| Esteemed Scholar: | Mike Coan |
| Total Posts in Doctor Who |
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| 1. What do you like about this show? |
The variations,when I was a kid you never knew even if the doctor was going to die, and you used to know there was only one thing for certain, there was going to be more of th unexpected a it could catch your parents, grandparents aunts and uncles alike.
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| 2. Favorite character and why? |
I've said Jaimie before, my next favourite would be Sergeant Benton, John Levine is it, he kept getting put in strange situations and he dealt with them commendably, I loved the meeting with him and Patrick Troughton in the Three Doctors for example.
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| 3. Least favorite character and why? |
Said before, Mel, BBC, Adric, Vicki, Dodo.suppose you could add to the list K9, he made too many impossible situations soluable. Davros just because he became a recurring character in the Daleks stories, none of the daleks from my childhood memories would have let him lead, serve perhaps, lead never.
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| 4. Favorite episode and why? |
Still 'The Web of Fear' it's more the whole story left an impression on me, the first episode of it, the moment I saw the ball moving across the floor to the Yeti, then the doctor arriving in London to be faced with all the closed tube stations, then the first meeting with the then Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart. And the first meeting with Sergeant, then corporal Benton
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| 5. Least favorite episode and why? |
My least favourite, it's difficult but I'd have to pin it down to the start of 'The gunfighters', honestly believing an old croc like Bill Hartnell was a gunfighter? you'd have to set your alarm clock to give him a chance, and it wasn't in his character to use a gun, though he's used it when he's had to. I must admit another one comes to mind is 'Roof of the World' from the Marco Polo story which left me wishing for schoolwork, and my previous choice all of 'Four to Doomsday' bad acting, bad characterisation, bad direction, actually given the bones of the script a good writer could have done something with it.
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| 6. Which character do you identify with the most and why? |
Jamie I think inasmuch as I grew up with him, and at that point in my life I could see his view, he saved the doctor's bacon more than once by taking affirmative action, because he cared about the doctor and beautiful companion,
I don't have to qualify that as I fancied both of them. I think if I saw people in danger I'd be like Jamie, headstron, impulsive, and just hope things get sorted out before I get killed, believe me I've lived the scenario a few times, I'm lucky I'm still alive, but I've saved 5 lives at the last count.
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| 7. What was so special about this show? |
It expanded your imagination, this wasn't just about reaching he Moon, if you wanted to you could see what it was like afterwards, sounded great. Then after your first your lost in time and space, you don't even know if your in the same dimension you left. You also zipped around space and time picking up different people call them companions,
I call them passengers/friends some became very close friends where he was genuinely sad to see them leave him,
see the end of the war games with Zoe and Jamie returned to their rightful times, Still think the timelords were stupid in that story, the CIA from the future should have contacted at least the CIA at that time to prevent any interruption to the doctor's journeys.
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| 8. What one change would you have made to improve this show? |
I would have introduced a 'Bible' so there was no excuse for changing names of pregenitors of the 'Daleks' between the 'Dead Planet' and 'Genesis of the Daleks'. And submit the entire hierarchy of the BBC to a session with the guy that convinced the execs to continue with season 5 of Babylon 5, Oh and then just shoot them anyway.
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| 9. What's one kind of episode they didn't do but should have? |
They came close with inferno, I like these twists of alternate worlds, I'd quite like to have seen the alternate version of the doctor in his prime and how the master would have fared against that. We've seen the dark side of the doctor from David Jayston's Valyardbut I'd have liked to see how downwright and dirty he could really be, and how our doctor could pick up the pieces, that would befit a twelve parter or more, perhaps different incarnations of the same doctor? I could've seen Jon Pertwee against Tom Baker, no longer possible unhappilly.
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