Cheers! Whovians!

I have to say, Rose is really brave, and I think she's a great character. Bit of a flirt, but great nonetheless.

As for Mr. "I am the wonderful" Captain Jack, he is great, don't get me wrong. Brave, powerful, especially toward the end of season 1. But he's... Well, too much of a flirt. And I've got it in my head that the moment the Doctor and Rose met they were like soulmates. Yeah, he's 900 years old. But it's perfect, so I got frustrated with that.

AND WHAT DID YOU SAY? *Wimpers* he comes back? xD 

Wait, too much information! Processing... Let me think...

Okay, so I knew the guy who plays the 10th Doctor is from Harry Potter because I first saw his face and was confused, thinking, wait, do I know this person from somewhere? Looked him up, and sure enough, played Barty Crouch Jr.! That made me beyond happy, so then told my parents, and they said something like, "Oh, and now the geekiness intensifies" but in their own "more human, regular" words. Don't mind me! xD

From what I've heard, the Doctor in the 5th season is often everyone's favorite, so I am really excited about that.

And I've made up my mind *momentarily* who my favorite Doctor is... probably the 9th. At least for now, personality wise.

And I feel like I should know what that T-shirt means xD 

Wait, the older Doctors? I'm confused now. So in later seasons, do they reverse to show the history of the Doctor before Rose? Or...

Mind you, I only finished episode 6 or 7 of Season 2, so I'm a newbie. xD 

Yes! Four is a bit kooky, which I like, and he has a cool scarf. Scarves are cool.

Hi! Doctor Who! Yay!

I think the source of your confusion is that there's Old Who and New Who, and New Who restarts counting seasons at one even though it's not the first DW season. Season/series numbering in DW is weird... So anyways, Doctor Who actually started way back in 1963 with the First Doctor! Regeneration was introduced when the actor had health issues and couldn't continue with the role, but people didn't want to stop the show because it was so popular, so they gave Time Lords the ability to regenerate, and the Second Doctor happened!***(better explanation of regeneration below...) This went on for a while, with regenerations happening every so often whenever they needed to change actors for whatever reason.

Then, at the end of the Seventh Doctor's run in 1989, the series was suspended - I don't really know why. People made radio dramas and wrote books and stuff, continuing the Seventh Doctor's adventures, and then in 1996 someone tried to restart the series. This didn't really work out, so they just made one movie, starring a new regeneration: the Eight Doctor! After that, I guess it was back to just spin-off books and radio dramas. BBC said the TV series was just on hiatus, but it was effectively cancelled, until . . . *dramatic music* in 2003, the Ninth Doctor appeared! After that it's not too complicated, although there is a timey-wimey plot later on that, well, that might be too spoilery so I won't say anymore. It's cool though.

I'm not sure where the official break is between Old Who and New Who, but I'd say that everything before the Ninth Doctor is Old Who, and the Ninth Doctor onwards is New Who. I've watched pretty much all the New Who except the most recent season because I don't have cable and I haven't found anywhere to watch it online legally. *sigh* Does anyone know if Netflix or Hulu or something has it? I've also seen a couple Fourth and Fifth Doctor episodes, as well as the very first episode ever, but unfortunately my knowledge of Old Who is limited. I had to look up all the dates on wikipedia, so yeah...

***So, after all that, a more thorough discussion of regeneration. Basically, if a Time Lord is near death, they can activate this emergency healing power thing that has the side effect of giving them a completely new body and often a completely different personality (although you're right that Nine and Ten have fairly similar personalities), but they still have all their memories (unless something went wrong with the regeneration, which happens but I don't know if the Doctor's ever lost memory from that or not. If that ever happened, it was probably temporary). I think Time Lords are supposed to only have 12 regenerations available, but that rule is . . . flexible. Whether he is actually the same person or not is a really cool philosophical question that I could probably write a ton more drivel about, but for the purpose of the show he's the same person.

As for him meeting other Time Lords, there's not a lot of that in New Who because spoilers, but I believe there's more interaction with other Time Lords in Old Who, specifically the Fourth Doctor maybe?

Oh, and I'll answer your other questions now!

1. What is your favorite character from Season 1 or early Season 2? Why?

Hmm, I haven't seen those two seasons in a while, but other than the Doctor, I'd have to say Rose or Jack. I think Jack's pretty cool, although he can be a bit over the top, that's true. His character does get a bit deeper, and he flirts with everyone so it never even occured to me that he'd get between Rose and the Doctor... Rose, well, the relationship between Rose and Mickey really annoys me, because Mickey could be really cool but he isn't, and Rose obviously loves the Doctor but it seems like she's just keeping Mickey around as backup or something, but other than that her character's awesome. I love her with Ten, and I'm trying to think of something more specific to say about her but I can't come up with anything right now. Maybe it's just that the episodes she's in are really good, I need to rewatch those seasons!

2. Do you like the 9th or the 10th Doctor better? And why?

Maybe it's just because he was the regeneration that introduced me to Doctor Who, but Ten is definitely my favourite Doctor! I love his personality, and David Tennant is perfect as him, and Rose and people (you said no spoilers!) are my favourite companions, and also pretty much everything Epic Fangirl said.

3. Favorite episode from Season 1 or early Season 2?

NOoooo, you can't make me choose! There are too many good ones! However, I did really like the gas-mask two-parter, the Bad Wolf two-parter, the one with Sarah Jane and K9, and the crayon-girl one, although that's not really early Season 2...

4. Least favorite episode from Season 1 or early Season 2?

I don't know, they're mostly all amazing. The Abzorbaloff episode annoyed me, though.

5. Least favorite character from Season 1 or early Season 2? Why?

I don't really remember any of the one-off characters, and I like all the main characters, so I dunno... I guess the Abzorbaloff, because I remember that episode...

So, um, sorry for the wall of text, and maybe I misread your question and you knew all that already, but congratulations (or just thanks) for luring me out from the one poetry thread I've been posting on! I keep meaning to be more active on the rest of the Chatterbox, but then it seems like too much work and there's nothing to say anyways... But I guess I had a lot to say about Doctor Who! (obviously...) It's awesome that there's Whovians on the CB, I didn't know that until now!

probably because Timelords are humanoids and I don't know if his cells would be able to cope with turning into something other than a humanoid form. I feel like this is turning into me just answering questions about Doctor Who, and I am totally fine with that. Question? Just ask the Fangirl!