Post by tedkord on Apr 17, 2013 23:47:22 GMT
Seven has, and always will be, my favourite Doctor. His Big Finish adventures have on the whole been fairly solid, even if at 40-odd Sophie Aldred saying "Professor?" is a bit weird rather than cute.
But anyone disillusioned with the 50th should really pick up Forty Five for a hit of old Who nostalgia. Four tight episodes, varying in quality but all very decent, is really worth it.
Still, that's not the point of this rambling, which is to celebrate McGann in all of his glory. He's the least-known Doctor to Saturday Who fans, to be sure, but I found his Big Finish run - especially with Sheridan Smith's exceptional Lucie Miller - more moving, affecting and sublime than anything Rusty pulled out of his Bad Wolf Bay.
It starts off inoccuous enough, with a healthy distrust for the Doctor, then a grudging respect, then a friendship deeper than Ms Tyler. The Doctor harbours a decent Zygon under her nose and even meets back up with Susan before ending up orbiting a sun for years. And to help him? A version of Lucie bloody Miller. Then, in the final episodes of their era, you realise just how heartbreakingly destroyed she has become. And that's not even a spoiler.
On the whole, this "He's me, but he'll age the same as you" Tennant drivel can get to fuck for the truly emotional epic of The Doctor and Lucie.
But anyone disillusioned with the 50th should really pick up Forty Five for a hit of old Who nostalgia. Four tight episodes, varying in quality but all very decent, is really worth it.
Still, that's not the point of this rambling, which is to celebrate McGann in all of his glory. He's the least-known Doctor to Saturday Who fans, to be sure, but I found his Big Finish run - especially with Sheridan Smith's exceptional Lucie Miller - more moving, affecting and sublime than anything Rusty pulled out of his Bad Wolf Bay.
It starts off inoccuous enough, with a healthy distrust for the Doctor, then a grudging respect, then a friendship deeper than Ms Tyler. The Doctor harbours a decent Zygon under her nose and even meets back up with Susan before ending up orbiting a sun for years. And to help him? A version of Lucie bloody Miller. Then, in the final episodes of their era, you realise just how heartbreakingly destroyed she has become. And that's not even a spoiler.
On the whole, this "He's me, but he'll age the same as you" Tennant drivel can get to fuck for the truly emotional epic of The Doctor and Lucie.
