"I seem to remember I was always rather fond of Jamie."
AAAAAAH I LOVE THE DOCTOR SO MUCH.
And his Companions. Two, Six, Jamie, Peri, all of them. Love. Lovelovelove. There aren't even words.
I mean, I know this is a middling Robert Holmes serial so it's not like a Houghton or a Hulke or a Moffat. And Six just is not Three or Four or Five. But he absolutely IS The Doctor, and I will not hear otherwise.Just look at how he treats Jamie - clearly remembering how close they once were and acting out of the memories of those feelings, but also remaining very firmly himself and not compromising all that much. Luckily - and oddly enough - the way Six treats Peri is not all that fundamentally different than how Two treated Jamie. Of course, it's not at all a stretch to assume that Two would treat Peri more like Five did and more like he treated Polly or Victoria, or that Six would treat a male Companion he didn't have a significant relationship already built up with rather like Four did. Which is to say, not all that tenderly.
I have started to wonder if I would have liked Dodo if there were as strong an Anti-Dodo sentiment as there is an Anti-Peri one. And I'm really curious to see just how much I wind up liking Mel, because Tegan and Peri both turned out to be more than satisfactory.
::squee!::
Two verbally abuses Dastari while Jamie stands by ready to violate the Geneva Convention. Or, y'know, not.
I love those eyebrows. And I'll refrain from the obvious macro meme. Because I am above that sort of banality. Oh, yes. Very sophisticated, me.
Aw... Being all sweet and stuff... Even if it looks like he's SLAMMING him back down to the floor.
THAT's more the sort of expression I expected to see during scenes with these two together. Heh.
(As much as it looks like Six and Two are facing off, that's Jamie, there.)
Okay, well, it looks like we're about to see an incident of domestic abuse, but he's actually being snarky about Six. Not nice, but amusing. (I don't like the fact that I imagine 95% of the people who watch this serial instantly agree with him, though.)
Oh, humans...
And then I was checking to see how "gumble-jack" was spelled and found something really sweet and touching on a Land of the Lost forum, of all places:
"Colin Baker, the Sixth Doctor, is often dismissed as just that 'obnoxious Doctor in the silly costume.' Unfortunately, many will then miss his best moment--in 'The Two Doctors,' the Second Doctor (the best of the eight, IMHO) and Jamie join in for an adventure (not an extremely good one, unfortunately) in which basically there comes a moment when the Sixth Doctor believes that the universe will soon collapse (I'm oversimplifying, I know). His companion, Peri, dismisses his worries with a laugh when he tells her time is short, no more than a few more centuries. She leaves him alone in the scene and he states sadly: 'She can't comprehend the scale of it all. Eternal blackness... no more sunsets... no more gumble-jacks, nevermore a butterfly.'
"Great line, great performance."
~Dave Eversole
And his Companions. Two, Six, Jamie, Peri, all of them. Love. Lovelovelove. There aren't even words.
I mean, I know this is a middling Robert Holmes serial so it's not like a Houghton or a Hulke or a Moffat. And Six just is not Three or Four or Five. But he absolutely IS The Doctor, and I will not hear otherwise.Just look at how he treats Jamie - clearly remembering how close they once were and acting out of the memories of those feelings, but also remaining very firmly himself and not compromising all that much. Luckily - and oddly enough - the way Six treats Peri is not all that fundamentally different than how Two treated Jamie. Of course, it's not at all a stretch to assume that Two would treat Peri more like Five did and more like he treated Polly or Victoria, or that Six would treat a male Companion he didn't have a significant relationship already built up with rather like Four did. Which is to say, not all that tenderly.
I have started to wonder if I would have liked Dodo if there were as strong an Anti-Dodo sentiment as there is an Anti-Peri one. And I'm really curious to see just how much I wind up liking Mel, because Tegan and Peri both turned out to be more than satisfactory.
::squee!::
Two verbally abuses Dastari while Jamie stands by ready to violate the Geneva Convention. Or, y'know, not.
I love those eyebrows. And I'll refrain from the obvious macro meme. Because I am above that sort of banality. Oh, yes. Very sophisticated, me.
Aw... Being all sweet and stuff... Even if it looks like he's SLAMMING him back down to the floor.
THAT's more the sort of expression I expected to see during scenes with these two together. Heh.
(As much as it looks like Six and Two are facing off, that's Jamie, there.)
Okay, well, it looks like we're about to see an incident of domestic abuse, but he's actually being snarky about Six. Not nice, but amusing. (I don't like the fact that I imagine 95% of the people who watch this serial instantly agree with him, though.)
Oh, humans...
And then I was checking to see how "gumble-jack" was spelled and found something really sweet and touching on a Land of the Lost forum, of all places:
"Colin Baker, the Sixth Doctor, is often dismissed as just that 'obnoxious Doctor in the silly costume.' Unfortunately, many will then miss his best moment--in 'The Two Doctors,' the Second Doctor (the best of the eight, IMHO) and Jamie join in for an adventure (not an extremely good one, unfortunately) in which basically there comes a moment when the Sixth Doctor believes that the universe will soon collapse (I'm oversimplifying, I know). His companion, Peri, dismisses his worries with a laugh when he tells her time is short, no more than a few more centuries. She leaves him alone in the scene and he states sadly: 'She can't comprehend the scale of it all. Eternal blackness... no more sunsets... no more gumble-jacks, nevermore a butterfly.'
"Great line, great performance."
~Dave Eversole