Last Classic Who Story you watched
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I wasn't pursuing it, I just didn't understand what it had to do with the topic. And apparently it had nothing at all to do with the topic, which is why it confused me. I mean, I wasn't even talking about "experts who cherry pick the evidence." I have no idea where that came from. I was talking about the Doctor Who trope of situations made worse by irrational, paranoid, or bigoted characters on both sides of a conflict, the villains who sabotage the Doctor's attempts to resolve things peacefully. There are numerous such characters who fill that role, and they have a range of different reasons for doing so.
I watched the 'Moonbase' last night for the first time. The last classic story I watched before this was 'The Tenth Planet'. Similar stories in some ways but I liked Moonbase better and loved the redesign of the Cybermen along with the partially converted Cybermen (reminded me of the Borg from First Contact). Lots to love here, especially that ending.
Dude, like I said in the animation thread, chill! Maybe it's time to take a break from this BBS for a bit?
I watched the first 5 episodes of Ambassadors of Death this morning, and I'm really enjoying it so far.
It has to be one of the biggest action serials I've watched so far, with shootouts, and a car chase and foot chase.
The whole mystery around what happened to the Mars and recovery probes has been pretty intriguing, and Reegan and his goons have been good villains so far. I'm curious to see what the story is with the aliens in the space suits, and to see what they look like in those suits.
I had originally planned on watching all 7 episodes, but Amazon Prime wouldn't load on my PS4 after episode 5 and I didn't have time to fight with it and watch 6 and 7 before something I wanted to watch came on TV.
Episode 5 ended on quite the cliffhanger.
It has to be one of the biggest action serials I've watched so far, with shootouts, and a car chase and foot chase.
The whole mystery around what happened to the Mars and recovery probes has been pretty intriguing, and Reegan and his goons have been good villains so far. I'm curious to see what the story is with the aliens in the space suits, and to see what they look like in those suits.
I had originally planned on watching all 7 episodes, but Amazon Prime wouldn't load on my PS4 after episode 5 and I didn't have time to fight with it and watch 6 and 7 before something I wanted to watch came on TV.
Episode 5 ended on quite the cliffhanger.
An ongoing problem with the season 7 seven partners is that they could have carried on forever, and the shut down seems a little anti-climatic.
The good side of that is that they all seem like the extended pilot for an ongoing series ("This week, the Silurians unleash a plague. Next time, a climate changing machine!")
The good side of that is that they all seem like the extended pilot for an ongoing series ("This week, the Silurians unleash a plague. Next time, a climate changing machine!")
FWIW, Benton only becomes a regular because Douglas Camfield cast John Levene to play the sergeant in Inferno, and renamed the character to follow on from Invasion. Barry Letts then decided to add the character into the later episodes of Ambassadors as a set-up (notice that Benton isn't in any of the location work that had already been shot), and then decided to make him a recurring character in the next season.
Love Benton. Never understood why he wasn't more involved with more audio stuff. I'd rather he accompanied the Doctor in BBC's Hornet's Nest than the transparent vanilla that is Mike Yates, who I swear didn't even remember after my first marathon run of the Third Doctor seasons.
by some accounts John Levene isn't easy to work with and didn't enjoy his first companion chronicle expedience - plus he was living in the U.S for quite sometime.
Ah. Makes sense, then.
That was written for the Brig, with Yates dropped in instead when Nick Courtney was too ill to do it.
I really do wish he'd have done it. It would have been a decent exit for Courtney, to interact with Tom Baker one last time.
Its too bad. I wish he'd been brought back to the spotlight, Who-wise, before then. I'd much rather he was in series 4 than Martha Jones, lets say.
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