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From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Davison - the worst doctor
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Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 01:36:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 01:36:50 1985
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Reply-To: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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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