I absolutely adore this season. I love the tone, effects, music, sets and most controversially... Tom Baker's outfit. Always loved the burgundy look. The only story I don't like from this season would have to be Logopolis. The Fourth Doctor deserved a much better final story than whatever Logopolis was. I just can't quite articulate why I love this season so much, it may not be my favourite, but I think it's one of the most strange season's of all time. There's something odd yet awesome about seeing Tom Baker in a 1980's story.
I think Hagan doesn't like Adric very much. There are some subtile blink-and-miss hints, but they are here. The people of Logopolis are using pure mathematics to prevent death of the universe? I guess turning magical gurls into witches wasn't an option.
I like most of season 18, only story I'm not a fan of is The Leisure Hive. I think the rest of the season varies in quality but it's still enjoyable. Plus, I absolutely love Tom Baker's costume in it. I have to disagree, I think Logopolis is one of the best regeneration stories, probably top 3 imo.
You know, I just realised something. If Doctor Who had already covered vampires by the time Series 5 came out, why didn't they just use the Great Vampires for the episode 'Vampires of Venice'? The fact that they're steeped in old Gallifreyan legend should make them more interesting, as well as a new interpretation of vampire folklore in some ways. Perhaps they wanted to go for something new, which is admirable, but the concept of the Great Vampires just feels like a much better idea for a NuWho episode on vampires than alien fish people who wanted to have young women copulate with the males of their kind...because that's connected to vampires somehow.
Ik I’m years late to this review but this is my single favourite dr who series classic or who. I don’t get the hate seen in the comments really, it’s a tightly crafted exploration of decay and death and is the perfect send off to the 4th doctor. It is filled with high concept ideas, is fresh and inventive in new ways and it finally feels like dr who is doing something new again. I love the sombre tone of it all, and I even like Adric as a companion. Tell me what’s not to like about it
A very somber and downbeat season that appears designed specifically to kick out Tom Baker and reassert control over the show. Yeah, that plan worked out nicely, Beeb. The show got cancelled five years later, brought back, then limped along another four. Ah, well, thank God for McCoy, Aldred and Cartmel for making Dr. Who end on a high note, This season has some strong points, many poor ones, the overall themes of endings, breakups and death helps to build towards the grand finale. I don’t get the haters, I always loved Logopolis. It was a perfect ending to Tom Baker’s era, and bringing back The Master was perfect. Pity he was turned into Snidley Whiplash for most of the 80s. But he does make a major comeback in Survival, so kudos for that.
I can’t help but wonder who played The Watcher. It would be interesting if that was Peter Davison as an unstable version of his Doctor from an unstable timeline that would have happened if the 4th Doctor and the Master has failed and he was left a drifter as a different 5th doctor trying to fix the mistake he made as the 4th Doctor
I thought it was an Auton when it was first spotted in that incredible zoom in shot from the distance. But then it appeared again and I saw it’s face was too nondescript even for an auton.
Season 18 had some good episodes and a couple of great episodes. Overall it was a better season as a whole then what 5, 6 or the 7th Doctors had. They had a great episodes each and a couple of good ones in each of there several years but Tom's season 18 aside from an episode or two was a good overall season though.
+Macleanium There were not that many dull story's in season 18. Also I wasn't putting down all the stories of Doctors 5 thru 7. I even mentioned that they had some very good or great individual story's in there respective years. I guess I meant a whole season itself and general level of quality. I was also agreeing with you about episodes like "State of Decay" which seems to be getting a lot of praise lately from you and other fans. Sorry if there was a misunderstanding. God bless.😀.
So having listened to some of the Big Finish Nimrod stories, I was interested in the lore of the great and lesser vampires. As such I started watching State of Decay. Now, this was my first experience with Adric and I felt confident he couldn't actually be that annoying. His initial conversation with K9 convinced me otherwise, and then he started leaching off the resources of elderly peasants. As someone who found ST TNG season one Westley tolerable, having myself been a know-it-all kid growing up, I was not ready for just how immediately I despised the kid. What makes it worse is that they had a perfect set up to make him more likable in his first scene with K9. K9 is busy doing calculations. Adric is a mathematical genius who wants to convince K9 to let him leave the TARDIS. Adric could easily have bargained to do half the remaining calculations, or K9 could have mentioned being stuck on something to which could have offered a deal to help. Instead Adric pulls some basic rules-lawyering about his status as a stowaway and acts smug about it working.
This season was trying to be far more serious and far less comedic, yet it opens with maybe the funniest moment in the whole series: K9 just INSTANTLY exploding on contact with water.
Meglos is the worst IMHO. A shape-shifting blob that lives inside a cactus to somehow extend its life because cacti can't live 10000 years, and otherwise doing anything on a whim. Like waving a sonic every 7 minutes, the plotting is incredibly weak. But the acting in it is generally great. Especially Jacqueline Hill as Lexa... Logopolis definitely has the right tone, even if it's woolly on parts. Still love it, though!
So season 18 well here are my thoughts episodes The leisure hive/okay Meglos/great Full circle/bad State of decay/awful Warriors gate/great The keeper of tracken/okay Logopolis/great
You seem to hate doctor who more often than you enjoy it. Granted this season wasn't so great, but I think you can be quite harsh to the whole show in general. What parts DO you like?
Hey does anyone else besides me want to see the Nightmare Child that the new show says that Davros flew into during the time war because if there’s giant Godzilla vampires I really want see a giant Godzilla evil child in a big time battle eh probably would be terrible but still it sounds interesting
"Adric is most hated companion in Who history?" ummmmm...I'd raise you Clara Oswald
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@Asa Fisher Theye are are other things male fans wanted to do to Peri, I bet female fans especially American ones wanted to punch her. But as far as male companions the coward Turlough is the more punchable
I fucking hate this season. The Leisure Hive - Shit Meglos - Shit Full Circle - Bad State of Decay - Good Warrior's Gate - Shit The Keeper of Traken - Good Logopolis - Ok
Sarcastic based on prevailing fan consensus. People dislike Mel but they often just say "Bonnie" as it's faster for them? I liked Mel, at least with Six.
@@iain9757 you're such an immense downer. Oh God the BBC wants money, what a crime! Just don't buy it. Nobody's been lied to. The box contains what it's supposed to and I for one am happy with the season. Get the season you like if there is one.
This just reminds me of what a weak episode Logolopis was. The plot was absolutely nonsensical, the Master's motives consisted of nothing more than stalking the Doctor and killing random people, and the Doctor is pretty much complicit in the destruction of a good chunk of the universe and countless lives. He knew the Master was stalking him, and his future self knew what the Master would do when they got to Logolopis but the Doctor went there anyways, even though the Master was on a killing spree. What he should have done, given a failing TARDIS and a homicidal Time Lord stalking him, is he should have returned to Gallifrey and radioed ahead. As soon as he arrived he could have the Master arrested and get his TARDIS fixed by the civilization that built it. Such a stupid episode.
@@HudsonMedia The problem with the Doctor saving the universe from a wave of entropy is that the whole reason the wave was unleashed was because the Master followed him to Logolopis and started randomly killing the math wizards. If the Doctor didn't go to Logolopis in the first place, a quarter of the universe wouldn't have died. And that he had a future projection of himself guiding him made that all the more inexcusable. And as far as taking the TARDIS to Gallifrey for repairs and Master removal, the timelords owed him some favors for all of the times that he saved their world from ruin. Including being invaded by Sontarans of all things.
@@HudsonMedia I liked Logolopis for its feel and its themes, so don't get me wrong. I think that the story needed to happen, especially to give #4 a good send-off. But I just wish that it had been more intelligently written. If the whole entropy-death of the universe became a "fixed point" in time, and there was some dialogue to address that, where all the Doctor could do to stem the tide of disaster was manifest the Watcher to guide himself, then I would have had a much easier time accepting the plot. As far as the Time Lords owing the Doctor a favor, #4 saved Gallifrey from being destroyed by the Master's mucking about with the Eye of Harmony, then later he saved them from being invaded by Sontarans. That he had to save them from an invasion of Sontarans should have been blackmail material right there. And I wish that the Master had something of a motivation rather than just killing everyone in his vicinity. And as far as nitpicking goes, at least I'm not bringing up the Doctor trying to materialize the TARDIS under the Thames to try and flush out the Master's TARDIS. I don't see how that could have ever worked.
You lost me at “ let me put this in perspective”….. and then equated your singular dislike to be on par with the equivalent of millions. Or were you commented on how people’s hate for a character can be over the top irrational, and your meta joke went over my head?!
The show went downhill once JNT arrived. The humour was thrown out - and slowly the Davison characters/groupies arrived. The ratings plummet when The Leisure Hive arrived was shocking. I can't stand season 18.
It went up fast enough, and season 17 had a ratings boost only because of a strike by ITV. Never mind ITV importing Buck Rogers, and BR has dated worse. It's often fun to watch, but it is kitschy and more "of its time". Season 18 was not exactly reveling in disco but trying to find something new.
I HATE this season. Bloody friggin hate it. The main problem I have with it is that many of the changes John Nathan-Turner has made with this season, are mainly aesthetic and not really script or character or story related to make the series stronger. Replacing Dudley Simpson was a huge mistake, the Radiophonic Workshop's synthesized music hasn't aged well at all. It sounds like it was made in the 80s, and belongs in that area. Simpson's music was simply timeless, as was Delia Derbyshire's original theme arrangement. Peter Howell's theme is good, but sounds equally dated today. The new outfit is really now just a costume, it isn't iconic or instantly recognizable like the original multicolor scarf and brown coats were. The biggest problem I have though, like many fans do, is the question marks on the outfit. They're gimmicky, tacky and way too moronic and obvious. It's insulting to our intelligence and it's no wonder none of the Doctors and fans are happy with it. Now all this being said, the more serious science fiction theme wasn't necessarily a bad shift. State of Decay's vampire script had a couple elements that I did like and The Keeper of Traken and Logopolis had their moments as well to keep me at least interested. That being said, it was a little bit sad that Baker did look more frail and tired this season, and that more melancholy tone and theme seemed to permeate this season heavily. Onto the companions, Adric is a gratingly annoying Mary Sue to say the least and I was overjoyed when he was axed in Earthshock. Nyssa I do like, especially when she gets expanded upon in Big Finish. Tegan, not so much, she's a giant brat. I get why Tom hated JNT, Adric and Tegan. Thanks for the vid!
It's telling that the Seventh Doctor's costume in the TV Movie is far more dignified (stupid hair aside) - and looks like clothes someone may conceivably wear
Tom had some great costumes during his run. In fact I prefer the 4th doctor's outfit of the brown long coat, yellow shirt and multi-colored scarf that he wore in seasons 16 and 17 to the Seventh Doctor's costume (which I don't hate. I just don't like it as much). Tom's outfit in episodes like City Of Death looked more wearable and modern then some of the other Doctor's outfits. I also LOVED his Grey and Burgundy coats he wore in the first 4 seasons on and off. Plus Tom, with his 6.3" slim frame wore clothes well in general.
By season 17, it was becoming "The Tom Baker Show". Tom is great, but it barely feels like "Doctor Who" from his earlier years anymore. Season 18 feels far closer to season 12 and even like 13 at times, and is more restrained. Humor is now back to quality over quantity. To. Had been wanting to leave since season 15, if the extras are on point.
The bad rap given to Adric is our cultural fashion for prejudice against teenagers, that everyone uses to blank out the oppression memories from their own teenages instead of abolishing school and freeing teenagers from a pointless crazed slave machine. www.authoritarianschooling.co.uk educationconsent.me 2 problems with this. DW should be about freeing from pointless crazed slave machines, not about the tenth Doctor or his ex-companion becoming teachers. Adric is a rebel, an outlander, a stowaway, hence the bloody total opposite of Wesley Crusher!!! If you rightly hate Wesley as he was until his ending, a patronised naff-dutiful respectable military cadet put there as Victorian obedience propaganda, then exactly you should love Adric. He is a mind of his own teenager, beholden to no socially controlling adult system. But Adric gets a tragic ending, naffness intervening not to let that way win: while Wesley surprisingly got a great ending, in his last episode he turned rebel, left Star Fleet and rejected military obedience to a war crime, in one of nasty military Trek's very few great anti-military moments.
I absolutely adore this season. I love the tone, effects, music, sets and most controversially... Tom Baker's outfit. Always loved the burgundy look. The only story I don't like from this season would have to be Logopolis. The Fourth Doctor deserved a much better final story than whatever Logopolis was. I just can't quite articulate why I love this season so much, it may not be my favourite, but I think it's one of the most strange season's of all time. There's something odd yet awesome about seeing Tom Baker in a 1980's story.
Adric is what happens when a producer thinks The Twin Dilemma would have been popular if there was only one twin.
yet another example of JNT's foresight, predicting a terrible Dr Who story YEARS before it was ever conceived, much less written and produced
I think Hagan doesn't like Adric very much. There are some subtile blink-and-miss hints, but they are here.
The people of Logopolis are using pure mathematics to prevent death of the universe? I guess turning magical gurls into witches wasn't an option.
I like most of season 18, only story I'm not a fan of is The Leisure Hive. I think the rest of the season varies in quality but it's still enjoyable. Plus, I absolutely love Tom Baker's costume in it. I have to disagree, I think Logopolis is one of the best regeneration stories, probably top 3 imo.
You know, I just realised something. If Doctor Who had already covered vampires by the time Series 5 came out, why didn't they just use the Great Vampires for the episode 'Vampires of Venice'? The fact that they're steeped in old Gallifreyan legend should make them more interesting, as well as a new interpretation of vampire folklore in some ways.
Perhaps they wanted to go for something new, which is admirable, but the concept of the Great Vampires just feels like a much better idea for a NuWho episode on vampires than alien fish people who wanted to have young women copulate with the males of their kind...because that's connected to vampires somehow.
Ik I’m years late to this review but this is my single favourite dr who series classic or who. I don’t get the hate seen in the comments really, it’s a tightly crafted exploration of decay and death and is the perfect send off to the 4th doctor. It is filled with high concept ideas, is fresh and inventive in new ways and it finally feels like dr who is doing something new again. I love the sombre tone of it all, and I even like Adric as a companion.
Tell me what’s not to like about it
The beach scene is priceless comedy gold
A very somber and downbeat season that appears designed specifically to kick out Tom Baker and reassert control over the show. Yeah, that plan worked out nicely, Beeb. The show got cancelled five years later, brought back, then limped along another four. Ah, well, thank God for McCoy, Aldred and Cartmel for making Dr. Who end on a high note,
This season has some strong points, many poor ones, the overall themes of endings, breakups and death helps to build towards the grand finale. I don’t get the haters, I always loved Logopolis. It was a perfect ending to Tom Baker’s era, and bringing back The Master was perfect. Pity he was turned into Snidley Whiplash for most of the 80s. But he does make a major comeback in Survival, so kudos for that.
Tom had been threatening to leave for 3 years by then... but when he tried the routine with JNT he didn't balk.
I can’t help but wonder who played The Watcher. It would be interesting if that was Peter Davison as an unstable version of his Doctor from an unstable timeline that would have happened if the 4th Doctor and the Master has failed and he was left a drifter as a different 5th doctor trying to fix the mistake he made as the 4th Doctor
Great idea.
I thought it was an Auton when it was first spotted in that incredible zoom in shot from the distance. But then it appeared again and I saw it’s face was too nondescript even for an auton.
I actually really like State of Decay
Season 18 had some good episodes and a couple of great episodes. Overall it was a better season as a whole then what 5, 6 or the 7th Doctors had. They had a great episodes each and a couple of good ones in each of there several years but Tom's season 18 aside from an episode or two was a good overall season though.
+Linda Taylor but sometimes 5,6 and 7 bad storys are so bad they are good and they aren't dull like many in season18
+Macleanium There were not that many dull story's in season 18. Also I wasn't putting down all the stories of Doctors 5 thru 7. I even mentioned that they had some very good or great individual story's in there respective years. I guess I meant a whole season itself and general level of quality. I was also agreeing with you about episodes like "State of Decay" which seems to be getting a lot of praise lately from you and other fans. Sorry if there was a misunderstanding. God bless.😀.
So having listened to some of the Big Finish Nimrod stories, I was interested in the lore of the great and lesser vampires. As such I started watching State of Decay. Now, this was my first experience with Adric and I felt confident he couldn't actually be that annoying. His initial conversation with K9 convinced me otherwise, and then he started leaching off the resources of elderly peasants. As someone who found ST TNG season one Westley tolerable, having myself been a know-it-all kid growing up, I was not ready for just how immediately I despised the kid.
What makes it worse is that they had a perfect set up to make him more likable in his first scene with K9. K9 is busy doing calculations. Adric is a mathematical genius who wants to convince K9 to let him leave the TARDIS. Adric could easily have bargained to do half the remaining calculations, or K9 could have mentioned being stuck on something to which could have offered a deal to help. Instead Adric pulls some basic rules-lawyering about his status as a stowaway and acts smug about it working.
This season was trying to be far more serious and far less comedic, yet it opens with maybe the funniest moment in the whole series: K9 just INSTANTLY exploding on contact with water.
Best to Worst...
1. Logopolis
2. State of Decy
3. The Leisure Hive
4. Full Circle
5. The Keeper of Traken
6. Meglos
7. Warriors’ Gate
You HATE Warriors Gate?! I loved that!
I was sorry that Tom Baker left but he had been in the role of the Doctor, 7 years and it was time for a new Doctor.
I still need to see the whole season
Best Story:Full Circle/Logopolis
Worst Story;Warrior's Gate
Must See:Logopolis
Really? Warrior's Gate is in my all time top 10 Doctor Who stories.
Roller Coaster You hate Warrior's Gate? Geez.
Meglos is the worst IMHO. A shape-shifting blob that lives inside a cactus to somehow extend its life because cacti can't live 10000 years, and otherwise doing anything on a whim. Like waving a sonic every 7 minutes, the plotting is incredibly weak. But the acting in it is generally great. Especially Jacqueline Hill as Lexa...
Logopolis definitely has the right tone, even if it's woolly on parts. Still love it, though!
Since you mentioned how you disliked the Tenth Doctor, what is your opinion on the Fourteenth Doctor?
Ye gods, it's like putting a portable hole in a bag of holding.
So season 18 well here are my thoughts episodes
The leisure hive/okay
Meglos/great
Full circle/bad
State of decay/awful
Warriors gate/great
The keeper of tracken/okay
Logopolis/great
State of decay is basically perfect
You seem to hate doctor who more often than you enjoy it. Granted this season wasn't so great, but I think you can be quite harsh to the whole show in general. What parts DO you like?
No one hates Doctor Who more than a big Who fan.
classic who fans are very miserable, we're all still bitter about it being cancelled just as it was getting good again
Galactic yo yo Yup.
We love it, we love to hate it, and that we hate. 🤯🤣
Hey does anyone else besides me want to see the Nightmare Child that the new show says that Davros flew into during the time war because if there’s giant Godzilla vampires I really want see a giant Godzilla evil child in a big time battle eh probably would be terrible but still it sounds interesting
Goddammit, RUclips, I don't wanna buy my internet from you!
"Adric is most hated companion in Who history?" ummmmm...I'd raise you Clara Oswald
@Asa Fisher Theye are are other things male fans wanted to do to Peri, I bet female fans especially American ones wanted to punch her. But as far as male companions the coward Turlough is the more punchable
I fucking hate this season.
The Leisure Hive - Shit
Meglos - Shit
Full Circle - Bad
State of Decay - Good
Warrior's Gate - Shit
The Keeper of Traken - Good
Logopolis - Ok
When you insult bonnie Langford I think that's a bit rude imo.
She's being sarcastic. Super-fan Ian Levine, who worked as unofficial continuity advisor, quit the show after Langford was hired. True story.
Sarcastic based on prevailing fan consensus. People dislike Mel but they often just say "Bonnie" as it's faster for them? I liked Mel, at least with Six.
So.. why is this season getting a blu-ray release?
Kris Pistole because “Tom Bakers last season” is a selling point
@@iain9757 you're such an immense downer. Oh God the BBC wants money, what a crime! Just don't buy it. Nobody's been lied to. The box contains what it's supposed to and I for one am happy with the season. Get the season you like if there is one.
Because it's far more good than bad? Depends on whom you ask. The professionalism accorded every season release is what truly shines.
Gawddammit I hated Adric. Never before in the history of Dr Who be it old or new did I hate the companion so much that I wanted them to die.
This just reminds me of what a weak episode Logolopis was. The plot was absolutely nonsensical, the Master's motives consisted of nothing more than stalking the Doctor and killing random people, and the Doctor is pretty much complicit in the destruction of a good chunk of the universe and countless lives. He knew the Master was stalking him, and his future self knew what the Master would do when they got to Logolopis but the Doctor went there anyways, even though the Master was on a killing spree. What he should have done, given a failing TARDIS and a homicidal Time Lord stalking him, is he should have returned to Gallifrey and radioed ahead. As soon as he arrived he could have the Master arrested and get his TARDIS fixed by the civilization that built it. Such a stupid episode.
@@HudsonMedia The problem with the Doctor saving the universe from a wave of entropy is that the whole reason the wave was unleashed was because the Master followed him to Logolopis and started randomly killing the math wizards. If the Doctor didn't go to Logolopis in the first place, a quarter of the universe wouldn't have died. And that he had a future projection of himself guiding him made that all the more inexcusable.
And as far as taking the TARDIS to Gallifrey for repairs and Master removal, the timelords owed him some favors for all of the times that he saved their world from ruin. Including being invaded by Sontarans of all things.
@@HudsonMedia I liked Logolopis for its feel and its themes, so don't get me wrong. I think that the story needed to happen, especially to give #4 a good send-off.
But I just wish that it had been more intelligently written. If the whole entropy-death of the universe became a "fixed point" in time, and there was some dialogue to address that, where all the Doctor could do to stem the tide of disaster was manifest the Watcher to guide himself, then I would have had a much easier time accepting the plot.
As far as the Time Lords owing the Doctor a favor, #4 saved Gallifrey from being destroyed by the Master's mucking about with the Eye of Harmony, then later he saved them from being invaded by Sontarans. That he had to save them from an invasion of Sontarans should have been blackmail material right there.
And I wish that the Master had something of a motivation rather than just killing everyone in his vicinity.
And as far as nitpicking goes, at least I'm not bringing up the Doctor trying to materialize the TARDIS under the Thames to try and flush out the Master's TARDIS. I don't see how that could have ever worked.
You lost me at “ let me put this in perspective”….. and then equated your singular dislike to be on par with the equivalent of millions. Or were you commented on how people’s hate for a character can be over the top irrational, and your meta joke went over my head?!
The show went downhill once JNT arrived. The humour was thrown out - and slowly the Davison characters/groupies arrived. The ratings plummet when The Leisure Hive arrived was shocking. I can't stand season 18.
Then went back up when Andrew Cartmel joined the show
It went up fast enough, and season 17 had a ratings boost only because of a strike by ITV. Never mind ITV importing Buck Rogers, and BR has dated worse. It's often fun to watch, but it is kitschy and more "of its time". Season 18 was not exactly reveling in disco but trying to find something new.
I HATE this season. Bloody friggin hate it. The main problem I have with it is that many of the changes John Nathan-Turner has made with this season, are mainly aesthetic and not really script or character or story related to make the series stronger. Replacing Dudley Simpson was a huge mistake, the Radiophonic Workshop's synthesized music hasn't aged well at all. It sounds like it was made in the 80s, and belongs in that area. Simpson's music was simply timeless, as was Delia Derbyshire's original theme arrangement. Peter Howell's theme is good, but sounds equally dated today. The new outfit is really now just a costume, it isn't iconic or instantly recognizable like the original multicolor scarf and brown coats were. The biggest problem I have though, like many fans do, is the question marks on the outfit. They're gimmicky, tacky and way too moronic and obvious. It's insulting to our intelligence and it's no wonder none of the Doctors and fans are happy with it.
Now all this being said, the more serious science fiction theme wasn't necessarily a bad shift. State of Decay's vampire script had a couple elements that I did like and The Keeper of Traken and Logopolis had their moments as well to keep me at least interested. That being said, it was a little bit sad that Baker did look more frail and tired this season, and that more melancholy tone and theme seemed to permeate this season heavily.
Onto the companions, Adric is a gratingly annoying Mary Sue to say the least and I was overjoyed when he was axed in Earthshock. Nyssa I do like, especially when she gets expanded upon in Big Finish. Tegan, not so much, she's a giant brat. I get why Tom hated JNT, Adric and Tegan.
Thanks for the vid!
It's telling that the Seventh Doctor's costume in the TV Movie is far more dignified (stupid hair aside) - and looks like clothes someone may conceivably wear
Tom had some great costumes during his run. In fact I prefer the 4th doctor's outfit of the brown long coat, yellow shirt and multi-colored scarf that he wore in seasons 16 and 17 to the Seventh Doctor's costume (which I don't hate. I just don't like it as much). Tom's outfit in episodes like City Of Death looked more wearable and modern then some of the other Doctor's outfits. I also LOVED his Grey and Burgundy coats he wore in the first 4 seasons on and off. Plus Tom, with his 6.3" slim frame wore clothes well in general.
By season 17, it was becoming "The Tom Baker Show". Tom is great, but it barely feels like "Doctor Who" from his earlier years anymore. Season 18 feels far closer to season 12 and even like 13 at times, and is more restrained. Humor is now back to quality over quantity. To. Had been wanting to leave since season 15, if the extras are on point.
P.s. I love the new music style. It too would become stale, until 1988...
The bad rap given to Adric is our cultural fashion for prejudice against teenagers, that everyone uses to blank out the oppression memories from their own teenages instead of abolishing school and freeing teenagers from a pointless crazed slave machine. www.authoritarianschooling.co.uk educationconsent.me
2 problems with this. DW should be about freeing from pointless crazed slave machines, not about the tenth Doctor or his ex-companion becoming teachers. Adric is a rebel, an outlander, a stowaway, hence the bloody total opposite of Wesley Crusher!!!
If you rightly hate Wesley as he was until his ending, a patronised naff-dutiful respectable military cadet put there as Victorian obedience propaganda, then exactly you should love Adric. He is a mind of his own teenager, beholden to no socially controlling adult system. But Adric gets a tragic ending, naffness intervening not to let that way win: while Wesley surprisingly got a great ending, in his last episode he turned rebel, left Star Fleet and rejected military obedience to a war crime, in one of nasty military Trek's very few great anti-military moments.