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Canonising: It's Not Just For Popes Anymore!

Jan 31, 2006 16:24

I am sort of beginning to think that my personal DW canon starts at Two. In this version, Two is indeed Two and Susan happened and such, but other than that it's vague and a bit murky. He just seems so new at the whole thing sometimes. It is "kawaii." This would be a bit more hardcore than "Paul McGann doesn't count" but I think I could carry it ( Read more... )

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secretive_bus January 31 2006, 18:32:31 UTC

Are you trying to say that Hartnell doesn't count?!?!?!

*loads the rifle*

nostalgia_lj January 31 2006, 18:49:09 UTC

YES I AM.

Sort of. Maybe. In a way.

peeeeeeet January 31 2006, 19:40:57 UTC

I have to say Hartnell's probably my least favourite Doctor. I find his performance often painful to watch. That in itself wouldn't be a deal-breaker, except that many of his stories go on forever and ever and are crammed with nonsensical garbage ("Time, like space, although a dimension of itself, also has dimensions of its own" being a particular "favourite" - that gem from The Space Museum, which struggles even to live up to its thrilling title). I'm going to pick up Lost In Time soon though so I might revise my opinion when I see some of his orphaned eps for the first time.

snowgrouse January 31 2006, 20:02:17 UTC

OMG! Lemme know what you think. Because I FINALLY AGREE WITH YOU on Hartnell, omg. EEEEEEE! *fangirl squee*

secretive_bus January 31 2006, 20:16:42 UTC

Horses for courses. I find Hartnell to be a really good actor. I'd far rather watch OTT Hartnell than OTT Colin Baker.

snowgrouse January 31 2006, 20:21:08 UTC

Oh yes, I do think he is a good actor. And I do enjoy some Hartnell stories, OTT or not. And rather that than anything after Davison.

After Davison went, Who went into a massive panto overdrive, IMHO, which did harm on the actors as well. I don't like Six, but I love Colin Baker and have seen him perform brilliantly when not told to "give it more oomph" like the production team insisted. Likewise with Ainley, McCoy, Langford, etc... even though I was so damn glad they let Ainley FINALLY play the Master properly in Survival. Full menacing, sexy evil.

secretive_bus January 31 2006, 20:25:30 UTC

I sort of agree in that way but about Davison. He's a clearly great actor, as evidence by a lot of his more recent stuff like "The Last Detective". In fact, I think if Davison had the role now, rather than the young Davison, he'd be thought of as one of the best Doctors by far more people. But the Davison of the 80s wasn't allowed to have his own characterisation.

snowgrouse January 31 2006, 20:36:06 UTC

Five was a lost older brother character to the other players, wasn't he? But hey, he is still the youngest Doc ever cast--take that, Tennant ( ... )

secretive_bus January 31 2006, 20:39:33 UTC

I'd like to have played the Doctor in the way Tennant is doing it. So now I've changed my goals. Rather than being the Doctor, I want to be the male companion for the first female Doctor. Hmm. She, newly regenerated, will land in Edwardian England and I, the classy fop, will be the companion. Mmm. It'd be like having a male Doctorly figure but with no experience of anything except scones. Hurrah!

snowgrouse January 31 2006, 20:45:39 UTC

*supports*

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