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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2022 15:40:37 GMT
Terminus
Wonderful. Great exit for Nyssa.
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Post by elkawho on Feb 27, 2022 15:25:21 GMT
Friday I watched The Curse of Peladon with my Who group. One of our members had never seen any of the Peladon episodes before, and the look of joyful surprise on his face when he first saw Alpha Centauri was priceless.
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Post by sherlock on Feb 27, 2022 18:22:52 GMT
Finished Class.
I will continue to be an apologist for this series. Is it consistent? No it makes weird choices all over the place and banking on a follow-up so much is first among them. But it’s more consistently good than Torchwood’s first 8 episodes in my mind and the young talent involved really commit to it.
I do recommend slotting in the audios as they help the season’s pacing immensely by giving some breathing space for the gang to have some one-shot adventures between plot shifts.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2022 19:12:26 GMT
Enlightenment.
A decent end to a really good trilogy.
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Post by masterdoctor on Feb 28, 2022 23:46:33 GMT
Twice Upon a Time
One I don’t revisit often, not because I don’t adore it, I do, but because of what it means.
Capaldi is my Doctor. He was my first to watch live from start to finish, he was the Doctor I watched and adored alongside my late stepfather. He is my Doctor. And this is where he dies, though only as much as a Doctor can.
It also is the last time the dream team of Doctor Who(for me at least) were together. Moffat, Capaldi, Rachel Talalay, and to an extent Pearl Mackie, Matt Lucas and Mark Gatiss all combined to give me the perfect Who. They are amazing and I adore them all.
The cinematography is wonderfully mixed between 60’s and 2010’s, the cold open is just the right amount of meta, and it is a lovely coda to the 12th and 1st Doctor’s life that hits just the right amount of tie backs and continuity.
Thank you Moffat, Capaldi, Mackie, Talalay, Gatiss, Lucas et all. I can only hope this isn’t the last we see, or hear, from you all.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2022 17:35:46 GMT
The Green Death.
Great way to end Season 10.
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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 Mar 9, 2022 19:36:58 GMT
Revolution of the Daleks
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Post by Star Platinum on Mar 10, 2022 0:52:54 GMT
The keys of Marinus, currently on The Velvet Web.
This is one of the episodes of Marinus I enjoy more than the others, Barbara gets some good material to work with.
The entire serial itself feels like a precursor to BF’s main range anthology releases. Strip out the framing story with the voord and you have the four connected stories, each self contained to a single episode.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2022 1:38:17 GMT
The keys of Marinus, currently on The Velvet Web. This is one of the episodes of Marinus I enjoy more than the others, Barbara gets some good material to work with. The entire serial itself feels like a precursor to BF’s main range anthology releases. Strip out the framing story with the voord and you have the four connected stories, each self contained to a single episode. I think its fab and easily Nations best work outside the very top tier Dalek stuff (which we know had some.. *ahem* assistance) but the way every ep seems different - its a survival horror, its a mad science lab, its a court drama etc - is so fun. Everyone is clearly responsive to the chance to do different jobs in service of the story. Its one of my real underrated Who serials.
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Post by sherlock on Mar 13, 2022 20:27:50 GMT
The Moonbase
That was okay. It’s depiction of the Cybermen is quite simple and effective, albeit with some memorably goofy moments such as the one hiding beneath a blanket neglecting to cover its feet and them taking potshots at a “simple Earth mind”. The companions get a bit of poor showing as Polly spends the majority of the story supplying liquids for various purposes, Ben comes and goes erratically and Jamie spends most of the story bed-bound. Troughton seems to thrive better on the Doctor’s side of things, getting the iconic evil line and playing the scene with the hiding Cyberman as tense as possible.
The animated episodes were quite decent though, with the Cyberman looking especially good.
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Post by constonks on Mar 14, 2022 20:25:03 GMT
The keys of Marinus, currently on The Velvet Web. This is one of the episodes of Marinus I enjoy more than the others, Barbara gets some good material to work with. The entire serial itself feels like a precursor to BF’s main range anthology releases. Strip out the framing story with the voord and you have the four connected stories, each self contained to a single episode. I think its fab and easily Nations best work outside the very top tier Dalek stuff (which we know had some.. *ahem* assistance) but the way every ep seems different - its a survival horror, its a mad science lab, its a court drama etc - is so fun. Everyone is clearly responsive to the chance to do different jobs in service of the story. Its one of my real underrated Who serials. And as a result of the "anthology" format, it's one of the quickest moving Hartnells! The latter two Hartnell Dalek stories obviously play with this as well but the tone is different - The Chase being pure farce (sometimes to its detriment) and the Daleks' Master Plan (other than the Feast of Steven) being more epic and harrowing. Marinus is just fun! It's not going to top any fan polls but it's a good watch.
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Post by mrperson on Mar 15, 2022 2:23:12 GMT
My hubby and I have been watching Power of Kroll. We both looked at each other and burst out laughing at the cheesy effect of Kroll getting that guy at the end of episode two. We kinda got stalled on finishing the serial cause of too much to do, but I hope to finish off the last episode this week. My wife and I still do the hand gestures whenever someone says Kroll (as I have just done lol). It cracks us up every time ... a bit like the Sisterhood of Karn in The Brain of Morbius Cheers Tony
KROLL!
My family vacationed on Cape Cod most years. We were around Brewster and Eastham. Point being that when the tide went out, you had 0.75-1.5 miles of flats alternating with 6"-30" deep pools, depending on how far out. Then ocean.
We'd often build these walls/castles against the incoming tide, and put dead craps on sticks rising from the towers. Kroll, we said, we offer these to you. Not that it had anything much to do with the episode....
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Post by melkur on Mar 17, 2022 22:59:13 GMT
Over the past month or so I've been making my way through 'The Key To Time', finally reaching 'The Armageddon Factor' part 6 this evening. As a whole, I enjoy this series/arc fair enough, but I do find the wrap-up a little... Simple at times?
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Post by drj on Mar 19, 2022 12:38:24 GMT
The Sensorites. It starts off so well, the mystery of what’s going on with the crew, the sense of “oddness”… That could have been so good…. But the politics bit between the different factions doesn’t quite work… it all gets a bit lacklustre…. it almost recovers right at the end though. Not bad, but could have been a classic with a bit of tweaking. Ps. Not that I could have written it, so what do I know….
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Post by elkawho on Mar 20, 2022 16:15:26 GMT
I finally watched Galaxy 4 this week. It is....not good. And that is being kind. I've heard that people have watched this and complained about the animation. I actually thought the animation was the best thing in it. We watched episode 3 as it was filmed, and at least the animation makes for better sets and costumes. Nothing happens in this, the antagonists make absolutely no sense.
Why did they choose this one to animate when there are so many better stories? That is the question that keeps rattling around in my brain.
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Post by bonehead on Mar 20, 2022 16:44:47 GMT
The God Complex.
In retrospect, I'm not a huge fan of this era of Doctor Who, but this story is something of an (overlooked?) classic. Genuinely spooky, genuinely weird. Great performances too. I love the idea of the Tivolians, here played by an unrecognisable David Walliams. I loved Paul Kaye's character from Under the Lake a year or so later. It would be great to have them back, possibly in a BF story.
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Post by mrperson on Mar 24, 2022 3:02:31 GMT
We watched the third episode of "Flux" for the first time.
We're pretty captivated. Whatever this is going to turn out to be really has my attention. I've tried to avoid review talk, entirely successfully it seems. I hope the landing works. If this all comes together sensibly it might be a favorite.
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Post by constonks on Mar 24, 2022 18:18:08 GMT
The God Complex. In retrospect, I'm not a huge fan of this era of Doctor Who, but this story is something of an (overlooked?) classic. Genuinely spooky, genuinely weird. Great performances too. I love the idea of the Tivolians, here played by an unrecognisable David Walliams. I loved Paul Kaye's character from Under the Lake a year or so later. It would be great to have them back, possibly in a BF story.
I've said it here before but I'd love to see the Porcians (the invaders who always fail from The Fourth Wall) invade Tivoli (the planet that always surrenders). The exact opposite of the question "What happens when an unstoppable object hits an immovable wall?"
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Post by mark687 on Mar 26, 2022 22:34:06 GMT
Rose
(Still holds up and actually with time is turning into a near perfect example of the soft Re-Boot)
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Post by elkawho on Mar 27, 2022 15:54:52 GMT
Harper has a friend staying here for a bit who has never seen any Doctor Who, so we picked Vincent and The Doctor as her introduction to the series. IMO, it's one of the best stories the series has ever produced, in any era, and it had the desired effect. She really liked it.
While resting and trying to wipe out this cold I have, I watched The Magician's Apprentice yesterday. I have re-watched Doctors 9-11 ad nauseum and know almost every episode by heart and realized I just haven't watched 12 enough to do the same. So this was on the way to rectifying that.
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