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From: Agent Jakanov <mouth@onlegs.org>
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Subject: Re: The Lemonade Treatment
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:00:32 -0000 (UTC)
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doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote in
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> Agent Jakanov  <mouth@onlegs.org> 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.