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Post by mark687 on Sept 3, 2021 13:57:45 GMT
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Post by grinch on Sept 3, 2021 14:00:53 GMT
Well, that was certainly unexpected.
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Post by cwm on Sept 3, 2021 14:12:24 GMT
The news piece seems fairly clear that they're planning more with this license, too.
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Post by mark687 on Sept 3, 2021 14:22:44 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2021 14:58:07 GMT
Wow, haven't even thought of Dark Season since the early 90s.
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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 Sept 3, 2021 15:05:36 GMT
When I first got into BF, RTD was the Dr Who showrunner and I assumed their Dark Shadows range was RTD's Dark Season.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2021 8:15:05 GMT
An audiobook version of RTD's very first TV series? 🤩  |
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Post by fitzoliverj on Sept 4, 2021 17:20:29 GMT
I remember this series distinctly (unlike Century Falls, which doesn't ring any bells)
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Post by Tim Bradley on Sept 4, 2021 17:32:58 GMT
A shame the series isn't on Britbox yet. Might check out the TV series and the novelization/audiobook someday for curiosity's sake.  Tim.  |
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Post by doctorkernow on Sept 4, 2021 18:43:12 GMT
Hello again,
I've posted on this in the Big Finish updates thread, but I remember this very well. As mentioned by others, the entire series is on YouTube. I watched it again last night and was instantly transported back to a very happy six weeks of watching. That swirling title sequence and thumping insistant theme music stayed with me for a long time. There are several Who alumni, the young cast are great fun and as you would expect from RTD it is quite fast paced and well-directed by Colin Cant who used to direct school drama Grange Hill.
It has a lot of ideas buzzing around that Russell would later explore in Doctor Who and his other work. The most important for me was that children were people too and had opinions of their own that should be listened to. The villain is never fully explained and that is brilliant and like other children fantasy dramas of the 70s, 80s and 90s the children are left to sort out the menacing threat.
The book is better and having the audiobook read by Victoria Lambert will be lovely. Her performance as Marcie is very Doctorish.
Century Falls, I only saw a bit of, but it was much darker and had a more supernatural and gothic nature. I'd love to see it, the title sequence is creepy.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2021 0:43:27 GMT
Oh, wow. *whistles* Huh. Time being relative -- teatime, doubly so -- I think I only saw this series recently (or "recently", depending on how the memory works). For a first-time viewer, it's held up extremely well. The production values are solid and the storyline, while something of its era, is nicely forward-thinking. The writing has a good "iceberg" approach where all the facts have been solidly established, but we -- as the audience -- aren't necessarily clued in on every detail. We can see it just below the waterline. The attitude towards its much, much younger leads is quite laudable. The narrative avoids patronising them (quite the opposite) and dissects the "adults are useless" trope you typically see in these kinds of stories via their teacher, Miss Maitland. She ends up with the strongest character arc of the main four. It asks: "What's the difference between kids and adults?" and answers, Not as much as you think...Yeah. You know what, if they get a new Dark Season off the ground, I'd more than happy to buy it. Solid storytelling. ( For those with an eye for art: The artist for the cover, Sean Longmore, has an Etzy page where he sells prints of James Bond, Wonder Woman, Black Widow, Star Wars, et al; in a similar style. Well worth checking out.) |
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Post by mark687 on Sept 10, 2021 14:57:00 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Nov 14, 2021 13:38:07 GMT
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Post by Tim Bradley on Jan 28, 2022 19:59:55 GMT
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Post by theotherjosh on Mar 19, 2022 18:09:30 GMT
I don't know why I have such enduring affection for Dark Season. I wasn't aware of it until when it originally aired, and I'm not sure how I would have felt about it at the time. It feels very much like McCoy era Doctor Who and maybe I would have loved it or maybe I would have dismissed it as "Doctor Who, but even cheaper looking."
I first read about it in a Yahoo Groups post in a Lovecraft group. Someone posited Mister Eldritch as an avatar of Nyarlathotep, as a manifestation of humanity's self-destruction through own technology. This was in the pre-YouTube era, so I never saw so much as even a title sequence until years later. But the idea of Marcie as a proto-Doctor and Eldritch as an vastly alien interloper intrigued me.
I eventually watched it and now I've listened to the audiobook. I liked how RTD expanded on the ideas and smooths over the contradictions in televised story in the novelization of Rose and I love how he does it here.
To answer my own question, I think the reason I love Dark Season is because it's everything I love about Doctor Who. The mystery, the sadness, the joy, the humanity of it all.
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Post by Tim Bradley on Mar 26, 2022 12:18:42 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Aug 6, 2022 13:11:14 GMT
Reminder there's still CD Copies Available
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Post by mark687 on Nov 14, 2022 15:09:21 GMT
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