I think it's probably a good thing that you managed to get out of Doctor Who. I feel like I've been trapped in it for seven years, unable to stop watching it because I loved the first year so much (and also because every single person in the UK watches it and so it provides a handy source of conversation in awkward silences). There have been things about it I've enjoyed since Nine's run - the Master is great, Donna is perfect, Matt Smith makes a great Doctor even if he's working under a showrunner I'm not a big fan of - but it's never achieved the same magic for me.

Nine is so much darker on this rewatch than I remember, and I remember him being pretty dark. He's essentially formed of manic energy and enthusiasm stretched paper-thin over a horrifying void. Come to think of it, he's not entirely dissimilar to Patrick Jane of The Mentalist, who has a similar 'charming and fun exterior, unfathomable inner darkness, will occasionally snap and do something so terrifying you just gape at the screen' makeup. Maybe Nine laid the foundations for my love of Jane.

If Nine were a dog, he would definitely be the dog in your icon.