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Post by mark687 on Jun 13, 2024 15:54:41 GMT
Toymaker The Animation was fine (better than I expected) and made the story flow better, but what's striking is even though its Animated "Steven" still looks like he's thinking "WTF am I doing in this"? Regards mark687
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Post by Kestrel on Jun 13, 2024 19:58:53 GMT
As today's War Master binge continues, I thought I'd take a brief break from 'Escape From Reality' to rewatch 'Utopia.'
It's interesting... being able to compare the two directly, Jacobi's performance as the War Master in the audios is noticeably different from his performance as the Master in the TV show, brief as it is. I'd even go so far as to say the latter isn't all that good. What really makes 'Utopia' sing is, instead, Jacobi's performance as Professor Yana. There's a profoundly compelling core of earnestness and genuineness to the character that I can't help lament not seeing in the War Master audios.
That second to last scene of his, when he starts to tear up looking at the Tardis, and then talks to Martha while that Murray Gold score ratchets up in the background, is simply incredible. In spite of myself, I teared up right along with him while watching it. Then two or three scenes later he regenerates into the Simms Master, and the whiplash between these two different characters is almost physically painful.
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Post by Kestrel on Jun 16, 2024 10:17:41 GMT
Watched Army of Ghosts and Doomsday. Pretty fun pair of episodes, but man, it's kind of amazing how little I remembered of that second season -- I never really rewatch it (because it's not very good) so it's been a long time. I'd completely forgotten about that season-long sub story with the parallel universe, Danny, and Pete's father.
It's weird that in a pair of stories ostensibly about Rose, the character who gets the best scenes is actually Jackie. Does she play a big role in those Dimension Cannon audios, I wonder? I did really love those to Short Trips they did with Jackie, too.
I also find myself curious about the production timeline in-between Doomsday and The Runaway Bride (which I also found myself watching). Jackie's dynamic with the Doctor in the former is remarkably similar to the dynamic Ten will have with Donna in the future -- but also, more importantly, it feels like they retooled Ten's character sometime in-between. In season/series 2, Ten is just... really annoying, condescending, and unpleasant. It's really bizarre how much disdain he has for Jackie. Jumping ahead to The Runaway Bride and beyond, and all of a sudden Ten is completely the Doctor I know and love.
Anyway. I'd meant to be watching finales, but... I got sidetracked. Now I'm watching Smith and Jones -- a story that references Braxiatel!!!! -- and thinking I'd like to go through my favorite new companion stories after. Which would be... Smith and Jones, The Pilot, The Marian Conspiracy, The Red Lady and... whatever the episode was that introduced Leela.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2024 10:22:33 GMT
It's really bizarre how much disdain he has for Jackie. Jumping ahead to The Runaway Bride and beyond, and all of a sudden Ten is completely the Doctor I know and love. That element doesn't really change - he doesn't even trust her to flick a simple switch and makes her stand aside in the TARDIS at the end of Journey's End. But, yes, there was a dynamic between Ten and Rose that made them very, very smug. Baffles me that they're the iconic paring of New Who as they're so horrid - at points in School Reunion, Girl In The Fireplace and especially Idiot's Lantern they are insufferable together. Then again, they are in one of the best - and most relevant given this weeks big return - two parters of the revived show in The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit. Baffles me Matt Jones never came back after writing that brilliant story. One of the best casts Andy Pryor assembled too. So good that BF used a good chunk of them to reprise their roles for Torchwood.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jun 21, 2024 17:20:32 GMT
The rest of the series leading up to Empire of Death
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Post by mark687 on Jun 21, 2024 17:45:48 GMT
The rest of the series leading up to Empire of Death Same as me this week, never have I needed till a Finale EP to get full context of a story Arc. Regards mark687
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Post by number13 on Jun 21, 2024 21:30:12 GMT
Pyramids of Mars (via Tales of the TARDIS)
Now as you all know, Jon Pertwee is my Doctor, forever... but isn't Tom Baker magnificent! And never more so than at his Gothic peak during the brilliant Hinchcliffe and Holmes years.
Random thought: We've had Lost Stories 'Return of the Cybermen' and 'The Ark' thanks to BF; does anything remain of Lewis Griefer's original 'The Pyramids of Mars' which BF might work their magic on?
There was not only a storyline but four typewritten episode scripts... I wonder, do they remain exactly where Robert Holmes left them fifty years ago, trapped inside a filing cabinet and powerless to move? Unless BF were to lift the tapestry and release the power of Sutekh as it might have been seen in alternative time...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2024 13:47:10 GMT
Village of the Angels.
"Was that scarecrow there a minute ago?"
A slice of pure sci-fi horror from the much maligned Chris Chibnall era. Apart from being a first-rate Doctor Who story (best use of the Angels since the debut, I think - Segun's incidental score is terrifying), it looks gorgeous too. Considering Disney have been 'credited' with infusing big money into the show this year, this looks far from an inexpensive production. Superb. Shame it looks like we won't get the rumoured Professor Jericho series from Big Finish any time soon.
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Post by mark687 on Jun 22, 2024 14:26:24 GMT
Village of the Angels.
"Was that scarecrow there a minute ago?"
A slice of pure sci-fi horror from the much maligned Chris Chibnall era. Apart from being a first-rate Doctor Who story (best use of the Angels since the debut, I think - Segun's incidental score is terrifying), it looks gorgeous too. Considering Disney have been 'credited' with infusing big money into the show this year, this looks far from an inexpensive production. Superb. Shame it looks like we won't get the rumoured Professor Jericho series from Big Finish any time soon.
If only it was Standalone it would've been in my Top 3 from 13ths Era. Regards mark687
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Post by timleschild on Jun 22, 2024 17:05:58 GMT
Logopolis. Back when Doctor Who was good. A palette cleanser.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2024 20:34:27 GMT
It Takes You Away
Chris Chibnall’s TARDIS team are written very much as an ensemble, which sometimes reduces The Doctor to ‘just another character’’ – until moments of jeopardy, when she leaps into heroic mode.
Is Tosin Cole a bad actor? I like that Ryan is a softly spoken gentle giant, a reassuring tryer who doesn’t always succeed. It contrasts well with the other more exuberant time travellers, but sometimes the playing is too wooden. And sometimes quite funny and appealing.
Ed Hime’s story is an odd one. A low-key affair that zaps from the beautifully atmospheric Norway – a very unique location for Doctor Who – to the less unique catacombs of the Antizone, a world inside a mirror. The small cast is often very effective and appealing, and Jodie’s Doctor is as established as she’ll ever be by this time. She’ll never be my favourite, but I liked her back in 2018, and like her a lot more looking back (Kevin Eldon is terrific as the creature).
As with The Witchfinders before it, I felt that the style of this era was cemented here after a mixed start. The story is ultimately not as great as it seemed to promise, but really enjoyable nonetheless, very strange and quietly unsettling. The thrills and scares are less obvious than in other recent eras, less swamped by Murray Gold's incessant music and are not so needlessly overblown. Can I even use the word gentler? It all looks great throughout, and Segun’s music is as always, excellent.
Really enjoyed this Series 11 revisit.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 27, 2024 11:44:13 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I76p1cZbq4Every now and zen I rewatch this with wife.. 10th is her Doctor. 4th/5th are mine from the very early 80's 1st run on tv here.. This is 1 of many instances where you can really tell David is a Huge fan of the show..
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Post by timleschild on Jun 27, 2024 11:56:17 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I76p1cZbq4Every now and zen I rewatch this with wife.. 10th is her Doctor. 4th/5th are mine from the very early 80's 1st run on tv here.. This is 1 of many instances where you can really tell David is a Huge fan of the show..
When Doctor Who was good.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jul 5, 2024 16:41:25 GMT
Pyramids of Mars (actually watched before they officially announce the TOTT episode was it lol)
Curse of Fenric
The Five Doctors
Day of the Daleks
Dragonfire
Kinda
Snakedance
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 8, 2024 10:17:44 GMT
So last night and tonight, Junior and I watched "Horror Of Fang Rock".. Interesting to see in the last 10ish minutes of episode 4.. When the Dr takes the lil diamond bag.. He grabs 1, throws the rest of the diamonds on the ground and walks off.. Naturally the human male goes down on all 4's picking up the diamonds and is promptly killed by the Rutan....! We also just started "Image Of The Fendhal" with Benedict Cumberbatches' mother in the lead role..
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jul 9, 2024 18:14:03 GMT
Currently watching "The Faceless Ones". Episode one yesterday, animated episode two today. Scandalised that Samantha Briggs's hat has been removed. It can hardly have been difficult to animate.
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Post by relativetime on Jul 13, 2024 21:39:09 GMT
I've been working on my own chronological timeline of the Doctor Who universe lately, so I've been revisiting some of the episodes I couldn't originally place on the timeline to see if I can figure out where they'd fit best. Today so far I've watched Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS and The God Complex, both of which I think I've found a place for on the timeline. I think later tonight I'll watch Time Heist or The Rings of Akhaten!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2024 21:06:28 GMT
The recent BF news regarding Doctor 13 and Yaz has made me decide to watch Flux all over again. The Halloween Apocalypse - as good a first episode as there's ever been. All the pieces are in place. Enter - the Sontarans! What could possibly go wrong?
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Post by sherlock on Jul 18, 2024 8:48:28 GMT
Four to Doomsday
Picking up where I last left off in Season 19, with a first viewing of this. It’s a mess. Davison’s performance is evidently warming up, the story decides to make Adric as insufferable as possible and the plot consists entirely of a frog with a god complex. I’m sure there’s a reason the Doctor throwing a prop at his causes him to shrink, but if so I missed it and I don’t care to know it.
For a positive, the soundtrack in the spacewalk scene was neat.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2024 21:15:18 GMT
Flux - Once, Upon Time.
Bel's Story - a sliver of hope and optimism amidst a universe broken and dying. I thought her story with Vinder would have more significance at the time of transmission, but I'm quite glad it didn't: a simple tale of love, and there's nothing wrong with that, as it provides positivity amidst the maelstrom of whirling, tumbling, fragmented, chaotic nightmare that takes in Daleks, Cybermen and Weeping Angels, plus two snarling wraith-like, jewelled apparitions called Swarm and Azure, as well as an intriguingly creepy character known as The Grand Serpent. Three years on, and this series has lost none of its watchability for me. Destruction has never been so gorgeous!
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