[ SECRET POST #2204 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2204 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[kadira]

I've never made the comparison, but it certainly explains why Eleven and Nine are my favourite new!Who Doctors and why Ten never really did it for me. Three (my first classic!Doctor!) and Seven (along with Five) are my all-time favourite classic!Who Doctors, but Six never worked for me. Nine got me into Who, Ten almost lost me (especially towards the end of his run) and I love Eleven to pieces. He has such a lovely classic!Doctor feel to him!

But what I really need to watch more of is Two and Four. Two, because he seems so fascinating and Four, well, because I want to love him as much as everybody else does, but so far it just doesn't really work. I have watched quite a few of his stories and I like him well enough, but the special something is still missing for me...

[intrigueing]

I'm gonna pop in here and vouch for Two like whoa because asdhjgsjdf I love him. Okay, I love all the Doctors, but Two's methods and his dynamic with Jamie and Zoe in particular are ridiculously adorable, and if you like Eleven you'll probably like Two too. Plus his era was when the show was forced to shoot lots of stories on cramped small sets, making many of them bottle-episode-ish, which I have a big weakness for. The main problem is that his runs has a lot of random missing episodes, so completion's really a bitch in that era.

On the flip side, while Four is awesome personality-wise, I gotta admit the very alien and disconnected-from-humanity feel of a lot of his run post-Sarah Jane wasn't all that appealing to me. The era thankfully had some really well-written stories to make up for it but still...*shrugs* a personal thing I suppose.

As for Six...well, as I said, I love all the Doctors, but I didn't really enjoy Six much until I recently got my hands on a couple of his audio dramas. He really shines in those far more than on the show.

[(Anonymous)]

On the flip side, while Four is awesome personality-wise, I gotta admit the very alien and disconnected-from-humanity feel of a lot of his run post-Sarah Jane wasn't all that appealing to me.

I was actually the opposite. I quite enjoyed something that wasn't always human-human-human-HUMAN, that humans weren't the most important things in the universe. Four gave a bit of a taste of a universe that was busily noodling along, no matter what was happening on Earth. It made the rest of the series feel a bit bigger, somehow, a reminder that there was more out there than just what humanity happens to bump into.

And, actually, that's one of the things I'm not so hot on in NuWho, the idea that Earth is the center of the universe, that without Gallifrey we're all that's important. A touch of Four now and then makes a good antidote.

As you said, personal taste, and Four isn't even my favourite Doctor. I just ... like that sense of 'there's more' that his era gives.

[intrigueing]

Well I suppose I should clarify: it wasn't the oh-noes-it's-not-all-earth-all-the-time vibe that didn't appeal to me. Heck, I wouldn't care if we went a whole season without ever visiting earth. It was more that (and I know I'm probably one of a very few people who think this) I wasn't super gung-ho about Leela or Romana as companions. I mean, I liked them as characters a whole hell of a lot and I really enjoyed several individual stories in their runs, but when I put their stories all together in a row the dynamic created a kind of...vacuum where I was craving the human perspective? Eh, I'm probably just personally biased, because it was great in small doses, but altogether wasn't my favorite.

However, IA about NuWho making Earth the center of the universe all the fucking time being rather annoying. Have you seen that RTD quote where someone asked him why so many of his stories are set in present-day earth, and he says something along the lines of "the Zogs from planet Zog are being threatened by the Zog-monster: who cares?" like the audience wouldn't give a damn if it wasn't earth being threatened. THAT really bugs me too.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I always thought that Leela and her tribe came from human stock, but I guess the issue with her is that she's so different from *us* with her alien planet and savage tribal background that she doesn't quite mesh for some as an audience avatar.

And I agree with you about the Zogs - why can't we see the human companions meeting the Zogs and seeing they're kinda almost just like humans and damn they may be Zogs but can we save them from the Zog-monster because even Zogs deserve to be saved too?

[(Anonymous)]

+1 on the Second Doctor stuff - Matt Smith has said before that he's a big fan of Two, and you can see echoes of him in Eleven at times and it is pretty lovely. Two and Jamie and Zoe are my favorite classic TARDIS team.