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Classic Who "The Twin Dilemma" Parts 3&4 EARLY Early Access! (Patreon)

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2025-01-17 14:00:11
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samuel bailey

Azmael unable to regenerate: back when we cared about basic Time Lord biology instead of “welp, guess the Doctor has infinite regenerations now lol”. But since the Doctor has become the Darth Vader-like key to the Universe, so I guess there are no rules anymore. What an exciting protagonist: God. Ugh.

Graeme Wood

Disliked this story on its original screening, felt like a huge drop in quality after Caves. Sixth Dr equally difficult to warm to on his first appearance, lots of bluster, little charm and absolutely no subtlety

Josef Schiltz

This will be interesting for me as Colin 's era was a tough time personally and I strongly associate it with the time of my first major breakdown. The fact of the abrasiveness didn't help me get into it. I don't dislike Six, but the association doesn't make me feel comfortable either.

happenedtobehere

The closest modern who has come to this shift in tone is the transition between Eleven and Twelve. Both the Sixth and Twelfth Doctors had much more empathetic, likeable predecessors, and at times felt like throwbacks to the often irascible First Doctor. Also, style-wise, the 80’s was not a sedate decade and Colin Baker’s Doctor seems like the perfect embodiment of that brash, colourful era. Looking forward to your upcoming reactions!

Dave Sanders

As Lawrence Miles remarked on this story's many, many, MANY faults: "There doesn't actually appear to be a dilemma in it."

James Fish

Thank you for a very interesting reaction Jess. I like your reaction to this much more than I care for this particular story. I agree with you that it was really the sudden manic change in the Doctors new persona which kept this alive for me. I can strangely barely remember this story and it marked a point in Doctor Who where I only very intermittantly kept up with it. It entered very shaky ground in terms of having a gauranteed future during this period. I felt that it had moved a long way from a time when I consistently would enjoy every story, as with 4 and a large part of 5's eras. Therefore I'm guessing I watched it and didn't think much of it originally. Colin's portrayal of the Doctor though, has grown on me a huge amount watching it through the lense of an adult. No spoilers here about how his character develops as it's still new for you Jess, but that's my take and as much as I'll say about it. Whereby I may have originally found this performance of The Doctor in this particular story unusual, even shocking, I can now see the dark humour in it, which I felt you also picked up on. See you next time!

Ian Smith

It's Colin Baker, in all his over-acted garishness, that keeps these four episodes entertaining. Very much looking forward to your journey through his era.

Owen Wildish

The next one is quite good ;) This era will be quite fun, not perfect, but fun... I love the 5th. 6th & 7th Doctors.

Darren Seal

I like this era, I like Colin Baker he’s a nice man in person too. Just a shame this story is so naff.

Thomas Corp
>>161593549

I’m just happy that though Six does not have the most favorable reputation, combined with how Jess now has Five ranked third behind Eleven and Twelve, and I freely admit that Six is last on my own ranking, that Jess is giving Six a fair shot. Even with the jarring introduction, she’s not letting that deter her all that much. You love to see it. Particularly after how everyone almost always says either Four and/or Ten as their Doctor, how Jess goes against tradition and has Eleven and Twelve as her Doctors. And now One and Five are her favorite Classic era Doctors. Makes her reactions quite unique in that regard.

Thomas Corp
>>161593549

And I hear you on you say Colin’s era was a tough time for you, and how you associate it with the time of your first major breakdown. That’s happened to me with a couple of things. One such thing, and I know you say you don’t much care for the superhero genre, was the first season of the Marvel show Loki. That started airing around the time when my dad was in the hospital for about a month at that time. Then he went to the nursing home. Then when the latter half of the season started, Dad’s health took a sharp turn for the worse, and the season finale was two days after he died. Watching that season finale, I remember what happens in the episode, but it’s such a blur. If you look up the reaction Jess had to the episode, the thumbnail for it on youtube, the image of Loki featured, that was me watching the episode. Didn’t even want to see the second and final season. Only reasons I did was the Marvel stuff’s gotten too dense, continuity-wise that you cannot risk skipping anything, and Jess reacted to and loved the show, so for her, I watched it. Got through it better than I was dreading, though the last episode went back to the events of the previous season finale, which I had to disassociate some to avoid a breakdown.

Jordan Love

Gotta keep in mind, this was a particularly traumatic regeneration. One of Peter's last lines is "it feels different this time." I love Peter but he was a very human Doctor and I really appreciate the "alien-ness" that Colin brings back but in a totally different way than Tom did. This story actually reminds me of The Edge of Destruction where One gets all paranoid and threatens Ian and Barbara.