I don’t know if I agree that SGA had another couple years left in it – but that’s mostly because I get the sense that McKay’s character arc is wrapped up, and he’s always felt like the show’s main character to me. Or maybe he was the only character I really liked, I dunno.

My PBS (Public Television in America) station re-broadcast each season of Doctor Who about a year after it came out in England, meaning I was watching Sylvester McCoy back before I can even remember. I had quite a bit of access to video tapes (official and unofficial) and books (Target novelizations, anthologies, the humongous behind-the-scenes books, etc), and I too ended up loving and rather eclectically watching the “ghosts” of a program that was no longer being aired in a different country, let alone my own. While Tom Baker was the most readily available (partly due to the sheer number of stories he was in compared to the others), I always seemed to gravitate toward McCoy’s Doctor. The darker complexities of his character (especially in his last season), that alien air of mystery; comedy hiding a calculating and sometimes callous mind, introduced to me at an early age and reinforced by the ‘New Adventures’ line of novels (which I read at a far younger age than I think they were intended), remains permanently ingrained in my mind as the definitive Doctor.