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- From: billw+@pitt.edu (William R Wilkinson)
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- Subject: Re: Colin Baker poll
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 02:55:49 GMT
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- I feel compelled to post a positive review of Colin BAker's work as a certain
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- Time Lord, basically I find myself in the minority, and that the majority (Or
- at least what I perceive to be the majority...) tends to be rather vocal in
- its bashing of the "Multicoloured Man of Action" incarnation of the Doc.
- Probably the prime reason I enjoyed Colin's stint was his theatrical demeanor.
- Colin Baker's Doctor had a wonderful sense of the grandiose and this was a
- refreshing change from Davison's low-key interpretation of the role. I also
- felt that, although I liked Davison, he was too cozy as the Doctor. Colin
- reminds us that the Doctor is, after all, alien, and that we may not always
- agree with his diagnosis of a situation because his perspective is different.
- This is especially evident as he tries to reassure Peri that the Earth she
- returns to will be the same one she left (I won't go into more detail about this
- because I didn't include a spoilers warning.
- This sense of the Doctor's Alien-ness was something I didn't feel in any of
- the stories after Pyramids of Mars (Primarily due to the "I walk in eternity"
- bit..) The Doctor is an alien, and shouldn't be bound by a particular code that
- happens to be specific to the time period of the writers. The Doctor's alienness
- was shown most fully in the Hartnell years, usually manifesting itself as
- irascibility.
- "He needs more than water, Peri, eh?"--The Doc...
- Bill Wilkinson, LAMMA Tamer
- (Sorry for the stream-of consciousness arguments there! :-) )
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- Time Lord, because I generally get the feeling that
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