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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2020 11:21:50 GMT
Finished The Talons of Weng-Chiang on the S14 Collection blu-ray for the first time, my favourite Who story ever now looks better than ever and the new CGI Giant Rat definitely looks the part.
It's a true classic and never fails to delight me, one of those very rare six-parters which doesn't have a single wasted moment of 'filler' and the pinnacle of Robert Holmes' brilliant writing career. And gave us Jago & Litefoot!
So I was well pleased... until my blu-ray drive twitched a bit in playback and then totally packed up as I was about to watch the 'Behind the Sofa' session. The excitement must have been too much for it! (I don't think it was shredded by the talons of Weng-Chiang but... ) Of course, not everyone has benefited 100% from the CGI replacement... Or was it released back into the wild due to the closure of a Doctor Who Experience exhibition in South America?
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Post by number13 on Oct 8, 2020 12:28:44 GMT
Finished The Talons of Weng-Chiang on the S14 Collection blu-ray for the first time, my favourite Who story ever now looks better than ever and the new CGI Giant Rat definitely looks the part.
It's a true classic and never fails to delight me, one of those very rare six-parters which doesn't have a single wasted moment of 'filler' and the pinnacle of Robert Holmes' brilliant writing career. And gave us Jago & Litefoot!
So I was well pleased... until my blu-ray drive twitched a bit in playback and then totally packed up as I was about to watch the 'Behind the Sofa' session. The excitement must have been too much for it! (I don't think it was shredded by the talons of Weng-Chiang but... ) Of course, not everyone has benefited 100% from the CGI replacement... Or was it released back into the wild due to the closure of a Doctor Who Experience exhibition in South America? "No giant rats were harmed in the making of this production."
It evaporated back into the cyber-ether in a feat of prodigious pixelised prestidigitation 'which I venture to say would have impressed even the great Li H'Sen Chang.'
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Post by mark687 on Oct 8, 2020 22:11:48 GMT
As I'd finished my War Doc re-listen
Night of the Doctor
(6 minutes of perfection)
Day of the Doctor
( Very nice Anniversary piece John Hurts fantastic in the role . DT wears like a comfy pair shoes, BP'S full on sultry mother figure for some reason and the last 15 -20 minutes are excellent.)
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Post by melkur on Oct 9, 2020 0:04:44 GMT
Last week I watched 'The Sensorites' which, whilst not the greatest story in the world, I've always had a soft spot for...
This week, I've been working my way through 'The Reign Of Terror' (hitting part 4 this evening).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2020 1:55:22 GMT
Last week I watched 'The Sensorites' which, whilst not the greatest story in the world, I've always had a soft spot for... This week, I've been working my way through 'The Reign Of Terror' (hitting part 4 this evening).How are you finding it? I really like the Doctor's little side excursion where he gets himself into trouble with the chain gang. It's a fun way of helping both sides of the story to keep pace with one another.
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Post by melkur on Oct 9, 2020 2:09:53 GMT
Last week I watched 'The Sensorites' which, whilst not the greatest story in the world, I've always had a soft spot for... This week, I've been working my way through 'The Reign Of Terror' (hitting part 4 this evening).How are you finding it? I really like the Doctor's little side excursion where he gets himself into trouble with the chain gang. It's a fun way of helping both sides of the story to keep pace with one another. It's been a little while since I last saw it, but I've been enjoying it. I like the Doctor's side-story, yes, it brings a little... Lightness to an otherwise semi-dark story.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2020 2:41:37 GMT
*claps hands together* Here's an interesting find from my researches. Did you know that Colin Baker once threw himself out the side of a plane for charity? Back in 1987, Colin and members of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society trained with a group of parachutists called the Red Devils to raise money for what was then called the Foundation for the Study of Infant Death. I stumbled across this wholly by accident and the quality of the image/sound is a bit wonky, but if you've ever wanted to see the Sixth Doctor parachuting look no further than here...
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Post by polly on Oct 9, 2020 4:44:40 GMT
The Mysterious Planet - Gaze ye upon the DVD Player of Rassilon... This is the first time in a long time that I've gone right from Season 22 to 23 without a big break, and it's remarkable how much better things have gotten. Sixie is more likable. The Trial arc is intriguing. The effects are impressive. Peri even got rid of that darn bowl cut and the music has slightly improved! What more could the BBC want?
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Post by constonks on Oct 9, 2020 15:51:34 GMT
Just re-watched Midnight. You know something's spooky if you're uncomfortable and feeling tense even on a repeat viewing. Mixing a sci-fi horror with a very real one is always great - sure, you'll probably never meet a psychic entity on the planet Midnight, but you'll see mob mentality every day if you read the news. It's like how Get Out's plot is pure sci-fi, but its themes are rooted in real world racism, or how A Quiet Place is about the real adult fear of keeping your family safe... but with carnivorous aliens with big ears.
Anyway, with all the talk about truth, facts, opinions and lies these days, it struck me that one of the scariest things in the story is when Jethro's parents claim they saw the monster pass from Sky to the Doctor - which they definitely didn't - because they're just so convinced that it happened, and nothing can make them think otherwise.
(And I love the pay-off to the "no don't do that" running gag at the end.)
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Post by mark687 on Oct 11, 2020 18:12:56 GMT
Frontier in Space/Planet of the Daleks
(JPs in full "clever clogs mode"in Frontier but KM and RD are having a ball with each other and Planet is just one I enjoy)
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Post by number13 on Oct 12, 2020 11:34:18 GMT
Frontier in Space/Planet of the Daleks ( JPs in full "clever clogs mode"in Frontier but KM and RD are having a ball with each other and Planet is just one I enjoy) Regards mark687 lol! And as we now know from Doctor Ogron: "Ogrons not like clever-clogs!"
12-part epic and oh that moment when the Daleks first appear. But I've been wishing the Draconians were also in 'Planet' since I first saw it, at least maybe the Prince as a liason for the new anti-Dalek alliance.
Excellent stories and I now get a bonus chuckle from the Moon prison scene where the Master reels off the Doctor's supposed list of crimes: on that Twitch marathon a while back, some bright spark added '... and stealing my sandwich!'
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Post by melkur on Oct 13, 2020 1:14:37 GMT
Over the past few days I've been watching 'Planet Of Giants'. Not a favourite, but it's 'light' and functional, pretty much everything a series-opener needs to be. I have 'dipped my toes' into Ian Levine's animated version on a couple of occasions, but have never really been able to get into it...
Before getting into the bath this evening, as I watched the original story a few weeks ago, I watched 'DW & The Daleks' for the first time in quiet a long while... I'm not going to lie and say that it's amongst my favourite things in the world (I prefer 2150), but it looks good, at 80minutes it zips along nicely, and I can think of worse stories to be adapted for the big-screen! "I enjoy it fine enough, but I don't know if I would go 'out of my way' to watch it on a regular basis...", let's phrase it that way.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2020 4:01:35 GMT
Frontier in Space/Planet of the Daleks ( JPs in full "clever clogs mode"in Frontier but KM and RD are having a ball with each other and Planet is just one I enjoy) Regards mark687 lol! And as we now know from Doctor Ogron: "Ogrons not like clever-clogs!"
12-part epic and oh that moment when the Daleks first appear. But I've been wishing the Draconians were also in 'Planet' since I first saw it, at least maybe the Prince as a liason for the new anti-Dalek alliance.
Excellent stories and I now get a bonus chuckle from the Moon prison scene where the Master reels off the Doctor's supposed list of crimes: on that Twitch marathon a while back, some bright spark added '... and stealing my sandwich!'
That pair of stories together, Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks, are the two Doctor Who stories that feel most like they're missing a third installment. Something to bring together the Space War in the first half and the forestalled army in the second (we've had at least two since, Emperor of the Daleks and The Conquest of Far). There's a certain irony to Frontier from the Doctor's perspective. Here he is, for all intents and purposes, a rehabilitated convict pardoned by his own government. A free man with a commuted sentence -- once again a prisoner of the Earth (I'd start pulling out my bingo card at that point). I do like our intelligent Ogrons, Garshak from Shakedown remains something of a favourite. He won his position with Megerran police after the previous two candidates accidentally, brutally ripped their arms from their sockets. Some kind of freak accident...
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Post by number13 on Oct 13, 2020 12:26:08 GMT
lol! And as we now know from Doctor Ogron: "Ogrons not like clever-clogs!"
12-part epic and oh that moment when the Daleks first appear. But I've been wishing the Draconians were also in 'Planet' since I first saw it, at least maybe the Prince as a liason for the new anti-Dalek alliance.
Excellent stories and I now get a bonus chuckle from the Moon prison scene where the Master reels off the Doctor's supposed list of crimes: on that Twitch marathon a while back, some bright spark added '... and stealing my sandwich!'
That pair of stories together, Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks, are the two Doctor Who stories that feel most like they're missing a third installment. Something to bring together the Space War in the first half and the forestalled army in the second (we've had at least two since, Emperor of the Daleks and The Conquest of Far). There's a certain irony to Frontier from the Doctor's perspective. Here he is, for all intents and purposes, a rehabilitated convict pardoned by his own government. A free man with a commuted sentence -- once again a prisoner of the Earth (I'd start pulling out my bingo card at that point). I do like our intelligent Ogrons, Garshak from Shakedown remains something of a favourite. He won his position with Megerran police after the previous two candidates accidentally, brutally ripped their arms from their sockets. Some kind of freak accident... I discovered 'Shakedown' from the audiobook only this summer and Dan Starkey performs a wonderfully civilised brutal unscrupulous Ogron police chief doesn't he! Offers you tea, then says he really should have killed you but as it is...
Roz and Chris' story is my favourite part of the book for sure and thanks to BF I have the benefit that original readers of the VNAs didn't - I know exactly what all the returning characters look and sound like, so I could imagine Yasmin and Travis playing the scenes. In my head it was a full cast audiobook, with visuals!
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Post by melkur on Oct 13, 2020 23:31:19 GMT
Well, I had planned on making a start on 'The Dalek Invasion Of Earth' this evening before bed, buuuuut my copy of the DVD seems to have given up the ghost... =_=
EDIT: My PS2 seems to be playing it fine, WTF?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2020 0:02:24 GMT
That pair of stories together, Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks, are the two Doctor Who stories that feel most like they're missing a third installment. Something to bring together the Space War in the first half and the forestalled army in the second (we've had at least two since, Emperor of the Daleks and The Conquest of Far). There's a certain irony to Frontier from the Doctor's perspective. Here he is, for all intents and purposes, a rehabilitated convict pardoned by his own government. A free man with a commuted sentence -- once again a prisoner of the Earth (I'd start pulling out my bingo card at that point). I do like our intelligent Ogrons, Garshak from Shakedown remains something of a favourite. He won his position with Megerran police after the previous two candidates accidentally, brutally ripped their arms from their sockets. Some kind of freak accident... I discovered 'Shakedown' from the audiobook only this summer and Dan Starkey performs a wonderfully civilised brutal unscrupulous Ogron police chief doesn't he! Offers you tea, then says he really should have killed you but as it is... Roz and Chris' story is my favourite part of the book for sure and thanks to BF I have the benefit that original readers of the VNAs didn't - I know exactly what all the returning characters look and sound like, so I could imagine Yasmin and Travis playing the scenes. In my head it was a full cast audiobook, with visuals!
Oh, I'd forgotten about the audiobook! I only have the original novel, I should check that out. Dan Starkey is beautiful casting in retrospect and I'd love to hear his version of Steg. I always hear Lisa Bowerman for one of my favourite lines from Benny: "I refuse to be murdered on a technicality!" It, more than others, feels like a lost six-parter from the 1990s seasons that never happened. Such a fun read. Well, I had planned on making a start on 'The Dalek Invasion Of Earth' this evening before bed, buuuuut my copy of the DVD seems to have given up the ghost... =_= EDIT: My PS2 seems to be playing it fine, WTF? They're persistent those Daleks.
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Post by timegirl on Oct 14, 2020 2:48:06 GMT
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Decided to rewatch this as it’s rather good viewing for Halloween time! I love the over the top atmosphere of this and the strange eeriness of the clowns and the gods of Ragnarok! I even love the cheesy rapping ring master! One thing that struck me even more this time around is how the whole circus is a metaphor/ satire for Doctor Who, what it was like for the creatives(the circus performers, the fans (whiz kid), the executives who didn’t get the show (gods of ragnorok), and general public who didn’t watch or understand it (the fruit stall lady). It really is a brilliant satire!
Side note: We need more stories that are a satire of DW culture in its self such as this, Trial of a Timelord, and Love and Monsters!
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Post by polly on Oct 14, 2020 17:42:54 GMT
Well, I had planned on making a start on 'The Dalek Invasion Of Earth' this evening before bed, buuuuut my copy of the DVD seems to have given up the ghost... =_= EDIT: My PS2 seems to be playing it fine, WTF? There have been a few times when I've had certain discs that would only play properly in one particular player. My Night of the Living Dead Blu-ray will work flawlessly on my PS4, but on PS3, it will just stop working after a certain point. It is a mystery. Glad the disc works somewhere though.
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Post by melkur on Oct 14, 2020 22:12:43 GMT
Well, I had planned on making a start on 'The Dalek Invasion Of Earth' this evening before bed, buuuuut my copy of the DVD seems to have given up the ghost... =_= EDIT: My PS2 seems to be playing it fine, WTF? There have been a few times when I've had certain discs that would only play properly in one particular player. My Night of the Living Dead Blu-ray will work flawlessly on my PS4, but on PS3, it will just stop working after a certain point. It is a mystery. Glad the disc works somewhere though. It's a mystery indeed. My iMac's external DVD-drive liked it fine when I watched it earlier in the year. Last night, however? It kept ejecting it or just crashed... Who knows, who knows?
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Post by polly on Oct 15, 2020 5:10:28 GMT
Mindwarp - That beautiful pink and teal planet, the return of Sil, and of course BRIAN BLESSED. What's not to like?
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