Doctor Five Abuse

[lesbiassparrow]

Whenever I watch Peter Davison's Doctor it does seem as if he got the most physical abuse of any of the Doctors: they whack him good.  And they whack him often. I assume this was a way to toughen up his mild image and general aura of niceness, but sometimes it just really freaks me out.

The most disturbing thing was watching The Caves of Androzani where Five is actually stumbling around the place bleeding. I can't tell you very terrifying that was as a child because I don't recall ever seeing blood on Who before - and certainly not on the Doctor, whom I think I probably thought of as pretty much made of wood and steel. Obviously given that this is Who, I'd seen people (plenty of them) hurt and dead, yes, but actual blood, no.  I wonder how they got that past the censors? (I know that ITV used to have a rule for Robin of Sherwood where they could kill as many people as they liked but they couldn't show blood or wounds and I think that was a general rule for deaths on children's TV at the time).

 

Comments

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Warriors of the Deep would have traumatised me if I'd seen it as a kid, just for that last scene where Five's beaten up and almost crying and for once he hasn't won. Everybody's dead. He's the hero! He's supposed to win these things!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I know! There's also the Dalek one where everyone except the Doctor and his companions is also dead by the end of the show. Every. single. one.

And Five got crushed more than all the other Doctors combined. No wonder he was so bonkers as Six.

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

Except Lytton :-)

But he dies in a later story.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I HAVE TO SEE THIS.

Oh god I am a bad person.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

It is excellent. The death toll and angst of Five was quite extraordinary.