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Post by manfromdelmonte on Sept 24, 2024 14:57:16 GMT
It is hard to tell when these Dr Whos are being knowing and when they’re just overly sincere and up themselves. I gave up on my mega binge during the Second Doctor as the animated episodes and largely incomplete serials were getting to be a drag. Might just leap forward after these new ones and go straight to Pertwee. McCoy was my Doctor growing up but Pertwee holds a very special place for me as being the reruns I most fondly remember watching. I'd make sure to watch Troughton's swansong The Wargames before heading into Pertwee. It's a 10 parter so certainly don't try and binge it in one go. My preference is to watch one episode a day, during the week, moving to two on the Friday, then have the final 4 parts in one session. It's a slow burn story, which builds and builds to an avalanche at the end. |
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Post by jellyhead on Sept 24, 2024 15:11:21 GMT
I finished my Doctor Who marathon a few weeks ago and i enjoyed it for most of the time.
I enjoyed the animated inserts for the missing episodes and thought they were done well or at least they didn't distract me.
I did end up skipping some of the episodes due to not quite feeling it but the most likely reasons for me skipping an episode were:
It was a bit toooo slow even for old TV shows.
The over-dramatic acting and screaming, helpless women scenes wore thin in some episodes.
Most controversially... there was a point where the overuse of some really grating synth sounds just really wore me down. Doubly so if there was a lot of melodramatic over-acting and screaming going on.
I know it was early days in electronic music and they made a lot of the kit themselves on a 50p budget but damn it grated at times. I was glad when they were given enough money to buy some early 80s synths even if sometimes it did sound a bit too much like Hithikers Guide lol.
I'm glad i watched and reacquainted myself with some of the older Doctors and companions it was fun and seeing the evolutions of the cybermen was great. It actually helped make one of the episode arcs in the later series even more tough to watch.
Some great episodes but tbh after watching several hundred episodes of Doctor Who many of them are just flashes of memories of scenes now and i didn't realise quite how much more content there was in books, comics and audio plays. I just assumed they were rehashes of the episodes but nope, so i missed a ton of stuff there too accoring to the tardis fandom wiki.
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Post by neilch on Sept 24, 2024 16:55:42 GMT
I found the last Dr Who a bit meh, much like the Capaldi era, enjoyable in places but the run was too short and Gatwa was hardly in it!
The overarching story didn't require paying too much attention either, which was good
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Post by simple on Sept 25, 2024 9:30:59 GMT
That was a fun series. The Doctor and Ruby were both great. It was very RTD (the bird people, the finale) but it romped along with a high degree of camp and managed not to get weighed down by its own importance as has happened too often in NuWho. I know almost every season has done it but it would be nice to find a way of doing a finale which doesn’t end in the extinction of all life on Earth/in the universe. This Doctor is such a different character from the other recent ones but Gatwa he feels like he’s giving a top tier performance and modernising the role in the same way Tennant elevated and updated things when he took over. We all assume Anita Dobson is the Master, right? Looking back at my classic Who binge, I made it to halfway through Ice Warriors but I had treated myself to Spearhead From Space and Silurians. I think for now I’m going to pick up with Pertwee. Also the Curse of Fatal Death still totally holds up now that Richard E Grant is canon. |
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Post by X201 on Sept 25, 2024 11:13:12 GMT
We all assume Anita Dobson is the Master, right? I was thinking more along the lines of The Valeyard |
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Post by simple on Sept 25, 2024 11:19:18 GMT
That would make sense. Especially with the tone of this season and RTD’s general approach and themes.
Jumping straight back into Ambassadors of Death its quite the whiplash to see a science based mystery/conspiracy story without any handwavy magic
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Post by simple on Oct 7, 2024 12:11:58 GMT
Third Doctor watch - up to Day of the Daleks
While I didn’t fully enjoy the animated/semi-animated substitute episodes during the Second Doctor series it was at least completely understandable. This serial enters a different and terrible place - cheap cgi inserts. Mainly external shots during the scenes in the future and I’m pretty sure some of the time vortex and laser effects have been “enhanced” too.
They all look terrible.
Like the Red Dwarf remasters did before they put the models back in or a Command & Conquer cutscene.
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Post by X201 on Oct 7, 2024 12:37:32 GMT
… and George Lucas pissing about with Star Wars.
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Post by simple on Oct 7, 2024 13:01:05 GMT
Its so jarring when the visual texture is one of the joys of this era of Who and they’ve drawn coloured swirls all over it and inserted shots of a cgi tower shrouded in green smoke between scenes
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Post by robthehermit on Oct 7, 2024 13:21:49 GMT
I'm currently up to "The Invasion of Time".
Tom Baker was awesome as the doctor.
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Post by X201 on Oct 7, 2024 15:08:38 GMT
I'm currently halfway through the Trial of a Timelord series with Colin Baker.
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Post by mrpon on Oct 7, 2024 15:17:58 GMT
What does he think?
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Post by X201 on Oct 8, 2024 13:07:50 GMT
Dunno, he just spends the whole time throwing darts at a board with Michael Grade's face on it.
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