Who is that gorgeous gorgeous woman in Meglos?

[Guy Gardener]

The High Priestess "Lexa".

She's just so scrummy and indomitable and there's some thing familiar about her and... One wikipedia search later I was floored by the answer to why these magical intoxicating feelings of lust I was having for the image of this woman dancing across my computer monitor were so strong and seemed, not brand new but ancient...

It's Barbara.

Holy frakk!

Barbara Wright, well, probably Barbara Chesterton by that point.

Now I'm angry.

The story is ridiculous and forgettable and silly to the larger to and fro of the Doctor Mythos, filler. Fluff. It gets worse than that when you consider that the priestess reminded me of the Sisterhood of the Flame, and scientist folke looked like Thals, I would love to see an adventure with just Thall's without even the mildest peppering of the Daleks but... We could have had a Barbara meeting Four, in every way as exciting as Sarah-Jane coming back to meet 10.

Sigh.

She was born in 1929. An Unearthly Child was aired in '63 and meglos was aired in '80. Personally, not to be rude, but I think she grew into her nose, since In her youth I never found Barbara all that, but Lexa?

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

 

[Cutter John]

And it was STILL a better story than almost all of season 17. And you had to admire the makeup design in that episode. Tom Bakers cactus makeup was freakin' amazing. Must've been a bitch to put on.

Jacqueline Hill always struck me was an actress who was more attractive because of her presence and personality than from her looks. Or at least prettier on camera than any of the still photos I've seen of her.
Bringing her back to play such a minor character though just seemed like such a waste.

 

[diankra]

At the time, fan reaction to the 'waste' of having her come back as another character rather than Barbara was reportedly so bad that a few years later John Nathan-Turner vetoed the casting of Michael Craze (Ben) for a part in Caves of Androzani.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Personally, not to be rude, but I think she grew into her nose, since In her youth i never found Barbara all that, but Lexa?

Depends on which stories you've seen. Try "The Reign of Terror" or "The Romans" for Barbara at her most attractive.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Oddly enough, by which I described as "in her youth" during the first run of episodes, she was still a year older than I am right now.

In the beginning I read The books. So many of the opinions I still have of the show were formed by the books I read and reread between the ages of 7 and 12. At twelve I traded a couple hundred doctor who novels for store credit at a comic shop. But inside Ian's head, the love, lust and attraction he felt for Barbara was both naked and blaring, I had no idea what she looked like at all except that she was supposedly the most beautiful woman in the world.

YEEEAAAARRRRRRRRRS later, I must have been about 11? I finally got hold of some Doctor Who magazines which had some stills of Jacqueline Hill from an episode I had never read the novel of called "Nos-TAG-eye-La."

Cutter, you're right. Static images are not her friend. First I thought Ian was insane, then I wondered how paltry the dating pool was in London in the early 1960s because she was clearly a very-very-very old woman? William Russel was 5 years, not that I knew that at the time, her senior but that bloke is excellently preserved, what? ...And I had traded on that assumption ever since.

 

[DWF]

Personally, not to be rude, but I think she grew into her nose, since In her youth i never found Barbara all that, but Lexa?

Depends on which stories you've seen. Try "The Reign of Terror" or "The Romans" for Barbara at her most attractive.

I thought she looked pretty good in The Aztecs too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/gallery/hill/hill07.shtml