Last Classic Who Story you watched

[kirk55555]

I never liked The Visitation, despite it being OK. And Davison only clearly likes it for that one element at the end of the serial. But like most stuff with Five and Adric, its fairly boring and sags in the middle.

Yeah. I never really got the outright hatred for Adric, but he really isn't a good companion. Nyssa deserved so much better, she's easily my favorite companion on the team right now. But even when Adric dies its Tegan who sticks with the 5th Doctor the longest for some reason.

The Visitation as a story isn't the worst thing ever, but its boring. I'm still trying to build up the will to watch the last episode, if for no other reason then so that I can move on to another serial.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

The character of Adric is fine, but the kid playing him is tremendously green. What's shocking, is how inexperienced he looks even in his own death scene.

 

[Marc]

The character of Adric is fine, but the kid playing him is tremendously green. What's shocking, is how inexperienced he looks even in his own death scene.

Have read that Matthew Waterhouse was pretty well blasted when he filmed his last scenes but that could apocryphal

 

[kirk55555]

I forgot to mention that I finished The Visitation, because I honestly forgot that I had until just now. So, The Doctor started the Great Fire of London. That's really the only interesting thing in the whole serial.

The next 5th Doctor serial is Black Orchid, and I'll probably watch it soon because its only two episodes.

 

[kirk55555]

Just finished Black Orchid. It wasn't very good. The mystery wasn't interesting, and neither were the side characters.

 

[Pindar]

Just finished Black Orchid. It wasn't very good. The mystery wasn't interesting, and neither were the side characters.

Black Orchid wasn't the best.

 

[kirk55555]

I just watched the 30 minute Marco Polo reconstruction that is on the Doctor Who: the beginning DVD set. That's certainly not a story that I'm sad was lost. It dragged at 30 minutes, I can't imagine dragging it out to 7 episodes. I don't care how good the sets/costumes supposedly were, it was an annoying, fairly standard story even with a bunch of stuff cut down. I mean, it was interesting making Marco Polo basically the bad guy (yearh there was some violent warlord, but Polo is the guy trying to steal the TARDIS), but I was still fairly bored. Easily the weakest 1st Doctor story I've seen, I'm glad I didn't have to spend 7 episodes watching it.

 

[kirk55555]

I'm watching the Tom baker version of Shada for the first time, since I've only seen the (barely) animated 8th Doctor version so far. Its pretty decent (I think the 4th Doctor does the humor better), but something just came up: K9's voice. Apparently they replaced John Leeson at some point, and the replacement is really distracting. what doesn't help is that Leeson came back and did the voice in the 8th Doctor version, so its even weirder.

Besides that, though, I'm enjoying the storygood. Shada is nowhere near my favorite Classic who story but it is solid and I like the ways that Tom Baker's version is different from the McGann version.

 

[Mr Soak]

David Brierley was brought in for season 17 after Leeson decisded not to return. Brierley passed away in 2008, so they brought in the other (more widely known) K-9 voice for the Shada animation.

 

[Qonundrum]

Recently rewatched "The Seeds of Death". It's a lot better than most modern sci-fi, despite obvious pacing issues.

 

[kirk55555]

A little delayed, but I finished the Tom Baker version of Shada. It was fine. It has more humor then the 8th Doctor version and Baker has better chemistry with Romana, but I think the 8th Doctor version told the story a bit better. I can't really pick which one I liked better, they're both good in different ways.

I was going to watch Time Flight next, but I recently realized that I have a lot of 2nd Doctor stories left to see, and since he's my second favorite classic Doctor I should do something about that. So, next up I'll be watching The Dominators.

 

[diankra]

Timeflight or Dominators? Talk about rock and a hard place...

 

[kirk55555]

Well, I kind of picked The Dominators at random, while Time Flight is the next 5th Doctor story I have to watch (I've been watching his in order generally, same with the 3rd Doctor, while Doctors 1 and 2 I generally just choose what I'm in the mood for or something random).

 

[DS9Continuing]

I've recently started on the Third Doctor era. I'm enjoying it so far - I like the more brusque, commanding Doctor, although with a slightly comical side (he does love those big bulging eyes on a cliffhanger). Plus he really is camp as tits sometimes, swishing around in his big cape.

And I love Liz Shaw as the companion - she's a mature, educated, competent and independent woman who won't take any nonsense from either the Doctor or the Brigadier. I'm disappointed that they dressed her in that 70s bimbo outfit in "Ambassadors of Death" though - it felt like trying to dumb her down in only her third story.

I'm also enjoying that, so far, all the monsters are creatures he hasn't met before - the Autons, the Silurians, the radiation astronauts (who remind me of nothing so much as the Vashta Nerada space-suit zombies, I wonder if that was a deliberate reference to this). Trapping the Doctor on Earth risks him having to stop a suspiciously repetitive alien invasion of southern England every single week, and so far (which is not very far yet, I admit), they seem to be nicely working around that.

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[Emperor-Tiberius]

It was a good decision back in the day not to oversaturate the Daleks by having them appear every single season. The fact that Pertwee's first year is so good and doesn't feature the Daleks, the Cybermen or the Sontarans makes it a big step in the right direction for any incoming Doctor's debut season.

 

[Christopher]

It was a good decision back in the day not to oversaturate the Daleks by having them appear every single season. The fact that Pertwee's first year is so good and doesn't feature the Daleks, the Cybermen or the Sontarans makes it a big step in the right direction for any incoming Doctor's debut season.

Well, the Sontarans weren't created until the start of Pertwee's last season.

And weren't the Daleks absent for several years because of some legal to-do with Terry Nation? At some point, he was trying to sell a Dalek series to American TV and thus they weren't available to Doctor Who, though I forget when that was. Although I think there were a couple of times in the original run when Nation and the BBC were on the outs and thus the Daleks were missing for several years.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Well, the Sontarans weren't created until the start of Pertwee's last season.

True, I was thinking of Tom Baker's first year there.

And weren't the Daleks absent for several years because of some legal to-do with Terry Nation? At some point, he was trying to sell a Dalek series to American TV and thus they weren't available to Doctor Who, though I forget when that was. Although I think there were a couple of times in the original run when Nation and the BBC were on the outs and thus the Daleks were missing for several years.

They still could've featured them by 1970, yet they didn't until Pertwee's third year, and even then it was as an afterthought to add more panache to the opening story.

 

[The Four Doctor]

Time Rift fan film.

At least Sylvester McCoy himself is now relieved of the burden of being the worst actor to have played the seventh Doctor...

 

[Haggis and tatties]

The Ark in Space, i remember seeing this way back in the 70s and at 7 years old i can tell you when that guy pulled his green infected hand out of his pocket it was the most horrible thing my small mind had ever seen, of course now some 43 plus years later it's green painted bubble wrap( a new and unheared of thing back in 75), but i just watched it and i can still remember the horror of seeing it for the first time, that and the guy being half human half creature.

 

[worf1965]

I'm watching The Rescue with William Hartnell right now. Finished The Android Invasion with Tom Baker yesterday.