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Post by Slagathor on Jul 6, 2006 23:19:58 GMT
A growling Scotsman, clown turned grand manipulator. Comments?
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Post by Cornelia_Africana on Jul 7, 2006 14:29:24 GMT
I really didn't like the seventh Doctor. It's not so much that I think Sylvester McCoy was a bad actor, it's just that there was so much inconsistency in his characterisation. You're right, it was a problem that he went from being a clown to a supposedly "mysterious" character, and it didn't quite gel. I think it's difficult to judge him fairly because of the lousy nature of some of his stories, but his first season surely had to be the low point of the entire series, and after that, although he had some good stories, the attempts to make him "mysterious" again, just backfired, and made him seem sinister instead. Definitely not the show's most impressive period.
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Post by John Darnacan on Jul 7, 2006 14:57:04 GMT
Delta and the Bannerman, and Ghostlight were two of the worst stories ever. But I liked McCoy's more serious characterisation. I thought he was a good actor, but was a victim of bad scripts including the TV movie.
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Post by Oldmankrondas on Jul 7, 2006 17:47:48 GMT
Sylvester McCoy was a good Doctor, the problem being that the production company and Sylv himself were very much up in the air about how they wanted the character to be portrayed. Ghost Light, Survival and The Curse of Fenric show McCoy at his absolute best and it's a shame that we had to put up with pap like Time and the Rani, Delta and the Bannermen, Paradise Towers etc before he finally nailed the character. That said, it didn't fit with the portrayal in those earlier stories and this is really why the series suffered.
An interesting note about Delta and the Bannermen, Ken Dodd was apparently told by the director that he should act as if these people were the Nazis coming after his Jewish family...obviously our Ken didn't take this advice to heart.
McCoy was a good Doctor, but like Baker before him, suffered from a production company that had stayed too long, and a very rocky reception from the Corporation that once and has again embraced the show.
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Post by Slagathor on Jul 18, 2006 0:30:14 GMT
True. John Nathan Turner was truly the death of Doctor Who.
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Post by John Darnacan on Jul 18, 2006 18:46:52 GMT
True. John Nathan Turner was truly the death of Doctor Who. He certainly knew how to create what Michael Grade hated. |
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Post by Oldmankrondas on Aug 2, 2006 15:10:26 GMT
You have to wonder if JNT just took it upon himself to say "screw you" to Grade and crank the bad things right up to 11.
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Post by Claire Voyant on Aug 10, 2006 1:51:31 GMT
You have to wonder if JNT just took it upon himself to say "screw you" to Grade and crank the bad things right up to 11. I understand JNT was pretty desparate to get out toward the end. |
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