Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Davison - the worst doctor Message-ID: <15527@watmath.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 01:36:50 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.15527 Posted: Tue Jul 2 01:36:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 06:36:36 EDT References: <160@astroatc.UUCP> <2600050@acf4.UUCP> <15513@watmath.UUCP> <138@parallel.uucp> Reply-To: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 30 Summary: Well, I know that that title will sprint up some debate, but I do want to attack him a bit. Just because he's my least favourite doctor doesn't mean he's bad, simply that he wasn't up to the level of his predecessors. Even though I have seen only a few episodes of "All Creatures...", Davison seems to me like "Tristan in Space." He seemed to have only one characterization - harried. Somebody once said to play the Doctor like Davison you must run up a flight of stair before delivering each line. Davison never had the cool confidence of the others. He was too wimpy in character, trying to make up for it in action. While action is fine, it is not the strong point of Doctor Who. Now Davison had some truly fine scripts - Caves of Androzanni (sp?) comes to mind as well as some others from that last season, (definitely his best) but these stories were good because of the scripts, not because of the actor. And that's the whole point. Baker saved stories with bad scripts and made them watchable. Davison could never do this, and in fact often did the opposite. On the side, while it isn't his fault, Davison also had 3 of the Doctors worst companions together at the same time - Adric (boo, hiss), Nyssa and Tegan. It wasn't until Turlough arrived that we got a companion with real character again. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont. (519) 884-7473