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Post by icecreamdf on Dec 16, 2015 21:12:54 GMT
The hubby and I started watching Castrovalva last night. I've been musing on how quickly Tegan fell in with the whole TARDIS team after accidentally wandering into the TARDIS in Logopolis. Seems as though she got to a stage where she was coping and pitching in to get things moving very quickly. Which I think is kind of interesting considering she wandered in by accident, rather than by choice, or by being invited by the Doctor. She didn't adjust as quickly as the first companion to wander onto the TARDIS by accident. Dodo never seemed at all concerned with finding herself inside a time machine or being taken away from her home. Tegan spent an entire season complaining about it.
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Post by Ela on Dec 16, 2015 21:26:18 GMT
The hubby and I started watching Castrovalva last night. I've been musing on how quickly Tegan fell in with the whole TARDIS team after accidentally wandering into the TARDIS in Logopolis. Seems as though she got to a stage where she was coping and pitching in to get things moving very quickly. Which I think is kind of interesting considering she wandered in by accident, rather than by choice, or by being invited by the Doctor. She didn't adjust as quickly as the first companion to wander onto the TARDIS by accident. Dodo never seemed at all concerned with finding herself inside a time machine or being taken away from her home. Tegan spent an entire season complaining about it. Yes, that's true about Dodo. She was an odd case, and I didn't find her a memorable companion, to be perfectly honest. And while it's true that Tegan complained, she also adapted very quickly and almost from the start did things in an attempt to help and make sure the other companions weren't left behind and so forth. Though you could say that some of her attempts to help were made in the hope of getting her back to where she belonged more quickly. I guess, really, what I am seeing in the re-watch is that Tegan became a part of the team much more quickly than I remembered or would have expected, based on how she joined the TARDIS team.
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Post by icecreamdf on Dec 16, 2015 22:06:51 GMT
She didn't adjust as quickly as the first companion to wander onto the TARDIS by accident. Dodo never seemed at all concerned with finding herself inside a time machine or being taken away from her home. Tegan spent an entire season complaining about it. Yes, that's true about Dodo. She was an odd case, and I didn't find her a memorable companion, to be perfectly honest. And while it's true that Tegan complained, she also adapted very quickly and almost from the start did things in an attempt to help and make sure the other companions weren't left behind and so forth. Though you could say that some of her attempts to help were made in the hope of getting her back to where she belonged more quickly. I guess, really, what I am seeing in the re-watch is that Tegan became a part of the team much more quickly than I remembered or would have expected, based on how she joined the TARDIS team. I think it took Tegan a while to admit that she was part of the TARDIS team. Until the Doctor and Nyssa ditched her in Time Flight, she always insisted that she just wanted to get back to Heathrow, but it was pretty obvious that she became good friends with Nyssa and enjoyed travelling with the Doctor.
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Post by Ela on Dec 20, 2015 3:28:44 GMT
I started a re-watch of season 8 of New Who. I like Deep Breath more after several re-watches than I did initially.
Today I watched Robots of Sherwood. Which I loved the first time and still love. Not sure why so many dislike it.
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Post by seeley on Dec 20, 2015 4:32:12 GMT
I started a re-watch of season 8 of New Who. I like Deep Breath more after several re-watches than I did initially. Today I watched Robots of Sherwood. Which I loved the first time and still love. Not sure why so many dislike it. Expectations, perhaps? I went into it expecting little, and found it an enjoyable romp-cum-pastiche. That the Sheriff was inexplicably the Ainley Master only helped.
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Post by Ela on Dec 20, 2015 7:05:11 GMT
I thought Robots of Sherwood was a lot of fun to watch.
Getting back to classic Who, my hubby and I finished Castrovalva this evening.
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Post by Ela on Dec 22, 2015 18:02:02 GMT
The hubby and I started watching The Visitation last night.
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Post by elkawho on Dec 23, 2015 4:10:01 GMT
BBCAmerica is having a week-long Doctor Who marathon, so I've got the TV on with that. What makes me angry, however, is that is seems as if the BBC want to forget that Series 1 ever existed. They never show the Eccleston episodes in marathons or reruns anymore. They are showing DW episodes all week, and not a single 9th Doctor episode in the bunch.
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Post by acousticwolf on Dec 23, 2015 10:41:41 GMT
Last night was The Tomb of the Cybermen. I still can't believe I missed having this in my collection. Cybermats go from being cute to scary in minutes. Loved it, but I still prefer the sing-song voices... Bring back the sing-song voices.
Cheers
Tony
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Post by mark687 on Dec 25, 2015 19:06:34 GMT
Husbands of River Song of course
Regards
mark687
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Post by Hieronymus on Dec 26, 2015 22:31:11 GMT
Watched: The Husbands of River Song,
so of course I had to go back and rewatch Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead.
If anything, those two episodes are more poignant now than before.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2015 17:56:49 GMT
I've been rewatching a lot of Myth Makers interviews this week. It's easy to forget Jackie Lane did one - and she's quite lovely and chatty. She's been considered such a recluse when it comes to Who events over the years its a real bit of treasure to have an hour with her. She did pop up for half a second on the Aftershow of the 50th Special which was nice but this is great stuff.
Michael Craze's one is very bittersweet. There's so little of his stuff out there despite being a Who-con regular before his death. He just passed away before everyone and their granny could film stuff, I guess.
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Post by Hieronymus on Dec 29, 2015 21:55:00 GMT
Watching a reconstruction of The Myth Makers.
I read Donald Cotton's Target novelization of his script years ago, but have not previously heard the audio nor seen a reconstruction from stills and off-air footage. The comic elements are a hallmark of Cotton's work on Who, and remind me of Tom Holt, Terry Pratchett, or Douglas Adams.
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Post by agentten on Dec 30, 2015 15:14:52 GMT
Watched The Rescue and The Romans. I quite like these two stories. The Rescue is a short and sweet introduction to Vicki and has some great moments for The Doctor. The Romans is one of the better historicals, in my opinion.
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Post by Hieronymus on Dec 30, 2015 18:59:06 GMT
Watching a reconstruction of The Myth Makers. I read Donald Cotton's Target novelization of his script years ago, but have not previously heard the audio nor seen a reconstruction from stills and off-air footage. The comic elements are a hallmark of Cotton's work on Who, and remind me of Tom Holt, Terry Pratchett, or Douglas Adams. Egads! I knew from reading and such that the third episode of Donald Cotton's The Myth Makers had been changed, but didn't realize that a major plot point had been altered. Episode 3 was originally entitled "Is There a Doctor in the Horse?". <cough> The production team changed this title to "Death of a Spy". The usual story as to what happened at this point is that Donald Cotton pointed out there was no spy in the story, so it would be hard for one to die. Thus, a mute character was added who would die as a spy at that point. But from reading Donald Cotton's novelization, I'm not convinced that story is correct. For you see... {Spoiler} In the novel, the blinded companion of Odysseus loses one eye to Achilles, his other to Odysseus, and turns out at the end to be the blind poet Homer. So, killing off that character meant a major change, if I'm right about the original version matching the novel. It's also interesting to note that, in this portrayal of the Trojan War, the viewing audience cares more deeply, and feels more sorrow and empathy, over the death of the unfortunate "spy" than at the death of any of the "heroes" of Greece or Troy.
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Post by Ela on Jan 3, 2016 2:16:20 GMT
My husband and I watched the last two episodes of The Visitation for our New Year's Eve activity. I had forgotten about that fire at the end and its significance. For some reason my brain had remembered that happening with the Fourth Doctor rather than the Fifth, but as soon as I saw that straw catch fire, I realized what was happening. (Being deliberately vague in case someone who has never watched this very old episode is reading. )
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Post by omega on Jan 3, 2016 4:10:37 GMT
The hubby and I started watching Castrovalva last night. I've been musing on how quickly Tegan fell in with the whole TARDIS team after accidentally wandering into the TARDIS in Logopolis. Seems as though she got to a stage where she was coping and pitching in to get things moving very quickly. Which I think is kind of interesting considering she wandered in by accident, rather than by choice, or by being invited by the Doctor. She didn't adjust as quickly as the first companion to wander onto the TARDIS by accident. Dodo never seemed at all concerned with finding herself inside a time machine or being taken away from her home. Tegan spent an entire season complaining about it. I think that was probably the circumstances that forced Tegan to focus on the situation. Panicking or griping would do no good with the Doctor as good as out of commission, Adric missing and Nyssa unsure what to do. It makes sense with her air stewardess training, deal with the problems at hand and worry about everything else later. Any griping Tegan did was usually at the beginning of the story, when the crew was at a loose end and yet to get into the adventure. If you're wondering about Dodo, the novel Salvation might be a good read.
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Post by omega on Jan 3, 2016 4:12:43 GMT
I've been rewatching a lot of Myth Makers interviews this week. It's easy to forget Jackie Lane did one - and she's quite lovely and chatty. She's been considered such a recluse when it comes to Who events over the years its a real bit of treasure to have an hour with her. She did pop up for half a second on the Aftershow of the 50th Special which was nice but this is great stuff. Michael Craze's one is very bittersweet. There's so little of his stuff out there despite being a Who-con regular before his death. He just passed away before everyone and their granny could film stuff, I guess. The After Party? Where five has-beens tried to perform over a failed live-crossover? I thought everyone was trying to forget that!
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Post by omega on Jan 3, 2016 4:14:53 GMT
Silence in the Library. I really miss Donna, and love her dynamic with the Tenth Doctor. Looking forward to the set of stories in May (hopefully April, the second volume of Novel Adaptations was brought forward). The fact that we've just had Husbands of River Song is pure coincidence.
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Post by Ela on Jan 3, 2016 4:15:54 GMT
If you're wondering about Dodo, the novel Salvation might be a good read. Not really, she never interested me much as a character.
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