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Post by mark687 on Sept 7, 2024 21:26:01 GMT
The War Machines
No matter how many times I've seen this one, it's still extraordinary, and coming at it in the right order to close Season 3, it's even more extraordinary. After the Daleks and The Ark, the fantastical Celestial Toymaker and a semi-comic historical (all of which have precedents), suddenly we're in contemporary London with loads of location filming and action and a plot straight out of Season 7, four years and two Doctors early. And the Doctor seeming as much at home on Earth and known to the establishment as if he was already their Scientific Adviser.
Yes, yes, my boy... hmm, yes, extraordinary! And excellent. It must have been an amazing experience for viewers to have this story suddenly come out of nowhere and then seemingly be forgotten again as the style went back to historicals and alien monsters. But obviously it wasn't forgotten by someone.
(Incidentally, not only is the newsreader one of the real BBC newsreaders I remember from the 70s (as no doubt everyone knows from story notes etc.) but just for fun, the Minister with the glasses is presumably the Home Secretary - the Minister in charge of law & order in the UK - and he looks amazingly like James Callaghan who had recently been... Home Secretary! Accident, or design? Fun, anyway.)
Indeed its the porotype story for the next 2 Eras, its nothing like what came before it, Hartnell's flawless and the story would still work effortlessly today. Regards mark687
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shutupbanks
Castellan
There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Sept 7, 2024 23:21:27 GMT
The War Machines
No matter how many times I've seen this one, it's still extraordinary, and coming at it in the right order to close Season 3, it's even more extraordinary. After the Daleks and The Ark, the fantastical Celestial Toymaker and a semi-comic historical (all of which have precedents), suddenly we're in contemporary London with loads of location filming and action and a plot straight out of Season 7, four years and two Doctors early. And the Doctor seeming as much at home on Earth and known to the establishment as if he was already their Scientific Adviser.
Yes, yes, my boy... hmm, yes, extraordinary! And excellent. It must have been an amazing experience for viewers to have this story suddenly come out of nowhere and then seemingly be forgotten again as the style went back to historicals and alien monsters. But obviously it wasn't forgotten by someone.
(Incidentally, not only is the newsreader one of the real BBC newsreaders I remember from the 70s (as no doubt everyone knows from story notes etc.) but just for fun, the Minister with the glasses is presumably the Home Secretary - the Minister in charge of law & order in the UK - and he looks amazingly like James Callaghan who had recently been... Home Secretary! Accident, or design? Fun, anyway.)
Indeed its the porotype story for the next 2 Eras, its nothing like what came before it, Hartnell's flawless and the story would still work effortlessly today. Regards mark687 Definitely: it fits my criteria for a great Who story because you could imagine any Doctor doing this story.
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shutupbanks
Castellan
There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
Likes: 5,882
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Post by shutupbanks on Sept 14, 2024 12:49:17 GMT
The Invisible Enemy
Great first part and a pretty ordinary rest of the story.
New headcanon: Leela is immune to the effects of the Nucleus because one of her ancestors worked at the Bi-Al Institute and received a vaccine against the virus.
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