purplecat: Hand Drawn picture of a Toy Cat (doctor who)
purplecat ([personal profile] purplecat) wrote 2007-07-16 08:36 am (UTC)

These days I have conflicting views about the sixth Doctor. At the time he was my favourite Doctor and I liked a brash and funny Doctor. Rewatching the episodes the flaws are all too apparent: The Doctor's humour is frequently cruel, there is an unpleasant emphasis on pointless death and graphic mutilation in many stories, the direction is frequently lack-lustre, guest stars' propensity to ham it up is not restrained, the lighting is frequently abysmal and the Doctor/Companion dynamic is summed up by your icon. These days I find I prefer the more restrained and thoughtful performances we got from Davison and McCoy's later stories.

It would have been nice to see About Time 6 actually discuss these stories bringing the same sense of opposing perspectives to the tale.

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