History YMMV / DoctorWhoS21E7TheTwinDilemma

* SignatureScene: The Doctor strangling Peri is the most iconic and infamous moment of this serial.

** Azmael's act of suicide becomes this in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E12NightmareInSilver "Nightmare in Silver"]] when the Eleventh Doctor himself is faced with the prospect of being possessed by a malevolent entity, in this case Mr. Clever. Like Azmael, he threatens to regenerate to purge Mr. Clever. While the Doctor might be bluffing in this instance, with the reveal in ]]Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor "The Time of the Doctor"]] that he was out of regenerations like Azmael, it is equally plausible that he planned to commit suicide like Azmael did.

* DesignatedHero: The Sixth Doctor's most infamous moment is strangling Peri. Throughout the rest of the serial he acts incredibly cowardly and at one point decides to blame her for everything; he never apologises or gets called out for any of this. The rest of his time with Peri can not help but invite uncomfortable similarities to an abusive relationship. On top of that he is one of the most violent Doctors. Thankfully the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho stories would fix all these problems in time.

** Azmael's act of suicide becomes this in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E12NightmareInSilver Nightmare in Silver]]'' when the Eleventh Doctor himself is faced with the prospect of being possessed by a malevolent entity, in this case Mr. Clever, while he has no regenerations left. Like Azmael, he threatens to regenerate to purge Mr. Clever. While the Doctor might be bluffing in this instance, it is equally plausible that he planned to commit suicide like Azmael did.

* ValuesResonance: Peri tells the Sixth Doctor she does not like the changes in him still but he tells her that she should wait before she criticise his new changes and that his values changes along with time which after seeing how people reacted to Creator/JodieWhittaker taking the role of the Doctor before she even took the role officially it makes his words that people should wait before they start judging all the more relevant. Tellingly, [[Creator/ColinBaker Six's actor]] would come to Whittaker's defense after the hostile reaction to her announcement as Thirteen.

* WTHCostumingDepartment: All three principals--the Doctor, Peri, and Hugo--emerge from the TARDIS wardrobe room wearing terrible, terrible clothes. The Doctor's outfit is particularly notorious, the end result of Creator/JohnNathanTurner's instruction that the new costume by gaudy and tasteless in order to emphasize his alienness both among humans and on other planets, as well as his ongoing desire to ensure the leads' outfits were visually memorable [[TheMerch for merchandising purposes]]. Oh, Six's outfit was memorable alright, [[GoneHorriblyWrong but not in the way Nathan-Turner had hoped for.]]

* RetroactiveRecognition: The policeman pursuing the kidnappers is [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Mr. Gibbs]].

** The way Peri complains about the Sixth Doctor's post-regeneration behaviour from the beginning to the end of the serial, even making expressions of disgust and stating that she preferred the Fifth Doctor, gets much worse decades later, when the companions of the newly regenerated Tenth and Twelfth Doctor are also initially uncomfortable with them, something that clearly hurts them. This can be compared to deadnaming a transgender, as well as body-shaming.

** The way Peri complains about the Sixth Doctor's post-regeneration behaviour from the beginning to the end of the serial, even making expressions of disgust and stating that she preferred the Fifth Doctor, gets much worse decades later, when the companions of the newly regenerated Tenth and Twelfth Doctor are also initially uncomfortable with them, something that clearly hurts them.

* NeverLiveItDown: The Doctor dresses in what is widely regarded as the worst outfit he ever dons, has rapid mood swings, and nearly ''murders'' his companion for no reason. This story is ''not'' looked at fondly by many, and it's often felt that it doomed Creator/ColinBaker's televised run as the Doctor right from the start. Unfortunately, this means that those viewers who gave up on the Sixth Doctor after this story -- or in the early stages of the following season, when the Doctor wasn't out-and-out insane anymore, but was still pretty arrogant and prone to bickering with Peri -- didn't stick around to see him shake off his early characterization, which naturally ends up being all they remember him for.

* WhatAnIdiot: The Doctor unsuccessfully tries to kill Mestor, who announces that he intends to possess the Doctor's body and absorb his mind. The Doctor's former tutor, Azmael tries to warn him that this would be easy for Mestor considering the Doctor's mind is still screwed up from his recent regeneration, but the Doctor brushes off the warning and actually ''demands'' that Mestor try to possess him.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Mestor to just get on with it and possess the Doctor, who is quite literally asking for it.\\
'''Instead''': He possesses ''Azmael'', just to be a {{Jerkass}} and attempt to intimidate the Doctor prior to taking him over. Azmael, by the way, is a vastly experienced Time Lord who isn't suffering post-regenerative trauma. Result: the Doctor successfully destroys Mestor's body, and then Azmael retakes control of his own body and commits suicide, taking Mestor with him.
* TheWoobie: Poor Peri has to endure a lot in this story.

* ValuesResonance: Peri tells the Sixth Doctor she does not like the changes in him still but he tells her that she should wait before she criticise his new changes and that his values changes along with time which after seeing how people reacted to Jodie Whittaker taking the role of the Doctor before she even took the role officially it makes his words that people should wait before they start judging all the more relevant. Tellingly, [[Creator/ColinBaker Six's actor]] would come to Whittaker's defense after the hostile reaction to her announcement as Thirteen.

* NeverLiveItDown: The Doctor dresses in what is widely regarded as the worst outfit he ever dons, has rapid mood swings, and nearly ''murders'' his companion for no reason. This story is ''not'' looked at fondly by many, and it's often felt that it doomed Creator/ColinBaker's televised run as the Doctor right from the start. Unfortunately, this means that those viewers who gave up on the Sixth Doctor after this story -- or in the early stages of the following season, when the Doctor wasn't out-and-out insane anymore, but was still pretty arrogant and prone to bickering with Peri -- didn't stick around to see him shake off his early characterization, which naturally ends up being all they remember him for but however there are people who are fans of him and the fact that with the passing of time some people have watched some of the serials and seen that the Sixth Doctor was getting better as time went on especially towards to the very end.

* {{Values Resonance}}: Peri tells the Sixth Doctor she does not like the changes in him still but he tells her that she should wait before she criticise his new changes and that his values changes along with time which after seeing how people reacted to Jodie Whittaker taking the role of the Doctor before she even took the role officially it makes his words that people should wait before they start judging all the more relevant. Tellingly, [[Creator/ColinBaker Six's actor]] would come to Whittaker's defense after the hostile reaction to her announcement as Thirteen.

* MisBlamed: Might as well get it out of the way here; the Sixth Doctor's run is considered by many to be the overall nadir of the show's entire history (despite a handful of genuine classic stories such as "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros Vengeance on Varos]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Revelation of the Daleks]]"), and a lot of the blame for that tends to stick to Creator/ColinBaker, as a large part of the problem was with the characterisation of the Doctor himself, with this being probably the worst of it. However it would be very unfair to call Baker a bad actor -- he's an extremely good actor who was unfortunately given a lot of the worst scripts the show ever saw and had to make the best of what he had, and when given genuinely good material he could really shine.

** The end of the episode, with the Sixth Doctor promising Peri that she will get used to him and even like him ends up being that, considering that this Doctor’s era remained divisive and Creator/ColinBaker only lasted two seasons before being fired from series.

* MisBlamed: Might as well get it out of the way here; the Sixth Doctor's run is considered by many to be the overall nadir of the show's entire history (despite a handful of genuine classic episodes such as "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros Vengeance on Varos]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Revelation of the Daleks]]"), and a lot of the blame for that tends to stick to Creator/ColinBaker, as a large part of the problem was with the characterisation of the Doctor himself, with this being probably the worst of it. However it would be very unfair to call Baker a bad actor -- he's an extremely good actor who was unfortunately given a lot of the worst scripts the show ever saw and had to make the best of what he had, and when given genuinely good material he could really shine.

* NeverLiveItDown: The Doctor dresses in what is widely regarded as the worst outfit he ever dons, has rapid mood swings, and nearly ''murders'' his companion for no reason. This episode is ''not'' looked at fondly by many, and it's often felt that it doomed Creator/ColinBaker's televised run as the Doctor right from the start. Unfortunately, this means that those viewers who gave up on the Sixth Doctor after this story -- or in the early stages of the following season, when the Doctor wasn't out-and-out insane anymore, but was still pretty arrogant and prone to bickering with Peri -- didn't stick around to see him shake off his early characterization, which naturally ends up being all they remember him for but however there are people who are fans of him and the fact that with the passing of time some people have watched some of the serials and seen that the Sixth Doctor was getting better as time went on especially towards to the very end.

* {{Values Resonance}}: Peri tells the Sixth Doctor she does not like the changes in him still but he tells her that she should wait before she criticise his new changes and that his values changes along with time which after seeing how people reacted to Jodie Whittaker taking the role of the Doctor before she even took the role officially it makes his words that people should wait before they start judging all the more relevant.

* {{Values Resonance}}: Peri tells the Sixth Doctor she does not like the changes in him still but he tells her that she should wait before she criticise his new changes and that his values changes along with time which after seeing how people reacted to Jodie Whitaker taking the role of the Doctor before she even took the role officially it makes his words that people should wait before they start judging all the more relevant.

* NeverLiveItDown: The Doctor dresses in what is widely regarded as the worst outfit he ever dons, has rapid mood swings, and nearly ''murders'' his companion for no reason. This episode is ''not'' looked at fondly by many, and it's often felt that it doomed Creator/ColinBaker's televised run as the Doctor right from the start. Unfortunately, this means that those viewers who gave up on the Sixth Doctor after this story -- or in the early stages of the following season, when the Doctor wasn't out-and-out insane anymore, but was still pretty arrogant and prone to bickering with Peri -- didn't stick around to see him shake off his early characterization, which naturally ends up being all they remember him for.

* {{Values Resonance}}: Peri tells the Sixth Doctor she still does not like the changes in him but he tells her that she should wait before she criticise his new changes and that his values changes along with time which after seeing how people reacted to Jodie Whitaker taking the role of the Doctor before she even took the role officially it makes his words that people should wait before they start judging all the more relevant.

** The way Peri complains about the Sixth Doctor's post-regeneration behavior from the beginning to the end of the serial, even making expressions of disgust and stating that she preferred the Fifth Doctor, gets much worse decades later, when the companions of the newly regenerated Tenth and Twelfth Doctor are also initially uncomfortable with them, something that clearly hurts them.

** The end of the episode, with the Sixth Doctor promising Peri that she will get used to him and even like him ends up being that, considering that this Doctor’s era remained divisive and Colin Baker only lasted two seasons before being fired from series.
* HeartwarmingInHindsight: The Sixth Doctor's last words in this serial ("I am the Doctor, whether you like it or not") became this three decades later, when Colin Baker used them to praise and defend the casting of Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor.

* {{Misblamed}}: Might as well get it out of the way here; the Sixth Doctor's run is considered by many to be the overall nadir of the show's entire history (despite a handful of genuine classic episodes such as "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros Vengeance on Varos]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Revelation of the Daleks]]"), and a lot of the blame for that tends to stick to Creator/ColinBaker, as a large part of the problem was with the characterisation of the Doctor himself, with this being probably the worst of it. However it would be very unfair to call Baker a bad actor -- he's an extremely good actor who was unfortunately given a lot of the worst scripts the show ever saw and had to make the best of what he had, and when given genuinely good material he could really shine.

** The end of the episode, with the Sixth Doctor promising Peri that she will get used to the weather and even like it ends up being that, considering that this Doctor’s era remained divisive and Colin Baker only lasted two seasons before being fired from series.

** The way Peri complains about the Sixth Doctor's post-regeneration behavior from the beginning to the end of the serial, even making expressions of disgust and stating that she preferred the Fifth Doctor, gets much worse in New Who, when the companions of the newly regenerated Tenth and Twelfth Doctor is also initially uncomfortable with them, something that clearly hurts them.

** The way Peri complains about the Sixth Doctor's post-regeneration behavior from the beginning to the end of the serial, even making expressions of disgust and stating that he preferred the Fifth Doctor, gets much worse in New Who, when the companions of the newly regenerated Tenth and Twelfth Doctor is also initially uncomfortable with them, something that clearly hurts them.