Re: Why WAS the 6th Doctor era SO BAD?!

On 11/01/2025 01:12, The Doctor wrote:

In article <xn0p0nda98sj32d000@post.eweka.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

John Hall wrote:
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In message <xn0p0n4qo8gvst5003@post.eweka.nl>, Blueshirt
<blueshirt@indigo.news> writes

Ubiquitous wrote:
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What went wrong with the 6th Doctor era? Was it really that
bad? Did Colin Baker deserve to be sacked from his role as
the Doctor?

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Great actor but for me the Sixth Doctor was strangled at
birth by JNT's idea of making him look like a clown. Trying
to strangle his companion in his first episode [The Twin
Dilemma] didn't help his cause either.
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It was all downhill after that...

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Yep. Colin Baker was let down by his producer and
scriptwriters. An "edgy" Doctor just isn't right for someone
who, for all his quirks, should be an unashamedly heroic
character. (At least post the First Doctor's early days.)

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Colin Baker has shown what he can do as the Sixth Doctor in the
Big Finish Doctor Who audios... I know they are not part of the
televised canon but the Sixth Doctor audio adventures are some
of the best stories that Big Finish have produced. So whatever
the failings of the Sixth Doctor's TV era were, it wasn't Colin
Baker!
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00:00- Introduction
00:35- The End Of The 5th Doctor Era
02:12- The Twin Dilemma
04:23- Character
07:05- Season 22
12:00- Hiatus
13:33- Season 23
16:56- The Aftermath
18:36- Conclusion
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https://youtu.be/Vzu4KwH5Owg?si=ccJUpBtGN0AxH3X2
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Yeah, he's the worst of the classic series.

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I'd be more inclined to say the Seventh Doctor was the worst
Doctor of the classic era... the failings of the Sixth
Doctor's era were not learnt from and whilst Sylvester McCoy
generally had [potentially] better scripts to work with, I
don't think McCoy was up to the task.

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I know I'm in a minority here, I rather liked McCoy's Doctor.

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You're allowed to like Sylvester McCoy's Doctor... just never
say he was better than Jon Pertwee!!! ;-)
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Both the Sixth and Seventh Doctor's were in a fight against
the BBC for survival at that time though, Daleks and
Cybermen were not the Doctor's main enemy. But for me, JNT
played in to their hands by turning the show in to a
pantomime.

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Things greatly improved when Ace replaced Mel as the
companion. Not that that was Bonnie Langford's fault, but
again down to the way her character was written.

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Ace was a bit too OTT for me, but Sophie Aldred is lovely so
it's not her fault the character was written that way... all
that teenage anger and wanting to blow everything up all the
time. JNT's idea of a companion was different to mine and in
some ways I actually preferred Melanie Bush to Ace.
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If I had a choice to date either of them then Sophie Aldred
would have won hands-down though. She was hot!
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I think there was a big improvement in the scripts for the
final series, and "Battlefield" is one of my all-time
favourite stories, with a couple of others being almost as
good. (And FWIW the authors of The Discontinuity Guide agree
with me.) So I was particularly sad that it was cancelled when
it seemed on an upwards trend. But it was clear that the BBC
had the knives out for it when they scheduled it against
"Coronation Street".

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The Seventh Doctor's scripts had some great ideas, they were
just poorly realised. Even with a decent budget I'm not sure
that JNT would have been able to give them the production
quality they deserved. Plus Sylvester McCoy wasn't the man for
the job as far as I was concerned, so I never really took to him.

 I like all Doctors except for the Timeless Child.

Even Whittaker?
Doctor Who ended in 2017!
The Timeless Child is a monstrosity and not the Doctor.
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