Found this while going through the archives:
…And I love this as much as I did the day I screenshotted it from Tumblr (which must’ve been nearly ten years ago). It’s such a misunderstanding of the show in general and Pertwee’s Doctor in particular. I mean, yeah, Three did render his services, but it wasn’t out of any sense of duty to the nation or UNIT… what motivates him during his exile on Earth is, in large part, self-interest (alongside his own curiosity and compassion); he says outright in the last scene of “Spearhead From Space” he wants UNIT’s help in getting himself away from Earth again. He takes as much from them as he gives to them (indeed, in “Inferno” him exploiting UNIT’s presence at Project Inferno is what causes most of his troubles in that story). It’s almost like Steve didn’t actually watch Pertwee’s episodes, or only saw something in them that he wanted to see but wasn’t really there… these days, of course, if Steve had any idea about the political and cultural subtexts did find their way into the show under Barry Letts’ aegis, he’d just be whining about the wokeness of the whole thing.
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