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- From: david@donald.concordia.ca (David Gaudine)
- Subject: Re: Ace we love you (well, some of us)
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- Organization: ORGANIZATION!! HERE? You must be kidding
- References: <13554@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1992Nov18.191534.29873@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:15:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.191534.29873@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (andrew david simchik) writes:
- >In <13554@ecs.soton.ac.uk> lm89@ecs.soton.ac.uk (McIlhoney L) writes:
-
- >>At the beginning and in the most recent time, the Doctor is an antihero,
- >>which is why we need characters like Ian, Barbara and Ace to be our
- >>representatives. Anyone can see that.
- >
- >WHAT?????? Now, I didn't follow this up in order to argue over Ace. I'm
- >through with that, even if everyone else isn't done putting their two cents
- >in. But I will DEFINITELY argue with the Doctor being an antihero. Explain
- >yourself, please! Give me your definition of an antihero as well, so we can
- >debate this intellectually.
-
- Well, you've got to admit that in early episodes the Doctor wasn't always
- a very nice guy. In "An Unearthly Child", when the others decided to
- help an injured caveman the Doctor reached for a rock, with villanous
- intent I believe. And wasn't he going to kill Barbara and Ian in
- "The Edge of Destruction"? But, I don't understand why anyone would
- call Ace's Doctor an antihero.
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- David Gaudine, Concordia University, Montreal. david@donald.concordia.ca
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