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

On 10/01/2025 21:07, Blueshirt wrote:

John Hall wrote:
 

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

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

 You're allowed to like Sylvester McCoy's Doctor... just never
say he was better than Jon Pertwee!!! ;-)
 

Sylvester McCoy was better than Jodie Whittaker and Ncuti Gatwa by a thousand miles.

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.

 Ace was a bit too OTT for me, but Sophie Aldred is lovely so

Ace was way better than Bonnie Langford. It should have been Ace from the start. Mel never sounded credible as a computer programmer.

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.

Ace was JNT's attempt to do Leela, but Leela worked because she was intelligent and lacked being educated, so the Doctor decided to teach her and she was willing to learn. Ace was a retard that dropped out of school and wanted to learn nothing other than trying to blow up the class room. She would have been a better character if she was from a dystopian future were kids had to live on the streets and had no access to education unless they found an old discarded school book from the past discard somewhere. Then you couldn't blame her for acting like an uneducated moron. Leela didn't act like a moron because she learned to live in the jungle.

 If I had a choice to date either of them then Sophie Aldred
would have won hands-down though. She was hot!
 

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".

  The Seventh Doctor's scripts had some great ideas, they were
just poorly realised. Even with a decent budget I'm not sure

There were mostly full of stupid ideas such as Delta and the Bannermen and filled with idiotic stunt casting like Ken Dodd and Hale and Pace in Survival. Also the degenerate retard JNT wanted to turn Doctor Who into a soap opera and this alienated half the audience.

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.

He's best performance was in the TVM. That's how he should have been written from the start. McCoy was perfectly capable of taking on the part as can be seen from his appearances on stage and in The Hobbit, but he was given shit scripts and shit stories like Paradise Towers and The Happiness Patrol which weren't written for him properly.
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