More recs, please

[kangeiko]

Ok,

So I watched The Five Doctors, and I realised I'd seen it before and really liked Five, coincidentally. I also watched The Curse of Fenric, which was brilliant, but I think I've figured out my issues there - I really like Ace, but don't like Seven much, mainly because he's so god-awful to Ace (especially in Fenric, right at the end, you know what I'm talking about).

Generally, I seem to get on quite well with Five and Ten, and not so well with One (or at least the version in The Five Doctors), Two or Nine. I wasn't too sure on Three. I think it's something to do with the level of fun I see the Doctor having - I like him more when he's happy and fun to be around, and not so much when he's crotchety. Maybe I'm watching the wrong things? And I haven't seen Four or Six (or Eight) at all.

So. Bearing the above first impressions in mind, what should I watch next? A lost gem that will change my mind about One or Two? The absolute classic story for Five? Seven being nice to Ace? Something else altogether?

In other news, I am going to Naples in a month or so. Pompeii and Vesuvius, here I come!

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[kangeiko]

Yay, thanks for the lovely recs, I shall go wild at amazon!

Re: ten and martha, you are completely right there. But I weirdly don't have as many issues with that in a way because I've seen a lot more of martha than I have of ace, and martha struck me as a woman (as opposed to ace, who I saw as quite young - maybe I'm wrong on that?) and one who is able to recognise that he's bad for her and leave... Whereas I've only seen ace in remembrance and fenric, and so I've only seen her look up to the doctor to a ridiculous degree. And he is so mean to her, saying that he only picked her as a tool. I get why, but it just strikes me as unnecessarily cruel. Plus, ace breaks down completely and my heart went out to her and I regressed to a three year old, angry 'cause the mean man made my friend cry. Hmmm.

Re: nine. Ok. So I love Nine, and not just because he was the first Doctor I saw. But I'm not sure I like him, ifthat makes sense. I didn't get any sense of joy out of him, and I am all angered out at the moment I think. And in the doctor dances etc he is joyful, yes... But still in that too-intense, manic way, like hysterical laughter after something horrific. I see Nine as massively traumatised after the loss of gallifrey, so much so that his every reaction is on edge, ready to lapse into laughter or violence... So, yeah. I love him to bits, but he doesn't look like he's having a good time to me, he looks like he's hanging on by a thread. YMMV, of course.