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Post by nucleusofswarm on May 16, 2020 1:01:55 GMT
So many of them are kinda cheap and easy to make fun, but fair dues - the show can sometime come up with some whoppers.
Here's a random one - Time Monster Ep.2, when the Master is trying to summoun Chronos and gets the priest. The music, Delgado's yelling, the sound effects - it's so theatrical and yet genuinely exciting, that it just tickles me and whenever I think of Classic cliffhangars, it springs to mind.
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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 May 16, 2020 3:27:47 GMT
Seeds of Death, part 3: Chase wants to infect Sarah with the Krynoid spore. Brilliant moment of body horror.
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Post by agentten on May 16, 2020 7:33:52 GMT
The Caves of Androzani part 3, in which The Doctor plunges toward death in a commandeered spaceship, determined to save Peri.
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Post by fitzoliverj on May 16, 2020 12:29:52 GMT
The Caves of Androzani part 3, in which The Doctor plunges toward death in a commandeered spaceship, determined to save Peri.
I really don't like this story, but that scene is absolutely brilliant.
Maybe I'm showing my age, but there's something terribly exciting yet simultaneously completely banal about "this isn't paradise, Brigadier. It isn't even Parakon. The TARDIS has brought us to the wrong place!"
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 13:05:27 GMT
I always throw Planet of the Daleks Ep 1 in to any Doctor Who cliffhanger discussion, but my favourite is probably the one at the end of the first episode of Pyramids of Mars ... For once, the Doctor or his companion were not in any direct peril but Sutekh bringing his gift to all humanity, with that eerie organ playing, was a really good end to that episode. (Wow! Now we had a baddie.) That really was a great cliffhanger.
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Post by grinch on May 16, 2020 13:09:16 GMT
The Mind Robber (Episode 1)
After an atmospheric and masterfully told first episode, ending it with the TARDIS breaking up and the Doctor/Jamie/Zoë vanishing into an endless mist is practically perfection.
Can’t imagine what it must have been like watching this as a child in 1968.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 14:30:05 GMT
Favourite "realisation" cliffhanger? The end of "The Ambush" in The Daleks, where the party realise they have to return to the City. It's a real chilling moment after the massacre of the Thals. There is no defence against the Daleks. No force to array against them. Nothing. You want to go back? We have to go back, there isn't a choice.
Favourite "peril" cliffhanger? The end of Terror of the Autons's first episode. The Master makes quite the impression by trying to bomb the Doctor's laboratory through his new assistant. Weaponising a new companion. The "surprise" itself feels like his idea, but I think he used Jo's own ingenuity against her to smuggle it inside. She, under hypnosis, might've been the one to suggest the ammunition box.
(The Mind of Evil's second cliffhanger feels like it should maybe get an honourable mention as an ur-cliffhanger. Great set-up with a great resolution that reminds us why the Doctor's invaluable to have by your side. Things would have turned out rather differently if the Brigadier had shot the dragon...)
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