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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Aug 21, 2024 15:25:47 GMT
The three most celebrated Davison adventures are Earthshock, The Five Doctors and The Caves of Androzani. This is reflected in various polls and rating sites. Which is your favourite?
I'm going to go for The Five Doctors for pure enjoyment though I think Earthshock is the most satisfying plot wise. Androzani has the best drama of them all, though. To be fair, I think all three are concrete classics and show that, despite his problems, JNT could be incredibly good at his job. He gave the Cybermen a belter of a return, celebrated 20 years of the show in style (and is still the best anniversary story if we're not counting Remembrance which isn't official) and ended the Davison era with one of the most adult and visually compelling stories ever made.
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Post by rushy on Aug 21, 2024 15:31:23 GMT
Probably Five Doctors for the nostalgia.
Androzani comes close to greatness, but I don't really care about any of the characters aside from the Doctor himself, and maybe Sherez Jek. At least with Blake's 7, you get moments of humanity and fun. The people in Androzani are just varying types of arsehole. I'm not super invested in what happens to them.
Earthshock is just rubbish.
If I had to pick top three Davisons, it would be Enlightenment, Snakedance and Planet of Fire.
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Post by Ludders II on Aug 21, 2024 23:03:06 GMT
Objectively, I know it should be Caves, but my heart often rules my head in these things, so I voted 5 Docs.
Earthshock doesn't even come close.
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Post by burrunjor on Aug 22, 2024 8:37:49 GMT
I agree with Ludders that objectively Caves is the better story, but in all honesty I enjoy Earthshock the most and rewatch it more often.
I also wouldn't include 5 doctors as one of his top 3. Resurrection is a better story all around and is more representative of his era. The Five Doctors after all does benefit from the best of other eras.
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Aug 22, 2024 21:35:38 GMT
Watched Earthshock tonight. Still kicks arse. The slander against it here is really rather cute.
An "excellent" story indeed.
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Post by rushy on Aug 22, 2024 22:05:09 GMT
An "excellent" story indeed. I've never seen a more appropriate use for quotation marks XD |
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Aug 22, 2024 22:24:47 GMT
I love the part three cliffhanger with the cool mirror effect of having three rows of Cybermen stomping towards the camera. Very cool. I think they did a homage to that in Nightmare of Silver, one of the few good things about that episode.
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Post by burrunjor on Aug 22, 2024 22:27:41 GMT
Watched Earthshock tonight. Still kicks arse. The slander against it here is really rather cute. An "excellent" story indeed. Earthshock supremacy forever. |
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Post by Ludders II on Aug 23, 2024 0:03:24 GMT
Episode 1 is alright. The androids are cooler and more scary than the Cybermen.  |
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Post by Ludders II on Aug 23, 2024 0:05:26 GMT
Resurrection is a better story all around and is more representative of his era. Replace Earthshock with Resurrection and you've got my Top 3.  |
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Post by rushy on Aug 23, 2024 0:06:29 GMT
Your continued attempts to gaslight me into thinking that a murky run-around with singed Raston robots for baddies is worth more than a momentary eyeroll might, in fact, turn me into Edmund Blackadder in real time.
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