along the lines of the late great Patrick Troughton's approach".
We here at Digital Spy wrote how he took "to the role with a light touch with the serious side bubbling under the surface. Most critics back in 2005 thought Eccleston's debut in the series' major relaunch 'Rose' was pretty.
'The sixth Doctor looks like turning out very well indeed – he has traces of his predecessors, yet he's sufficiently different to be an interesting and enjoyable character in his own right," wrote Simon Cheshire, again in TARDIS, while Tim Munro of the same magazine took to Sixie's "arrogance and total self-obsession", though he was put off by the concept of a "totally alien Doctor. The response to Baker himself, though, was more positive – not a huge surprise, given how his Doctor's reputation has been repaired in recent years, in no small part thanks to his performances in Big Finish's audio plays.
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Writing in the fanzine Zygon, Gary Russell dismissed the four-parter as "a silly waste of 90 minutes", while Ian Clarke in TARDIS complained that the dialogue was "so full of clichés". Russell T Davies even once described it as "the beginning of the end" for the classic series.Ĭontemporary reaction wasn't much kinder. Ah, 'The Twin Dilemma' – Colin Baker's 1984 debut is not held in high esteem by Doctor Who fans, often landing bottom of episode rankings.