Oooh, I don't like Embolism Time. ):
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The Twin Dilemma 1984
5/10
An interesting start to Colin Baker's run. He is completely insufferable with his regeneration craziness, but you've gotta love him anyway. I personally really enjoy him, so it at least deserves a 5.
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Oof. They’re really doing everything they can to make me not like the 6th Doctor here lol
Meanwhile I like Peri more and more. She has put up with some absolute BS since joining the team.
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Castrovalva is easily the most comfortable post-regeneration story. Of all the post regeneration Dr Who episodes.
At least it is so far, at time of my writing this post.
By contrast, The Twin Dilemma is more akin to a violent hangover combined with a massive headache and an acid trip.
Followed by a terrible fever and a near death experience, promptly accompanied by sudden reinvigoration and a new lease of life.
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It's the very first Colin Baker Friday so I watched The Twin Dilemma
The episode was pretty much hot garbage.
The Doctor was so over the top and camp and ridiculous but I kind of loved that about him.
Hopefully future episodes will be half as entertaining as this Doctor.
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The Twin Dilemma turned out to be quite a funny story, it was not a masterpiece, but I don't understand how so many people would call it the worst one! Having the Doctor physically assault his companion was really disturbing (???) but apart from that I enjoyed watching it, especially Colin Baker's acting. The sixth doctor is just hateable from start to finish but I'm really looking forward to discover the evolution of his characterization, I'm intrigued and mostly excited!
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“Doctor Who-The Twin Dilemma”
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I always like figuring out how people got into fandoms. This is how I got into Doctor Who.
I think I must have seen Spearhead from Space as a little kid because I was afraid of mannequins and I had deja vu watching it later, but that wasn't really the beginning.
I switched on the beginning of Girl in the Fireplace on Sci-Fi, but it gave me the wrong impression (like that the show would have a bunch of romantic stuff and that isn't my thing) so it was a false start. I really liked the episode when I watched it later.
The real start was tuning in to the Runaway Bride in the middle of the car chase scene. It was utterly unlike anything I had ever seen on American tv and I was hooked. The acting in particular was soo good, especially in the quiet scene following the chase.
I watched season 3 all the way through with my sister. I knew nothing about daleks (we called them evil R2-D2s), regeneration, or anything else. I remember being really excited about the concept of the Master even though I knew none of the history. I just knew this was consistently brilliant television.
After the season was over I googled it and was floored to figure out how much history the show had. In my American centric viewpoint I kinda assumed that if I hadn't heard of it till this point, the old stuff probably wasn't that good, but hey the library had episodes available to watch or listen to so might as well try it. I got an episode guide with the intention to watch the best stuff plus what was on the shelves at my local library.
The first story I listened to was the Macra Terror, which wasn't highly rated by the guide, but I found it highly entertaining. The first story I watched was Terror of the Zygons, which was phenomenal and introduced me to the concept of adorable male companions, which I highly approve.
Thing is though, the other story at my library was the Twin Dilemma. The guide book said it was dismal, the worst. I watched it and I... didn't hate it? It had it's moments. I figured if I liked even the bad stuff I might as well watch it all.
So that's how I came to like all the doctors, all the companions, and the vast majority of the stories (televised, I am slowly chipping away at the stuff in other mediums).
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