Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Agent Jakanov Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: The Lemonade Treatment Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:00:32 -0000 (UTC) Organization: TWA Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:00:32 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e1703e0db6c4a24667f503e7977ed3c9"; logging-data="3106979"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19tZSQI4sJkooHvFX++nIFBZ+mFQZEMKFI=" User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 Cancel-Lock: sha1:XvEyfaZEp3lPdhh4g8uXaOxaEAk= Bytes: 2579 doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote in news:ut4aqo$2cr3$6@gallifrey.nk.ca: > Agent Jakanov wrote: >>>>Regeneration crises are almost a tradition in Doctor Who. At least >>>>they tried to do something different with it, even if the execution >>>>was lacking. >>> >>> They never were until JN-T introduced it! >> >>Untrue. The 3rd Doctor was incapacitated for a large part of his >>first story. The intro stories for the 5th and 10th Doctors copied >>this. > > But not unstable! IYIO. >>Terrance Dicks own novelization confirmed that the 4th Doctor acted >>really strange and bonkers for an extended period after his >>regeneration, although much of it was offscreen, such as his first >>encounter with Xoanon. The 11th Doctor's intro copied this. > > Oh? The 111th Doctor was trying to get control. > > The 4th Doctor was very conscious when he arose. But very unstable. Xoanon is the proof! >>The 7th and 8th Doctors were very unsure of who they were for a while. >> > > JNT 8th Doctor was not JNT. >>The 6th Doctor's regeneration crisis could have been better executed. >>In a later scene, a parallel was implied between Hugo almost shooting >>the Doctor, thinking he had kidnapped the Twins and destroyed his >>fleet, and the Doctor almost killing Peri, because they both had >>experienced traumas, but the direction of the story does not make it >>clear. > > JNT And Eric Saward. Like I said, I can see they were at least trying to do something interesting and novel with it, in both the long and short term.