The Eighth Doctor's perhaps the most unloved of all Doctors. With just one episode to his name, Paul McGann was a Time Lord for just six weeks, and though his time in the TARDIS was fleeting, it didn't mean he didn't contribute a lot to NewWho, as well as referencing the Classic Series. This is the first time the Doctor uses a Sonic Screwdriver since his fifth incarnation, and it would go on to become a much-used tool when Russell T Davies revived the series; the extensive use of jelly babies though, from Seven's bowl of them, to Eight's bag of them, has been less prominent since 2005. The Doctor now has a Nine Hundred Year Diary, an update on the Five Hundred Year Diary first seen in The Power of the Daleks, and the Parliament of the Daleks that sentenced the Master to death would return to Who in Steven Moffat's 'Asylum of the Daleks'. The John Smith alias is written down by Chang Lee, unaware that it's the Doctor's pseudonym, but unfortunately, no NewWho writer has had an explanation to why it's mentioned twice that the Doctor is half-human. Anyone? Mix-up at the hospital? The Master had been sniffing very strong glue? It's also the first time that the Doctor and his companion are obviously romantic, something else that Davies would continue. Much to the incandescent disgust of half the fandom.