Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130304024346/@comment-188432-20130308184253

SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: Here's what I think: while UNIT was central to Three's era, it's appeared not only in the Third Doctor's era, but also in the Second's (technically), Seventh (Battlefield), Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh. By the logic that you applied to jelly babies and pocket watches, UNIT doesn't represent Three specifically. Yes but neither is as neatly specific to Three as one would like. Bessie was driven by Four and Seven onscreen, and by several other Doctors in other media. Like I said before, onscreen, all Bessie stories are also UNIT stories. Of the two, though, UNIT is clearly the more dominant presence, having appeared in all but two Pertwee stories.

If you're looking for indisputable Third Doctor, you've gotta do a ruffled shirt.

The pocket watch analogy doesn't apply here because you were trying to use it to represent a Doctor it actually doesn't represent much at all. And, well, there's no real comparison between jelly babies and scarf as to which more clearly represents the Fourth Doctor era, is there? Even you said a scarf was the way to go.