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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 5, 2021 8:45:12 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. I had not watched it before and I enjoyed it. The only bit that didn't totally work without the Trial inserts was the explanation of how the Dr knew the poisoned Mogarian wasn't a Mogarian (missed out entirely in this version).
I also thought there was a continuity error in part 2 - the security guard with the 'tasche who takes Mel from the hold to the bridge at the beginning and then is still there when the Dr arrives seems to also be standing guard outside the isolation room at the same time. Maybe it is 2 different guards but they looked like the same person to me.
I wonder if a trial free version of Mysterious Planet would be feasible?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2021 8:58:53 GMT
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. I had not watched it before and I enjoyed it. The only bit that didn't totally work without the Trial inserts was the explanation of how the Dr knew the poisoned Mogarian wasn't a Mogarian (missed out entirely in this version).
I also thought there was a continuity error in part 2 - the security guard with the 'tasche who takes Mel from the hold to the bridge at the beginning and then is still there when the Dr arrives seems to also be standing guard outside the isolation room at the same time. Maybe it is 2 different guards but they looked like the same person to me.
I wonder if a trial free version of Mysterious Planet would be feasible?
Yeah, if I had been doing it as a rerun on television (a la The Evil of the Daleks's second showing after The Wheel in Space), I would have done some ADR with the Doctor and Mel down in the ship's hold discussing how he knew. No need for additional footage, just paste it over an establishing shot of the TARDIS and the hydroponics centre. I don't quite remember the guard. It could be, too. Yep, you definitely can. I've done a three-part story in that vein following them from their wandering through the woods to outside Drathro's castle. I don't have a scene breakdown posted to demonstrate, unfortunately, but I do have something similar. Terror of the Ultimate Foe, detailing a version of Terror of the Vervoids and The Ultimate Foe amalgamated into a single five-part story. It comes from a wider edit of Season 23 that reduces it down to an eleven episode trilogy with the relevant trial scenes still intact ( Mysterious - 3, Mindwarp - 3, Vervoids/Foe - 5).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2021 18:15:56 GMT
Part 2 of Time and the Rani (Blu-Ray) and part 2 of The Ark (Britbox).
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Post by Star Platinum on Jul 5, 2021 23:19:18 GMT
Just popped in The War Games, going to watch the whole thing while working tonight.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2021 13:00:55 GMT
The Enemy of the World, part 1.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 8, 2021 16:08:39 GMT
Last night Delta and Bannermen
(Always a bit underrated i feel 2 decent plots not even room to breath and McCoy continues to evolve the role.)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2021 16:23:21 GMT
The Creature from the Pit.
Poor old Erato gets mentioned so many times, but it rarely seems to get said how good this story (otherwise) looks. The jungle set (on film), and the inner locations are terrific, and the guest cast (Geoffrey Bayldon, Eileen Way and especially Myra Francis) are top-notch. If only this was one episode less - part four feels like most of it has been bolted on to fill out the running time.
For me, this is a reminder of cosy evenings indoors on cold autumn evenings all those many years ago. The Doctor, Romana and K-9 had been firmly established by now and remain a favourite TARDIS team.
This may not be the greatest story ever, but it's one heck of a lot of fun.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2021 18:52:45 GMT
The Ark in Space part 2 (Blu-Ray).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2021 22:33:48 GMT
Ghost Light - Extended workprint (Blu Ray).
Finally watched this about 20 years ago when I got the VHS at the 2nd hand market stall (along with Fenric, which I had previously rented in 1994), and was quite impressed with both. Oh how I wish I had seen both at the time, and wonder what my reaction would have been. I suspect I would have been more upset at the cancellation in the event. What a way to go out though. This (rather than Survival, which I only saw years later) was the chronological conclusion in my mind. A proper throwback to my kind of Doctor Who. Quite a good restoration of the excised material too.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 11, 2021 22:46:23 GMT
Dragonfire (Blu-Ray)
(Still the the most well rounded story of the Season apart from the final scene which has always felt tacked which through the "Here's to the Future" Documentary I've discovered "should've been Prepared for". )
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2021 23:11:02 GMT
Dragonfire (Blu-Ray) (Still the the most well rounded story of the Season apart from the final scene which has always felt tacked which through the "Here's to the Future" Documentary I've discovered "should've been Prepared for". ) Regards mark687 Dragonfire steals the show in S24...but it's petty theft. Still, I really love his goodbye scene to Mel. One of my faves. "That's right, yes, you're going. Been gone for ages. Already gone, still here, just arrived, haven't even met you yet. It all depends on who you are and how you look at it. Strange business, time. I'm sorry, Mel. Think about me when you're living your life one day after another, all in a neat pattern. Think about the homeless traveller and his old police box, with his days like crazy paving." Fantastic. My fave bit of the whole season, honestly.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 11, 2021 23:17:45 GMT
Dragonfire (Blu-Ray) (Still the the most well rounded story of the Season apart from the final scene which has always felt tacked which through the "Here's to the Future" Documentary I've discovered "should've been Prepared for". ) Regards mark687 Dragonfire steals the show in S24...but it's petty theft. Still, I really love his goodbye scene to Mel. One of my faves. Have you watched the Documentary ? Its amazing they got any shows at all from Casting Slv (the Goodbye Speech BTW being a workaround of his Audition) to the Wrap total turnaround of barley 6 months! Regards mark687
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Post by constonks on Jul 11, 2021 23:47:52 GMT
Dragonfire steals the show in S24...but it's petty theft. Still, I really love his goodbye scene to Mel. One of my faves. Have you watched the Documentary ? Its amazing they got any shows at all from Casting Slv (the Goodbye Speech BTW being a workaround of his Audition) to the Wrap total turnaround of barley 6 months! Regards mark687 A rework of his audition AND a last-minute addition to the script, as the original plan (or one of many conflicting original plans) was Ace going off with Glitz, rather than Mel!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2021 13:42:58 GMT
Part 1 of ‘The Claws of Axos’.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2021 9:37:55 GMT
Father's Day
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2021 12:00:46 GMT
To celebrate nothing in particular, I've watched The Five Doctors.
There are those who say it was a waste of Turlough and (especially) Susan by shutting them in the TARDIS, that Richard Hurndall wasn't particularly similar to William Hartnell etc - but there are always those who say all sorts of things. At the time, this was a terrific celebration on 20 years of Doctor Who, brought about by JNT in the face of increasing disinterest from the BBC. It was lauded as a 'return to the glories' of halcyon years gone by, with the freezing Welsh quarry providing one of the more immersive alien landscapes.
Now, it is even more precious - so many sublime performances from much missed actors - Troughton, Courtney, Pertwee and Ainley. A fairly well-budgeted 'TV Movie' of Doctor Who that we'd never really seen before. I felt a huge glow of warmth watching this, reminding me how great the classic series was, and how miraculous it is that Doctor Who still thrives in so many forms today.
I loved The Three Doctors, but this had a real sense of celebration about it - bucket loads of Cybermen being massacred (what a sequence that was - especially the poor lad being sick!), one of the rare times we had a really good look at the innards of a Dalek, revisiting a Yeti, meeting the awesome Raston Warrior Robos for the first time, and even some classic ankle twisting!
"To Rassilon's Tower we go, from above, beneath, below!"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2021 7:14:12 GMT
To celebrate nothing in particular, I've watched The Five Doctors.
There are those who say it was a waste of Turlough and (especially) Susan by shutting them in the TARDIS, that Richard Hurndall wasn't particularly similar to William Hartnell etc - but there are always those who say all sorts of things. At the time, this was a terrific celebration on 20 years of Doctor Who, brought about by JNT in the face of increasing disinterest from the BBC. It was lauded as a 'return to the glories' of halcyon years gone by, with the freezing Welsh quarry providing one of the more immersive alien landscapes.
Now, it is even more precious - so many sublime performances from much missed actors - Troughton, Courtney, Pertwee and Ainley. A fairly well-budgeted 'TV Movie' of Doctor Who that we'd never really seen before. I felt a huge glow of warmth watching this, reminding me how great the classic series was, and how miraculous it is that Doctor Who still thrives in so many forms today.
I loved The Three Doctors, but this had a real sense of celebration about it - bucket loads of Cybermen being massacred (what a sequence that was - especially the poor lad being sick!), one of the rare times we had a really good look at the innards of a Dalek, revisiting a Yeti, meeting the awesome Raston Warrior Robos for the first time, and even some classic ankle twisting!
"To Rassilon's Tower we go, from above, beneath, below!"
Fun and interesting fact: There were two production units on location for The Five Doctors. At the time of the Cyber-massacre, one was away with Pat Troughton and Nick Courtney led by Peter Moffat. The other, tearing through cybernetic limbs like aluminium foil, was directed by John Nathan-Turner. Our sickly friend was Stuart Fell who played a number of monsters over the programme's history, but also did stunt work for Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Willow, Superman and Aliens. He took a big swig of his tea before shooting, held it in his mouth and let rip when the camera was rolling. Small world, isn't it?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2021 9:25:52 GMT
A unique three-episode version of The Mysterious Planet from The Trial of a Time Lord. Lidar2 asked a question not too long ago about whether or not it was possible to reconstruct the story without the trial segments. I pointed to a Scene Breakdown I'd done combining Terror of the Vervoids and The Ultimate Foe, the two final entries of the season, but I got to thinking... I haven't done one of these in ages. They're always hard work, but fun and what better successor to that previous post than one for Bob Holmes's final full-length story for Doctor Who. You can read the edit list in full from here.
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Post by tuigirl on Jul 20, 2021 7:05:06 GMT
Still re-watching (very slowly, during my meals at home) series 10. Now at Knock Knock. The episode becomes better with re-watching and some nostalgia feeling about flatting during uni days and my own experiences with a very clingy (but very nice) 60+ year old tutor...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2021 10:34:06 GMT
Four To Doomsday part 1
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