor for several episodes now, wherein aliens have been responsible for exactly the type of scenario they find themselves in. Not to mention, the ending scene with Solitract was. Erm. Not stupendous.

Generally, I think they have potential-- I think we all found the return from overcomplicated plot arcs that were more about Moffat pretending he was clever than story, back to genuine emotional adventures, to be a refreshing change-- but I do think that they need to tighten up their writing as they move forward, given the sheer number of holes we got in the plotlines this series.

--Aegis

Minh, I don't think anyone on the Board is against someone criticising something they love.
What Scape, Nesh, Delta, me and probably other people at this point DO have a problem with is your style of criticism, which is often very aggressive and insult-laden. And we've been through this discussion SO many times, Minh - it does feel good to rant about something you hate, I'm sure we've all done it, but we here at the PPC consider it very poor form to just straight up badmouth everything you don't like. I'm sure you would have been able to voice your opinions about Jodie Whittaker without insulting her appearance, or about the writing of Doctor Who without calling people "toxic" and "Tumblrites". I don't care about the show one way or another, and even I find your remarks a wee bit too much, pal.
As for your frequent comments about politics creeping into entertainment - dude, entertainment and politics have always been intertwined. Just think about all the lantern-jawed American action heroes facing off against evil Russians in 80s movies (to bring up something I myself enjoy - and yes, I do enjoy cheesy 80s movies while still recognizing their huge flaws); or about Star Trek The Original Series' incredibly morale-heavy storylines.
In my experience, usually when people complain about politics creeping into entertainment, it is because they don't agree with the message.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I will say I haven't seen you say progressive things as much as I've seen you slam female main characters and complain about people criticizing poor fragile white men. Your show does not match your tell.

Also, I will again make the point that criticizing a character is not the same as insulting the appearance of an actress' face. You did the latter. Learn the difference already; we are getting very sick of it.

~Neshomeh

"Voicing their opinions in a way directed to attack other people" is what a lot of your "criticism" has read as, to me. You've called things "highly-toxic views", people "tumblrites" and "entitled morons" - and that's just in the last couple pages of Board history.

It kinda feels like you're blasting anger and profanity, rather than actually giving meaningful criticism? And that's not going to make people want to interact with you, or feel good about this community at large.