30 Days of Doctor Who: Question 6: Least favourite character.

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30 Days of Doctor Who: Question 6: Least favourite character.

Lots of choice here. Two answers:

1. My least favourite character who made one appearance was Charles Dickens, played by Simon Callow in "The Unquiet Dead". See, I love Charles Dickens. Totally. But I didn't think Simon Callow looked, or sounded, or acted like my mental image of Charles Dickens, and I thought the story did a bad job of characterizing him. So my reaction to seeing this depiction - which was supposed, I think, to be favorable - of one of my favourite writers was extreme disappointment.



It didn't help that I didn't like the plot or other other characters in the story. This was the episode I liked least of season one. Or perhaps of all time.

2. My least favourite recurring character was Mickey Smith.



Now, I do like Noel Clarke, who is talented and intelligent. And in theory I like Mickey's story arc: he started out as a rather clueless coward and, thanks primarily to coming to know the Doctor, became a hero and then an action-hero superspy. I should - I do - love all that. And it's a nice parallel to the other transformations of various Companions, including Rose and Captain Jack.

But with Mickey I found it utterly unconvincing. They simply wrote Mickey as if he were a different person at different times.

I also didn't like it that he ended up with Martha. I didn't like it that the two primary black characters in the story married each other. Not to say that they weren't great together, in the brief glimpse we had... I wonder what happened to her Doctor Tom.