Bye, bye Five

[promethia_tenk]

Have gotten through all of the Fifth Doctor. Probably my favorite writing of any Classic Who I've seen so far has been in this era (and Four's last season).

Tegan came out from behind to become the best companion, but I rather want a lot of Big Finish with all of them. Preferably some where everybody is a bit less crabby.

And I don't know if Five is my favorite, but I will fight anybody who says anything mean about him. And his magical foster home for tragically orphaned alien princesses.

In lieu of further commentary, please accept this picture of Peter Davison:



Damn, boy.

For my own amusement, I have been ranking all the companions as I watch. My criteria for ranking them is pure squee level, so this does not take into consideration things like general quality of stories and arc:

1) Leela
2) Tegan
3) Liz Shaw
4) Ace
5) Sarah Jane
6) Turlough
7) Romana
8) Nyssa
9) Adric
10) Mel
1000) Harry Sullivan
45024) K9

Comments

[st_aurafina]

Nhhgh, that photo. Don't you just want to to terrible things to him? There's something fascinating about his baby face and the cricket gear that's so. IDK.

I was going along all 'this isn't so controversial?' until:
1000) Harry Sullivan
45024) K9

HDU!

[greensword]

My top 5 classic companions are:

1) Sarah Jane
2) Liz Shaw
3) Ace
4) Jamie
5) Romana

But I have never seen any Leela episodes and the only Nyssa/Tegan/Adric episode I remember is Castrovalva. I really need to do a rewatch!

[flowsoffire]

You can have ALL THE BF YOU WANT! And this era is just so great :) plus you need to hear them troll each other behind the scenes. Priceless.

[owlboy]

I couldn't really appreciate Five and thought he was a bit boring until I realized what it was about him that informs so much of Moffat Who Doctor. It was probably the first time they tried to scale back his Mysterious Alien God-ness instead of continually adding to it, and depict him as a vulnerable, conflicted man who just wants to be nice for the sake of being nice. It's a quietly ambitious counterpoint to Four, whomst has that spark of ''the only authority is my authority'' madness in him and never seemed to suffer any truly dire consequences for that

[nostalgia]

K-9 is bitchy goodness, I shall fight you!!!!!