What do fans have agasint The Three and Five Doctors?

I enjoy both stories The Three Doctors cracks me up because of the banter between the second & third Doctors, Patrick Troughton playful second Doctor winds up the more mature Third Doctor.

Being a Fourth Doctor fan i was disappointed by Tom's non-involvement in The Five Doctors but it was still a entertaining 20th Anniversary adventure which without it we'd never have had "no, not the mind probe".

Didn't Russell T. Davies say that The Five Doctors was one of the best stories of the classic series?

Hmm. I don't really see any problems with The Three Doctors or its 1983 counterpart. They're both enjoyable outings and a really good way of introducing someone to the classic series who doesn't really know where to start. The latter being a Terrance Dicks script, it's a very good indicator of what audiences expect when going into a classic Who story. It even went back to the original quest format set up way back in 1963 with The Daleks, Marco Polo and The Keys of Marinus that eventually gave way to what we expect now.

The Five Doctors was 25th of 241 in the last big DWM poll. The Three Doctors was 51st. That's a poll exclusively for fans and I think disproves the entire notion of the thread, honestly. They're clearly not that disliked at all but both in the upper tiers of fan faves.

Nick did indeed say he didn't like writing LATE...I'm not quite sure why he didn't let someone else have a go. For someone who has a stated dislike for multi-Doc stories he's written probably the two biggest BF have ever done in Light and Sirens Of Time.

Well, he certainly gets a larger proportion of the big event marquee releases than anyone else but without knowing what other writers would have done with those releases, I can't say it's greed or ego as I think you're saying. Yet I do think there's just got to have been a better 50th anniversary story with the sandbox of all of classic Who to play in. Even if it meant reducing some Doctors to smaller cameos to concentrate on one strand. Zagreus took us to far into complete continuity nonsense with a massively convoluted idea for the 40th but LATE took us to the other end of the spectrum where it was an event in need of a story. There must be a middle ground. Well, there is - Moffat found it. Still, if it sold well - and I'm sure it did - job done. 

I always enjoy The Five Doctors. 90 minutes of simple enjoyment. It's one of the ones I've rewatched the most of my DVDs.

The Three Doctors is a bit meh as a story, but Pertwee and Troughton's interaction more than makes up for that,

I think fans don't take them as seriously as many other stories: they're celebratory romps and are seen as such by many fans... rather like the Christmas episodes should be. Frankly, I love the 3, 5 and Day Of The Doctors immensely because they are great fun and each manages to push a little bit more story and mythology into the show (Although you could call the twentieth anniversary "The Five 'Of Rassilons'" and that would be just as accurate a title).

As a young viewer, Five was my first Doctor and "The Five Doctors" was my first exposure to Doctors 1-4. I've always enjoyed "The Five Doctors" quite a bit. Even not knowing all those other Doctors and companions, I still found it immensely engrossing and entertaining, which is probably a good testament to the the success of the episode as simply a good story, even without the nostalgia of seeing the previous Doctors again. I do think I would have done it differently if I'd been writing it at the time. I wouldn't have recast One and would have simply not used Four if Baker wasn't going to participate, but that's more of a hindsight approach and also my personal taste. With the pieces available, the show absolutely produced a really fun special event.

I like "The Three Doctors" even more, largely because of how much time we get with Two and Three on screen. The chemistry is just magic and I have a lot of fun with it every time I see it.

I'm not aware of any real negative reaction to the specials. I'm not saying it's not out there, but I haven't come across it in my time as a fan.

For my money, "The Day of The Doctor" is the perfect multi Doctor special. It hits all the right marks and isn't too unwieldy or overly reliant on nostalgia. It has genuine emotion to it and is a meaningful event in the Doctor's ongoing story that takes threads that began with the return of the show and pays them off in very satisfying ways.

There was a middle ground, a box set version of TLATE going beyond two discs of story.  I'd have bought it! 

The Five Doctors is my favourite post-Tom Baker story and ticks so many fan boxes that the night I first saw it in 1983 was one to remember for this fan since 1971.

To imagine the full impact, you have to remember how pitiful our Who resources were back then, ten years pre-(dial-up)Internet and five years before the first VHS release.
I had the Target books and a few audio tapes and I'd seen a tiny handful of the stories repeated (once), but almost nothing from pre-1971. So just imagine my excitement when...
... Wow! That's Susan, and Liz Shaw and a Yeti - in colour - and that must be a bit of Shada!! and there's MY Doctor again and the Brig. and and ...
... Unforgettable!

Terrance Dicks not only fitted in all these celebratory elements and more but wrote what I still think is an excellent 'quest' story with Time Lord politics and all those items (of Rassilon) thrown in.

And this is without doubt the story I've seen more than any other, thanks to the home electronics revolution.
It was the first programme we taped on our brand new VCR (of Rassilon) and so for the first time ever I could watch 'Doctor Who' on demand.
'Bigger on the inside' was nothing compared with that technological achievement!