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Post by quatermass on Sept 5, 2006 16:24:07 GMT -5
5/10 for me.
By no means the worst actor to fill the role, Pertwee turned the Doctor into a somewhat egotistical, pompous figure prone to barking orders at companions, shouting disdain or crass morals at politicians/UNIT members/anyone, and generally boasting about his "connections". The Doctor as action hero, with accompanying supercars and martial arts, just doesn't do it for me...
Carnival of Monsters is rather fine though.
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Post by Massimo on Sept 6, 2006 12:17:42 GMT -5
quatermass, I strongly disagree with you! I see the Third Doctor as strong, intellectually and morally superior to the petty humans and I like his hi-tech gadgets and martial arts.
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Post by The Thinker on Sept 6, 2006 14:03:15 GMT -5
Typical, that's humans for you, always leaving out the other side of the argument! ;D
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Post by quatermass on Sept 6, 2006 14:30:13 GMT -5
quatermass, I strongly disagree with you! I see the Third Doctor as strong, intellectually and morally superior to the petty humans and I like his hi-tech gadgets and martial arts. I like the fact that you "strongly disagree", Massimo! Yes, he was all the things you say (he is the Doctor after all) BUT Pertwee portrayed those charcteristics far too obviously (and loudly!) for my liking. And that's the point I suppose - it's down to an individual's liking. With 10 actors to choose from, we as fans are lucky in that there's got to be 1 leading man we like. Pertwee, and the whole Earth-based exile theme, just doesn't do it for me. The martial "hai!" arts and the gadgets/cars/hovercrafts/trikes thing belongs rather more to Man from UNCLE or, more obviously, Bond and just feels wrong in Who to me...
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Post by Massimo on Sept 7, 2006 4:57:24 GMT -5
I'm not a great fan of the Exile period either but the Bond-like hi-tech stuff belong to that era and I always find them funny.
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Post by tractator on Sept 17, 2006 12:04:51 GMT -5
Wasn't keen on the amount of gadgetry (the chase scene in his final story was ludicrous), but loved the whole UNIT/exiled to Earth thing.
Character-wise, I thought his authority and stiff-upper-lippishness were brilliant.
8 out of 10.
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Post by Ice Warrior on Sept 17, 2006 18:33:03 GMT -5
The 3rd Doctor was quite the man in charge IMO, I enjoyed this doctor Immensely!
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Post by The Valeyard on Mar 14, 2007 23:52:51 GMT -5
Pertwee was a good Doctor. His episodes were not some of the best, but he consistently played the Doctor as a person of character who always look to avoid violence if he could. I think some of the latter Doctors should have followed his example. He did try to act a spy too much, UNIT was not a spy organization.
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Post by Nytik on Mar 20, 2007 14:04:37 GMT -5
I vote 8/10. I watched most of his stories before I actually saw any other Doctor on-screen. Maybe that's why, but I think he's a crafty doctor, especially in things like the Auton episode where the doctor switches his and the masters dematerialisation circuits.
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