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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2021 6:06:26 GMT
So strange when you watch Fires of Pompei and listen to this the similarities and to think `Marc Platt got credited for Spare Parts felt like Steve should have received for this one.
Mel at her best and a definitely thrilling and engaging tale
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Post by mark687 on Jan 13, 2021 21:19:11 GMT
BF did before TV again this time with the Historical
The TARDIS arrives around "Volcano Day" with it and the Doctor knowing they have to be there.
Interesting that as its the 7th Doc (even though its set early in his tenure) you'd assume he'd have a scheme already worked out to get around it but he doesn't, as a result Sylvester gives a resigned but engaging performance as the Doctor and Mel are swept up by petty jealous's and local politics on the eve of catastrophe.
Bonnie Langford returns but with a more real-life optimist version of Mel.
All the Guest Cast give this a sense of day to day realism
4/5
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Post by shutupbanks on Jan 14, 2021 1:46:17 GMT
Yeah, aside from the FoP issue - which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans - this is great. Mel is excellent here.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2021 9:22:15 GMT
Yeah, aside from the FoP issue - which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans - this is great. Mel is excellent here. Hahah well it kind of works knowing 9 and Donna are just around the corner |
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Post by tuigirl on Jan 14, 2021 20:10:18 GMT
I enjoyed this.
Well performed and well written, Mel is used well, and we even get some interesting side characters.
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Post by Tim Bradley on Jan 14, 2021 23:25:55 GMT
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Post by Kestrel on Mar 27, 2021 19:44:01 GMT
- Honestly, almost immediately after listening to this episode I was sure that it was a 5th Doctor story. I was really surprised to look at the cover a few minutes later to realize that it was, in fact, Sylvester McCoy's 7th Doctor.
- Really love how mysteriously the Doctor plays himself in Pompeii.
- Interestingly I don't think I noticed anything in this story that would explicitly contradict the later Pompeii episode in New Who. It seems entirely possible that both stories could be occurring simultaneous—the 10th Doctor running down the same streets as the 7th Doctor, just missing each other, as rumors swirl and spiral about the city.
- The resolution of the story is definitely, as Mel said, a bit of a cheat. Obviously they had to do something to explain away the excavated TARDIS in the intro, but simply materializing the TARDIS to that point in time immediately before it was found? It's the least interesting possible solution to the problem. I can't say I'm not disappointed. One of the most artificial aspects of Doctor Who, as a narrative media, is how absolutely essential it is that the heroes remain constantly tethered to the TARDIS—the most effective way to produce tension, therefore, is to sever that link. It would have been very interesting, I think, to see the Doctor devise some method to return to the "present" without the aid of the TARDIS.
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