Matt Smith's farewell to the fans, cast and crew of Doctor Who

Matt Smith's farewell to the fans, cast and crew of Doctor Who is greatly appreciated by fans like me. It is also a reminder of how hard it is for me to see a new Doctor taking the place of the departed Doctor and learning to appreciate his/her unique quirks and idiosyncrasies.   I've come to accept that all of the various incarnations/Doctors as singular variations of the one true Doctor. Each Doctor/actor adds a different aspect to this one true persona we've come to know as the Doctor.  Never the less each Doctor's regeneration saddens me a little because I've enjoyed all the different qualities in each one of them as well as the actors who played them.  Take for example the last three Doctors, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith. Each portrays the Doctor revealing different aspects of the true Doctor's persona.

Side Note: Most of what I will share with  you is paraphrased as much as possible from "Doctor Who Doctors - Television Troupe wiki...quite awesome

Ninth Doctor

The Ninth Doctor was played by Christopher Eccleston. His personality was brooding most of the time  but  he was a very sassy veteran. covered in Survivor Guilt as a result of survuving the time war. Sometimes he could be lovably affable and showing great affection and empathy for people. He was prone to mood swings and dressed , like a street-smart Doctor with close-cropped hair and beat-up leather jacket. . He made a Heroic Sacrifice that the Fifth Doctor would be proud of, and was generally fantasti

Time travel is like visiting Paris. You can't just read the guidebook, you've gotta throw yourself in! Eat the food, use the wrong verbs, get charged double and end up kissing complete strangers - or is that just 
me? Ninth Doctor... 

Tenth Doctor

The tenth Doctor's line "Beware the Nice Ones" is an adaption of the John Dryden quote, "Beware the fury of a patient man." personified.

The Tenth Doctor played by David Tennant was rather manic: prone to speaking very quickly, peppering his speech with pop culture references and foreign words, and going off on long rambling tangents. Despite his bubbly personality, he could and did subject villains to a Fate Worse Than Death if they passed up the one chance at redemption he always offered them. He hated his past self for his actions in the Time War, and would become very cold whenever he was confronted with it. He certainly seems more innocent than his previous incarnation, but is later revealed to be a little on the Cute and Psycho side. His more child-like nature also winds up being the cause of a lot of his suffering throughout his time as the doctor. Lastly he apologized a lot. particularly when he realizes that someone's about to die.  ..."I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry." His end was bitter sweet, like Five before him, his regeneration into the next Doctor. Everything wound up fine, but he died crying, scared, and alone.

You need to get yourself a better dictionary. When you do, look up "genocide". You'll find a little picture of me there, and the caption'll read "Over my dead body"! Tenth doctor

Eleventh Doctor

The eleventh Doctor was played by: Matt Smith He was known as the adorkable, but very dangerous old man. Frequently tripping over his own tangled thoughts, words and limbs, Eleven is definitely a lot more alien than many other incarnations. On the one hand, he happily enjoys his unexpected youth, hopping and skipping all over the place, and is usually very friendly, goofy and personable. He can have childish impatience and childish glee in both non-serious and serious situations. On the other hand, he can be extremely tense, guarded and secretive, and very liable to snap into a violent Tranquil Fury mode if you hurt him. 

He has a distinct air of an old man in a young man's body, trying to relive his youth despite not blending in as well as his younger, more sociable companions. It is clear that this doctor dislikes  Linear time and he actively hates having to wait for things in chronological order, or having to bother remembering the natural order of centuries when talking to humans. In "The Power of Three", we see that just sitting still on a planet for a few days annoys him more than anything, leading him to manically rush off, paint Amy and Rory's fence, kick-up a football five million times (or so he claims) and cut the grass... in about an hour. He also was know for some bad-ass boasts...and I loved each and everyone of them.

• • In "The Eleventh Hour":
    Doctor: Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically... run.
  • In "The Time of Angels":
    Doctor: There's one thing you never put in a trap if you're smart. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow there's one thing you never ever put in a trap: Me.
  • In "The Pandorica Opens":
    Doctor: Look at me! No plan, no backup, no weapons worth a damn. Oh, and something else I don't have. Anything. To. Lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica, tonight, just remember who's standing in your way. Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, AAAAAND THEN... do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first.
  • In "The Doctor's Wife".
    House: Fear me. I've killed hundreds of Time Lords!
    Doctor: Fear me. I've killed all of them.
    • In the same episode:
      Doctor: You gave me hope and then took it away. That's enough to make anyone dangerous. God knows what it will do to me. Basically... RUN!
  • In "A Good Man Goes to War"
    Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.
  • In "The Rings Of Akhaten":
    Doctor: "I walked away from the Last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained. No time. No space. Just me! I've walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a MAD... MAN. I've watched universes freeze and creations burn. I have seen things you wouldn’t believe. I have lost things you'll never understand! And I know things. Secrets that must never be told. Knowledge that must never be spoken. Knowledge that will make parasite gods BLAZE! SO COME OOOOON THEN! TAKE IT! TAKE IT ALL, BABY! HAVE IT! YOU HAVE IT ALL!"

 There's something you better understand about me, because it's important and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a madman with a box!  The Eleventh Doctor

Gonna miss you Matt as the Doctor.