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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 09:24pm on 01/04/2008
See, I kept putting off Caves of Androzani, even though it was supposedly the best of Five's run, because it just didn't seem fair for my introduction to Five to be his last serial. XD

That said, it outright startled me how much abuse Five takes in Caves. I mean, I knew what happened and everything, but by the end I half-expected him to collapse and die anyway (before he was supposed to, I mean). That said, I think the Seven-to-Eight regeneration might just edge Five-to-Six out. At least Five got to save Peri before he died, thus bringing a tiny bit of dramatic purpose to his death; Seven dies for absolutely no reason. It's so meaningless. And watching Seven struggle against the anaesthesia just makes it worse.
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posted by [identity profile] airie-fairy.livejournal.com at 10:14pm on 01/04/2008
I haven't seen the movie, but I saw the regeneration sequence from it, and all the twisting flesh looked so PAINFUL I almost cried.

Yeah, the thing is, Five's regeneration bit is so much more than the damage he sustains from the spectrox. There's also Resurrection and Planet of Fire before it, and so that's three in a row of A FUCKING LOT OF EMOTIONAL DAMAGE and the snapping of mental states, oh dear. So I'd have totally expected him to just give up on life even if the episode wasn't supposed to end that way.

(I watched all out of order. Planet of Fire, The Five Doctors, Resurrection, Visitation, and then the rest, ending on Caves. I find it a bit remarkable that the last Five I saw actually was his last, given my creative viewing habits.)
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 07:22pm on 04/04/2008
I can't truthfully say I've "seen" the movie, since I fast-forwarded through anything Sylvester McCoy or Paul McGann weren't in, but yeah. Two and Five's regenerations were sad, but Seven's, for me, was just scary. Being held down and drugged on an operating table, knowing he's going to die if he can't stop them? *shudder*

My viewing habits are similarly creative, in that I'm still making my way through Ressurection and haven't yet seen Planet of Fire. The Five Doctors was my first; after that came Kinda, Castrovalva, Snakedance, Mawdryn Undead, Caves of Androzani, and, uh...I wanna say Time-Flight? I think it was Time-Flight. So, yeah. I've still got a ways to go.

So, yes. I'm not surprised to learn that Five's regeneration is a lot more powerful when watched in context, especially since Ressurection is shaping up to be quite traumatic for him.
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