I tweeted mine earlier, but I wanted to post a longer one, and you can't stop me.
Doctor Who was something I didn't even become tangentially aware of until my senior year of high school. Even then it was a weird British show that a friend's dad watched. This was a time when the relaunch had just happened. David Tennant had yet to play the Doctor. It was still years before we would find out how cool bow-ties were. I never watched it, and I didn't think I was missing a thing.
Once David Tennant took over and the relaunch started to tick up in popularity here in the States, I had friends who started to talk about it. Once I joined Twitter, I started to hear more and more about it. It seemed like something a fine upstanding nerd like myself should at least be aware of. I began to become aware of it. I didn't start watching it, by through wikipedia and the like, I gained a basic understanding of who the Doctor was and what the idea of the show was so that I could be respectable in polite nerd conversation.
In 2010 I signed up for Netflix. While searching for things to watch, I saw that Doctor Who was on there. I decided the 2005 relaunch would be the place to start and the 9th Doctor became my first Doctor. But my New to Who doesn't end there, because quite frankly, I didn't love what I saw. I enjoyed it well enough, but the show struck me as, for lack of a better term, incredibly British. The production values seemed low. Some episodes took me several sittings to get through. Then came the Parting of the Ways. The series one finale. Then came David Tennant. It took me 30 seconds to love the Tenth Doctor, and I've been hooked ever since.
I had worries that I was only a fan of the Tenth Doctor and not really a fan of Doctor Who, but then I reached Matt Smith, who, though I scarcely thought it possibly, I love almost as much as David Tennant, sometimes it's even tie. I've since rewatched the 9th Doctor's run and, with more Who under my belt, I love it. I can't believe I ever didn't.
My friend once described Doctor Who as "Saturday Morning cartoons for adults." I don't know if he was trying to be complimentary (I suspect he wasn't), but I honestly can't think of a more appropriate and loving term for what has become one of my favorite franchises of all time.
Allons-y.
Some Notes: We went old-school for the Doctor Who logo. Vintage is cool. Sorry for being slightly long-winded. A writing mood hit me and it was a favorite topic. A wordy perfect storm. Hopefully it won't be close to a year between posts again.