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Post by omega on Mar 30, 2018 2:13:51 GMT
Favorite story, season and companion.
This is a tough one for me. I think this is a strong period for the show. If I had to narrow it down, season 26 wins out.
Season 24: Time and the Rani Paradise Towers Delta and the Bannermen Dragonfire
Season 25: Remembrance of the Daleks The Happiness Patrol Silver Nemesis The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Season 26: Battlefield Ghost Light The Curse of Fenric Survival
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Post by constonks on Mar 30, 2018 2:53:30 GMT
1. Remembrance 2. Survival 3. Fenric
Don't think any of those are entirely controversial. They're all great examples of what Doctor Who could be in the eighties, even if it wasn't always that good. And I lean Season 26 for best season and Ace for best companion.* I think my Seventh Doctor TV opinions might be a bit pedestrian!
* Although I will say I did like Mel while watching through the show and was sad to see her replaced by a teenager with a catchphrase... until I saw Remembrance.
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Post by Hieronymus on Mar 30, 2018 4:19:25 GMT
I fully expect to be the only person voting for Time and the Rani.
Top two contenders for me are Remembrance of the Daleks and Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
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Post by mark687 on Mar 30, 2018 8:07:58 GMT
My Doc/Compaian Combo
I love Seasons 25 and 26'
Top 4
1. Fenric
2. Battlefield
3. Remembrance
4. Survival
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Post by thethirddoctor on Mar 30, 2018 9:51:43 GMT
Remembrance is the best of a poor era, and Remembrance has many faults.
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Post by mark687 on Mar 30, 2018 10:02:16 GMT
Remembrance is the best of a poor era, and Remembrance has many faults. Name 3
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Post by omega on Mar 30, 2018 10:05:51 GMT
Remembrance is the best of a poor era, and Remembrance has many faults. I think it’s an interesting era, and a strong one. Despite the comedy leg, spray tan and wimpy Pex, Paradise Towers can be chilling. Delta and the Bannermen is just fun. I’m always game for Greatest Show in the Galaxy and season 26 stands up well.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2018 10:56:06 GMT
Obviously my vote went to Remembrance of the Daleks, although I genuinely do believe it is the best story of the Seventh Doctor's TV era.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2018 11:00:32 GMT
Season 26 has 4 good stories which makes it his most consistent though Sylv is sometimes poor in them, sadly. His shouting in Battlefield is cringe inducing but the stories themselves make the best Who season in a long, long time at that stage.
I like The Happiness Patrol quite a lot FWIW, it's certainly up there for me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2018 14:42:22 GMT
I do like the McCoy era. Not every story is a classic and i dont think sevens the best Doctor but i think a lot of the badness if his era is exagerated - Both time and the Rani as well as happiness patrol both have good moments even if they aren’t perfect. I votes for rememberance as it is a great story although i really loved greatest show in the galaxy as a close second
Edit - Ohhh we get 3 votes...okay well in second and third is greatest show in the galaxy, Love the meta jokes, the great villian and from what i remember sevens pretty good too; 3rd is paradise towers, a fun story with a silly villain, season 24 at its best.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2018 15:43:10 GMT
I felt that Sylvester's time on the show marked a real renaissance, a new direction for the way the stories were told and less reliance on old favourites. Equally, special effects were becoming more accessible. Therefore, pink alien skies, animatronic monsters and a limited form of CGI bolstered the visuals in certain ways. I love his time on the show and felt that with a little promotion, kinder scheduling (ie: not opposite inexplicably popular soap opera 'warmth and grit'), Doctor Who really could have acquired a new lease of life. Even the much lamented Series 24 is instantly a new-look show, and beyond Time and the Rani, the scripts held a new form of cleverness about them: on the surface, family friendly lightness Michael Grade appeared to be asking for - underneath, as dark a subject matter as ever before.
Paradise Towers is a good example of that. Bright haired street gangs, cuddly old ladies, comedy caretakers and robots. Underneath that, the street gangs are vicious and temperamental, the cuddly old ladies are smiling cannibals, the caretakers are covering up wanton murders and the robots are regularly to be seen transporting corpses to their true master.
Remembrance of the Daleks is a massive story, epic in scale, featuring loads of twists and surprises for general audience and fans alike. Only their inconsistent voices lets things down a little, but the new McCoy/Aldred partnership is instantly adorable. And Davros!
The Curse of Fenric - even the fanzines at the time (this was before the internet) put their hatred of the show to one side for this one. Up there with the best of 'classic Who', this tale of legends, blue-veined monsters, vampire girls and Ace's faith in the Doctor severely tested proved that there was a lot of life left in Doctor Who ... but it was too late.
I've picked a story from each series because I wouldn't be able to make up my mind otherwise. Dragonfire, Greatest Show, Happiness Patrol, Ghost Light and Survival are all 'bubbling under', as they say.
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Post by J.A. Prentice on Mar 30, 2018 19:24:01 GMT
Season 26 is my single favorite stretch of Doctor Who stories (though Tom Baker's early seasons come very close). It's fresh and mysterious and Ace's character arc is wonderfully done. It's one of the biggest tragedies of Doctor Who that the show got cancelled right when it was finally making a comeback, but the Wilderness Years picked up on a lot of the threads (more character-driven stuff, the Doctor as mysterious and potentially very, very powerful) and they've carried through to the New Series as well.
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Post by number13 on Mar 30, 2018 22:38:28 GMT
Remembrance is the best of a poor era, and Remembrance has many faults. Name 3
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1. It's over too soon - should have been a six-parter. 2. Ace should have been allowed to keep the supercharged baseball bat - 'Wicked!' 3. 'Counter-Measures' Series 1 should have started broadcasting on BBC1 the following week. Seriously, what's not to love about 'Remembrance'? For me it's the top* Seventh Doctor story by some distance, a classic in every way. Daleks in a great plot, effects that looked good then and still do, links back to 'An Unearthly Child', the old question of changing history revisited, social comment, emotional depth for Ace, brilliant guest characters with 'spin-off' written all over them... (*'Ghostlight' is my favourite McCoy-era story, but that's me voting with my M.R.James ghost-story-fan hat on as well. As a pure 'Doctor Who' story, 'Remembrance' is the winner. I hope that makes sense! ) EDIT: My three votes are: Ghostlight, Remembrance and Season 26 - 'Battlefield' is patchy but I still like it, then the final three stories are all excellent.
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Post by Hieronymus on Apr 1, 2018 21:56:04 GMT
Paradise Towers is a good example of that. Bright haired street gangs, cuddly old ladies, comedy caretakers and robots. Underneath that, the street gangs are vicious and temperamental, the cuddly old ladies are smiling cannibals, the caretakers are covering up wanton murders and the robots are regularly to be seen transporting corpses to their true master. I hated the story when it first came out, but on a rewatch, there is a lot of clever writing and plotting that went into the script of Paradise Towers. The language play went right over my head when I was younger, but I can now appreciate it. The story also had a premise that made it plausible to have a story heavy with female roles, which was a big shift in the show and uncommon at the time in the BBC. The shift towards gender equality is something that the McCoy era doesn't get enough credit for.
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Post by omega on Apr 1, 2018 22:14:00 GMT
Paradise Towers is a good example of that. Bright haired street gangs, cuddly old ladies, comedy caretakers and robots. Underneath that, the street gangs are vicious and temperamental, the cuddly old ladies are smiling cannibals, the caretakers are covering up wanton murders and the robots are regularly to be seen transporting corpses to their true master. I hated the story when it first came out, but on a rewatch, there is a lot of clever writing and plotting that went into the script of Paradise Towers. The language play went right over my head when I was younger, but I can now appreciate it. The story also had a premise that made it plausible to have a story heavy with female roles, which was a big shift in the show and uncommon at the time in the BBC. The shift towards gender equality is something that the McCoy era doesn't get enough credit for. A lot of tr flaws come out through the production, much like with Warriors of the Deep. One scene has a cleaning robot whizz past with a leg comically sticking out the back.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2018 16:32:13 GMT
Sylvester is to guest alongside Paul McGann in UK medical drama Holby City soon.
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