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Post by tuigirl on Sept 29, 2021 17:21:03 GMT
Let me get this right. So Adric is the descendant of Swamp Thing? This explains a lot.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2021 20:58:19 GMT
Full Circle
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2021 20:58:42 GMT
Let me get this right. So Adric is the descendant of Swamp Thing? This explains a lot. Right down to the Alzarians being as Alec Holland as "Alec Holland" was. I'm not sure if it was intentional or just a happy accident, but the E-Space trilogy have some of the strongest high fantasy images of the new JNT/Bidmead-era hard sci-fi approach. We have the marsh elementals, the vampires, the lion-men... Stepping through the looking glass, the ruling elite of the castle, Romana taking poison damage... All clashing with science and scientific method brushing away the cobwebs of superstition (the preparations for Embarkation, the Wasting, etc.). The two genres -- science fiction and high fantasy -- spend a lot of their time competing with one another and end up forming a symbiosis, complementing one another. It's an interesting counterpoint to that first season under Graham Williams, which was much more focused on myth and elements of the supernatural. Possession, ghost-like entities and visitations from the ancient past. The Rutan, the Fendahl, the Minyans of Minyos, the Vardans, etc.
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Post by Kestrel on Oct 1, 2021 14:26:58 GMT
Just discovered IMDBtv has a Doctor Who channel and caught the end of a Peladon story (Alpha Centauri is SO WEIRD!) and am now watching Frontier in Space -- and it's soooo good! I can't say I'd ever forgotten how much I loved Pertwee (and Delgado) but I think I had forgotten just how much I love the two. This story is so much fun!
And it also has Draconians! Which are also great!
But, man, this story has some issues. Was CCTV not yet a thing in the early 70s? Seems so weird that this futuristic Earth Empire has absolutely zero recording equipment, anywhere, and has to rely on eyewitness testimony for everything.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2021 23:27:03 GMT
Just discovered IMDBtv has a Doctor Who channel and caught the end of a Peladon story (Alpha Centauri is SO WEIRD!) and am now watching Frontier in Space -- and it's soooo good! I can't say I'd ever forgotten how much I loved Pertwee (and Delgado) but I think I had forgotten just how much I love the two. This story is so much fun! And it also has Draconians! Which are also great! But, man, this story has some issues. Was CCTV not yet a thing in the early 70s? Seems so weird that this futuristic Earth Empire has absolutely zero recording equipment, anywhere, and has to rely on eyewitness testimony for everything.As weird as it seems, yeah, definitely. CCTV just wasn't a thing in the way we think of it nowadays. I assumed, as it turns out almost subconsciously, that the hypnosound knocked out recording devices as well as generated the false images. After all, a particular decibel or pitched noise tended to play merry hell with the BBC cameras by accident. Anytime someone fires a machine gun in studio there's distortion. Doing it on purpose, against technology of the future (with technology from presumably the further future), would be like child's play to the Master.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 2, 2021 14:44:54 GMT
Revelation of the Daleks with the exclusive cutaway comics commentary track.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 2, 2021 23:47:57 GMT
Back to where it all began, series 1 episode 1 An Unearthly Child with the commentary track - William Russell (Ian Chesterton), Carole Ann Ford (Susan Foreman), Verity Lambert (Producer), Gary Russell (Moderator).
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 3, 2021 16:43:02 GMT
Another beginning for the show, sort of, the 1996 tv movie with the Paul McGann, Sylvester McCoy & Nicolas Brigg commentary track.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2021 21:20:03 GMT
Myth Makers: John Leeson
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Post by melkur on Oct 4, 2021 21:33:09 GMT
As Tony Selby passed away recently (and I have the house to myself until the end of the week), today I took the opportunity to rewatch 'The Trial Of A TimeLord' for the first time in a good couple of years, on what just happened to be Mindwarp part 1's 35th anniversary.
(I'm currently watching 'The Ultimate Foe' part 1, so should have the series wrapped up in just under an hour)
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 4, 2021 21:36:26 GMT
The Aztecs. One of my favourite stories, all the characters are given interesting things to do, a great dilemma for Barbara, William Hartnell is brilliant really settling into his role, add a Shakespearean villain, & the whole thing really holds the attention (something that can't all be said for all stories of the era).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2021 21:40:39 GMT
The Aztecs. One of my favourite stories, all the characters are given interesting things to do, a great dilemma for Barbara, William Hartnell is brilliant really settling into his role, add a Shakespearean villain, & the whole thing really holds the attention (something that can't all be said for all stories of the era). It's pretty perfect Who, the only thing I'd dispute is that all the characters are given interesting things to do. That's very true of Ian, The Doctor and especially Barbara...but Susan is just sent off to "study" or whatever, in as egregious a "we have no idea what to do with her" until "Nyssa has a cold..she'll skip this adventure" nearly 20 years later!
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 4, 2021 22:02:52 GMT
The Aztecs. One of my favourite stories, all the characters are given interesting things to do, a great dilemma for Barbara, William Hartnell is brilliant really settling into his role, add a Shakespearean villain, & the whole thing really holds the attention (something that can't all be said for all stories of the era). It's pretty perfect Who, the only thing I'd dispute is that all the characters are given interesting things to do. That's very true of Ian, The Doctor and especially Barbara...but Susan is just sent off to "study" or whatever, in as egregious a "we have no idea what to do with her" until "Nyssa has a cold..she'll skip this adventure" nearly 20 years later! True although Susan does bring a little women's lib to the Aztecs. & Of course we get the first on-screen romance for Doctor Who.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 5, 2021 20:27:44 GMT
The Sensorites.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2021 20:53:45 GMT
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday One of the best finales of a series of New Who and DW in general.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Oct 8, 2021 15:17:45 GMT
The Tenth Planet, on the 55th anniversary of the broadcast of episode 1.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 20:27:14 GMT
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday One of the best finales of a series of New Who and DW in general. First, happy birthday for yesterday. You've been a great addition to the forum and you come up with some interesting ideas. Second, I think - though it's not my kinda finale, bit too "and the kitchen sink - it's one of the most important. It's when Who cemented itself. People - and the long missing female audience - were so attached to those eps. It's what catapulted Who to get SO big a year or two later. It's what got Kylie involved. It's when Who became the biggest show on TV here, arguably.
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Post by sherlock on Oct 9, 2021 18:07:53 GMT
Finished Matt Smith’s tenure as part of my on/off rewatch.
Series 7A is great, save the compromised ending of The Power of Three and bizarre divorce subplot of Asylum of the Daleks. 7B...mixed bag. The arc stubbornly refuses to advance post-Akhaten, and Clara’s characterisation is messy. But then enter the 50th trilogy and things stabilise again; though I still dislike how Time of the Doctor is more a montage of foes doing “best bits” than a coherent story. Plus Smith’s grand ending is just a big explosion instigated by someone else, rather than the Eleventh Doctor himself making a specific sacrifice or plan.
Started on Series 8 immediately. Deep Breath is bloated and only really gets going at the half hour mark when the padding finally stops. I also find it weird the lengths it goes to hold the audience’s hand through the transition, to the point of having the last guy reappear to endorse the new lead. Into the Dalek though, I enjoyed a lot.
Definitely gonna have to pick up the pace now. Got till 31st October to get through 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12...
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Post by mark687 on Oct 9, 2021 21:41:22 GMT
Power and Evil of the Daleks
(Who at both its confident and inventive best)
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Post by Digi on Oct 10, 2021 1:00:14 GMT
Scream of the Shalka
First time since around about 2005 that I've watched this. It doesn't quite work, but I feel like there was a fair amount of potential there. And it feels more than a little bit like RTD lifted some ideas from it when sketching out The Christmas Invasion and The Runaway Bride.
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