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Post by elkawho on Jun 12, 2021 17:21:33 GMT
The Daemons. Fantastic.
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Post by Star Platinum on Jun 14, 2021 0:03:45 GMT
Just finished Terror of the Autons and moving on to its behind the sofa.
These bluray sets are a real treat!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2021 0:32:04 GMT
Just finished Terror of the Autons and moving on to its behind the sofa. These bluray sets are a real treat! Sacha and Anjli were the highlights for me - they really get into it. Great to see the new Master react to the first. He tells a cool anecdote about Mark Gatiss that I won't spoil.
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Post by Star Platinum on Jun 15, 2021 0:04:51 GMT
Just finished Terror of the Autons and moving on to its behind the sofa. These bluray sets are a real treat! Sacha and Anjli were the highlights for me - they really get into it. Great to see the new Master react to the first. He tells a cool anecdote about Mark Gatiss that I won't spoil. You’ve got the nail on the head there, Sacha and Anjili are a real treat. Hearing Sacha compare and contrast his incarnation to Delgado’s gives a nice overview as to how the character has grown and changed. Anjili is quite observant as well, I’m enjoying every time she speaks up. Honestly, I think this may be one of the best put together Behind the Sofa sets I’ve seen so far. You’ve got Katy who is always a delight, plus Stewart Bevan who is having a ball with Katy. Janet and Sarah have become staples of these features, bringing a perspective of who over ten years after this particular season. Finally Sacha and Anjili bring a modern perspective and really critique Delgado and his character. It’s simply a delight to watch!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2021 8:44:09 GMT
Bits and pieces of Logopolis.
Interesting question: Given that half the universe is destroyed here by the entropy wave resulting from the Logopolitan collapse, can an argument be made that stories following the Fourth Doctor's tenure fall into the category of post-apocalyptic? Not necessarily in terms of tone (although there are certainly more than a few there), but context.
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Post by theillusiveman on Jun 20, 2021 8:44:43 GMT
My friend and I decided to watch the extended edition of the ultimate foe part one and two Rather enjoyable send off for Colin Baker it’s rather underrated
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 21, 2021 9:38:44 GMT
tvchart.benmiz.com/doctor%20whoA mate of mine sent me this link, not sure how accurate it is, the ratings of episodes, "Blink" apparantly was the highest rated (?).
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Post by melkur on Jun 21, 2021 11:37:08 GMT
Over the past week I've been watching 'The Web Planet'. Whilst I don't know if I strictly 'loved' it, but, thanks to watching it across six evenings, I think I enjoyed it a little bit more than I usually do...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2021 7:24:56 GMT
Over the past week I've been watching 'The Web Planet'. Whilst I don't know if I strictly 'loved' it, but, thanks to watching it across six evenings, I think I enjoyed it a little bit more than I usually do... 'Tis a bit slow to begin with. It falls into a similar trap that a lot of television shows in 1960s did when describing deserts; i.e. spartan scenes to match a spartan landscape. One of The Protectors episodes (with, I think, a very young Jeremy Brett guest starring) sticks in the memory for employing a similar tactic. Those first two episodes are essentially a wander through the wilderness before ending up at the Carcinome. It picks up once we meet the force at work behind the Zarbi and find the Crater of Needles. I've a strong suspicion that it ended up paced the way it was for the first episode's cliffhanger. It's a really good place to leave your audience... With the benefit of hindsight, it would've been cooler to leave the TARDIS's recovery to the final episode. Find the Ship embedded in the Web, taken to the Centre and buried in the Animus's place of power. It would've added more weight to its line -- And take from Man his mastery of space...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2021 6:07:18 GMT
The Mind Robber.
Metatextuality is always tricky. Establishing a credible world is Storytelling 101. There's not often much to be gained by pointing at the curtains and going, "Look at these curtains, gosh!" It doesn't guarantee a good story and, when misjudged, is a strong way to ensure it never recovers. After all, if the storyteller isn't invested, why should you be? A lot of escapist fiction is about getting away from reality, not charging towards it. But therein lies the magic when metatext is used correctly. It's a tool, not a prop, and The Mind Robber does something rather brilliant with it. It takes an established fact of our reality and makes it an existential threat in the series.
For all that Peter Ling dabbles in, from Medusa to the Karkus, from classic literature to comic books, there is never an open acknowledgement of the series' fictionality. No wave at the audience. Instead, it's about the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe fighting to maintain the authenticity of their lives under an entity that wants them to become fiction. They are real, fighting to stay that way, against something that claims they're not. If they should fail, they'll have no more free will than that determined by a roll of ticker tape. Crushed by an entity that presides over a land of imagination, but has no desire for it. No drive. It wants restriction, uniformity, it has no place for innovation. They'll be just a story.
Every i must be dotted, every t crossed, but that's it, really. The Doctor, true to his nature, refuses to play party to any narrative made for him. He and his companions outwit the traps and puzzles of the Land of Fiction by thinking outside the box. They've an awareness of a story imposed upon them, so they change the nature of the story. They believe they're real, they know this as an established fact in their universe ("It's just simple logic," as Zoe would say) and they're not going to let some machine tell them otherwise. And if they're forced into the box? Well, they'll just make it like the TARDIS -- bigger inside than out. A nice little metaphor for the show's refusal to be defined by any one thing.
Still remarkably clever after all these years. It holds up under rewatch.
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Post by melkur on Jun 24, 2021 12:28:56 GMT
Over the past few evenings I've been watching 'The Space Museum', which I pleasantly enjoyed this time around (certainly a fun way of spending a couple of nights before heading up to bed).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2021 13:34:59 GMT
Over the past few evenings I've been watching 'The Space Museum', which I pleasantly enjoyed this time around (certainly a fun way of spending a couple of nights before heading up to bed). {Spoiler} The First Doctor chuckling as he emerges from a Dalek ... is one of classic series' underrated highlights, I think!
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Post by tuigirl on Jun 25, 2021 21:03:05 GMT
The Pilot. Those first few minutes in the pre-title scene are just absolutely perfect. They are crammed full of Easter-eggs, atmosphere, humor and wonderful characterization. In those few minutes you actually "get" what Bill and the Doctor are about. It just clicks. Even Nardole the cyborg is introduced as such (squeaky joints and losing screws). For me personally, series 10 is the best of New Who. And it already starts out on a very high note with that very first scene. I think it has even more of a personal connection, since I actually know (and befriended) some old gnarly professors, older than time, during my time doing my PhD and teaching at university, and I have actually been to offices like that- full of atmosphere, history, stories, stuffiness, dust and memories. Only the Police box was missing. There was even a guitar (although not an electric one). Somehow, this brings back some warm nostalgic feelings in my heart.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2021 3:36:22 GMT
Over the past few evenings I've been watching 'The Space Museum', which I pleasantly enjoyed this time around (certainly a fun way of spending a couple of nights before heading up to bed). {Spoiler} The First Doctor chuckling as he emerges from a Dalek ... is one of classic series' underrated highlights, I think! Oh, that and Vicki's solution to her little problem at the armoury. It's great to see her come into her own over the course of her travels with the Doctor.
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Post by mark687 on Jun 30, 2021 21:00:19 GMT
Time and the Rani [Extended Blu-Ray]
(Still not the best still not the worst Introductory story)
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Post by Digi on Jul 3, 2021 1:31:55 GMT
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
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Post by elkawho on Jul 3, 2021 15:56:28 GMT
Had a great night with my Doctor Who group watching The Gunfighters. What a fun story to watch with a group.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 4, 2021 22:08:26 GMT
Paradiae Towers (Extended Blu-Ray) (I still think the "Rezzie and Mel" scenes and Richard Biers performance for his 2nd Role really take the shine off this. The Nerve of JNT to say Biers and Merrison's rapport was sending up the show beforehand! ) Regards mark687
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Jul 4, 2021 22:12:30 GMT
The trial-free Terror of the Vervoids from the season 23 blurry as an aperitif to the season 24 bluray
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2021 8:28:29 GMT
The trial-free Terror of the Vervoids from the season 23 blurry as an aperitif to the season 24 bluray Stunning what a little bit of editing can do, isn't it? Who'd you pick out for the initial murderer on the Hyperion? I found the new version made it easier to identify... {Spoiler}...Laskey as the culprit.
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