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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 23, 2021 10:17:17 GMT
Just watched the 1st 2 episodes of "The Leisure Hive" with my boy from my just-received S18 classic blu ray boxset. He loved seeing the Doctor getting pulled apart in 1 episode, then ageing in the 2nd !
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Post by relativetime on Jul 23, 2021 23:18:23 GMT
Winding the day down by watching The Mind of Evil, which I don’t know if I’ve ever watched all the way through before... well, I have now in any case!
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Post by sherlock on Jul 25, 2021 13:27:15 GMT
Picking up where I last left off with the new series with the start of the Moffat era.
The Eleventh Hour is easily the best Doctor debut story.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2021 15:43:24 GMT
The Claws of Axos part 2
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Post by constonks on Jul 26, 2021 21:28:28 GMT
On the weekend, I introduced a friend to Classic Who by showing him The Three Doctors and he loved it, especially Patrick Troughton's scene-stealing chaos and Omega lifting up his helmet.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2021 0:21:32 GMT
The Moonbase
We have the great classics when it comes to Cyber-moments. The march down the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral, puncturing their way out of the tombs on Telos, the firefights aboard the TARDIS and in Cyber-Control, respectively. There's an understated one I rather enjoy from here. It's when the Cybermen have hijacked the Gravitron against Earth. The Cyberleader is in communication with the base commander, Hobson: And there's this sound like a champagne cork. The lights drop and so too does everyone else. Something tears through the outer skin of the dome. Scattershot from a piece of Cyber-artillery. Everyone's scrambling, first for cover, but soon for oxygen. The control room has been exposed to the hard vacuum of the Moon. The people aboard become frantic, plugging the hole with their jackets and vests. Literally anything they have on them. It's a great scene. Not too bad for two years before the first Moon landing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2021 15:51:33 GMT
Four to Doomsday: part 2
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2021 14:45:11 GMT
The Leisure Hive part 3 and The Enemy of the World part 3.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2021 1:58:54 GMT
In recognition of Digi 's recent valiant defence against a Zarbi offensive, I give you... The Web Planet. But, not as you probably know it. Last year, as a lockdown project, I went through and I redid a number of old fan-edits that I'd first attempted way back in 2017(ish). One of them was the Doctor's first trip to the planet Vortis in the Isop Galaxy with Ian, Barbara and Vicki. The Web Planet is a story that was trying to push the limits of what Doctor Who could achieve on television with the resources it had available. Visually, it gave us flying insects the size of human beings, warring with one another over the Airless Plains of a world we'd never quite seen attempted before in the series. "Atmospheric" is often a word used to describe the serial, but the soundscape of the tale is comparatively rather sparse. Not unusual, given the nature of when it was made, but for contemporary audiences expecting to be able to hear Vortis as much as see it... I thought I'd take a few sources from the 1960s, available at the time, and build an audible landscape for the planet. Ideal for viewers who thrive just as keenly on Big Finish and other audios, as that they see on television. In the video below, are a series of clips using what Bernard Baschet & Michel Deneuve called Sound Sculptures with additional music from Tristram Cary:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2021 8:38:43 GMT
Time and the Rani: part 4.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2021 9:18:19 GMT
The Leisure Hive part 4
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2021 15:19:05 GMT
Deep Breath. I'm hoping to get to grips with the 12 Doctor.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2021 17:28:23 GMT
Time an the Rani extended episodes from the Series 24 Bluray boxset.
Whoever is behind these extended episodes has done a great job. The inclusion of the extra scenes is faultless - you can't see the join! As for the story - still as incomprehensible as ever, but the cast certainly jolly it up. Kate O'Mara is, of course, magnificent, even when wrestling with some frankly horrendous lines. The assorted Lykertians are terrific (whatever did happen to Mark Greenstreet?) and Richard Gauntlett works like mad to animate the 'chief' Tetrap costume. Sylvester is as elusive as the Doctor in this one - his performance is all over the place, but then that's hardly unusual for a new incarnation's debut story. Bonnie has clearly been told to scream at everything that moves, which she does with gusto, but her few quieter scenes are far more successful. The music is loud and bombastic and The Eighties turned up to 11 and the effects, at least the majority of them, are pretty darn good. Haven't got a clue what's going on, but this is still great fun, even now.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2021 16:15:40 GMT
The Talons of Weng-Chiang part 6
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Post by relativetime on Aug 5, 2021 22:48:02 GMT
The Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone. One of the best two-parters of the Moffat tenure and a pretty gripping action/horror story. It’s weird going back to one of the earlier River Song episodes after she’s been so prevalent at BF, but it’s interesting and gratifying to see Moffat hinting she’s met all of the other Doctors here, her second appearance at the time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2021 9:32:04 GMT
The Enemy of the World part 4
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2021 20:00:27 GMT
Four to Doomsday: part 3
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Post by relativetime on Aug 7, 2021 0:09:32 GMT
Fury from the Deep
This was my first time watching the animation. It’s awkward in places, but I was pleasantly surprised in other places when it worked pretty effectively. I don’t think any animation is capable of fully capturing Troughton’s performance, but there was enough context with the animation and the audio for me to visualize what I think it must have looked like back then and that’s all I really need.
As for the story itself, I thought it was pretty good, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it one of the best (which might be heresy to some). What would probably elevate this episode a lot more has been lost in translation to animation, I will admit, but I felt like the story’s resolution was a little rushed and that the solution for defeating the monster had a couple of flaws that jumped out to me a bit. But Victoria’s departure was a nice little subplot that paid off very well in the end and I liked the originality/creepiness of the monster here too. Overall, I had a pretty good time with this.
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Post by theotherjosh on Aug 7, 2021 12:34:42 GMT
Attack of the Cybermen
I started a new job this week and my cats are feeling ignored, so when one of them curled up on my lap I resolved not to move until she got off. She soon made herself very comfortable, so I decided that I best do the same for myself and I turned on the television to see what was playing on the All Doctor Who Pluto channel.
It was the end of Attack of the Cybermen. There is quite a lot to dislike about this and I was expecting to suffer through it, but I found myself enjoying it. Whatever problems Doctor Who had in this era, it's not because of the leads. Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant make great performances from what they're given. I can see the germ of what they cultivated in their Big Finish stories. There was something brilliant there.
My cat was frightened off my lap by the exploding Cyber-Controller so we didn't stick around for a second story, but I think she enjoyed it too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2021 13:21:57 GMT
Attack of the CybermenI started a new job this week and my cats are feeling ignored, so when one of them curled up on my lap I resolved not to move until she got off. She soon made herself very comfortable, so I decided that I best do the same for myself and I turned on the television to see what was playing on the All Doctor Who Pluto channel. It was the end of Attack of the Cybermen. There is quite a lot to dislike about this and I was expecting to suffer through it, but I found myself enjoying it. Whatever problems Doctor Who had in this era, it's not because of the leads. Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant make great performances from what they're given. I can see the germ of what they cultivated in their Big Finish stories. There was something brilliant there. My cat was frightened off my lap by the exploding Cyber-Controller so we didn't stick around for a second story, but I think she enjoyed it too. I can remember watching it for the very first time, having no idea who any of the characters were. Not a glimmer. At the time, I think I barely knew much about Who at all. The scene which caught my eye, most strongly -- outside of that very first scene with the Doctor -- was the three-handed interrogation between the Doctor, Peri and Russell. You sit up and pay attention when Sixie's patience wanes and says, "Shoot him, Peri. [...] Handful of heartbeats to a Time Lord." It'd be so easy to overplay that whole exchange, but everyone handles it with just the right balance of subdued mania, bewilderment and anxiety. Perfectly understated. There's no hint one way or the other if the Doctor's sincere or just bluffing.
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