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Post by mark687 on Nov 15, 2019 14:29:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2019 14:58:04 GMT
If someone had told me in the 1990s that an audio version of little-known 1960s story The Web Planet, a story not held in hugely high esteem, featuring Martin Jarvis OBE as a giant insect and William Hartnell quite clearly forgetting his lines in an opening scene, would be released on pink vinyl, I would have assumed that whoever supplied the news was 'on something'. I'm still not sure I believe it even now!
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Post by number13 on Nov 15, 2019 16:03:15 GMT
I loved the 'Doctor Who and the Zarbi' novel since I first read it (in the 70s reprint, it was one of the very first three printed in the 60s as most probably know) and many years later the DVD astonished me that it wasn't the dud story some people said but fully lived up to the Vortis of my imagination.
Still, it's not the most popular story perhaps, so this is amazing news and very welcome! *expressive hand gesture*
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2019 9:22:40 GMT
That's some truly beautiful packaging for this release.
There's an ongoing discussion about what realism actually means when it comes to fiction. Particularly with regards to science fiction/fantasy, where we're constantly reinventing the baseline of what qualifies for the genre. More often than not, I think that readers/listeners/viewers aren't looking for realism. Not really. Reality is poorly plotted, badly worded and more than occassionally paradoxical. No, I think we're actually looking for authenticity. One of the greatest skills any creative can cultivate is to draw your audience into this world where, if only for a moment, they accept your world for theirs. With real stakes, characters and consequences.
The Web Planet occupies this glorious little space where they threw budget to the solar winds and tried a wholly alien environment. Breathless plateaus swallowed by a cancerous tumour that drives its servants to tear the wings from those who resist it. All played with utter sincerity, not an ounce of mockery or self-consciousness and -- given how easy it is to laugh at a new idea (particularly in speculative fantasy) -- there's something quite special about that. Vortis, like Marinus or Skaro before it, remains one of early Doctor Who's strongest realised worlds and one worth revisiting. Purely, because they go to so much effort to try and make it feel larger than what you see on-screen.
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Post by fitzoliverj on Nov 16, 2019 13:30:22 GMT
Foolishly, I turned my nose up at the chance of watching this on the 'London 1965' Event. But I saw a bit of it, briefly, just as I was testing whether I could access the stream for later. And I saw a brief glimpse of one of the Menoptera gracefully landing from flight onto the ground. I thought it was magificicent. CGI couldn't have made it a more graceful or natural movement.
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Post by number13 on Nov 18, 2019 0:52:41 GMT
Foolishly, I turned my nose up at the chance of watching this on the 'London 1965' Event. But I saw a bit of it, briefly, just as I was testing whether I could access the stream for later. And I saw a brief glimpse of one of the Menoptera gracefully landing from flight onto the ground. I thought it was magificicent. CGI couldn't have made it a more graceful or natural movement. As with much of classic Who, while it was mostly made in the (very small at that time) TV studios, they had the budget to do some filming in the large studios at Elstree (I think) on film cameras and then they could really fly, in every sense. I'm sure the clip you saw came from those sections, they are very impressive. |
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