I will admit that the Seventh Doctor was my second absolute favorite. I vaguely remember two scenes from the Horns of Nimon that we ended up watching at 2am on PBS when I was a kid, so I can't say that Seven is my first Doctor. As for Seven being my second absolute favorite, Two won me over quite a bit, so he and Seven are vying for the top spot.
My Doctor Who fannishness aside, I freely admit that Seven's storylines were full of, "HUH?" I mean, if you look at "The Happiness Patrol" (which is apparently an allegory for the Thatcher years?), it looked as though someone took a hit of marijuana, snorted a few lines of cocaine, and then sat down in front of a typewriter or a word processor or whatever and thought, "This is the coolest shit EVER."
Ace's relationship with her mother doesn't really get fleshed out, mores the pity. "Curse of the Fenric" was filmed second, but was supposed to be aired before "Ghost Light", which takes place in a house that Ace had burned down to the ground 100 years in the future. "Ghost Light" is full of WTFery, and we never get to see Ace burn it down. Just the rampant WTFery.
There was a lot that was thrown into this story that never really gets explained, but I did like Seven being his chessmaster self with Fenric, and then the scene where he breaks Ace's spirit. It's quite epic, really.
If the two of them had been given more stories that (A) made sense, and (B) were actually kind of cool ("Battlefield" really felt like a return to what Doctor Who used to be like, to me), I think the show could've kept going, but we know about DW's thorny history, so let's skip those details. Raar.
Either way, Seven and Ace are really quite awesome, and while I haven't had a chance to get to know them in the BF audio series outside of one or two stories, they really are one of my favorite teams. I just wish their storylines weren't so full of crack on the show. Blah.
(It'd be interesting to see Eleven bump into a very old Seven and Ace, but at the same time, Moffatt doesn't seem inclined to do that kind of thing, mores the pity.)
(Granted, I totally want Eleven to swing by 1700s Scotland/America/wherever, pick up Jamie McCrimmon and take him around the galaxy again. I miss Jamie like burning.)
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My Doctor Who fannishness aside, I freely admit that Seven's storylines were full of, "HUH?" I mean, if you look at "The Happiness Patrol" (which is apparently an allegory for the Thatcher years?), it looked as though someone took a hit of marijuana, snorted a few lines of cocaine, and then sat down in front of a typewriter or a word processor or whatever and thought, "This is the coolest shit EVER."
Ace's relationship with her mother doesn't really get fleshed out, mores the pity. "Curse of the Fenric" was filmed second, but was supposed to be aired before "Ghost Light", which takes place in a house that Ace had burned down to the ground 100 years in the future. "Ghost Light" is full of WTFery, and we never get to see Ace burn it down. Just the rampant WTFery.
There was a lot that was thrown into this story that never really gets explained, but I did like Seven being his chessmaster self with Fenric, and then the scene where he breaks Ace's spirit. It's quite epic, really.
If the two of them had been given more stories that (A) made sense, and (B) were actually kind of cool ("Battlefield" really felt like a return to what Doctor Who used to be like, to me), I think the show could've kept going, but we know about DW's thorny history, so let's skip those details. Raar.
Either way, Seven and Ace are really quite awesome, and while I haven't had a chance to get to know them in the BF audio series outside of one or two stories, they really are one of my favorite teams. I just wish their storylines weren't so full of crack on the show. Blah.
(It'd be interesting to see Eleven bump into a very old Seven and Ace, but at the same time, Moffatt doesn't seem inclined to do that kind of thing, mores the pity.)
(Granted, I totally want Eleven to swing by 1700s Scotland/America/wherever, pick up Jamie McCrimmon and take him around the galaxy again. I miss Jamie like burning.)