wot was bakers, strangling companions to not strangling companions, also none of the companions had particularly good character arcs or development, not saying that mad them bad, I guess turlough had a bit of an arc but still they were ok but not stand out
Then-producer John Nathan-Turner was quite frank about his opinion that the female companion character (whether it be Tegan or Nyssa or Peri) was in the show primarily to be eye candy, "something for the dads to watch." And it certainly shows in Peri. Actress Nicola Bryant was literally right out of drama school and had never acted professionally before. It's pretty clear that the one and only reason she got the part was how good she looked in the bikini she wore in her first story (and the skimpy outfits she wore for the rest of her run.) She also couldn't pull off an American accent. To be fair, though, the writing staff seemed to have a distinctly hostile attitude towards Americans in general, which seemed to be reflected in how they wrote Peri. She was perpetually whining, moping, complaining and was generally incompetent and useless. She looks better in retrospect because at least she wasn't as annoying as Mel, her successor.
This seems to be a weird mix of hated by fans and hated by people in production! Peri for a start wasn't hated anywhere near as much as you implied in this video and Adam was too brief and forgettable to form any kind of opinion of him at all, there are hundreds of characters from single stories that had more screen time than him.
I loved peri she was one of my favourite companion and she worked well with Colin Baker it's a pity a lot of his stories were cancelled, I also liked turlough I thought his story arc started well and was different to the run of the mill companion introduction
I'm not sure Adam could be counted as a Companion as he only took that one trip and, as I recall, was barely involved in the main plot. Bascially, the only thing he does that effect the plot is that his mind link allows the bad guy to learn about the Doctor and the TARDIS. Also, given that his plan was never going to work (the message he tried to record was clearly never going to be useable) the Doctor's reaction was over the top. Rose basically conned him into taking her back to the day her father died then saved his life, threatening all of time and space and while he did get mad he didn't drop her off back home. I guess the moral is: if you're going to use the Doctor to change history make sure he wants to get into your pants if you don't want him to dump you off at home. :)
@@jaynekranc8607 I often wonder why everyone was so mad at the Doctor for strangling her when he was just doing what a lot of wished we could do. As far as the screaming goes I think Bonny Langford had a much more high-pitched scream. I swear after one of her episodes my ears would be bleeding. Thank heavens I didn't have high-def Dolby surround sound or something. Seriously, she missed her calling playing Black Canary.
Yep I get kind of bored of the predictable modern day earth girl/boy mold how about an alien like Nyssa or Turlough or someone from a different time like Jamie new who ?
I agree with the variety, but I also think that the purpose of why it’s always a modern companion is important. It’s meant to have the audience relate to the companion, witnessing and following along with the stories as if they’re traveling along with the doctor.
I think the only mistake with Clara was not letting her die the first time. She was supposed to give her life to save the Doctor, that was the end of her story. Everything after that felt like that movie series that they keep making equals to even though the story was over in the third one. Her story was done. We didn't need the rest.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited A part of me appreciates that we got to see what would happen if a companion stayed with the doctor long enough. We got so saw that corruption and inevitable damnation play out. We saw glimpses of this with rose’s arc, but Clara showed the full potential that a companion could reach, and that the doctor in all endings will be alone.
Clara is great, people forget that ALL the companions have been absolutely OP and super-smart or competent in their own ways. Martha literally saved the world solo and somehow survived everything and then joins Unit and Torchwood and goes on to fight aliens on the regular with Mickey, who became a cyberman destorying, freedom fighting superhero in a parallel world practically on a whim. Rose becomes omnipotent to a point that she influenced nearly every prior episode. Rory has the willpower of a Marvel superhero. The only new who companion before Clara that isn't somehow superhuman or incredibly gifted is Donna, and even then, Donna is absurdly competent and has a huge list of feats.
Clara's actress is great but the writing was very bad. Other than four episodes where she wanted to be there (after MUMMY), she was a bad character with an unstable background even after it was supposed to be stable.
I remember reading somewhere that when the child who designed the Abzorbaloff saw it for the first time, their reaction was "It was supposed to be the size of a bus." That probably would have been more threatening, and certainly would have caused changes to the story.
Same. Sure she had a rough start and I wish they wouldn’t have brought her back for the last episode but she’s a really interesting character when you actually look at her
People who dislike a character are very often more vocal about their dislike of the character than those who like a character are about their liking of that same character
While knowing why people don’t like Clara Oswald, Grace Holloway, Peri Brown, Danny Pink, Mel Bush or the Sixth Doctor I actually like all of these characters.
Clara and Mel I sometimes like, sometimes don't, depending on how they are portrayed in the episode, but the others, seriously?! Where are the actually bad characters like Dodo, Bill and Yasmin?
I’m sort of the other way round, I get why people like Oswald but I don’t overly and same with Danny although I don’t see the hate for peri or Galloway
I liked Clara with Matt Smith, but she bored the hell out of me with Capaldi... Except the under water two parter. Aside from that one, she irritated me with him.
According to Nicola Bryant in an interview, they actually auditioned American actors for the role of Peri and she pretended to be American. But other than the accent who the heck actually hates Peri?
I don't hate Peri but she did have some pretty stiff competition from her predecessors. Jovanka for one was always going to take some following. Peri was loyal and enthusiastic, and not a big screamer, but she wasn't given a very useful role. She goes in the middle of my rankings.
Never understood the hate for Clara (my favourite companion along with Ace) her arc was clear and well done for the most part and her acting out after Danny's death made sense as she'd already started to act more and more like the doctor with that the loss if her boyfriend pushing her further.
it's simple. she's made the most important character in the world within half a season, she becomes an arrogant know it all who always has more importance than the Doctor, and the Danny Pink storyline was laughably terribly written and acted.
Sure it's mainly down to the writing, but I'd say that the 13th doctor is probably hated more than the 6th right now. Really most of the characters from season 11 and 12 are awful
I don't think it's Jodie but more the atrocious writing, acting, editing and production. Some times things just don't work. I hope that Russell brings back the show that you wait each week for.
As I understand it, the sixth doctor, who's regeneration was influenced by a toxic condition, was supposed to develop over a three year period. He never got that chance, and so judging him can be tricky and unfair.
People too often judge the actor, but forget that anything they do or said is decided by someone else. The actor's job is only to convey emotion and personality, if the story he's in sucks, or he does horrible things, or out of character, it's never the actor's fault(and many would fight to have such thing changed, but are too often overruled). The ones we need to condemn are either: The writers, the producers or sometimes the editor(although this last one happens when story seams to jump all over the place).
The hate Clara gets makes me so sad. She was one of my favorite companions! I think people hated her with 11, which is fair! But her with 12 was absolutely amazing!! Their relationship is so deep and complicated. I might also be one of the few people who actually liked Hellbent
Nah, I hated her with a passion from the first second. Such an annoying character. I can't stand her seasons, and even Capaldi's glorious acting can't persuade me to rewatch them.
@@JoeOConnellAllNew We'll just have to disagree about that. At least Six didn't rely on his companions to constantly save the day, which has become the norm.
@@scribewell True, but that's only because his companion Peri was just as incompetent and useless as he was. They both kind of stood around bickering and complaining while things just sort of happened around them. In most of the stories of this era, you could remove both characters entirely and the stories would play out just about the same way.
I’ve admittedly only seen one episode, but my god it was awful, it was the two doctors and the story was awful, the characters were awful even Patrick troughton and his companion who I love were portrayed badly and the sixth doctor was just plain arrogant, although I dont see the hate for peri
@@JoeOConnellAllNew Not going to argue about it. I think Colin was a great Doctor, who had even greater potential (as tapped by Big Finish), was unceremoniously shafted by the BBC, and whose era and performance deserves much more respect than it gets from fans. Period. (Or "full stop," if you happen to be British.)
Turlough? the 6th doctor? Peri? someone hasn't taken into account the huge amount of big finish fans when it comes to the latter and I have never really met anyone who hates Turlough, he has a solid arc especially for classic who and he is pretty cool
Agreed! This is a person who speaks from an orifice diametrically distanced from their mouths, and what emerges from it is consistent with the nature of that anatomical feature!
After I watched Abzorbaloff I immediately reminded myself that the show started out as a kids show.... I chalked that episode up to a throwback to those days
I think the biggest issue with that episode is that it was trying too much new stuff at once. It was the first episode to have little or no Doctor and Rose, the main monster was designed by a child through a contest, and so on. That joke at the end was also really craapy and uncalled for. What's bad is, they could have had a great episode if it had just been about Micky and Jackie dealing with the time between visits from Rose. Maybe Micky getting involved in a light, local, mystery, or something that turned out to be aliens and had the Doctor and Rose show up, in the end to land a hand. All that other stuff wasn't required.
There’s been a reevaluation of Love & Monsters recently that paints it as a deconstruction of the fandom. The members of LINDA are drawn together by the Doctor and express themselves through theories, writing and art, but eventually the Doctor becomes less important than the friendships themselves. Victor Kennedy comes along and lambasts them for losing sight, sucking the joy out of the group with his obsessiveness, before making them a part of himself. The analysis goes that the Abzorbaloff represents toxic fans who indoctrinate others into being toxic. While I don’t believe this is intentional in any way, I recently rewatched the episode with this in mind, and it’s not half bad!
@@lewiskazinsky7334 That is something that could be read into it, for sure. I just think they tried to many experimental things in one episode. Perhaps, having a monster created by a kid in an episode where the main characters are barely in it AND focusing on random characters no one has any connection to wasn't such a good idea. Any one of those, on their own, could have been fine but all three in a single episode? Nah. It really felt like a missed chance to focus on Jackie and Micky and what they do when the Doctor and Rose aren't there. At least it would have been characters we knew and had a connection with.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited I love the idea of the side characters getting a day in the spotlight, as TV Tropes puts it, but Mickey had already been marooned on a parallel world and his surprise return in Doomsday would’ve been hampered by a larger appearance beforehand. Idk if Jackie is strong enough to carry an episode on her own. But you’re right, there’s just too many ideas thrown in with very little consideration for the end result. I actually think that the Abzorbaloff is conceptually very scary and could’ve worked with a darker script. Honestly, Love & Monsters would’ve been better as a back door pilot for The Sarah Jane Adventures 🤷♂️
@@lewiskazinsky7334 I may be remembering wrong I thought he was in this episode (it has been years), if not them maybe they should have focused on Jackie. Someone that we already know. It was a mistake to make it so much about a group of random characters we have investment in. For that matter, at least use characters we had seen the Doctor save in previous episodes (even ones we don't get to see much of, because then there would, at least be continuity as a link). If not that why not focus on that guy that Mickey and Rose visited who had all that research about the Doctor?
One person who speaks and declares to all that it is the voice of the world they are hearing ...It is not ... Especially when it says bull excrement like this!
@@ogpandamonium So you put your boredom watching down to him, and not badly written scripts? Besides which Nicola Bryant was jiggling about as his companion, surely her cleavage and stunning beauty would be enough to make you persevere with it?
@@ogpandamonium The script writers were letting every one down at this stage. Colin Baker did a reasonable job of some bad situations. Some of those stories were dull and unimaginative.
I TRIED to watch the 13th Doctor. I really did, but after several episodes I realized it was nothing but a series of badly written failures. Somehow it felt like I was watching Batman & Robin again, but the funny 'camp' part was gone. On the other hand, it felt like many other shoot-em-up, exploding action shows with lots of action but nothing interesting and, basically, no plot. I felt sorry for Jodi having to act in such a mess. I found myself longing for past writers to be 'rejuvenated' and put back to work.
I was quite surprised that Clara was so hated by the fans (more than the Abzorbaloff Oo ??), I always loved her and her character even if the episodes were not the best of the series :/
She was okay but she should have died (and stayed dead) at the end of the Impossible Girl story, she had no purpose after that. Certainly, killing her off later then bringing her back just to give her a TARDIS, and sending her off in time and space to do whatever she wants just made matters worse.
She was way too much a modern day Mary Sue independent woman who can barely make mistakes, and if she makes mistakes, they are for a good reason and still she will be helped.
@@neptune04 Yeah, I think the biggest issue with her was that she outlived her usefulness. She really should have died when she jumpted into the Doctor's timestream and scattered herself. More accurately she should have existed in all those times but not past that. I would say, most of the issues with her, were due to her story being over but her still being about.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited Through out the series before that, there had been a question about a hybrid timelord. Her return gave the answer, he and Clara. Without the return, and the episodes that set it up, the question would never have been aswered.
Big Finished improved so much of the sixth Doctor and shows how good Colin Baker is, given propper material. Like McGann or John Hurt, there is not one bad (Big Finish) performance of him. + "The last adventure" was amazing. 5 hours Doctor vs. Valeyard at the end there is suddenly a point were you realize "hold on, are they really going for this? OMG, OMG they are doing it!! 33 years and he gets his regeneration" its was such a beautyful moment.
These videos are always really sloppy, especially with classic Who, which I doubt these presenters have really actually watched given the sheer number of mispronunciations.
Back in the 80s my friend's partner met up with an old acquaintance who had moved to London. After a while the conversation moved on to current TV shows. My friend commented that he thought Bonnie Langford was ruining Doctor Who and held forth about what he saw as her shortcomings as an actress. His partner's chum did not take this well, revealing that he was dating Langford at the time. Oh dear...
Yes, she was awful. In "Time and the Rani" in particular it was like she thought she was in a pantomime, I was expecting her to jauntily slap her thigh when she said "Come on Doctor!".
So, I’m curious…how much did the BBC pay you guys to keep anyone from the 13th Doctor’s tenure (including the Doctor herself) off of this list? If ever there was solid evidence of fan dislike/hatred for a Doctor or their companions/characters it’s BLATANTLY evident with the current incarnation of Doctor Who.🤔
I think most of Davison’s companions - Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, Peri, heck, even Kamelion (but not Adric, because *bleep* Adric) suffered from “Crowded Tardis Syndrome”. None of them really had a chance to develop in any meaningful way.
Kamelion had "K-9 Syndrome" as well, where the robot rarely worked and thus was never shown in stories. Combine that with "Crowded TARDIS Syndrome" and you have a companion who was not missed.
I feel worst for Nyssa as I thought she was a really interesting character that too often got left behind in the Tardis or cut out of the episode completely luckily they've given her a more central role on Big Finish and even the crowded Tardis works better on BF
@@multi-purposebiped7419 Didn't Tegan get stuck wandering the tunnels of Frontiis for a whole episode? I seem to remember an article where Janet was complaining about it.
Yep Whittaker and co . She still doesn't know what dr she is . Poor Bradley Walsh normally a good actor but crap scripts. As for the other two with the acting ability of wood.
because she ended up overshadowing the Doctor. it was more about her than the traveling. Oswin was bubbly and likeable, Clara the barmaid-governess was fiery and daring, modern Clara was flippant and self-important. at least that's how i see it
While I personally enjoyed Clara, I can see why there are those who would find her less likeable. The primary reason that stands out to me is that there was a very 'forced' feeling/element to her, as though the show was demanding that she was important, even vital, in a way that didn't necessarily feel earned or deserved within the narrative. A character that doesn't click well with a viewer will only be made worse by the show insisting "This character is important. You care about them. You *have* to care about them because they are important." Personally, I found the interplay with a companion that tried to 'out-Doctor the Doctor', who went 'all in' on the adventures in a way that made even the Doctor tell her to slow down, was a rather interesting spin on the usual dynamic, particularly when it showed why doing that is a Bad Idea for anyone but the Doctor (and only usually isn't for him because he has the means to generally deal with the consequences). The stories where Clara pushed the envelope and it all worked out served to make her overconfident in her ability to handle things like the Doctor does, while seeding the narrative with those moments where things don't quite work the way they 'should' when the Doctor does them; the cop-out on her final fate rather pulled the rug out from under that theme at the very end - and that itself often serves as a capstone for the viewer that doesn't care for her, as it highlights how narratively 'too much' she can be.
I loved Clara but my problem was more I didn't think she worked as well with Capaldi when compared to Smith. I do believe some companions can work with one Doctor but fail with another.
@Arcadius Probably has just as much to do with the fact that you can't watch something if you can't find a place to watch it. In the US, I had to search through tons of sites to find a place where I could actually watch the show beyond just the most recent episode.
Strickson gave some of the most committed performances of any Companion actor in Classic Who; Turlough was an interesting character, and Strickson played him with great intensity. Although Davison thought he worked better with Nyssa, I always felt that the Tegan/Turlough combo brought out the best in his Doctor.
I kind of remember, as a kid, feeling bad for him having the Black Guradian on his back and all. Sure, he started out willingly doing what he did so he could go home but I don't think he really understood his bargin when he made it.
Adric's character was poorly written. I was sort of put off when I read, somewhere, that Peter, Sarah, and Janet had to force themselves not to laugh when the ship made its impact.
Yeah, for some reason they didn't like him. I can't recall if was him or the character they took issue with (or both). I recall Tom Baker saying he didn't like the character because he didn't find him particularly attractive or clever. Weird because his whole thing was how smart he was, especially at math.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited (I'm going to paraphrase that which I read) Matt's first day of shooting, he and Tom were at an outdoor pub, Matt walked up to Tom and made a suggestion as to how Tom should do a scene. Tom said, "piss off." I guess it went downhill from there. I'm not sure how they found him unattractive, he resembled Jamie a lot.
@@cannedmusic I don't know. I get the feeling he thought they should be pretty young girls or something. Then again he said he disliked the character of Leela because she was mostly half-naked and went around killing people, early on. Hard to say for sure. :)
I suspect the real reason for his unpopularity is people just don't like smart, proactive kids. There are plenty of companions lower than him in my rankings.
Some of these make me very sad. I loved Adric. Indeed, were it not for Adric, my queer spark wouldn't have occurred for a lot longer. I crushed on him so hard, which was a 6 year old was quite a mind warp. Point is, I was very fond of him for helping me get used to being me before I needed to fear reprisal for it. Peri never bothered me in any way. The Sixth Doctor intrigued me more than bugged me. If Nardole had been on this list, there would have been a nuclear meltdown. LOL
I can't say on Peri since I haven't seen all her run yet and haven't got to her in BF yet but IMO Adric would have benefitted from a more experienced actor.
I similarly crushed on Turlough. I met Mark Strickson at a convention when I was 12 (1986). He took extra time to talk to the young me at the signature line. It was bowled over by him.
Ryan, the woman who searched for benny & the flying Cybermenheads: Are we a joke to you? But seriously, who hates peri? I´ve never met anyone who hated her. And six is really overhated.
It's funny: when I originally watched Colin Baker's 6, I was a hater. I *really* did not like him. Then, I listened to the Big Finish stories. Holy crap: it's all down to writing, isn't it? If going strictly by the Big Finish audios, Colin Baker is one of the best to portray The Doctor!
As we now know (those who have read up on the behind the scenes stories) Colin and Nicola's 'grand revolution' was sabotaged from within as well as opposed from without and even their last straw 'lets put on a show that'll really dazzle them' 'Trial of a Time Lord' was victim of an endless catalogue of disaster and cataclysm that ended up destroying not only the show (despite two limping years on life support with Sylvester and chums) but also the carefully built 'grand exits' of Doctor 6 and Peri meaning that they got the boot with insult added to injury .... But they never forgot, and to this day they are undoing that disgrace with the tenacity that only people badly wronged can summon up. Long life to them, to their characters and to their stories!
I mean… Vislor? Perhaps on a bad day. Adric? I get why, but I quite like him. Adam. Hell yes. Clara? Same as Adric, but this time I’m not alone in my personal opinion. Danny? Hell _no,_ he’s an absolute s w e e t i e!!
Danny was ok but I think his acting wasn’t that great in the way that when he gave out his emotion it just came out like a wooden block until the very end
While I'm not Yaz's biggest fan in fairness since her run isn't finished it's hard to go by if she is a good or bad companion. For all we know, it might turn around and Yaz ends up becoming one of the most loved companions ever,
Hmm. I actually didn’t mind the way that Danny died (before his corpse got Cyber-Converted) back in Series 8. It showed that not every major character has the chance to die in some form of glorious manner & that sometimes, life itself can get you faster than any invading alien race could. And that not every major death has to be the result of the Doctor indirectly putting them in such a position. As for how no Series 11-13 characters are in this list, kinda think it’s mostly due to the characters during this period simply being not good but not bad either, but are mostly just, meh. Personally I think Jodie did as much as she could (mostly it’s the writing letting her down) & I didn’t mind “The Fam”, they had a “just about good enough” synergy with each other (though we shall see how this pans out now that it’s just Yaz & another newcomer as the companions next series).
Danny Pink? Seriously? He was one of the best characters of Capaldi's first season. He questioned him, challenged him, and at the end of his story proved himself to him through his literal undying love for Clara. He's not my favorite character, but there's absolutely nothing to hate.
@@Scottlp2 Completely fine, I don't expect you to have my opinion of him, or anyone else for that manner. But you disliking him is not a whole fanbase hating him and certainly not explaining how he got on the list.
@@MichaelM28 Not joking, and I completely disagree. He fights both the Doctor and Clara throughout the first season, but He spends most of that time with no idea who the Doctor really is or what Clara's relationship is to him. And Clara's secrecy doesn't help any of that. Once he finds out, he relates to it in his experience. He never says he outright hates the Doctor, but does not trust him and has no real reason to early on. Their relationship changes in one season to more of a begrudging understanding that shows growth from all characters involved. Like him or not, he doesn't deserve to be on the list of most hated in my opinion.
Simple: Fear of “Auntie Beeb” calling down the wrath of the cancel culture army upon any who dare criticize the woke mess that the current incarnation of Doctor Who has become.
@@Charl3y3 The writing is turgid. Give me a decent Robert Holmes story any day. Jodie is hopelessly miscast. A female Doctor can work in the hands of a better actress and writer.
@@Charl3y3 no the stories for the 13th doctor are just annoying, the doctor has lost their quirkiness and since 12 it went down hill. 12th doctor was too serious all the time, 13 just puts me to sleep. It's not fun, it's all about sending some political or social message in every episode as for 13 'fam' oh fgs it's too much and none of the characters have really had a chance to shine. I really hope 14/15 is better and gives us back what the show had with 9,10 and 11.
because she's loved by the fanbase. Did you miss when JodieOurDoctor trended on Twitter MULTIPLE times, whether you like it or not she's one of the most beloved incarnations by the vast majority of fans.
@@baldieman64 no I never said that? and it's not just twitter either, she is also usually near the top of favourite Doctor polls either, within the top 3.
@@friendlyotaku9525 So why do you suppose it is that Series 12 saw the lowest viewing figures for any Doctor since the re-launch of the show in 2005? Could it be that, with 2.6 million viewers having jumped ship since series 4, the poll only asked those viewers that were left?
@@baldieman64 I dunno, maybe it's the fact that overall viewing figures are down. It's not just Doctor Who but most shows have gone through a similar thing, and despite that compared to much of it's competition Doctor Who still does really well (It was the second most watched on New Year's Day so the claim the show is failing doesn't hold any water)
The 6th Doctor and Peri were amazing together and don't belong on this list. Yes the show was nearly cancelled when they were on it but that was the fault of JNT and the powers that be at the BBC. Come to think of it, half of this list comes from the JNT era of the show.
The only characters I’ve ever actually hated were the most recent Doctor & her woke little gang. I think they need to forget the last two series & start again. Though to be honest I don’t think it’s salvageable now. RIP Dr Who 😢
Big Finish really gives people their chance to shine. Colin Baker's Doctor stories are some of the best they have done. We need a video on how Big Finish improved Doctor Who and the great things they have done.
@@neptune04 I've seen her act better before as well. I agree the writing is atrocious. It doesn't help that Jodie herself has been rather nasty to any fan of Dr. Who before her run.
@@neptune04 I apologize, it looks like I got her comment confused with a writer. Her most off color remark was just not concerning herself with any fans critical of the work, and focusing on what the writers want. Which seems near sighted, but not mean. So yes, with a better writing crew it could have been decent. She certainly has the talent. But it also wasn't shown in any degree in Dr Who.
Where did you get the information concerning Peri? I was born in 1975 so I watched Doctor Who until it was sadly cancelled. If I remember correctly Peri was my first celebrity crush & was quite gutted when she was replaced by Bonnie Langford I found her a bit much bloody carrot juice is all I can remember of her lol
@@daveshaw2342 A show like this goes through natural ebbs and flows. That's why the changes in Doctors, Companions, show runners and so forth are all so important. It's a chance for the show to reinvent itself and try something new. I don't think she was a good choice and that she was just picked because they had worked together before. I also don't think trying to act like Timelords changing genders is this totally normal thing that happens all the time, despite the show never showing it before, was the wrong way to go.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited Yep considering all the years when Timelords were supposedly changing sex yet for decades never saw it happen however most people seem to overlook this inconsistancy because "Missy was a good character" personally I don't care how good of a character she was it makes little to no sense !!!!
Can the editors please keep a check on actors names? Immediately Mark Strickson is misidentified as “Mark Strickland”. This sort of thing really kind of takes quite a few of us out of the entire list… sorry Seán, that should’ve been checked before you did the V/O.
With fact checking less strict than CNN or Michael Moore, do you really expect anything more from this clown? I mean who even watches his videos? Wait? It's us? ....AAAARRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!
It would help if they actually wrote their own scripts. Mispronunciations are always a giveaway that they are reading someone else's work. Very sloppy research when it comes to Classic Who in particular.
I think the Sixth Doctor gets a lot of underserved hate. There are moments he cares for Peri, is witty and in Big Finish is shown to be a more complex character
@@joking_oregon1 wait what ? it didn't take that long for him to recover from his regeneration crisis and he defeated the Daleks, Cybermen, the master and the Rani even before his final season sounds like a good guy to me
Adric is one of my favourite characters, he was a sort of apprentice to PD's Doctor. His thinking he could solve a problem the Doctor hadn't was a cleaver twist.
I will forever love the Sixth Doctor. I grew up with him so he's one of my favourites. He was never given a chance to be phenomenal. He and the Fifth Doc will always be MY Doctors.
Getting a bit sick of the hate Colin gets. He was shat on by the BBC. Don't blame him one bit for refusing to film a regeneration scene so we sadly got a dodgy one with Sylvester in a crappy wig.
I liked Peri a lot. Mel was OK. Colin Baker, though, is most unfairly maligned. The writers were starting to make the Doctor a much more interesting character with him, then got cold feet.
I hate Peri so much that when Sil described her as 'repulsively ugly' in the 'Trial of a Timelord' episodes, I absolutely loved it. Peri (Nicola Bryant) also bears a resemblance to a female college classmate of mine back in the late 1980s. I speculated this girl - Nancy - had been 'doing favors(!)' for one of the department heads at the college.
Seriously no Ryan Sinclair (Tosin Cole), I would have ranked him a definite number 1 as he is absolutely 100% terrible. I have seen plastic bags with more acting ability and his character is by far the worst, although in the Jodie Whitaker era that is not saying much
Adric and peri were kind of a shock for me. I personally like Adric always have and probably always will I was sad the very first time I saw earth shock's ending. Peri's not a major favorite for me but she's not the worse I've seen either.
I’ve never actually met anyone who hates Clara. Yeah they’re aware of the issues her character had but not enough to hate her. Anyway maybe I’m biased cos I absolutely love her and Jenna Coleman.
When I first saw Peri in the thumbnail, my first thought on her being on it was because of how much she screamed in the face of danger (something that Mel also did quite). I also didn't hate any of the companions (apart from Adam, of course, who's "redemption" story was a comic called The Prisoners of Time) and I also quite liked how Turlough was the first instance of a bad guy gone in Doctor Who (a bad school boy who was hired as an assassin but later proved to not be so bad). As for comments on why the Thirteenth Doctor isn't on here, I think this lot have been reading what everyone's been saying about how much they regularly criticise her and thought to focus on the rest of the show.
10. Turlough was OK, nothing special but he served his purpose. 9. The abzorbaloff is underrated as is Love and Monsters, fight me. 8. Clara is horrendous and I agree with the hate. Why did they make 2 better characters played by Coleman only to use a weak third? 7. Adam was made to be hated, even Davis said so. 6. What's wrong with grace? I liked her. 5. Peri was alright aside from the accent. 4. Mel was annoying agreed. 3. Adric was insufferable agreed. 2. The Sixth Doctor is underrated as well. Bad writing made his decent acting poor. 1. Danny Pink? What is wrong with Danny Pink? If it were my list 10. Captain Jack 9. Mel Bush 8. Adric 7. Clara 6. Chang Lee 5. Mickey Smith 4. The Fifth Doctor 3. Tegan Jovanka 2. Adam Mitchell 1. The Twelfth Doctor
Video: “No. 1 - The 6th Doctor” Me: ...WHAT???!!! NO FAN “Hates” THE 6TH DOCTOR! He might rank low on many lists but non one ‘hates’ him! That’s just a punch under the belt!
i loved Turlough and Adric - so interesting - they stayed true to their back story and it was meaningful in their adventures, like Leela. Mel's backstory was forgotten as was so sadly Yasmin's and Ryan's and Amy's. Sarah did remain a journalist.
Ah, another "Hated" list - and as usual, the Sixth Doctor (who is one of my faves) and Peri are on it. What a total surprize... sorry - like the lists, but I also quite like both of them.
Clara Oswald. Tried taking over the show, treated the Doctor like a lapdog, and was rewarded with eternal life. Worst companion ever. EDIT: I wish whatever licensing issues are keeping Big Finish from using Grace Holloway and Chang Lee would be overcome so they could do a full series with the Eighth Doctor.
I have never heard anyone complain about Grace, and I liked the movie. And I think the only issue I have with Clara is her being yet another modern companion. Mel was a decent companion and had more investment in the adventures than other companions. Stop hating Colin he deserved that last season. There appears to be no characters from the last four years. I would have put all of them in a top twenty And NO ONE BLASPHEMS ABOUT ADRIC!!!!!!
@@MichaelM28 for f*ck’s sake, *stop screaming at people for not having your (often STUPID anyway) opinions!* It doesn’t make you seem smart or funny, it just shows you as what you _truly_ are; a sad little gremlin who wants to do nothing other than complain about things
While at times Peri and Clara can be characters that get on people’s nerves, I personally think that Nicola Bryant and Jenna Coleman are 2 beautiful women.
I agree with a lot of these. I think Turlough's problem was the same as for Mel and Clara. They were brought in under less than optimal conditions for a limited story arc, and once that arc ended, no one seemed to have a clue what to do with them. Turlough at least got an ending, even if it was part of a checklist because they wanted to have a clean slate for the incoming Doctor. Mel didn't get a beginning, nor an end, but they HAD to write her out because Bonnie Langford wasn't sticking around for a second series anyway. Her problem was that they weren't able to show her FIRST story with the Sixth Doctor, and the regeneration the following season basically made any attempt at a start for her impossible. And Clara. Clara. When you are obsessed with her body over her acting, there's something wrong here (that also applied to Peri to a degree). Also, same as with Turlough, once the "Impossible Girl" storyline ended, no one knew how to address her presence in the TARDIS. Personally, I didn't understand how she was suddenly working at Coal Hill School - I saw it as yet another ill-thought-out nostalgia trip brought in by Russell Davies - which also colored my acceptance of Danny Pink. He was brought in very haphazardly, and I never thought Clara and Danny ever really had any chemistry together. Was Danny brought in solely to downplay yet another romantic relationship with the Doctor? That's how I saw it then, and when it didn't work, he sure was killed off so very quickly. We never got a chance to know him, and he just didn't fit in. Nicola Bryant and Colin Baker just got the short end of the stick, in my opinion. Peri and the Doctor were never able to develop any kind of relationship because the writers were pushing the antagonism between the characters. It WAS a 180% shift from the more kind-hearted Five, but Six started so utterly unlikeable, and his relationship with Peri was just insult and contrast, which simply didn't work. It should be noted that the most prominent look you get of Peri before joining the Fifth Doctor was of her chest, which set the tone for her as much as The Twin Dilemma did for the Sixth Doctor. Both characters were presented in the worst possible way, and the writers never really tried to improve matters over their first full season. And when Peri was written out, it was how Nicola Bryant wanted - kill Peri so that we could finally see that Peri and the Doctor HAD gotten close, that their time together HAD changed them, and we could get an emotional moment from the Doctor. That worked about as well as anything else from the Sixth Doctor's era. And then JNT and the writers took the coward's way out and said, oh, she's not dead, she married Brian Blessed's Yrcanos, which made no fleeking sense at ALL. No more than Leela leaving the TARDIS during the Fourth Doctor's era to marry a Gallifreyan she barely had time to talk to! As for Colin Baker, Colin said that he wanted to start his era with the Doctor very off-putting, very alien, almost villainous, and over the course of his era, he would learn how to become a hero again. His relationship with Peri was part of that gradual redemption arc. And if that sounds familiar, that is exactly what Peter Capaldi was able to bring to HIS Doctor, but not Colin. Colin even said that he wanted his Doctor to have a black outfit to fit his black persona, but JNT refused, and once again Capaldi got what Colin did not. Over the years, I have developed more respect for what Colin and Nicola were trying to do, but the writing simply wasn't there. Both actors were simply cheated throughout their time on the show. BTW, I never liked Capaldi's Doctor, and I felt he never got the leavening that Big Finish would ultimately give Colin. Regarding Adric and Adam Mitchell, I hated them really for the same reason: they were just so unlikeable from the gitgo, and I wonder whether anyone was really intended to like either of them. Adric did get one of the most emotional departures of the classic series, but for this unlikeable character, who cares? But up high on MY list of unlikeable characters is Donna Freaking Noble. Honestly, I hated her from the start, she never really improved, she was a screaming ninny throughout, she didn't really have a workable relationship with the Doctor, she got a terrible ending, and then they brought her BACK for Tennant's second run as the Doctor. I never saw the Fourteenth Doctor season, except for tidbits on RUclips, and I still don't know why it had to be HER!
Yep I can agree with that. Peri and Turlough only got 1 story together it might have been interesting to see how it would be with more stories of 5, Peri and Turlough
Having learned over the years of how the Beeb handled (or more correctly, mishandled) the series, I'm not going to be too harsh on either the Doctors, nor their companions. That some of the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Doctors gave the performances they did, in spite of the backstage mess, is to be accepted. And blame us Americans for two things: bringing romance to the show and orchestral music scores, which Murray Gold took full advantage of in the modern series.
I was shocked to discover that quite a lot of people don’t like River Song. I always thought that Alex Kingston did a great job at playing her but many find her annoying. I personally love the character
Eh? I thought grace was one of the better things about the movie, oh well. Does any1 else think the abzorbaloff looks like the creeper, from jeepers creepers, fat green brother??
I would really like to see an episode where we visit Raxacoricofallapatorius and Clom and see they have a relationship like the planets in the TNG episode Symbiosis.
Turlough, Peri AND the Sixth Doctor? Damn, someone isn’t a fan of actual character development or arcs.
WHAT character development dumbass?
@@MichaelM28 does their later stories and Big Finish work not count then?
Yeah, but f*ck the sixth Doctor(no hate for the actor, his Doctor was just a complete a$$)
@@HunterX05 in his first story yes, every other story he goes on to appear in is vastly different in terms of characterisation.
wot was bakers, strangling companions to not strangling companions, also none of the companions had particularly good character arcs or development, not saying that mad them bad, I guess turlough had a bit of an arc but still they were ok but not stand out
Nicola Bryant (Peri) was not a companion people hated.
Except for the pearl clutching Mary Whitehouse types... :p
but she doesn't speak American very well
@@geoffroi-le-Hook You mean English, That is not an issue.
@@geoffroi-le-Hook her first serial with Davison, her normal accent broke through a lot, but it got better over time.
Then-producer John Nathan-Turner was quite frank about his opinion that the female companion character (whether it be Tegan or Nyssa or Peri) was in the show primarily to be eye candy, "something for the dads to watch." And it certainly shows in Peri. Actress Nicola Bryant was literally right out of drama school and had never acted professionally before. It's pretty clear that the one and only reason she got the part was how good she looked in the bikini she wore in her first story (and the skimpy outfits she wore for the rest of her run.) She also couldn't pull off an American accent.
To be fair, though, the writing staff seemed to have a distinctly hostile attitude towards Americans in general, which seemed to be reflected in how they wrote Peri. She was perpetually whining, moping, complaining and was generally incompetent and useless.
She looks better in retrospect because at least she wasn't as annoying as Mel, her successor.
This seems to be a weird mix of hated by fans and hated by people in production! Peri for a start wasn't hated anywhere near as much as you implied in this video and Adam was too brief and forgettable to form any kind of opinion of him at all, there are hundreds of characters from single stories that had more screen time than him.
I loved peri she was one of my favourite companion and she worked well with Colin Baker it's a pity a lot of his stories were cancelled, I also liked turlough I thought his story arc started well and was different to the run of the mill companion introduction
I'm not sure Adam could be counted as a Companion as he only took that one trip and, as I recall, was barely involved in the main plot. Bascially, the only thing he does that effect the plot is that his mind link allows the bad guy to learn about the Doctor and the TARDIS. Also, given that his plan was never going to work (the message he tried to record was clearly never going to be useable) the Doctor's reaction was over the top.
Rose basically conned him into taking her back to the day her father died then saved his life, threatening all of time and space and while he did get mad he didn't drop her off back home. I guess the moral is: if you're going to use the Doctor to change history make sure he wants to get into your pants if you don't want him to dump you off at home. :)
I hated Peri every episode she was in.
@@jaynekranc8607 I often wonder why everyone was so mad at the Doctor for strangling her when he was just doing what a lot of wished we could do.
As far as the screaming goes I think Bonny Langford had a much more high-pitched scream. I swear after one of her episodes my ears would be bleeding.
Thank heavens I didn't have high-def Dolby surround sound or something.
Seriously, she missed her calling playing Black Canary.
I honestly didn't realize that since I haven't seen too many episodes Peri was in besides twin dilemma and trial of a timelord.
Couldn't we have just kept the Victorian Clara? We haven't had a companion like that since the classic era
Yep I get kind of bored of the predictable modern day earth girl/boy mold
how about an alien like Nyssa or Turlough or someone from a different time like Jamie new who ?
That was probably the plan until some meddling.
I agree with the variety, but I also think that the purpose of why it’s always a modern companion is important. It’s meant to have the audience relate to the companion, witnessing and following along with the stories as if they’re traveling along with the doctor.
I think the only mistake with Clara was not letting her die the first time. She was supposed to give her life to save the Doctor, that was the end of her story. Everything after that felt like that movie series that they keep making equals to even though the story was over in the third one.
Her story was done. We didn't need the rest.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited A part of me appreciates that we got to see what would happen if a companion stayed with the doctor long enough. We got so saw that corruption and inevitable damnation play out. We saw glimpses of this with rose’s arc, but Clara showed the full potential that a companion could reach, and that the doctor in all endings will be alone.
Clara is great, people forget that ALL the companions have been absolutely OP and super-smart or competent in their own ways. Martha literally saved the world solo and somehow survived everything and then joins Unit and Torchwood and goes on to fight aliens on the regular with Mickey, who became a cyberman destorying, freedom fighting superhero in a parallel world practically on a whim. Rose becomes omnipotent to a point that she influenced nearly every prior episode. Rory has the willpower of a Marvel superhero. The only new who companion before Clara that isn't somehow superhuman or incredibly gifted is Donna, and even then, Donna is absurdly competent and has a huge list of feats.
Clara's actress is great but the writing was very bad. Other than four episodes where she wanted to be there (after MUMMY), she was a bad character with an unstable background even after it was supposed to be stable.
I remember reading somewhere that when the child who designed the Abzorbaloff saw it for the first time, their reaction was "It was supposed to be the size of a bus." That probably would have been more threatening, and certainly would have caused changes to the story.
I bet that if it was that big, the CGI of it would have been horrible.
I don’t get why people hate clara I personally love her she in my opinion is amazing
Same.
Sure she had a rough start and I wish they wouldn’t have brought her back for the last episode but she’s a really interesting character when you actually look at her
Same. She's fantastic
People who dislike a character are very often more vocal about their dislike of the character than those who like a character are about their liking of that same character
@@HogW1ld385 I actually really love her last episode! (Not the special when she appears for like a minute)
I don’t The Doctor’s had lots of worse companions who didn’t even make the list old & new.
While knowing why people don’t like Clara Oswald, Grace Holloway, Peri Brown, Danny Pink, Mel Bush or the Sixth Doctor I actually like all of these characters.
Clara and Mel I sometimes like, sometimes don't, depending on how they are portrayed in the episode, but the others, seriously?! Where are the actually bad characters like Dodo, Bill and Yasmin?
Same with me on Oswald (I haven’t watched many 5th 6th 7th Doctor stories so I can’t tell u how I feel about them)
I’m sort of the other way round, I get why people like Oswald but I don’t overly and same with Danny although I don’t see the hate for peri or Galloway
Holloway sorry
I liked Clara with Matt Smith, but she bored the hell out of me with Capaldi... Except the under water two parter. Aside from that one, she irritated me with him.
Peri, really? I had plenty of feelings about Peri, but hate definitely wasn't one of them.
Perv.
@@peterd788 Brilliant!
@@fje6902 lmao
Live long and prosper commander Spock
She and Tegan probably rank among some of the worst fake accents in BBC history, but aside from that she wasn't so bad.
According to Nicola Bryant in an interview, they actually auditioned American actors for the role of Peri and she pretended to be American. But other than the accent who the heck actually hates Peri?
Nobody (well, almost nobody. Statistically there must be one or two, such as the writer here, but they must be in a minority)
I don't hate Peri but she did have some pretty stiff competition from her predecessors. Jovanka for one was always going to take some following. Peri was loyal and enthusiastic, and not a big screamer, but she wasn't given a very useful role. She goes in the middle of my rankings.
@@multi-purposebiped7419 One was joking of course (well, sort of ..) but that is a very excellent rebuttal to an angry Peri-fans take! 😃
I did and still do.
@@multi-purposebiped7419 personally I prefer Nyssa to Tegan Jovanka
Never understood the hate for Clara (my favourite companion along with Ace) her arc was clear and well done for the most part and her acting out after Danny's death made sense as she'd already started to act more and more like the doctor with that the loss if her boyfriend pushing her further.
i hate her for the jumping into the timeline stuff
T2033, that’s a frakking stupid as frell reason.
it's simple. she's made the most important character in the world within half a season, she becomes an arrogant know it all who always has more importance than the Doctor, and the Danny Pink storyline was laughably terribly written and acted.
Sure it's mainly down to the writing, but I'd say that the 13th doctor is probably hated more than the 6th right now.
Really most of the characters from season 11 and 12 are awful
I like Jodie as the doctor but as for if she is good or not maybe when she gets to BF she will turn it around like Colin did.
I stopped watching a few episodes into 13... waiting patiently for 14. D:
@@mekkiepoo That is fair I respect your decision as long as you are mature about it.
I don't think it's Jodie but more the atrocious writing, acting, editing and production. Some times things just don't work. I hope that Russell brings back the show that you wait each week for.
@@mekkiepoo I'd get back into it. Flux is a pretty good season
I like Clara, she is one of my fav characters. She had a very interesting story, but sometimes she was really getting on my nerves
As I understand it, the sixth doctor, who's regeneration was influenced by a toxic condition, was supposed to develop over a three year period. He never got that chance, and so judging him can be tricky and unfair.
People too often judge the actor, but forget that anything they do or said is decided by someone else.
The actor's job is only to convey emotion and personality, if the story he's in sucks, or he does horrible things, or out of character, it's never the actor's fault(and many would fight to have such thing changed, but are too often overruled).
The ones we need to condemn are either:
The writers, the producers or sometimes the editor(although this last one happens when story seams to jump all over the place).
@@jawstrock2215 Yes, the writing I feel just wasn't that great in the mid to late 80s.
@@jawstrock2215It is a bit like what we saw with Jodie Whitaker as the Doctor
@@hestushenchmanDeja Vu at the moment
@@OscarOSullivan I agree.
The hate Clara gets makes me so sad. She was one of my favorite companions! I think people hated her with 11, which is fair! But her with 12 was absolutely amazing!! Their relationship is so deep and complicated. I might also be one of the few people who actually liked Hellbent
yaaaasss finally
Nah, I hated her with a passion from the first second. Such an annoying character. I can't stand her seasons, and even Capaldi's glorious acting can't persuade me to rewatch them.
@@IreneWY cool
shes third fav in my book
She's my favourite companion from the Nuwho.
In my experience, most of the people who badmouth the Sixth Doctor's Era have never seen it.
I've seen it. The sixth Doctor, Peri and the whole era are just plain bad, bad, bad in every way.
@@JoeOConnellAllNew We'll just have to disagree about that. At least Six didn't rely on his companions to constantly save the day, which has become the norm.
@@scribewell True, but that's only because his companion Peri was just as incompetent and useless as he was. They both kind of stood around bickering and complaining while things just sort of happened around them. In most of the stories of this era, you could remove both characters entirely and the stories would play out just about the same way.
I’ve admittedly only seen one episode, but my god it was awful, it was the two doctors and the story was awful, the characters were awful even Patrick troughton and his companion who I love were portrayed badly and the sixth doctor was just plain arrogant, although I dont see the hate for peri
@@JoeOConnellAllNew Not going to argue about it. I think Colin was a great Doctor, who had even greater potential (as tapped by Big Finish), was unceremoniously shafted by the BBC, and whose era and performance deserves much more respect than it gets from fans. Period. (Or "full stop," if you happen to be British.)
I had to check the date on this. Really? No one from Jodie's run as the Doctor? I'd take Turlough back any day.
Exactly, why isn't Jodie in this list?
@@jasonotoole1822 I don't hate Jodie so much as every other character in the last two years.
It's not 'P.C.' to criticize them.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited Truth.
@@pipkinrahl7264 Can you imagine the hell the left would rain down on the people behind this list if they critized anyone from Jodie's run?
Turlough? the 6th doctor? Peri? someone hasn't taken into account the huge amount of big finish fans when it comes to the latter and I have never really met anyone who hates Turlough, he has a solid arc especially for classic who and he is pretty cool
Agreed! This is a person who speaks from an orifice diametrically distanced from their mouths, and what emerges from it is consistent with the nature of that anatomical feature!
This is probably from the perspective mostly of casual viewers who only watch the TV series
I like Turlough, and I thought he was incredibly cute. That opinion was confirmed when I met Mark Strickson at a convention in 1986.
When most of the Mel footage is actually the Rani 😂
Poor poor poor Colin Baker. He could have been a great doctor, but unfortunatly, he played the doctor at the WORST Doctor Who period !
He was a great doctor. Vengeance on Varos, and his Dalek story are amongst the best Dr Who stories ever.
Jodie is worse her writing is shit
He wanted to wear something closer to what the Ninth wore
The current Doctor Who era is MUCH worse. Too much soap opera schlock, not enough action and weirdness.
@@blackphoenix77 Amen!!!
After I watched Abzorbaloff I immediately reminded myself that the show started out as a kids show.... I chalked that episode up to a throwback to those days
I think the biggest issue with that episode is that it was trying too much new stuff at once. It was the first episode to have little or no Doctor and Rose, the main monster was designed by a child through a contest, and so on. That joke at the end was also really craapy and uncalled for.
What's bad is, they could have had a great episode if it had just been about Micky and Jackie dealing with the time between visits from Rose. Maybe Micky getting involved in a light, local, mystery, or something that turned out to be aliens and had the Doctor and Rose show up, in the end to land a hand.
All that other stuff wasn't required.
There’s been a reevaluation of Love & Monsters recently that paints it as a deconstruction of the fandom. The members of LINDA are drawn together by the Doctor and express themselves through theories, writing and art, but eventually the Doctor becomes less important than the friendships themselves. Victor Kennedy comes along and lambasts them for losing sight, sucking the joy out of the group with his obsessiveness, before making them a part of himself. The analysis goes that the Abzorbaloff represents toxic fans who indoctrinate others into being toxic. While I don’t believe this is intentional in any way, I recently rewatched the episode with this in mind, and it’s not half bad!
@@lewiskazinsky7334 That is something that could be read into it, for sure.
I just think they tried to many experimental things in one episode.
Perhaps, having a monster created by a kid in an episode where the main characters are barely in it AND focusing on random characters no one has any connection to wasn't such a good idea.
Any one of those, on their own, could have been fine but all three in a single episode? Nah.
It really felt like a missed chance to focus on Jackie and Micky and what they do when the Doctor and Rose aren't there.
At least it would have been characters we knew and had a connection with.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited I love the idea of the side characters getting a day in the spotlight, as TV Tropes puts it, but Mickey had already been marooned on a parallel world and his surprise return in Doomsday would’ve been hampered by a larger appearance beforehand. Idk if Jackie is strong enough to carry an episode on her own. But you’re right, there’s just too many ideas thrown in with very little consideration for the end result. I actually think that the Abzorbaloff is conceptually very scary and could’ve worked with a darker script. Honestly, Love & Monsters would’ve been better as a back door pilot for The Sarah Jane Adventures 🤷♂️
@@lewiskazinsky7334 I may be remembering wrong I thought he was in this episode (it has been years), if not them maybe they should have focused on Jackie.
Someone that we already know. It was a mistake to make it so much about a group of random characters we have investment in.
For that matter, at least use characters we had seen the Doctor save in previous episodes (even ones we don't get to see much of, because then there would, at least be continuity as a link).
If not that why not focus on that guy that Mickey and Rose visited who had all that research about the Doctor?
I would move every character on this list down the list by one position and lump all three companions, the master and the doctor from the Chibnal era.
You just hit the nail on the head
I quite liked Clara as a character, I just think the constant death and revival started to just, get annoying.
Also, most hated according to whom? Is there research on fan reaction that backs up any of this?
No because literally the entire comment section is basically like “haha no you’re wrong”
One person who speaks and declares to all that it is the voice of the world they are hearing ...It is not ... Especially when it says bull excrement like this!
Can we drop this hatred for Colin Baker, he was one of the best, who just took on the role at the wrong time, and was treated badly.
He's actually one of my favorites but seems to me this dudes videos has got a vendetta against the 6th Doctor
@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 I've never even watched Classic Who, but I agree that there's been quite a lot of hate for Six on this channel.
He might have been cool, but his episodes were just so damn boring!
I've started a load but havn't finished a single one because I was too bored
@@ogpandamonium So you put your boredom watching down to him, and not badly written scripts? Besides which Nicola Bryant was jiggling about as his companion, surely her cleavage and stunning beauty would be enough to make you persevere with it?
@@ogpandamonium The script writers were letting every one down at this stage. Colin Baker did a reasonable job of some bad situations. Some of those stories were dull and unimaginative.
What about the 13th Doctor Jodie Whitaker for completely losing the character or the doctor and having the worst stories in all of who history?
And the worst companions.
I one million percent agree
I really hate both the actor and the writer
Yes
I TRIED to watch the 13th Doctor. I really did, but after several episodes I realized it was nothing but a series of badly written failures. Somehow it felt like I was watching Batman & Robin again, but the funny 'camp' part was gone. On the other hand, it felt like many other shoot-em-up, exploding action shows with lots of action but nothing interesting and, basically, no plot. I felt sorry for Jodi having to act in such a mess. I found myself longing for past writers to be 'rejuvenated' and put back to work.
I was quite surprised that Clara was so hated by the fans (more than the Abzorbaloff Oo ??), I always loved her and her character even if the episodes were not the best of the series :/
She was okay but she should have died (and stayed dead) at the end of the Impossible Girl story, she had no purpose after that. Certainly, killing her off later then bringing her back just to give her a TARDIS, and sending her off in time and space to do whatever she wants just made matters worse.
She was way too much a modern day Mary Sue independent woman who can barely make mistakes, and if she makes mistakes, they are for a good reason and still she will be helped.
I didn't mind clara at first but I think she stayed too long
@@neptune04 Yeah, I think the biggest issue with her was that she outlived her usefulness.
She really should have died when she jumpted into the Doctor's timestream and scattered herself.
More accurately she should have existed in all those times but not past that.
I would say, most of the issues with her, were due to her story being over but her still being about.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited Through out the series before that, there had been a question about a hybrid timelord. Her return gave the answer, he and Clara. Without the return, and the episodes that set it up, the question would never have been aswered.
Big Finished improved so much of the sixth Doctor and shows how good Colin Baker is, given propper material. Like McGann or John Hurt, there is not one bad (Big Finish) performance of him. + "The last adventure" was amazing. 5 hours Doctor vs. Valeyard at the end there is suddenly a point were you realize "hold on, are they really going for this? OMG, OMG they are doing it!! 33 years and he gets his regeneration" its was such a beautyful moment.
According to an account here called FreeAssange big finish is wank, Russell T Davies is a turd, Steve Moffat is a muppet and new who is shite.
"Aged like milk...."? I have a lovely block of aged milk in the fridge. White cheddar.
Me too
Somebody needs to proofread/fact-check these videos:
Mark *Strickson*
Clara *Oswald*
These videos are always really sloppy, especially with classic Who, which I doubt these presenters have really actually watched given the sheer number of mispronunciations.
Back in the 80s my friend's partner met up with an old acquaintance who had moved to London. After a while the conversation moved on to current TV shows. My friend commented that he thought Bonnie Langford was ruining Doctor Who and held forth about what he saw as her shortcomings as an actress. His partner's chum did not take this well, revealing that he was dating Langford at the time. Oh dear...
Yes, she was awful. In "Time and the Rani" in particular it was like she thought she was in a pantomime, I was expecting her to jauntily slap her thigh when she said "Come on Doctor!".
@@ensor2872 In fairness Time and The Rani was a mess anyway.
So, I’m curious…how much did the BBC pay you guys to keep anyone from the 13th Doctor’s tenure (including the Doctor herself) off of this list? If ever there was solid evidence of fan dislike/hatred for a Doctor or their companions/characters it’s BLATANTLY evident with the current incarnation of Doctor Who.🤔
Danny Pink deserved better! I would’ve loved to see more of him, and written even better. The actor was also amazing
He's terrible!
@@MichaelM28 I see where you are coming from but I liked him
I think most of Davison’s companions - Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, Peri, heck, even Kamelion (but not Adric, because *bleep* Adric) suffered from “Crowded Tardis Syndrome”. None of them really had a chance to develop in any meaningful way.
Kamelion had "K-9 Syndrome" as well, where the robot rarely worked and thus was never shown in stories. Combine that with "Crowded TARDIS Syndrome" and you have a companion who was not missed.
I feel worst for Nyssa as I thought she was a really interesting character that too often got left behind in the Tardis or cut out of the episode completely luckily they've given her a more central role on Big Finish and even the crowded Tardis works better on BF
Character development wasn't what the show did back then.
As far as I'm concerned, Tegan bossed the Tardis crowd. I can't remember one instance where she played second fiddle. She had intensity.
@@multi-purposebiped7419 Didn't Tegan get stuck wandering the tunnels of Frontiis for a whole episode? I seem to remember an article where Janet was complaining about it.
You could probably replace all 10 of these with characters from 13s run.
Yep Whittaker and co . She still doesn't know what dr she is . Poor Bradley Walsh normally a good actor but crap scripts. As for the other two with the acting ability of wood.
No 'probably' needed in that sentence.
I’ve never disliked Clara and don’t understand why so many people do.
I know! She’s one of my favourite companions
because she ended up overshadowing the Doctor. it was more about her than the traveling. Oswin was bubbly and likeable, Clara the barmaid-governess was fiery and daring, modern Clara was flippant and self-important. at least that's how i see it
While I personally enjoyed Clara, I can see why there are those who would find her less likeable. The primary reason that stands out to me is that there was a very 'forced' feeling/element to her, as though the show was demanding that she was important, even vital, in a way that didn't necessarily feel earned or deserved within the narrative. A character that doesn't click well with a viewer will only be made worse by the show insisting "This character is important. You care about them. You *have* to care about them because they are important."
Personally, I found the interplay with a companion that tried to 'out-Doctor the Doctor', who went 'all in' on the adventures in a way that made even the Doctor tell her to slow down, was a rather interesting spin on the usual dynamic, particularly when it showed why doing that is a Bad Idea for anyone but the Doctor (and only usually isn't for him because he has the means to generally deal with the consequences). The stories where Clara pushed the envelope and it all worked out served to make her overconfident in her ability to handle things like the Doctor does, while seeding the narrative with those moments where things don't quite work the way they 'should' when the Doctor does them; the cop-out on her final fate rather pulled the rug out from under that theme at the very end - and that itself often serves as a capstone for the viewer that doesn't care for her, as it highlights how narratively 'too much' she can be.
@@GoddessOfWhim2003
Yep pretty much, that's how a lot of people see it
I loved Clara but my problem was more I didn't think she worked as well with Capaldi when compared to Smith. I do believe some companions can work with one Doctor but fail with another.
I think after the tenure of Jodie Whittaker, Colin Baker will definitely rise in stature.
You do know Jodie didn't write any of her episodes, don't you?
@Arcadius Meh, Whittaker and the 13th Doctor are not bad.
@Arcadius [citation needed]
You don't speak for everyone.
@Arcadius Probably has just as much to do with the fact that you can't watch something if you can't find a place to watch it. In the US, I had to search through tons of sites to find a place where I could actually watch the show beyond just the most recent episode.
All hail Colin!🍾 If those are my only choices, then I've chosen well👍
Funny how you’ve not put a single character from Series 11 & 12.
shhh pretend everyone loves the new era
They don't want to get canceled or called names.
Whittaker is garbage
@@daveshaw2342 She's not *that* good!
@@thefurrybastard1964 lets just hope she gets better
I love Turlough. I think it’s because I like Mark Strickson.
Strickson gave some of the most committed performances of any Companion actor in Classic Who; Turlough was an interesting character, and Strickson played him with great intensity. Although Davison thought he worked better with Nyssa, I always felt that the Tegan/Turlough combo brought out the best in his Doctor.
Yeah wtf, who hates Turlough
Turlough was cool 😎
Who's Mark Strickland?
I kind of remember, as a kid, feeling bad for him having the Black Guradian on his back and all. Sure, he started out willingly doing what he did so he could go home but I don't think he really understood his bargin when he made it.
I love Clara 🥰
I know I never had a problem with her
Same.
I always thought she was amazing
Turlough was a quality character
He was interestingly complex.
Adric's character was poorly written. I was sort of put off when I read, somewhere, that Peter, Sarah, and Janet had to force themselves not to laugh when the ship made its impact.
Yeah, for some reason they didn't like him. I can't recall if was him or the character they took issue with (or both). I recall Tom Baker saying he didn't like the character because he didn't find him particularly attractive or clever. Weird because his whole thing was how smart he was, especially at math.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited (I'm going to paraphrase that which I read) Matt's first day of shooting, he and Tom were at an outdoor pub, Matt walked up to Tom and made a suggestion as to how Tom should do a scene. Tom said, "piss off." I guess it went downhill from there. I'm not sure how they found him unattractive, he resembled Jamie a lot.
@@cannedmusic I don't know. I get the feeling he thought they should be pretty young girls or something.
Then again he said he disliked the character of Leela because she was mostly half-naked and went around killing people, early on.
Hard to say for sure. :)
@@LibraGamesUnlimited true
I suspect the real reason for his unpopularity is people just don't like smart, proactive kids. There are plenty of companions lower than him in my rankings.
Some of these make me very sad. I loved Adric. Indeed, were it not for Adric, my queer spark wouldn't have occurred for a lot longer. I crushed on him so hard, which was a 6 year old was quite a mind warp. Point is, I was very fond of him for helping me get used to being me before I needed to fear reprisal for it.
Peri never bothered me in any way. The Sixth Doctor intrigued me more than bugged me.
If Nardole had been on this list, there would have been a nuclear meltdown. LOL
I can't say on Peri since I haven't seen all her run yet and haven't got to her in BF yet but IMO Adric would have benefitted from a more experienced actor.
I similarly crushed on Turlough. I met Mark Strickson at a convention when I was 12 (1986). He took extra time to talk to the young me at the signature line. It was bowled over by him.
Ryan, the woman who searched for benny & the flying Cybermenheads: Are we a joke to you?
But seriously, who hates peri? I´ve never met anyone who hated her. And six is really overhated.
Leave the flying Cyberheads out of this... they had far more character than Ryan or Vilma ;)
Yeah Peri is one of my favorite companions she's very relatable and I like how she and 6 start out rough but eventually become best friends in the end
Her attempt at an American accent gets on the nerves of this Transpondian
@@geoffroi-le-Hook Well maybe it was getting our own back for all the terrible British accents done by American actors
@@pedanticradiator1491 😂🤣😂 nice come back
It's funny: when I originally watched Colin Baker's 6, I was a hater. I *really* did not like him.
Then, I listened to the Big Finish stories.
Holy crap: it's all down to writing, isn't it?
If going strictly by the Big Finish audios, Colin Baker is one of the best to portray The Doctor!
As we now know (those who have read up on the behind the scenes stories) Colin and Nicola's 'grand revolution' was sabotaged from within as well as opposed from without and even their last straw 'lets put on a show that'll really dazzle them' 'Trial of a Time Lord' was victim of an endless catalogue of disaster and cataclysm that ended up destroying not only the show (despite two limping years on life support with Sylvester and chums) but also the carefully built 'grand exits' of Doctor 6 and Peri meaning that they got the boot with insult added to injury .... But they never forgot, and to this day they are undoing that disgrace with the tenacity that only people badly wronged can summon up.
Long life to them, to their characters and to their stories!
I mean…
Vislor? Perhaps on a bad day.
Adric? I get why, but I quite like him.
Adam. Hell yes.
Clara? Same as Adric, but this time I’m not alone in my personal opinion.
Danny? Hell _no,_ he’s an absolute s w e e t i e!!
Danny was ok but I think his acting wasn’t that great in the way that when he gave out his emotion it just came out like a wooden block until the very end
Danny is trash!
You like Adric and Danny? Dear god
@@MichaelM28 hello, you!
I was _wondering_ when you’d show up. Maybe one day you’ll learnt that other people are allowed their own opinions, or is that too much to ask for?
Clara more hated than Yaz?? (side note: I had to look up her character name as I genuinely couldn't remember it!)
While I'm not Yaz's biggest fan in fairness since her run isn't finished it's hard to go by if she is a good or bad companion. For all we know, it might turn around and Yaz ends up becoming one of the most loved companions ever,
Hmm. I actually didn’t mind the way that Danny died (before his corpse got Cyber-Converted) back in Series 8. It showed that not every major character has the chance to die in some form of glorious manner & that sometimes, life itself can get you faster than any invading alien race could. And that not every major death has to be the result of the Doctor indirectly putting them in such a position.
As for how no Series 11-13 characters are in this list, kinda think it’s mostly due to the characters during this period simply being not good but not bad either, but are mostly just, meh. Personally I think Jodie did as much as she could (mostly it’s the writing letting her down) & I didn’t mind “The Fam”, they had a “just about good enough” synergy with each other (though we shall see how this pans out now that it’s just Yaz & another newcomer as the companions next series).
Danny Pink? Seriously? He was one of the best characters of Capaldi's first season. He questioned him, challenged him, and at the end of his story proved himself to him through his literal undying love for Clara.
He's not my favorite character, but there's absolutely nothing to hate.
Agreed. That, plus his very "ordinariness" as a person made him very real, and I mean that as a compliment.
I have no idea why, but I really disliked him. Perhaps because of the grief he gave Clara, I dunno.
@@Scottlp2 Completely fine, I don't expect you to have my opinion of him, or anyone else for that manner. But you disliking him is not a whole fanbase hating him and certainly not explaining how he got on the list.
Please tell me you're joking. He was an unlikeable piece of shit! Truly awful character
@@MichaelM28 Not joking, and I completely disagree. He fights both the Doctor and Clara throughout the first season, but He spends most of that time with no idea who the Doctor really is or what Clara's relationship is to him. And Clara's secrecy doesn't help any of that. Once he finds out, he relates to it in his experience.
He never says he outright hates the Doctor, but does not trust him and has no real reason to early on. Their relationship changes in one season to more of a begrudging understanding that shows growth from all characters involved. Like him or not, he doesn't deserve to be on the list of most hated in my opinion.
not sure how the 13th Doctor failed to make this list?!?🤷♂️
Simple: Fear of “Auntie Beeb” calling down the wrath of the cancel culture army upon any who dare criticize the woke mess that the current incarnation of Doctor Who has become.
why? the writing is good, the same writer for some of 11, people are just sexist, i see people making excuses for it by saying its the writing.
@@Charl3y3 the writing is god awful, please share whatever crack you are smoking
@@Charl3y3 The writing is turgid. Give me a decent Robert Holmes story any day. Jodie is hopelessly miscast. A female Doctor can work in the hands of a better actress and writer.
@@Charl3y3 no the stories for the 13th doctor are just annoying, the doctor has lost their quirkiness and since 12 it went down hill. 12th doctor was too serious all the time, 13 just puts me to sleep. It's not fun, it's all about sending some political or social message in every episode as for 13 'fam' oh fgs it's too much and none of the characters have really had a chance to shine. I really hope 14/15 is better and gives us back what the show had with 9,10 and 11.
Why does everyone hate Clara?
What's so bad about her?
Nothing. She's fantastic. Loved her trying to juggle a normal life with traveling in the Tardis
You can find tons of videos on why on RUclips
Perhaps because she wasn't the Doctor's doormat, and she had the gumption to put him in his place on a regular basis. Good for her, I say.
In my opinion too many storylines were focused mostly on her
She's a control freak bitch
Loved Clara, people who hate her, hate cuteness and light.
for real, she was such a ray of sunshine 🥺
"The first female Doctor, played by Jodie Whittaker" failed to make the top ten most hated Doctor Who characters?
Who do you think you're kidding?
because she's loved by the fanbase. Did you miss when JodieOurDoctor trended on Twitter MULTIPLE times, whether you like it or not she's one of the most beloved incarnations by the vast majority of fans.
@@friendlyotaku9525 LMFAO!
You actually think that Twitter is real life...
@@baldieman64 no I never said that? and it's not just twitter either, she is also usually near the top of favourite Doctor polls either, within the top 3.
@@friendlyotaku9525 So why do you suppose it is that Series 12 saw the lowest viewing figures for any Doctor since the re-launch of the show in 2005?
Could it be that, with 2.6 million viewers having jumped ship since series 4, the poll only asked those viewers that were left?
@@baldieman64 I dunno, maybe it's the fact that overall viewing figures are down. It's not just Doctor Who but most shows have gone through a similar thing, and despite that compared to much of it's competition Doctor Who still does really well (It was the second most watched on New Year's Day so the claim the show is failing doesn't hold any water)
Jodi’s doctor is easily the most hated character in this shows history. No competition! Deservedly so.
Well... you can add her Companions
The 6th Doctor and Peri were amazing together and don't belong on this list. Yes the show was nearly cancelled when they were on it but that was the fault of JNT and the powers that be at the BBC. Come to think of it, half of this list comes from the JNT era of the show.
Exactly! Justice for Colin and Nicola! Not one step backwards! Michael Grade, JNT and Mary Whitehouse will not win! Viva Baker! Viva Bryant! 💪
Vislor Turlough played by Mark *Strickson* in my opinion was not a bad character
Agreed
Once the Guardian Trilogy was over, the writers obviously couldn't think of anything to do with him.
"Vislor Turlough was played by Mark Strickland"
Was he really? Well I never...
The only characters I’ve ever actually hated were the most recent Doctor & her woke little gang. I think they need to forget the last two series & start again. Though to be honest I don’t think it’s salvageable now. RIP Dr Who 😢
Spot on
They need to go on hiatus and retcon out the female "Doctor."
“Oswold”
4:10, Titan Comic’s The prisoners of Time, should you want to give it a read
Big Finish really gives people their chance to shine. Colin Baker's Doctor stories are some of the best they have done. We need a video on how Big Finish improved Doctor Who and the great things they have done.
Was this written before Series 11 & 12 came out? Because nearly everyone in them are clear winners of most hated.
I can't speak on the companions but Jodie could be an excellent doctor if the writing would let her she has the acting ability for it.
@@neptune04 I've seen her act better before as well. I agree the writing is atrocious. It doesn't help that Jodie herself has been rather nasty to any fan of Dr. Who before her run.
@@sirellyn she has? How so?
@@neptune04 I apologize, it looks like I got her comment confused with a writer. Her most off color remark was just not concerning herself with any fans critical of the work, and focusing on what the writers want. Which seems near sighted, but not mean.
So yes, with a better writing crew it could have been decent. She certainly has the talent. But it also wasn't shown in any degree in Dr Who.
@@sirellyn it's fine it happens
Where did you get the information concerning Peri? I was born in 1975 so I watched Doctor Who until it was sadly cancelled. If I remember correctly Peri was my first celebrity crush & was quite gutted when she was replaced by Bonnie Langford I found her a bit much bloody carrot juice is all I can remember of her lol
Jodie Whittaker's Doctor should be #1.
She is so bad she should be all the slots to demonstrate how awful she is.
Shes terrible totally clueless about dr who. At least the underated c baker tried his best to save a tired show. Baker was a great actor .
@@daveshaw2342 A show like this goes through natural ebbs and flows. That's why the changes in Doctors, Companions, show runners and so forth are all so important. It's a chance for the show to reinvent itself and try something new.
I don't think she was a good choice and that she was just picked because they had worked together before.
I also don't think trying to act like Timelords changing genders is this totally normal thing that happens all the time, despite the show never showing it before, was the wrong way to go.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited Yep considering all the years when Timelords were supposedly changing sex yet for decades never saw it happen
however most people seem to overlook this inconsistancy because "Missy was a good character" personally I don't care how good of a character she was it makes little to no sense !!!!
No Chibnall characters? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can the editors please keep a check on actors names? Immediately Mark Strickson is misidentified as “Mark Strickland”. This sort of thing really kind of takes quite a few of us out of the entire list… sorry Seán, that should’ve been checked before you did the V/O.
With fact checking less strict than CNN or Michael Moore, do you really expect anything more from this clown? I mean who even watches his videos?
Wait? It's us? ....AAAARRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!
It would help if they actually wrote their own scripts. Mispronunciations are always a giveaway that they are reading someone else's work. Very sloppy research when it comes to Classic Who in particular.
I think the Sixth Doctor gets a lot of underserved hate. There are moments he cares for Peri, is witty and in Big Finish is shown to be a more complex character
Yo where's thirteen? Six has Way more fans
The sixth doctor turned out to be a good character near the end of his run
They won't mention 13 because they won't admit she is hated.
@@joking_oregon1 wait what ? it didn't take that long for him to recover from his regeneration crisis and he defeated the Daleks, Cybermen, the master and the Rani even before his final season sounds like a good guy to me
Adric is one of my favourite characters, he was a sort of apprentice to PD's Doctor. His thinking he could solve a problem the Doctor hadn't was a cleaver twist.
Adric was a shit, and Waterhouse had no acting talent whatsoever.
(He was shit as Briarley, too).
How is the azorbaloff is higher in list than Clara Danny peri and adric
I will forever love the Sixth Doctor. I grew up with him so he's one of my favourites. He was never given a chance to be phenomenal. He and the Fifth Doc will always be MY Doctors.
Yeah I grew up with 5 and 6 in the 1980s too.
Both of them are awesome Doctors imo
Getting a bit sick of the hate Colin gets. He was shat on by the BBC. Don't blame him one bit for refusing to film a regeneration scene so we sadly got a dodgy one with Sylvester in a crappy wig.
I liked Peri a lot. Mel was OK. Colin Baker, though, is most unfairly maligned. The writers were starting to make the Doctor a much more interesting character with him, then got cold feet.
I hate Peri so much that when Sil described her as 'repulsively ugly' in the 'Trial of a Timelord' episodes, I absolutely loved it.
Peri (Nicola Bryant) also bears a resemblance to a female college classmate of mine back in the late 1980s. I speculated this girl - Nancy - had been 'doing favors(!)' for one of the department heads at the college.
Seriously no Ryan Sinclair (Tosin Cole), I would have ranked him a definite number 1 as he is absolutely 100% terrible. I have seen plastic bags with more acting ability and his character is by far the worst, although in the Jodie Whitaker era that is not saying much
Adric and peri were kind of a shock for me.
I personally like Adric always have and probably always will I was sad the very first time I saw earth shock's ending.
Peri's not a major favorite for me but she's not the worse I've seen either.
Clara is the best companion I love her😊😊😊😊😊😊 run you clever man
I’ve never actually met anyone who hates Clara. Yeah they’re aware of the issues her character had but not enough to hate her. Anyway maybe I’m biased cos I absolutely love her and Jenna Coleman.
Number 1: Chris Chibnall
is he a character. Oh if only he was fictional !!!!
@Mr Doctors13 no shit
Who hates peri?
Who hates Turlough?
What about all of s11 and 12.. ive hated every moment and character
The numbers must be small, yet those who claim to speak for them speak big ... Where is the evidence Whoculture ... We want to see the evidence!
Adric was a better companion to the 4th Doctor and never seemed to have a consistent character.
Heroic death though.
Tears were shed by everyone in my household when Adric died.
When I first saw Peri in the thumbnail, my first thought on her being on it was because of how much she screamed in the face of danger (something that Mel also did quite). I also didn't hate any of the companions (apart from Adam, of course, who's "redemption" story was a comic called The Prisoners of Time) and I also quite liked how Turlough was the first instance of a bad guy gone in Doctor Who (a bad school boy who was hired as an assassin but later proved to not be so bad). As for comments on why the Thirteenth Doctor isn't on here, I think this lot have been reading what everyone's been saying about how much they regularly criticise her and thought to focus on the rest of the show.
chris chibnal
10. Turlough was OK, nothing special but he served his purpose.
9. The abzorbaloff is underrated as is Love and Monsters, fight me.
8. Clara is horrendous and I agree with the hate. Why did they make 2 better characters played by Coleman only to use a weak third?
7. Adam was made to be hated, even Davis said so.
6. What's wrong with grace? I liked her.
5. Peri was alright aside from the accent.
4. Mel was annoying agreed.
3. Adric was insufferable agreed.
2. The Sixth Doctor is underrated as well. Bad writing made his decent acting poor.
1. Danny Pink? What is wrong with Danny Pink?
If it were my list
10. Captain Jack
9. Mel Bush
8. Adric
7. Clara
6. Chang Lee
5. Mickey Smith
4. The Fifth Doctor
3. Tegan Jovanka
2. Adam Mitchell
1. The Twelfth Doctor
Video: “No. 1 - The 6th Doctor”
Me: ...WHAT???!!! NO FAN “Hates” THE 6TH DOCTOR! He might rank low on many lists but non one ‘hates’ him! That’s just a punch under the belt!
I would beg to differ I've seen quite a few comments on the internet saying how much they hate the 6th Doctor
@@mrjekyllandhyde9941 I think they're all from the host of this video, he seems to have a real dislike of Colin Baker and Peri.
i loved Turlough and Adric - so interesting - they stayed true to their back story and it was meaningful in their adventures, like Leela. Mel's backstory was forgotten as was so sadly Yasmin's and Ryan's and Amy's. Sarah did remain a journalist.
Ah, another "Hated" list - and as usual, the Sixth Doctor (who is one of my faves) and Peri are on it. What a total surprize... sorry - like the lists, but I also quite like both of them.
You are not alone! We Doctor 6 and Peri lovers are a nations Millions strong! 💪🤨
Clara Oswald.
Tried taking over the show, treated the Doctor like a lapdog, and was rewarded with eternal life. Worst companion ever. EDIT: I wish whatever licensing issues are keeping Big Finish from using Grace Holloway and Chang Lee would be overcome so they could do a full series with the Eighth Doctor.
I like the sixth doctor
I have never heard anyone complain about Grace, and I liked the movie. And I think the only issue I have with Clara is her being yet another modern companion. Mel was a decent companion and had more investment in the adventures than other companions. Stop hating Colin he deserved that last season.
There appears to be no characters from the last four years. I would have put all of them in a top twenty
And NO ONE BLASPHEMS ABOUT ADRIC!!!!!!
ADRIC IS TERRIBLE!!!!! DEAL WITH IT!!!!!!
@@MichaelM28 for f*ck’s sake, *stop screaming at people for not having your (often STUPID anyway) opinions!* It doesn’t make you seem smart or funny, it just shows you as what you _truly_ are; a sad little gremlin who wants to do nothing other than complain about things
@@patchworkfellow dude calm down!!
@@Timelord9708 Nah, that guy needs to be told what an ass he is
@@eonoflegend2985 ok, i guess your right
STRICKSON !! NOT STRICKLAND
While at times Peri and Clara can be characters that get on people’s nerves, I personally think that Nicola Bryant and Jenna Coleman are 2 beautiful women.
Not really the point but I agree
This list just mostly feels like people the production team doesnt like Peri and the Sixth doctor were good characters
I agree with a lot of these. I think Turlough's problem was the same as for Mel and Clara. They were brought in under less than optimal conditions for a limited story arc, and once that arc ended, no one seemed to have a clue what to do with them. Turlough at least got an ending, even if it was part of a checklist because they wanted to have a clean slate for the incoming Doctor. Mel didn't get a beginning, nor an end, but they HAD to write her out because Bonnie Langford wasn't sticking around for a second series anyway. Her problem was that they weren't able to show her FIRST story with the Sixth Doctor, and the regeneration the following season basically made any attempt at a start for her impossible.
And Clara. Clara. When you are obsessed with her body over her acting, there's something wrong here (that also applied to Peri to a degree). Also, same as with Turlough, once the "Impossible Girl" storyline ended, no one knew how to address her presence in the TARDIS. Personally, I didn't understand how she was suddenly working at Coal Hill School - I saw it as yet another ill-thought-out nostalgia trip brought in by Russell Davies - which also colored my acceptance of Danny Pink. He was brought in very haphazardly, and I never thought Clara and Danny ever really had any chemistry together. Was Danny brought in solely to downplay yet another romantic relationship with the Doctor? That's how I saw it then, and when it didn't work, he sure was killed off so very quickly. We never got a chance to know him, and he just didn't fit in.
Nicola Bryant and Colin Baker just got the short end of the stick, in my opinion. Peri and the Doctor were never able to develop any kind of relationship because the writers were pushing the antagonism between the characters. It WAS a 180% shift from the more kind-hearted Five, but Six started so utterly unlikeable, and his relationship with Peri was just insult and contrast, which simply didn't work. It should be noted that the most prominent look you get of Peri before joining the Fifth Doctor was of her chest, which set the tone for her as much as The Twin Dilemma did for the Sixth Doctor. Both characters were presented in the worst possible way, and the writers never really tried to improve matters over their first full season. And when Peri was written out, it was how Nicola Bryant wanted - kill Peri so that we could finally see that Peri and the Doctor HAD gotten close, that their time together HAD changed them, and we could get an emotional moment from the Doctor. That worked about as well as anything else from the Sixth Doctor's era.
And then JNT and the writers took the coward's way out and said, oh, she's not dead, she married Brian Blessed's Yrcanos, which made no fleeking sense at ALL. No more than Leela leaving the TARDIS during the Fourth Doctor's era to marry a Gallifreyan she barely had time to talk to!
As for Colin Baker, Colin said that he wanted to start his era with the Doctor very off-putting, very alien, almost villainous, and over the course of his era, he would learn how to become a hero again. His relationship with Peri was part of that gradual redemption arc. And if that sounds familiar, that is exactly what Peter Capaldi was able to bring to HIS Doctor, but not Colin. Colin even said that he wanted his Doctor to have a black outfit to fit his black persona, but JNT refused, and once again Capaldi got what Colin did not. Over the years, I have developed more respect for what Colin and Nicola were trying to do, but the writing simply wasn't there. Both actors were simply cheated throughout their time on the show. BTW, I never liked Capaldi's Doctor, and I felt he never got the leavening that Big Finish would ultimately give Colin.
Regarding Adric and Adam Mitchell, I hated them really for the same reason: they were just so unlikeable from the gitgo, and I wonder whether anyone was really intended to like either of them. Adric did get one of the most emotional departures of the classic series, but for this unlikeable character, who cares?
But up high on MY list of unlikeable characters is Donna Freaking Noble. Honestly, I hated her from the start, she never really improved, she was a screaming ninny throughout, she didn't really have a workable relationship with the Doctor, she got a terrible ending, and then they brought her BACK for Tennant's second run as the Doctor. I never saw the Fourteenth Doctor season, except for tidbits on RUclips, and I still don't know why it had to be HER!
Langford was not liked by most well before Dr Who.
If you thay that again, I'll thkweam and thkweam and thkweam until I'm thick, and I can!
#1 - the 13th Doctor.
Worse doctor of all time
You can’t hate Peri! She’s the best companion of the ‘80’s!
... Romana and Ace have entered the chat ;)
@@ftumschk which Romana? And Ace was alright.
@@BeAGoodDoga I liked them both, but Romana II was the only Romana of the 80s.
@@ftumschk Lol yeah true. Everyone seems to like Lalla’s Romana more than Mary Tamm.
@@BeAGoodDoga I actually prefer Mary Tamm to Lalla
Absolutely, positively would sooner spend an eternity in the tardis with Peri and Turlough over Donna Noble. Could not stand that one.
That’s bold my friend. Respect.
Your opinion of course, but by most fans she's concidered the best companion of new who and perhaps second best in all of who
Yep I can agree with that.
Peri and Turlough only got 1 story together it might have been interesting to see how it would be with more stories of 5, Peri and Turlough
Having learned over the years of how the Beeb handled (or more correctly, mishandled) the series, I'm not going to be too harsh on either the Doctors, nor their companions. That some of the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Doctors gave the performances they did, in spite of the backstage mess, is to be accepted. And blame us Americans for two things: bringing romance to the show and orchestral music scores, which Murray Gold took full advantage of in the modern series.
I was shocked to discover that quite a lot of people don’t like River Song. I always thought that Alex Kingston did a great job at playing her but many find her annoying. I personally love the character
Eh? I thought grace was one of the better things about the movie, oh well. Does any1 else think the abzorbaloff looks like the creeper, from jeepers creepers, fat green brother??
I would really like to see an episode where we visit Raxacoricofallapatorius and Clom and see they have a relationship like the planets in the TNG episode Symbiosis.