Everybody has their favourite Doctor, episode, or both, but why do fans have to hate this or that Doctor, or actor for that matter. I have seen all the Doctors accept the latest, they are all different, isn’t that how it is supposed to be.

Maybe I’m just getting old, having seen the first “Doctor Who” in the early 60s, though being a few years older than Peter Davison, I didn’t feel the need to hide behind the sofa!

Cheers, Gemma

Also, I liked the way the Doctor was largely taken out of the occasion for most of the story, letting the two women find their footing without his guidance. It was a nice way to strengthen their bond and emphasize the Doctor’s presence by his absense…if that makes any sense at all.

Of course, I’ve got a really bizarre fondness for any and all regeneration episodes anyway. :-)

Good point about Tegan and Nyssa. In 4tD, it was shocking to see Tegan crying over not being able to fly the Tardis when she thought she’d done it in the previous episode, and to hear Nysaa kept being called a child. It seemed a step back for both of them from Castrovalva.

Davison’s run was, I always thought, the best for individual character moments. (Not counting Eccleston’s and likely Tennant’s runs, given Davies’s brilliance with complex characterization through very small moments, it’s not a fair comparison). The Doctor’s youth and relative approachability made it seem a lot more like they were a group with him as the leader, instead of just the hero and his plucky human sidekick.

That and I’ve always enjoyed Tegan and Nyssa’s competence. They screamed a lot, but at least one of them got to do clever things that tipped the scales in the good guys’ favor in every episode, it seemed.