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What's the opinion on Trial of a Time Lord? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by julianh@lemm.ee to c/doctorwho@lemmy.world

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Just for fun I started watching it to see what it even is, and so far it's pretty fun! Colin Baker's doctor is a lot of fun, it's interesting to see a doctor who (hehe) is a bit more full of themselves.

From what I gather though, people at the time really didn't like it, but that could have just been because of Colin Baker. Now that general opinion of Colin Baker is much better and we can revisit those episodes without as much bias, I'm interested in what the general verdict on this season is. Do people still hate it? Is it a cult classic? Do people just think it's meh?

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[–] Feneric@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think a lot of the Sixth Doctor's TV stories got (and still get) more hate than they deserved. "The Twin Dilemma" was awful, and that sat festering in poeple's minds for the whole off season, and they had set opinions before they even watched the next two seasons. I liked the first and third chunks of "Trial" a lot, and the second wasn't bad. The fourth was kind of a mess, but that's probably to be expected considering its history, having been started by one author and worked on and finished by others in emergency mode.