B5 really hooked me in, actually. Maybe because it had a lot of intelligent Politics, thrown in. Heck, I hated anything and everything about political subjects until I saw B5. A great show to illustrate how politics get people killed, and who dies for those decisions. Probably one of my favorite Sci-fi series, ever. I only have one major problem with it. I missed out on the entire last season because they moved the show off of regular television.
I'm interested in this new Dr. Who. I'm going to have to start watching it. I've seen pretty much every season of Dr. Who, and I enjoyed just about every Doctor. Of course, I fall in the idea of liking Tom Baker, but other doctors did grow on me. Not every Doctor was very kind at all, so I kind of liked the differences. For instance, I liked the half-cowardly antics of the 2nd Doctor, because he just seemed kind of humorously-fragile when he's scared. Pertwee's Doctor was one that changed his own personality, a little, from start to finish. At first, he was quite a bit selfish and was ready to "run off and do his thing" any chance he had. Then he later developed to a more "caring" doctor.
The last Doctor (of the old season, (Sylvester ????)) also grew on me because he had that quirky aspect. His main personality talent was his special instinct to sniff-out evil like a "detect evil" RPG spell. In some really wierd way, he made one of the most 'responsible' doctors. Very heroic, but very very quirky. The problem was that many episodes, he was in, did not receive very good writing. His episodes consist of some of the most corny stories made. However, he has a few gems, even in the corny realm. I'll never ever forget "Happiness Shall Prevail", as that had a rather enjoyable level of silliness to it and "Candyman". Candyman was probably the most cute-attempted Dr. Who character to have an ominous presence. That's because his humor was very dark, and he was a murderous sadist with a fetish bordering on disturbing. Another quirky episode was the Carnival one(people go in, but they don't come out). Some of the better episodes consisted of stuff like the Battle of the Daleks. Earth was their warfront. Still, like some people were saying about this new Dr, most of Sly's episodes were more for humor and not totally serious.
Now if the Doctor gets a partner like Tom Baker's Warrior girl (Leela), then I'll have to watch every episode of that. I always thought the Doctor performed best, not with yet another brain at his side, but with a trained fighter. She did all the things that Doctor wouldn't do, so they had perfect synergy (IMO).
