[ SECRET POST #2809 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2809 ⌋

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Comments

[cassandraoftroy]

I think the critical difference here is that the Brig was a companion before the Doctor experienced the Time War. As awesome as the Brig was, I'm not sure a post-Time-War Doctor would have taken him on if they'd met for the first time then, because of the way the War affected the Doctor.

[(Anonymous)]

Even pre the Time War, if the Dcotor had had the choice, remember while the Brig made a couple of appearances as the visiting authority figure of the week in the Troughton era, he didn't become a regular and a friend until Three's exile to Earth. Two very important things made the Doctor become friends with the Brig:
1. The Brig was a familiar face that was prepared to put up with three's petulant bullshit and not toss him out on his ass (close run thing a couple of times) so The Doctor kinda glommed on.
2. UNIT was pretty much the only game in town that had the kind of science, and access to alien tech, that the Doctor needed to try and fix the TARDIS.



Even then there was a lot of fighting and disparaging comments (just watch Inferno, which is pretty much the nadir of the Doctor and the Brig's relationship) before a friendship of sorts developed. It took a lot of time, and it happened during the time that the Doctor had a lot of time on his hands and no way to do a proper storm off in the TARDIS (he tried, again Inferno). Then The Master turned up so the Doctor and UNIT could have a proper common enemy to band together against. When the Brig was put on a bus in the BakerT era the Doctor dropped UNIT like a hot brick, and it wasn't until the Brig's retirement we saw Mister Lethbridge-Stewart again.

One of the books suggested the only reason that the Doctor hung around with UNIT during the Pertwee era was so he'd have someone to shout at and rebel against, since the Timelords themselves were unreachable.