One of the biggest tragedies in the history of televison is the cancellation of Doctor Who,Sylvester is one of the best Doctors ever and he was coming into his own by Season 26 as was his dynamic with Ace.
No I'm sorry, I'm on the side of general public in that Sylvester was awful, he's too goofy, ok yeah Tennant and Smith were goofy but they could balance it, Seven only become a manipulative machiavellian, in the last season (which was ultimately a better portrayal of him) was a last ditch effort to keep the creditability of the show
Have a listen to the audio drama 'bang-bang-a-boom', where at the end he actually wins the international song competition by technically gate crashing and just playing the spoons for several minutes.
This was before they upgraded to more durable metal for the Time War, a hard enough push would break their casing if they stumbled down a bumpy surface
I really like it, but the setting is very confused. They say it's 1963 (cos 25th anniversary etc.) but literally everything in the episode screams 80s. Also, the stupid schoolgirl and her moronic theme tune are not so much creepy as just annoying. Other than that it's a really great story
@@thesurgeon6473 It's supposed to be the area the first doctor dottered around at in the 1960s when the series first started, this whole episode was basically paying homage to the 1960s episodes and even kind of showing the origin mythos of U.N.I.T. with it's precursor the Intrusion Counter-Measures Group.
+Rhys Benjamin Even if corny, it was still very memorable. I loved McCoy's Doctor - he is definitely underrated by those who ONLY see season 24! He definitely got a lot better in season 25 and season 26. It's such a shame that they cancelled it.
I remember when I first watched Remembrance of the Daleks. I'd heard that Sylvester had a pretty poor reputation as The Doctor but when I got to the scene at 5:40 I remember saying out loud to myself "How the heck do people hate this guy?!" It's a shame that the show was canned just when it started to get better than ever, Sylvester deserved more :/
My first and only Doctor. Can't blame Sylvester himself for the shoddy writing. Despite it, his Doctor was a very enjoyable coin flip that had excellent chemistry with Ace/Sophie and definitely felt 'alien' (which it should) - charming and affable, even entertaining and amusing at times, then flip the coin and he's berating Ace or being overly protective like a father-figure, never letting anyone in on his grand schemes, plotting the demise of his foes well in advance, mentally manipulating opponents at gun-point or even coaxing Daleks into suicide. His incarnation actively sought out dangers, never just randomly stumbling into trouble. In short, no matter what you think of his actual episodes, he himself was a brilliant incarnation - and McCoy himself is a charming human being who deserved far less criticism than he got for taking a job in a dying show and making the best he could with it.
My first doctor was Eccleston, but McCoy will forever be my Doctor. Grew up with Remembrance of the Daleks as my favorite story, and when I got back into Doctor Who, took a liking to his other stories.
Funnier considering that he knows she always lied about that. "You don't happen to have any on you, do you?" "No, I'm a good girl. I do what I'm told." _"Blow up that vehicle."_
+DrWho41 I believe that "Doctor Who inside of Doctor Who (Doctorwhoseption) statement considering the fact that the TARDIS once materialized inside itself (TARDISseption) XD
They never gave any conclusion to Ace really. Maybe in the books, but I haven't read them. She just disappeared after Survival. It would be cool if they did an episode that included her in series 10.
As Fellinux said, the canon closure for Ace's story is that she went on to Gallifrey to study. However, in the comics....well... Ace dies in explosion. Pretty lame ending for a character if you ask me.
+Fellinux not too sure. I looked up her bio on the DW wikia and, turns out there's loads of alternative universes, where in a lot of them, Ace is dead. One has her die young from being hit in the head with a brick, one I've told you before (the explosion) and one where she's killed by Nazis using lasers... What's up with DW and killing off Ace?
My favorite Doctors in order 12, 3, 4, 8, 9, 7, 2, 11, 1, 10, 5, 6.......... Sorry, never seen 13 lol!!! Also not a fan of War Doctor and apparently there's a Fugitive Doctor meh. The only reason i put 7 before 2 is because Sylvester actually played this character that evolved 7 times in such an INTEGRATED way that I can definitely see all 6 Doctors prior him in Sylvester's execution.
This is my second favourite Doctor. And it's an incredibly close call. And I am surprised that this doctor didn't get any music. Unlike Peter Cushing doctor, Second Doctor and Colin Baker.
...given that both Four and Seven did it, I find myself severely dissapointed that Eleven never got to take out a Dalek with one of his hats. Must really find the time to properly watch this stuff.
So much was established during 7ths era. Including how he was born in the futurepast just like Ace birth came to be in Curse of the Fenric, (Later depicted in how the Doctor´s parents hooked during series 1 & 2 of newWho.)
I spy with my own eye a word that begins with v, and a number, 30..... of course! It's been 30 years since 7's debut, and some 45 years since his appearance on Vision On,. an arts and crafts show from the UK. Correct me if I'm shuffling the spoons wrong, but wasn't his name Patrick Kentsmith at the time? Anyway he's quite a charming incarnation of the Doctor, especially in his first season. I wonder what would happen if 7 met 12? McCoy vs Capaldi? They're BOTH Scottish, idk, anyway, nice retrospect of him. 😊.
A fellow fan has already made a 7th vs 12th Rap battle - just do a search for epic rap battle 7th vs 12th or something like that, it's easy to find. Lots of references. And yes, we've had three Scottish Doctor's thus far.
+SueDonym I think that Cloin Baker is an under-appreciated Doctor. He wasn't THAT bad of a Doctor on the screen, and some of the stories were really good!
True, but not nearly enough to save his onscreen era. The Fifth Doctor's run had most of the writing issues of the Sixth Doctor's era, but a more charming protagonist, which helps detract for those glaring issues... The Sixth Doctor's abrasive personality however had a magnifying effect on all of them... If the writing staff picked up the quality to compliment the new Doctor, everything would've been fine. You'd have gotten something not unlike Capaldi's run 30 years early. But they didn't. Even after a massive hiatus, they didn't. If I were a producer and faced with a chance to clean up a show decaying in quality the way Doctor Who was through an 18 month hiatus, I'd have let off nearly the entire writing staff and got more competent writers to replace them. A tough decision, but a necessary one.
+SueDonym Agreed. Not just the writers but also whoever decided to dress him in bright rainbow colours that just didn't suit his persona. And gave him an afro. I remember reading that Baker was quite annoyed about the costume choices. The whole of the 6th Doctor's run really feels like the various production departments either weren't communicating or weren't cooperating.
