Need a Troughton Icon

[jetpack_monkey]

Last night I watched the surviving episodes of "The Wheel in Space" as well as "The Mind Robber," based on some people's comments that the closest Doctor analog for Matt Smith is Patrick Troughton. I was already a Troughton fan from The Invasion and The Three Doctors, but I hadn't watched one of his serials in a while.

I can definitely see what folks are coming from. I mentally inserted Eleven into a number of different scenes and it is uncanny how much he resembles Two. Hopefully I'll be able to appreciate the next Who episode more now that I have better bearings on his performance.

Also, I love these heady days of off-the-cuff television production. Frazer Hines, apparently, had chicken pox during the filming of The Mind Robber, so in went a quick script fix where Jamie's face gets changed for an episode.

Comments

[tamanth.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm fond of the unicorn. :P

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

As the wife said, "They're playing chicken with a unicorn. WTF?"

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

Isn't "The Mind Robber" kind of awesome? I really like that. And yes, the Pox!Jamie is an odd thing to have had to work around! ;)

[timjr.livejournal.com]

...dammit, apparently I lost my Two icon when my paid time expired.

But yes. Troughton is so much awesome. And Mind Robber is one of my all time favorite serials.