tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post4288214162995329451..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Doctor Who #258: Spearhead from Space Part 3Siskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-65320498934761508062012-08-07T07:26:10.315-03:002012-08-07T07:26:10.315-03:00Doc3 IS more human that Doc4, but they have the sa...Doc3 IS more human that Doc4, but they have the same flight impulse. Argument blown!Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-3592555882845635812012-08-07T06:37:32.846-03:002012-08-07T06:37:32.846-03:00One thing I've only just realised in the "...One thing I've only just realised in the "the Doctor was a git for running at the first chance he got" argument is that the Forth Doctor does the exact same thing just after his regeneration. People often use it to contrast the more human Third Doctor with the alient Forth, but the truth is that in both cases their first reaction was to bolt.LiamKavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996095233681105682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-53434601946503123832012-08-06T19:31:23.433-03:002012-08-06T19:31:23.433-03:00Jerky Doctor: The Doctor's personae vacillate ...Jerky Doctor: The Doctor's personae vacillate between likeable and not, and he's been truly likable in only half the regenerations, if that. The show does ask you to take sides. Are you with the Doctor, or are you with the Brigadier? Is the Doctor fair to the authority figures he takes down? Not always, but since our relationship with him is midwifed by Liz, Jo or Sarah Jane, I think we mostly like him. He's that friend you have who is mean to everyone but you, and makes you a willing accomplice in his brutal honesty.<br /><br />Sam Seeley: I won't take that away from you. He's not that bad. The show in this era does make too great a use of such figures however, though that's hardly the fault of the one that came first.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-64195155137980008252012-08-06T19:23:01.083-03:002012-08-06T19:23:01.083-03:00@Anonymous - The Doctor continues to be a jerk for...@Anonymous - The Doctor continues to be a jerk for quite awhile, though. I think this will be a topic of discussion going forward. The quality of Season 7's scripts are excellent but the Third Doctor is not very likeable. (Intentionally, I'm sure.)<br /><br />@Siskoid - I'm with you on this story so far, except I like Sam Seeley. I've never seen him as purely a comedy character. He's a cunning little rat who gets more and more nervous as he realizes he's in over his head.<br /><br />-JasonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-25500747558211762412012-08-06T10:25:22.714-03:002012-08-06T10:25:22.714-03:00Kind of trolling but deliberately doing a bad job ...Kind of trolling but deliberately doing a bad job of it. I've been watching DW since the 1980s, so by most standards I'm not a newbie -- and even if I were, surely I would recall that Autons and the Nestene Consciousness showed up in the very first new DW episode.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-89693808811609291802012-08-06T08:32:50.277-03:002012-08-06T08:32:50.277-03:00Ouch! So you're a real newbie then? If so, kud...Ouch! So you're a real newbie then? If so, kudos on your going back to watch the classics.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-54983280319002560952012-08-06T08:24:51.248-03:002012-08-06T08:24:51.248-03:00One thing I very much liked was the Doctor apologi...One thing I very much liked was the Doctor apologizing to Liz and the Brigadier for being a jerk. This is a Doctor who, while he may be the smartest man in the world by his own admission, still recognizes the need to take responsibility for his actions. (I could be foreshadowing "Planet of the Spiders" when I say that.)<br /><br />I can't even get too mad at the Doctor for trying to bolt, though. Testing his freedom is not the same as taking off and not returning.<br /><br />The Autons are lame; we'll never see THEM again, that's for sure. (I say this in the same voice I used when, after the first new "Doctor Who" episode aired, I insisted the show was a rip-off of Bill and Ted.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com