lidar2
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Jul 10, 2020 9:56:50 GMT
School Reunion
I was a Who fan for my childhood and teenage years, but decided to give it all up and move on when I was 21 (in 1998). BOxed up all my books, magazines and VHS and put them in the attic. My mother actually said it felt like there had been a death in the family.
And then, much like Sarah Jane in School Reunion, the Doctor came back into my life. So my real-life ups and downs with the programme Dr who have a lot of parallels with Sarah's fictional relationship with the Dr - the only difference being I dumped Dr Who, while the Dr dumped Sarah.
Sarah's journey in School Reunion captures perfectly the journey I was on at the time, and that moment when the penny drops and she sees the Police box and realises who David Tennant is always gets to me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2020 14:43:46 GMT
Plenty of things that posters have already commented upon, really.
The Dalek Invasion of Earth episode 6, as the Doctor leaves behind Susan (from reading the Target when I was about 12 and 10 years later, when I rented the VHS) The War Games (reading the Target book in the 80's) with the Doctor saying farewell to Jamie and Zoe, knowing that their memories will be erased. Even better as televised too. Inferno episode 5, when Petra Williams and Greg Sutton face up to the fact that they are going to die (again I read a library copy of the novelisation nearly 9 years before the VHS was released) The televised version was even more powerful, due to the performances of the actors and direction. Hand of Fear, as Sarah bids a reluctant farewell. I was gutted when I saw the Android Invasion cliffhanger in 1975 for a week as I thought she had been 'converted' and that I would not see her anymore (I was four and had a crush). Logopolis part 4, as the Fourth Doctor bowed out. Knowing that I was watching the very, very final scene of the Doctor I had memories of watching since The Ark in Space (and then getting too scared to watch much of Season 12 except peering round the door, in true behind the sofa style) way back when I was three years old. The flashback montage was a reminder of how far viewers had travelled with this particular Doctor. A seismic event for the show at the time and a leap into a very different era with Peter Davison taking over. Fathers Day - the revived series proves what it can do with added depth and Billie Piper shows how well she can act. A story that also demonstrates why the Doctor would not try to go back and change events that have happened. School Reunion - seeing Elisabeth Sladen back as Sarah in the series after all those years really connected the new series with my childhood and was perfectly balanced. Emotional, sentimental, but not overdone and all part of a decent story. The ending as Sarah gets a new K9 just topped it off brilliantly.
So those are the events that have held with me. I may not have got emotional with more recent consciously 'teary' stuff, but looking back, I found much of significance when I was younger (and a bit softer).
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Post by doctorkernow on Jul 17, 2020 11:24:17 GMT
Hello again.
I agree with much of what others have said. Still not sure about Hell Bent though! Two stories really affected me in the early years of NuWho.
One was the end of Empty Child/Doctor Dances where you here that wonderful line, "Just this once. Everybody lives..." Christopher Eccleston totally nails the Doctor's delight that for once an adventure has such a positive outcome.
The other right at the end of The Christmas Invasion. The Tenth Doctor and Rose are gazing into the night sky, Murray Gold's triumphant music underscores the scene when the Doctor says, "It’s all waiting out there, Jackie. And it’s brand new to me. All those planets, creatures and horizons—I haven’t seen them yet. Not with these eyes. And it is gonna be… fantastic."
My programme was back, regenerated and like nothing else on television.
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