So . . . Six.
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promethia_tenkFinished all of the Sixth Doctor.
The Good:
I think Colin Baker did a commendable job with what he was handed. He deserved better, and I'm glad to hear Big Finish did right by him. Will almost certainly check out those audios sometime.
Look, I'm not saying I like the outfit, but some Doctor, somewhere, was always going to end up in a technicolor dreamcoat. That is just facts.
The ideas and the ambition. There is a lot to chew on here. Everything I've seen of Classic Who before season 18 has been Just Plain Doctor Who (TM). Everything I've seen after season 18 (which is now all of it) has been twisty, self-relfective, self-interrogating, and meta. Guess which I prefer? *big grin*
The Mark of the Rani, The Two Doctors, and Mindwarp.
The Bad:
Peri. I don't like her. There were aspects of her relationship with the Doctor that I enjoyed, mostly when she made fun of him, but . . . stick around for 'the ugly.'
The violence and fatalism of so much of this was trying to get through. Thank goodness for the binge watch where you can just keep going and know you'll get to the end of it, as opposed to the uncertainty of watching something like this week to week. I think I appreciated it more during the tail end of the Fifth Doctor, whose more reserved, thoughtful nature kept it all from seeing too garish. With Six's more flippant attitude it did frequently feel like it was just descending into ugly spectacle.
There were a lot of dud episodes in here, but I could say the same for Four. Seven whole seasons: I sat through a lot of really middling tv there.
The Ugly:
The treatment of Peri by basically every aspect of the show was just gross. There's no excuse for it, and it drug everything else down. I should not be trying to keep a tally in my head of the episodes where a companion is not sexually harassed. And in any other context, I might have enjoyed the Doctor and Peri's style of banter, but given how constantly threatened she is, how dependent on him, and the implication that her stepfather was abusive to her, it's just not ok.
I'm gonna take a diversion back to the Fifth Doctor for awhile, but I'm looking for suggestions for how to tackle One, Two, and Three. I've dramatically preferred watching whole Doctors' eras straight through (as far as that's possible) as opposed to picking and choosing episodes, but I'm open to doing them in any order.
The Good:
I think Colin Baker did a commendable job with what he was handed. He deserved better, and I'm glad to hear Big Finish did right by him. Will almost certainly check out those audios sometime.
Look, I'm not saying I like the outfit, but some Doctor, somewhere, was always going to end up in a technicolor dreamcoat. That is just facts.
The ideas and the ambition. There is a lot to chew on here. Everything I've seen of Classic Who before season 18 has been Just Plain Doctor Who (TM). Everything I've seen after season 18 (which is now all of it) has been twisty, self-relfective, self-interrogating, and meta. Guess which I prefer? *big grin*
The Mark of the Rani, The Two Doctors, and Mindwarp.
The Bad:
Peri. I don't like her. There were aspects of her relationship with the Doctor that I enjoyed, mostly when she made fun of him, but . . . stick around for 'the ugly.'
The violence and fatalism of so much of this was trying to get through. Thank goodness for the binge watch where you can just keep going and know you'll get to the end of it, as opposed to the uncertainty of watching something like this week to week. I think I appreciated it more during the tail end of the Fifth Doctor, whose more reserved, thoughtful nature kept it all from seeing too garish. With Six's more flippant attitude it did frequently feel like it was just descending into ugly spectacle.
There were a lot of dud episodes in here, but I could say the same for Four. Seven whole seasons: I sat through a lot of really middling tv there.
The Ugly:
The treatment of Peri by basically every aspect of the show was just gross. There's no excuse for it, and it drug everything else down. I should not be trying to keep a tally in my head of the episodes where a companion is not sexually harassed. And in any other context, I might have enjoyed the Doctor and Peri's style of banter, but given how constantly threatened she is, how dependent on him, and the implication that her stepfather was abusive to her, it's just not ok.
I'm gonna take a diversion back to the Fifth Doctor for awhile, but I'm looking for suggestions for how to tackle One, Two, and Three. I've dramatically preferred watching whole Doctors' eras straight through (as far as that's possible) as opposed to picking and choosing episodes, but I'm open to doing them in any order.
