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Which was your favorite?

I rather like the new interior, with that organic feel and glowing console, and, strangely, the grilled platform.

Second to that, it would be the Fourth Doctor's secondary console room. Wood works well.

The FOX film TARDIS interior is by far the most beautiful. Make the console a little more functional-looking and it's the best by a long shot.
Similarly, the console in the 4th Doctor's "secondary control room" was a bit non-functional. The little teeny drawers covered maybe, what, a few buttons and keys? Otherwise it was wonderfully atmospheric.
I'm not too fond of the organic snot-and-spare-parts look of the new console, but I figure it's something to do with the LGTW. There's nowhere for the Doctor to easily pick up spare parts, so he's got to hold it together with positive thinking and Scotch tape.

My favourite is probably still being designed as we speak (rumor has it next year will feature the debut of a brand new console ) but mine's still the 80sness of the 'revised' 1980s console, when the lights are turned off on it.
If like 5 said in Time Crash, the interior is like the desktop theme, I wonder what each of the different consoles are the equivalent of...

Yeah...
I found the desktop theme joke a real cheap gag. And while I was amused and laughed at the time, the Doctor Who fanboy groaned and slapped his forhead at the same time. Way to really trivialize thing. Nothing takes you out of a universe more than a pop-culture reference. Yes, obviously the TARDIS has some method of restructuring its interior, there've been a few versions of the control room through the series in its various forms. And its even sometimes been acknowledged that it changes. But a more "Doctor Who Universe" sounding name would have been a lot more atmospheric. The FASA game called it the "Internal Restructuring Circuit" which fit nicely.
Up until that point in "Time Crash", I was looking at two incarnations of the Doctor interacting in the TARDIS after some strange temporal collision. Then suddenly they became David Tennant and a very old Peter Davison on a set gurning to the camera, making cheap yuks for an early 21st century audience. You could feel the cameras and the writer's smug grin.
Fortunately, I was able to recapture the atmosphere once the deed was done.

Yeah, I'm down with the wood sets and whatnot. I also have a bit of a soft spot in my heart(s) for the plain old classic white roundels thing, though. And I kinda _like_ the cheesy '80s console. The central column is kinda...crystally, and pretty. And having more buttons like that makes it look more like it DOES stuff.
...that, of course, the Doctor has little idea what it is. :P

The new one sorta bugs me--too organic, and that's just too _trendy_ in modern sci-fi. Want to make something look _really_ advanced? Make it look alive! Oy.

I would also like to throw out a vote here for the way Three had it done up temporarily in "The Ambassadors of Death". It's really quite sad that it was so very temporary, 'cos it was INCREDIBLY _him_. Victorian wallpaper, overstuffed chairs with embroidery on the upholstery, a big fancy globe in a polished wooden stand, old-timey wall lamps, and all kinds of random bits of futuristic inventions in various states of completion shared space on shelves with things like books and a phonograph. It looked like the study of an otherwise perfectly respectable Victorian gentleman...who just happened to be a _bit_ of a mad scientist on the side.
...damn, Three. Could you GET any more awesome? :)

But it was only in one episode and you don't get to see very much of it, so...

...Notorious

I suppose the organic look, in my personal opinion, suits the Doctor in some way. He's mean't to be an enigma, something strange and mysterious; having flashing light and red buttons everywhere kinda makes it another sci-fi ship an throws away that unique seemingly implausable mystique. The FOX film sorta reflected this too, at least on the mystery side, making it number three for me.

I felt the same way, except I didn't laugh at the time, I just groaned out loud.

You mean organic = original? Like the Lexx (Lexx) or Moya (Farscape) or the Zygon ship (Terror of the Zygons) or the crashed ship in Alien or ....

The pristine white button-and-switch TARDIS was around long before most of the other Sci-Fi ships.

Yeah, I was also gonna add: "Sure, organic ships were truly alien looking and a bit newish by the time of the Vorlon and Shadow ships in 'Babylon 5', in 1993, but now...?"

But you're right, the Zygons and Axons go back way further, for a couple of examples.

Anyway, the basic idea today seems to be that plastic or shiny metal in sci-fi isn't futuristic, but (rolls eyes, sniffs) SO passe, darling. However, by this point, I'd say the newer trends are passe too so...you might as well just do what you like?
(I dunno, I kinda _like_ clean edges and non-emo lighting...)

...Notorious

Hmmmm...Not to keen on the current "pinapple under the sea" look. I miss the inner doors, for starters.

I'd say my favorite was in the Davison era, after the redesign in "The Five Doctors". Yes folks I actually prefer something that was post-Nyssa. All though, the one the Fifth Doctor had up to that point, comes in a close second...I rather liked the big red door lever. And rounding out the top three, I liked wood paneled Secondary Control Room, from the Tom Baker era.

Oh, agreed! While I did enjoy the updated console at the time with the flashier column and the buttons and the monitors there were two things I didn't like about it (because I'm picky), all the consoles up to that point had a particular layout for each of the 6 panels while the button-screen one had only two (3 were the just-buttons layout and 3 were the buttons-and-monitor combo) and the big red doorknob lever was some retro awsome!
And like Space:1999, it always makes me laugh to see someone concentratedly tapping a series of keys on a keyboard that aren't labeled.

Oh, yeah! The Joystick of Doom! That thing was _huge_! First time I saw it was long before I actually got to that era, in my watching...I came across a shot of Tegan standing there, looking morosely at this...big round red thing, while the Doctor stood behind her looking TOTALLY pissed off.
So I made up the caption: "Okay, before we can take you on as a passenger, you have to first prove your worth by shooting this apple off the console..."

:P

(Turns out that shot was from "Snakedance" and she'd already BEEN there a while by then, but hey. I still like the idea of Tegan taking a bow and arrow to innocent machinery. (laughs))

...Notorious

I think Eight's TARDIS had the hottest console room. Just loved the eclectic control room/parlor feel!

And I know this probably makes me quite the minority, but I like the Nine/Ten interior, too. I think Rich's idea about it being something to do with the LGTW makes a certain amount of sense, but I like it because it makes it more obvious that the TARDIS is, in its own way, alive ("they weren't made, they were grown"). Maybe after the LGTW it is somehow more difficult for the last TARDIS to conceal its organic nature? I dunno... I don't like it because it's "fresh" or "new" or "the thing to do" (which, as has been pointed out, it's really not) - I just thought it looked good. Of course, it's also the first one I saw, so... *shrug*

Third place for me is probably the very first one, just because it's so very... iconic. Amazing new show, amazingly new/weird "spaceship"... something about it is just instantly charming to me.

Is this a NuWho quote that I've forgotten?
The old series never claimed the TARDIS was biological. Just that it may or may not have had a semi sentient core.