Re: The Lemonade Treatment

doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote in
news:ut4aqo$2cr3$6@gallifrey.nk.ca:

Agent Jakanov  <mouth@onlegs.org> wrote:

Regeneration crises are almost a tradition in Doctor Who.  At least
they tried to do something different with it, even if the execution
was lacking.

 
They never were until JN-T introduced it!

>
Untrue.  The 3rd Doctor was incapacitated for a large part of his
first story.  The intro stories for the 5th and 10th Doctors copied
this.

 
But not unstable!

IYIO.

Terrance Dicks own novelization confirmed that the 4th Doctor acted
really strange and bonkers for an extended period after his
regeneration, although much of it was offscreen, such as his first
encounter with Xoanon.  The 11th Doctor's intro copied this.

 
Oh?  The 111th Doctor was trying to get control.
 
The 4th Doctor was very conscious when he arose.

But very unstable. Xoanon is the proof!
 

The 7th and 8th Doctors were very unsure of who they were for a while.
>

 
JNT

8th Doctor was not JNT.

The 6th Doctor's regeneration crisis could have been better executed.
In a later scene, a parallel was implied between Hugo almost shooting
the Doctor, thinking he had kidnapped the Twins and destroyed his
fleet, and the Doctor almost killing Peri, because they both had
experienced traumas, but the direction of the story does not make it
clear.

 
JNT

And Eric Saward.  Like I said, I can see they were at least trying to do
something interesting and novel with it, in both the long and short
term.