Who doesn't like the fifth doctor?

[The Thinker]

It just makes the imagination flow with ideas, doesn't it?

[Mark Senior]

Does that include the scriptwriters for Big Finish? Or are we only talking about the TV show? I'm not well up on this next bit but were the TV scripts commissioned on the basis of the actor playing the role or would we have just had the same story with a different costume?

[Nytik]

The 5th Doctor was great, I like it when he plays in Planet of Fire etc.

[The Valeyard]

Most of his stories were very good, and he was a wonderful Doctor. He should have stayed on longer.

[Nytik]

1981-1984. Thats an ok time, especially when you consider Eccleston.

[The Valeyard]

Considering how bad Colin Baker was, I would have loved to see Davison play the Doctor 2 more years. Do you think Eccleston should have stayed on longer? I cant tell from your post whether Eccleston should have a longer or shorter run as the Doctor.

[sadako]

Feb 16, 2006 16:15:53 GMT -5 tractator said:

Yes, he was a good Doctor.

I think a lot of fans back then were a little disturbed that this Doctor was flawed; some of his actions and decisions resulted in misfired plans and sometimes innocent deaths. After the 4th Doctor (who seemed ridiculously powerful and faultless), this must have been plainly unnacceptable.

These days, of course, we simply see it as a more complex and three dimensional characterisation. Of course everybody has flaws. No one is perfect.

The Doctor has been flawed and failed and made mistakes before (Daleks' Masterplan, Power of the Daleks, Inferno, The Sea Devils, Genesis of the Daleks, Horror of Fang Rock)... but in the Davison era stories like Warriors of the Deep and Resurrection of the Daleks, his mistakes and failures seem so deliberate and contrived as to be nothing less than insincere character assassination. The writing was never sophisticated enouigh to make the Doctor in any way humanised. He wasn't 'different', he was a betrayal.

[bakergrrl]

I think his Doctor was boring.