(June 22, 2015 at 12:33 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Back in the days of proper Who, when Jon Pertwee became incumbent, the Brigadier was suspicious of the man who claimed to be the regenerated form of the one with whom he'd worked previously, to the point where he called him an impostor. Later when confronted with all three of the Doctor's incarnations ("I didn't know when I was well off!"), he thought initially that some experiment had changed him back to his earlier form, but soon adapted to the situation. Later still whe gool old Tom Baker took over, the Brig saw the regeneration process firsthand. By now he was seasoned enough in strange happenings surrounding his scientific advisor that he took it almost in his stride ("Well, here we go again!"). So much so that many years later, when confronted with what he thought was a Doctor in a regeneratve crisis, he considered himself a bit of an expert, to the chagrin of the Doctor's latest companions.
The point I'm getting to is that the Brig as a character developed, in much the same way that a real person would in such circumstances. The disciples in the JC story, on the other hand, have a reset switch that kicks in to set them back to their factory defaults after every single miraculous event. By the end, they shouldn't have been surprised by anything the godman said or did.
Yeah, right? Either the disciples were irretrievably stupid, afflicted with some strange group amnesia, or really badly written characters.
If I had been a member of that circle, the only miracle I might have forgotten was the nifty water-to-wine trick. But that's just how I roll at wedding receptions with open bars.
