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My review of The Twin Dilemma, in eight words or less:

Awful, awful writing. But Six is quite brilliant.

I loved his quoting of poetry, and the constant showing off, and his hatred of Five (much though I adore Five, it amused me very much to hear Six complaining about his 'effete', 'repressed', 'practically neurotic' predecessor). And aw, calling Peri Tegan by mistake and then muttering "Tegan..." and staring sadly into middle distance as tinkly This Is A Sad Moment music played. I think Six always hated Five for not shagging Tegan when he had the chance.

I sort of ship Six/Tegan (helped along by a quite nice story in one of the Big Finish anthologies where Six tacitly tells her he loves her and she has to let him down gently and say she's met someone. I teared up.) And Six/Peri.

I also noted with interest that Six drops into a Manchester accent when he's annoyed, making him sound a bit like Mrs. Slocombe off Are You Being Served. His mysterious human mother, no doubt. And it raises the possibility that the Doctor's from a bit of Gallifrey that has an accent remarkably similar to certain parts of the North of England, and he only speaks RP because he went to posh Time Lord uni. (connorbeast suggested a Pygmalion type comedy where, as first years, the Master and the Rani taught him to speak 'proper' for a bet. "By Rassilon, he's got it!")