Bye, bye Five
21 Dec 2018 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
promethia_tenkHave 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
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
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Date: 27 Dec 2018 02:14 pm (UTC)I do like some of K9s quips, but he's so endlessly annoying otherwise. Always being too slow and having to have excuses made about why he isn't in this scene and ruining perfectly good scenes where we might get to watch Tom Baker try to talk his way out of getting shot by coming in and stunning all the guards instead. And then (this is the real kicker) always running out of batteries at the worst possible moment. I'm sorry, that's just way more realism than I want in my Doctor Who. It's like having to hear Doctor Who talk about the budget for the new fiscal year all the time.