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From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: Why does everyone like Dr. Who
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Date: Fri, 18-Nov-83 12:21:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 18 12:21:19 1983
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Everybody likes The Doctore because he's great.  Could be 'nuff said here,
but I will elaborate.

Everybody knows and accepts that many people on the staff of Doctor Who
don't know what they are working with, so we often get bad special effects
and silly stories.  But for me, it is the *character* that is everything.
(For others, too.  Many Doctor Who fans come and go with each new doctor)
The idea of a whimiscal genius with incredible knowledge and power wandering
time and space with just the right amount of silliness really appeals to me.

How many other SF heros would say:
"Excuse me, are you sure this planet's meant to be here?"
(This from Douglas Adams' "Pirate Planet" serial)
"Of course I like you.  I like lots of people.  I don't go carting
them around the universe with me."
(To Leela at the end of "The Face of Evil")

These are all Tom Baker, the doctor I have seen the most of.  I think he
is superior to Pertwee, the only other one I have seen, but others
disagree.  I think his acting is superb.
-- 
	Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304