And yet more top 5 memeage
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jjpor asked for my top five Five/Tegan moments. I'm not sure any of their moments really count as Five/Tegan, but whether shippy or not, here they are. (I was tempted to go down the line of all those exchanges, you know: "How are you feeling?" / "Sore, bad-tempered and groggy."/ "Splendid - almost your old self." and the bit in Frontios "I got it cheap because it walks funny, and then there's the accent...")
1. Mawdryn Undead: Tegan thanks the Doctor. This is understated, but it's a rare thing for a companion to stop and thank the Doctor for being heroic and Tegan does just that - and shows that she has some understanding of what he was prepared to give up for her and Nyssa and she's grateful. Of course, he just 'Hmphs' and carts off an unconscious Brigadier, but that's Five for you.
2. Adric's Death (I'm cheating and splicing together Earthshock and Time-Flight here, but I have to): Nyssa, dictated to by logic as she says she is, simply grives; Tegan looks to the Doctor, expecting him to do something and only breaks into tears when she sees the look on his face. And next minute they're blaming each other (and inwardly blaming themselves) because he didn't save Adric and she left the TARDIS, forcing him to, in a way, choose between her and Adric. And they do this arguing like two parents with Nyssa as a confused child between them. Then he winds up at Heathrow and tries to dump her. (So there.) (Bonus for the bit where she says "There must be something you can do!" and sounds as though if he doesn't, she will, and probably clout him round the head, too.)
3. Snakedance: The Doctor hugs Tegan at the end. It's not so much this, as the way the Doctor's left shaken after his efforts to defeat the Mara, and everyone else is just the crowd, on the other side. And then he turns and sees Tegan in tears and that there is someone who gets it. This just annoys him, but he still hugs her properly for the once and only time.
4. Tegan's reaction on thinking that the Doctor is dead: I can't decide between her instinctive, mad desire to leap after him in Warriors of the Deep and her despair in Enlightenment when Marriner says something like "All the colour has gone out of your mind."
5. Resurrection of the Daleks: Tegan leaves. I love her exit, sudden though it is. And it's not so much this as the way that Peter Davison and Janet Fielding play the Doctor's decision to kill Davros as if they're the only two in the TARDIS and that's the moment she has to go. And therefore why the line "It seems I must mend my ways." (Because after all, he couldn't do much about all those good people dying). And in true Tegan fashion, gives him something he may not like, but needs, right to the last.
With an honourable mention for Frontios, particularly the bit at the end where the Doctor decides that, instead of leaving with Tegan and Turlough and dropping the Gravis off somewhere en route, he insists on leaving Turlough and the hatstand behind and waltzing off with Tegan in his unreliable TARDIS to deposit a giant woodlouse on a barren planet. The more you think about this, the more deaths unaccountable have nothing on the Doctor's reasoning here.
john_elliott, I'm still thinking about yours.
jjpor asked for my top five Five/Tegan moments. I'm not sure any of their moments really count as Five/Tegan, but whether shippy or not, here they are. (I was tempted to go down the line of all those exchanges, you know: "How are you feeling?" / "Sore, bad-tempered and groggy."/ "Splendid - almost your old self." and the bit in Frontios "I got it cheap because it walks funny, and then there's the accent...")
1. Mawdryn Undead: Tegan thanks the Doctor. This is understated, but it's a rare thing for a companion to stop and thank the Doctor for being heroic and Tegan does just that - and shows that she has some understanding of what he was prepared to give up for her and Nyssa and she's grateful. Of course, he just 'Hmphs' and carts off an unconscious Brigadier, but that's Five for you.
2. Adric's Death (I'm cheating and splicing together Earthshock and Time-Flight here, but I have to): Nyssa, dictated to by logic as she says she is, simply grives; Tegan looks to the Doctor, expecting him to do something and only breaks into tears when she sees the look on his face. And next minute they're blaming each other (and inwardly blaming themselves) because he didn't save Adric and she left the TARDIS, forcing him to, in a way, choose between her and Adric. And they do this arguing like two parents with Nyssa as a confused child between them. Then he winds up at Heathrow and tries to dump her. (So there.) (Bonus for the bit where she says "There must be something you can do!" and sounds as though if he doesn't, she will, and probably clout him round the head, too.)
3. Snakedance: The Doctor hugs Tegan at the end. It's not so much this, as the way the Doctor's left shaken after his efforts to defeat the Mara, and everyone else is just the crowd, on the other side. And then he turns and sees Tegan in tears and that there is someone who gets it. This just annoys him, but he still hugs her properly for the once and only time.
4. Tegan's reaction on thinking that the Doctor is dead: I can't decide between her instinctive, mad desire to leap after him in Warriors of the Deep and her despair in Enlightenment when Marriner says something like "All the colour has gone out of your mind."
5. Resurrection of the Daleks: Tegan leaves. I love her exit, sudden though it is. And it's not so much this as the way that Peter Davison and Janet Fielding play the Doctor's decision to kill Davros as if they're the only two in the TARDIS and that's the moment she has to go. And therefore why the line "It seems I must mend my ways." (Because after all, he couldn't do much about all those good people dying). And in true Tegan fashion, gives him something he may not like, but needs, right to the last.
With an honourable mention for Frontios, particularly the bit at the end where the Doctor decides that, instead of leaving with Tegan and Turlough and dropping the Gravis off somewhere en route, he insists on leaving Turlough and the hatstand behind and waltzing off with Tegan in his unreliable TARDIS to deposit a giant woodlouse on a barren planet. The more you think about this, the more deaths unaccountable have nothing on the Doctor's reasoning here.
john_elliott, I'm still thinking about yours.