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Post by Ela on Sept 15, 2019 7:03:57 GMT
Watched The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion (still test driving my new DVDs ). Clever pair of episodes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2019 19:03:49 GMT
After watching Mindwarp at the BFI yesterday continuing with the rest of 'The Trial of a Timelord'. Still not a huge fan of this era but Terror of the Vervoids is not as bad as I remember.
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Post by Ela on Sept 15, 2019 19:06:17 GMT
I happen to love Trial of a Timelord. But I love Colin Baker, so there's that. My latest watch, Sleep No More. As weird this time as it was the first time I watched it.
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Post by mark687 on Sept 16, 2019 21:22:41 GMT
The Twin Dilemma
(You know it really is just Mestor's look and a couple of awkward minor Guest Star line deliveries that don't work here everything else character and plot wise works for a Post Regen story)
Attack of the Cybermen
(Good story very good performances)
Regards
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Post by Ela on Sept 17, 2019 1:18:21 GMT
Face the Raven.
I'm a sap, brought me to tears, even though I knew what was going to happen.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 2:10:06 GMT
The Twin Dilemma (You know it really is just Mestor's look and a couple of awkward minor Guest Star line deliveries that don't work here everything else character and plot wise works for a Post Regen story) Attack of the Cybermen (Good story very good performances) Regards mark687 I reckon it's another case of Vortis Syndrome with The Twin Dilemma. A rough beginning hiding what's otherwise a fairly decent story about old friends and paranoid gastropods. Maurice Denham's Azmael feels like we've always known him and Kevin McNally could've made for a great companion. The one thing I've always wondered is why they didn't reuse the Tractators for the Gastropods? The costumes were already there, all they'd have to do is mention another colony with differing mental powers was at work. It's also unironically rather quotable:
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Post by elkawho on Sept 17, 2019 2:49:13 GMT
Another one here who doesn't think The Twin Dilemma is bad, as long as you can get past that first episode. I actually enjoy that story.
Pluto TV was showing The Dalek Invasion of Earth. It's been a while since I've seen it. So many great things about this story. I love Barbara in this one. She's awesome! Throwing bombs, running through the streets of London pushing a wheelchair, and driving through a roadblock of Daleks. She rocks!
I also like how they built the relationship between Susan and David. It makes it believable that The Doctor leaves her with him. Compare that with Leela and Andred, and it's not even close.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 6:42:59 GMT
Another one here who doesn't think The Twin Dilemma is bad, as long as you can get past that first episode. I actually enjoy that story. Pluto TV was showing The Dalek Invasion of Earth. It's been a while since I've seen it. So many great things about this story. I love Barbara in this one. She's awesome! Throwing bombs, running through the streets of London pushing a wheelchair, and driving through a roadblock of Daleks. She rocks! I also like how they built the relationship between Susan and David. It makes it believable that The Doctor leaves her with him. Compare that with Leela and Andred, and it's not even close. Yeah, it's chalk and cheese comparing the beginning with the end. Once we reach that confrontation in the throne room, the Sixth Doctor has well and truly arrived. My favourite moment in Invasion Earth is the attack on the saucer. It's a genuine display of courage and determination when Jenny tells her the Doctor and Ian are aboard. Susan's got her arm around her, trying to stop her from charging forward: Not bad for a schoolteacher from 1963. There's a reason why she's one of my favourite characters. Imagine if there'd been a just a touch more budget... I also really love how the Doctor takes charge immediately on discovering the Daleks are involved. It's important to his friends, therefore, it's important to him. No discussion. No question. He's onboard with getting involved. There's a lovely little bit of acting between Bill Hartnell and Carole Ann Ford at the very end as well. They try to go back to their old dynamic, grandfather and granddaughter, but it doesn't fit anymore. What felt natural at the beginning of the story now feels a bit ungainly at its end. Awkward. Mainly, because Susan's grown up. She doesn't need her grandfather anymore. The little bit of Russell, Hill and Hartnell all standing in the TARDIS is great too. No dialogue, but there's clearly been a discussion between the three and the Doctor's taken the decision upon himself to be the one to break the news to Susan. It was such a big moment as a kid.
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Post by number13 on Sept 17, 2019 12:07:13 GMT
Another one here who doesn't think The Twin Dilemma is bad, as long as you can get past that first episode. I actually enjoy that story. Pluto TV was showing The Dalek Invasion of Earth. It's been a while since I've seen it. So many great things about this story. I love Barbara in this one. She's awesome! Throwing bombs, running through the streets of London pushing a wheelchair, and driving through a roadblock of Daleks. She rocks! I also like how they built the relationship between Susan and David. It makes it believable that The Doctor leaves her with him. Compare that with Leela and Andred, and it's not even close. Agree, once they get to Jaconda it's a good story that just looks as if (not for the first time)the budget was wearing slightly thin by the end of the season - but Colin Baker and Maurice Denham more than make up for it. Azmael's a Time Lord I wish we'd known before (and as Wolfie says, it feels almost as if we had known him before.) A great actor, and Azmael's death scene is genuinely moving.
As for TDIOE, such a classic and Barbara is fabulous! And never better than when playing Dalek skittles with the dustcart.
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Post by Ela on Sept 17, 2019 18:07:36 GMT
Since I am re-watching series 9 in order, forgot to mention that I watched The Girl Who Died/The Woman Who Lived. Still not a fan of her character, and even less of a fan after Face the Raven.
Finished test-driving my new DVDs with Heaven Sent (still don't get the reason for that one - okay, there was a reason, but seriously?) and Hellbent (another that brought tears to my eyes).
Finally, The Husbands of River Song, which I love love love.
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Post by mrperson on Sept 17, 2019 20:53:16 GMT
Annual Thanksgiving with Who-friends followed by classic Who.
This year we watched the surviving episodes and bits from The Dalek Masterplan.
Aside: I think it's a shame Big Finish released a story titled Master of the Daleks, when it could have been called The Master's Dalek Plan.
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Post by doctorkernow on Sept 17, 2019 23:16:18 GMT
Since I am re-watching series 9 in order, forgot to mention that I watched The Girl Who Died/The Woman Who Lived. Still not a fan of her character, and even less of a fan after Face the Raven. Finished test-driving my new DVDs with Heaven Sent (still don't get the reason for that one - okay, there was a reason, but seriously?) and Hellbent (another that brought tears to my eyes). Finally, The Husbands of River Song, which I love love love. Hello again. During my NuWho rewatch I found series 9 very hard going. A lot of stories concerning death and mortality. This is why Peter Capaldi tries to play the Doctor as ageing rock star. You need the bits of levity to get through. I did enjoy bits of it. The meeting between the Doctor and Davros is fascinating. Sleep No More, sorry really didn't find this interesting at all. Heaven Sent, a story about being trapped in purgatory is well done and has an extraordinary performance by Mr Capaldi. I still think Hell Bent totally guts the impact of Face the Raven. However, I realise that Mr Moffat is the 'everybody lives' writer and it does fit his fantastical fairy tale version of Doctor Who. I appreciated the Zygon story which was really brutal, demonstrating the terror of fanaticism and that no one wins in a war. I was glad to watch Husbands of River Song because it was so daft, but even this story is tinged with sadness because it deals with the Doctor knowing this their last meeting. Overall, series 9 has some real drama. The arc of the hybrid being Clara/Doctor two passionate reckless individuals, with Clara becoming more addicted to the danger and excitement and more like the Doctor. Danny tried to warn her about travelling with him. The Doctor's guilt means is prepared to break history to bring her back.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2019 23:17:14 GMT
The Ultimate Foe. Oh dear, what an embarrassing mess, ineptly written, poorly directed. It's all over the place!
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Post by doctorkernow on Sept 17, 2019 23:47:02 GMT
The Ultimate Foe. Oh dear, what an embarrassing mess, ineptly written, poorly directed. It's all over the place! Hello again. Agreed, JohnHurtDoctor. When I watched it the first time I enjoyed Robert Holmes's episode 13, particularly Glitz trying to sell bits of the courtroom, the Master's intervention and the Doctor's realisation that he's been made a scapegoat. Episode 14. Dreadful. A megabyte modem, there's nothing you can do to prevent the catharthis of spurious morality or some such rubbish. The Valeyard is a fascinating creation, more dangerous because he's also the Doctor. What did you think of The Last Adventure?
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Post by doctorkernow on Sept 17, 2019 23:59:40 GMT
Hello again.
My NuWho odyssey is nearing its end. Into the much-maligned, in some quarters, series 11.
So far, really enjoying the new team TARDIS. Stories one and two straight forward but beautifully shot and performed. Love the making sonic screwdriver scene.
The dangers of travelling into Earth's history are uppermost again for the first time since the Sixties. Rosa is a highlight of series 11, despite the useless villain. Vinette Robinson is superb and the regulars all have important roles to play to put history on track.
It is well-directed and those scenes on the bus are deeply unsettling and reminds us all that racism in all its forms still exists and still needs to be fought.
Doctor Who carrying out one of its earliest mission statements to educate, inform and make people think.
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Post by Ela on Sept 18, 2019 1:54:07 GMT
Since I am re-watching series 9 in order, forgot to mention that I watched The Girl Who Died/The Woman Who Lived. Still not a fan of her character, and even less of a fan after Face the Raven. Finished test-driving my new DVDs with Heaven Sent (still don't get the reason for that one - okay, there was a reason, but seriously?) and Hellbent (another that brought tears to my eyes). Finally, The Husbands of River Song, which I love love love. Hello again. During my NuWho rewatch I found series 9 very hard going. A lot of stories concerning death and mortality. This is why Peter Capaldi tries to play the Doctor as ageing rock star. You need the bits of levity to get through. I did enjoy bits of it. The meeting between the Doctor and Davros is fascinating. Sleep No More, sorry really didn't find this interesting at all. Heaven Sent, a story about being trapped in purgatory is well done and has an extraordinary performance by Mr Capaldi. I still think Hell Bent totally guts the impact of Face the Raven. However, I realise that Mr Moffat is the 'everybody lives' writer and it does fit his fantastical fairy tale version of Doctor Who. I appreciated the Zygon story which was really brutal, demonstrating the terror of fanaticism and that no one wins in a war. I was glad to watch Husbands of River Song because it was so daft, but even this story is tinged with sadness because it deals with the Doctor knowing this their last meeting. Overall, series 9 has some real drama. The arc of the hybrid being Clara/Doctor two passionate reckless individuals, with Clara becoming more addicted to the danger and excitement and more like the Doctor. Danny tried to warn her about travelling with him. The Doctor's guilt means is prepared to break history to bring her back. Some good comments. I have to disagree, though, that Hellbent totally guts the impact of Face the Raven. There's still going to be death, just the "long way around". And it was the hope that it could be fixed and finding out that no, it really can't that was so gut-wrenching.
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Post by elkawho on Sept 19, 2019 17:51:06 GMT
Last night's Doctor Who viewing was State of Decay, as a tribute to Terrance Dicks.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2019 19:43:10 GMT
The Ultimate Foe. Oh dear, what an embarrassing mess, ineptly written, poorly directed. It's all over the place! Hello again. Agreed, JohnHurtDoctor. When I watched it the first time I enjoyed Robert Holmes's episode 13, particularly Glitz trying to sell bits of the courtroom, the Master's intervention and the Doctor's realisation that he's been made a scapegoat. Episode 14. Dreadful. A megabyte modem, there's nothing you can do to prevent the catharthis of spurious morality or some such rubbish. The Valeyard is a fascinating creation, more dangerous because he's also the Doctor. What did you think of The Last Adventure? I haven't listened to it.
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Post by constonks on Sept 20, 2019 3:44:13 GMT
The Ultimate Foe. Oh dear, what an embarrassing mess, ineptly written, poorly directed. It's all over the place! I like the first three sections of Trial quite a bit - more than the average viewer if polls are to be believed - but it does go right off the cliff in The Ultimate Foe. IMO it's the classic series equivalent of Utopia and The Sound of Drums being followed by The One Where the Doctor Becomes a Tiny Old Man and Then a God.
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Post by bohnny on Sept 20, 2019 12:43:10 GMT
Working my way thru the 3rd Doctor bluray set. Today: Planet of the Daleks. Season 10 is a cracker and I'm loving revisiting it.
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