I started watching Doctor Who back in the Fourth Doctor era, so I was introduced to Five and Six "live" (or at least, when those episodes were purchased by PBS for broadcast in the U.S.). I really disliked Six at first, which was very traumatic as he was the first Doctor I didn't like. However, I find that I like him more now than I did back then. While he definitely suffered from poor writing, I also wonder if part of the problem was the shock of the difference between Six and Five. There's always an adjustment when the Doctor regenerates, and Four and Five were very dissimilar too, but Six was so brash, which was about as unlike Five as you could get. I'm trying to think if there was such a large change between any other consecutive Doctors. Any thoughts on this?