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Post by Whovitt on Apr 3, 2020 23:24:45 GMT
I've selected "in groups of episodes" but what that really means for me is groups of maximum one. I would edit the option to say "Individually/In Groups" but I don't seem to be able to. I guess it would skew the data if you could change the categories of any poll at a moment's notice...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2020 0:41:02 GMT
Terry Nation and Malcolm Hulke's stories tended to be very forgiving towards audiences just tuning in halfway. The first two/three minutes nearly always had that moment of being patted on the shoulder and allowed to get your bearings. A sort of... narrative airlock, almost, balancing between pressures. It was very much geared towards those cliffhangers as hitching posts for narrative changes. That's in stark contrast to something written by John Lucarotti or Bob Holmes where you step in and immediately feel like you've missed something. I think you can separate a lot of stories out into two broad categories: those structured around those cut-off points and those that just used a serendipitous moment of peril to bow out. The Robots of Death is a good example. The scripted end to "Part One" (D-84 advances on Leela) is quite different to what was actually used in the final programme (the Doctor's trapped in the hopper). Agree, they were very good at the 'Saturday Matinee' type of storytelling where you could even miss an episode and pick up the story again (with a bit of help from friends, telling you all about it and just how fabulous an episode you'd missed... ) There's also a third category - those where the episode ran out of time for some reason or had a technical hitch and we finish with (for example) a perilous floor pattern...
Doctor Who and the Perilous Floor Pattern sounds rather marvellous. A one-off special set in a discotheque. More seriously, I wonder if nowadays something like that would be smoothed over with a brief visitation from one of the Exxilons. The city shines an armed ghost onto the pattern, we have the cliffhanger, and the ghost disappears with Three and Bellal having to contend with the deadly chequerboard. Wouldn't it be an interesting contemporary twist where we're all set up for an intellectual puzzle and the floor itself rears up to attack? mark687 's answer has got me thinking about stories that could be done in a Machete Order. I wonder... What would it be like to watch Logopolis and Castrovalva in an alternating sequence? (Four's Finale / Five's Debut / Four's Finale / Five's Debut, etc.) *taps desk* I'm tempted to try it.
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Post by agentten on Apr 4, 2020 7:55:05 GMT
I like to really tuck in a watch a lot at once. When I'm in the mood for it, I can cruise right through for hours. I tend to watch in order as I enjoy watching the characters and show evolve, so when I watch, it tends to be as an extended re-watch of everything and that helps me stay in the groove because it feels like an enjoyable project. Speaking of, I think I'm about due for another re-watch soon . . .
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Post by pazzer on Apr 4, 2020 10:31:16 GMT
I tend to watch all at once as it's about as long as movie. Plus am normally so engrossed in the story that want to see how it ends asap. Though do fast forward the titles and recap.
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