The tragedy of Peri Brown and the Fifth Doctor

[Bacl]

Yeah, it has been said 10,000X before, but "Caves" really lets the Fifth Doctor and Peri shine.

I think it was having the great script writer that they did, and also the fact that the Fifth Doctor finally got to have an adventure with just one companion instead of a team.

People go on and on about how grating the Sixth Doctor's personality was at times, how harsh, etc., but we don't hear a lot about how timid and shy the Fifth was. Davison's was the Doctor most likely to blame himself or not believe in himself to begin with. He got talked down to constantly by his frustrated companions. This was the version of the Doctor that reminds me most of the shy, self-concious and hurt nerd character. When he gets through all the madness with Teegan and the others he seems to have found his strength again. Too bad he died.

I wish "Caves" had been Davison's introduction, and that we got to see THAT Doctor (and that writer) for a lot more episodes.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Tegan matched wits with 6 in an audio.

You might think that that's more evenly matched?

Except that it's a grumpier more dynamic 40 something Tegan.

I just finished the Piscon Paradox.

Well that was grim.

Child leukemia grim.

 

[borgboy]

I think the audio you're thinking of is an older Tegan reunited with the Fifth Doctor vs Cybermen, forget the name.
The Peri Companion Chronicle is very good, but grim.
Colin Baker got a raw deal on tv, he makes an excellent Dr in the audio plays.

 

[Sindatur]

I think the audio you're thinking of is an older Tegan reunited with the Fifth Doctor vs Cybermen, forget the name.
The Peri Companion Chronicle is very good, but grim.
Colin Baker got a raw deal on tv, he makes an excellent Dr in the audio plays.

I've heard him as Lord Burner and his Zagreus performance and I'm looking forward to hearing more of him, I personally enjoyed him in his 2 years on the show

 

[Guy Gardener]

Th Gathering and the Reaping was a two part story split between doctors and decades.

My bad.

OH!

Fix it with Jim

JIm will fix it?

Jim'll Fixit.

A 5 minute skit with Tegan and 6 vs a couple Sontarans.

My old brain is such a muddle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy_Oz7eZ-sY

"Now what foul evil have I brought upon me?"

Heh!

It's Tegan!

 

[Mr Pointy Ears]

I like her better than the last two,mel and ace.

 

[sonak]

Ace was cool. Mel was awful.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Try watching Mel without the sound on.

Bonnie is hot.

There's a an alternate histories set of audios called "Unbound" and in one of them, 6 loses the trial of a Time, gets his ass handed to him by the Valeyard, but, when the dust settle, the pluckyt companion is still standing and super pissed.

Mel vs the Valeyard.

An interesting contest.

 

[Starkers]

Yeah I fancy Bonnie...I hate myself for doing it but I do it...

As horrible as her end was, I really wish they'd kept it with Peri having her brain removed. The bit when the 'new' Peri stands up is really terrifying, proved Nicola Bryant could actually act! (And the Stranger vids showed she was hotter with her natural accent and--curiously--in more clothes!)

 

[Whofan]

I find it funny that it seems each media representation of WHO has a different fate for Ace.


-The original planned but never finished version, where the Doctor enrolls her as a time lord student in order to shake things up on Gallifrey.

-The official one of course from SJA, that she created A CharitablE foundation.

-The New Adventures where she leaves the Doctor, becomes a trooper in a war against the Daleks, rejoins the Doctor and eventually gets her own time machine.


-Death comes to Time where she became a time lord or something. (Similar to the TV outcome)

-The comics where she dies.

 

[Starkers]

Not to mention Captcalhoun's where she ends up marrying him

 

[Mr Awe]

I liked Peri quite a bit. Totally agree, her character worked much better with Davison than Colin Baker. If only Davison had been allowed to stay one more year as he had eventually come to wish . . .

Mr Awe

 

[Guy Gardener]

I wonder if then Doctor Who would have still gone into hiatus bordering cancellation on his watch instead?

Black orchid was fun, but I wanted to see the episode when Doctor Who goes back in time and "invents" cricket teaching it to some 15th century thug locals to sort out there hassles rather than beating each other with clubs.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I find it funny that it seems each media representation of WHO has a different fate for Ace.


-The original planned but never finished version, where the Doctor enrolls her as a time lord student in order to shake things up on Gallifrey.

-The official one of course from SJA, that she created A CharitablE foundation.

-The New Adventures where she leaves the Doctor, becomes a trooper in a war against the Daleks, rejoins the Doctor and eventually gets her own time machine.


-Death comes to Time where she became a time lord or something. (Similar to the TV outcome)

-The comics where she dies.

Then there's the Reel Time Movie (Mind Games II?) where she's adrift in a fighter ship and slowly runs out of air as she winges about how hard her life had been.


She's quite old in Big Finish these days and still travelling with the Doctor (We look in on 7 at several points in his timeline, skipping between companions.), and I say quite old as to mean that when Hex (A 20-something bloke.) finally tries to pull her, she says that he is way to young for her, which probably means Ace is in her thirties... Not that she's been with Seven for decades, because she wandered off for a while to be a soldier, and came back.

 

[FredH]

There's an audio adventure where 5 and Seven conspire to send their companions double blind on surgical missions at the same 1930s(?) dinner party... Peri and Eremin vs Ace and Hex.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veiled_Leopard

Interesting. Not having heard it, I assume there are no references to the Virgin MA Cold Fusion, which also had 5 and 7 at odds?

 

[Guartho]

(And the Stranger vids showed she was hotter with her natural accent

I have only seen a few Peri serials, but at least once an episode she says something just plain wrong that telegraphs the fakeness of her American accent. The one that really sticks in my mind is her repeatedly mispronouncing "DJ" in "Remembrance of the Daleks." I'm curious, what is her natural accent?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Have you heard/seen her in The Blackadder Christmas Carol?

Not even close.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

What is it about Who and making the actors/actresses use a different accent than their native one?

 

[Sindatur]

What is it about Who and making the actors/actresses use a different accent than their native one?

Peri was playing an American.

Though I'm not sure why they wanted to write her as American, it wouldn't have made any real differences to the plots if they hadn't

 

[Starkers]

(And the Stranger vids showed she was hotter with her natural accent

I have only seen a few Peri serials, but at least once an episode she says something just plain wrong that telegraphs the fakeness of her American accent. The one that really sticks in my mind is her repeatedly mispronouncing "DJ" in "Remembrance of the Daleks." I'm curious, what is her natural accent?

Well she's quite posh and very English in the Stranger vids...