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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jun 10, 2023 0:30:06 GMT
We can all talk about our favourite Doctors, whose stories will also rank among our favourites, so let's mix it up: pick a Doctor you don't gel with much, and yet, they have a story that just hits right for you.
I'm made clear my apathy towards TV 5, but as a Holmes-Gothic type, Visitation is my kind of historical jam.
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Post by martinw8686 on Jun 10, 2023 9:03:40 GMT
I never clicked with the 13th Doctor as a character, I really wanted to because I don't like the toxic reaction some areas of fandom had to a female Doctor.
I loved the 12th Doctor, his pragmatism and grumpiness, that his kindness needed to be teased to the surface.
For me 13 was just a little too personable, I felt she lacked the righteous anger of previous Doctors. That said I really enjoyed War of the Sontarans and Village of the Angels, these tales really gave Jodie a chance to shine and had there been more adventures like these I would have been much happier with the Chibnall era.
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Jun 10, 2023 10:40:56 GMT
Battlefield isn’t perfect but it’s my favourite Seventh Doctor story. It features an interesting guest cast, a superb central idea, a reappearance from the Brigadier and it has a great script, marred only by some poor character direction.
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Post by mark687 on Jun 10, 2023 10:59:22 GMT
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Vincent and the Doctor Joint best performance from MS (along with Night Terrors), the best performance KG ever did and it just had some really strong writing to back them up.
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Post by The Brigadier on Jun 10, 2023 20:00:17 GMT
Seventh Doctor - The Curse of Fenric.
Season 24 single handedly kneecapped any enthusiasm to follow McCoy's tenure as the Doctor way back when and it was only due to a broken VHS tape that I even bothered to tune in to the original broadcast of the first episode, but 'Fenric' is the one that lingers long in my memory. It just ticked all the right boxes.
From the big bad Fenric to the Ancient One and the Haemovores, from the supporting cast of characters (Nicholas Parsons could act!! Who knew?) to the attempt to tie into previous stories (found that out much, much later) and of course the two twists in the tale during the final episode - Ace's connection to Kathleen and baby Audrey and McCoy's Doctor brutally crushing her faith in him with a few choice words - "a social misfit and an emotional cripple". It wasn't perfect by any means...but Doctor Who was worth watching again!
The following week I found out it was also cancelled..🤦♂️
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Post by Kestrel on Jun 12, 2023 14:02:39 GMT
Right. Good question. Only... who is my least favorite Doctor?
Uh....
Erm....
Hm....
Whitaker never clicked for me, either, but that was mostly down to the generally low-quality scripts she had to work with, but even then it feels unfair to say that makes her my least favorite incarnation when Colin Baker had an even worse run of TV stories (and, thanks entirely to Big Finish, ranks among my favorites.)
So...
Hm....
...Still thinking....
...Mhm....
...Huh.
I think I can pick one, but folks might get mad at me if I say it....
...Uhm....
...I'm gonna hafta go with Sylvester McCoy. I don't think I really need to mention my favorite stories of his, as there are so, so many (Valhalla probably sits near the top of that list for me, unless I'm misremembering titles) but I should probably explain why I settled on his Doctor as my least-favorite incarnation, right! It basically boils down to McCoy not demonstrating much range with the character. The 7th Doctor only really has two modes: the serious, sinister, sometimes creepy mastermind... and the silly buffoon. The former is fantastic, one of the best interpretations of the character to date... the latter just annoys me to no end. The Doctor-as-a-clown.
I think it was maybe an homage of sorts to how Patrick Troughton played the Doctor, but there you really got the sense that the 2nd Doctor's silliness was largely affectation -- a mask he could and would drop when necessary, albeit very rarely. With McCoy, it feels like he's just playing two entirely different characters. Those two sides of his Doctor never really cohere into a single character for me,if that makes sense.
I still absolutely adore the 7th Doctor, though.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2023 18:57:54 GMT
If we are on about TV...
My least favourite Doctor: the Seventh Doctor.
Favourite Seventh Doctor story: Remembrance of the Daleks.
Remembrance of the Daleks is one of the strongest TV Dalek stories from the classic era. It has so many layers to it, like an onion... or an ogre. This was the Seventh Doctor at his best.
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Post by martinw8686 on Jun 13, 2023 14:55:15 GMT
With Big Finish elevating Doctors 5 - 8 so well it's really hard to have a least favourite in the traditional sense.
I've enjoyed stories from every Doctor over the years and it's been plain to see that the poorer tv era's is down to the production and not the brilliant actors.
Classic Doctor tv least favourite is the 6th Doctor (sorry Colin, you're wonderful). Although most of his stories are entertaining, my favourite is Vengeance on Varos.
Big Finish least favourite is 7th Doctor, still love him, I just prefer the others a bit more. My fav 7th Big Finish is A Thousand Tiny Wings or Master.
Nu Who least favourite is 13 as I mentioned earlier. Just down to not enjoying Chibnall's writing and the era in general, I totally support a female Doctor but 13 just didn't gel with my preferences for the Doctor's character. Best wishes to those that do love her though.
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Post by BHTvsTFC on Jun 17, 2023 17:45:05 GMT
Colin has to be Revelation of the Daleks or Trial.
Eccleston has to be Empty Child/Doctor Dances, equally astonishing considering John Barrowman is in it too. I never cared for him from the beginning.
Capaldi- the Zygon Invasion/Inversion - Capaldi could be painfully mannered in the role for me, but when he rants/gets angry, embraced the true Scott he was awesome. Full marks for 'The Doctor is no longer here,' moment as well!
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Post by masterdoctor on Jun 17, 2023 18:16:33 GMT
For the classic series, my choice is 5 with Kinda/Snakedance, and for the new series, it's 10 with Silence of the Library/Forest of the Dead or 13 with It Takes You Away.
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Post by Alex on Jun 18, 2023 19:50:42 GMT
I liked It Takes You Away but it seems I am one of the few.
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Post by mark687 on Jun 18, 2023 20:12:29 GMT
I liked It Takes You Away but it seems I am one of the few. Love it apart from the Doctor's part in their last scene with Grahame awful take for the character to have, clumsily delivered. Regards mark687 |
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