Last Classic Who Story you watched
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Yeah, the "____________ of the Daleks" story titling seems to be used pretty often.So, in effect either "The Evil Power of the Daleks" or "The Powerful Evil of the Daleks".
I think I'll follow up with "Remembrance of the Daleks."
Kor
The Three Doctors is on my schedule tonight.
Just finished a rewatch of The Ark in Space. Its still a good story, although Sarah Jane really comes off poorly in it, I didn't remember her being so wimpy and screamy. I still like the bad aliens basically starting out as bubble wrap 
I'm getting the Tom Baker Season 7 Blu Ray in a few days (ordered it on my Birthday), and the only stories I've seen from that Season are Keeper of Traken and Logopolis, so it will be fun to watch some Tom Baker stories I haven't seen yet, including the E-Space Trilogy (although more Adric isn't a great thing). The bonus of K9 & Company should be...interesting, I guess. Its a nice bonus for the set, even though I'm assuming its going to be pretty bad, even as someone who likes K9 well enough.
I'm getting the Tom Baker Season 7 Blu Ray in a few days (ordered it on my Birthday), and the only stories I've seen from that Season are Keeper of Traken and Logopolis, so it will be fun to watch some Tom Baker stories I haven't seen yet, including the E-Space Trilogy (although more Adric isn't a great thing). The bonus of K9 & Company should be...interesting, I guess. Its a nice bonus for the set, even though I'm assuming its going to be pretty bad, even as someone who likes K9 well enough.
Just watched The Leisure Hive. It was ok. We got some fun stuff with The Doctor, like him being turned old (which actually looked pretty good, make up wise). Romana was fine, although she didn't do anything too interesting in the story. K9 getting wrecked was kind of funny, although for this episode I think he could have been interesting actually taking part in the story. The Foamasi, on the other hand, looked pretty bad, even for Classic Doctor Who. Ok-ish face masks put on what are basically just puffy green suits just looked awkward. The argolins weren't very memorable, just kind of a standard mostly human alien race for Doctor Who (meaning just humans with a moderate amount of body paint and usually stupid looking wigs).
The story with the ruined planet and the clone type thing was ok, nothing amazing but it worked well enough. Overall I liked the story well enough, although only a few parts will probably stick with me.
The story with the ruined planet and the clone type thing was ok, nothing amazing but it worked well enough. Overall I liked the story well enough, although only a few parts will probably stick with me.
"Web of Fear." Good story.
So... for the reconstructed episode, I get what they were going for with that "Shapeshifter" 3D animation process using motion capture for natural movement, but the end result just doesn't look aesthetically pleasing compared to the other recent episode reconstructions.
Now they need to do "The Abominable Snowmen." But not with the same kind of animation as "Web of Fear."
Edit: Now onto "The Macra Terror." When I put in the disc with the episodes in color, I thought something was wrong because the first episode started in B&W. But it switches to color when the initial teaser goes to the opening title sequence.
Kor
So... for the reconstructed episode, I get what they were going for with that "Shapeshifter" 3D animation process using motion capture for natural movement, but the end result just doesn't look aesthetically pleasing compared to the other recent episode reconstructions.
Now they need to do "The Abominable Snowmen." But not with the same kind of animation as "Web of Fear."
Edit: Now onto "The Macra Terror." When I put in the disc with the episodes in color, I thought something was wrong because the first episode started in B&W. But it switches to color when the initial teaser goes to the opening title sequence.
Kor
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I was hoping to get to Carnival of Monsters but work was annoyingly busy. Oh well, there's always next week.
Sorry for double-posting... Now I'm watching "Fury from the Deep."
On a side note, the big pdf document/archival content on the Doctor Who blu-rays is rather frustrating. My blu-ray player can't navigate to or display the stuff, and my computer doesn't have a blu-ray disc drive. A lot of newer notebook computers and compact desktop computers don't even have an optical disc drive at all, and those that do only have DVD and not blu-ray. So if I really wanted to read the documents, then an external blu-ray drive would be an extra expense of $100+ for something that I never would have gotten in the first place if it wasn't for these document archives.
Kor
On a side note, the big pdf document/archival content on the Doctor Who blu-rays is rather frustrating. My blu-ray player can't navigate to or display the stuff, and my computer doesn't have a blu-ray disc drive. A lot of newer notebook computers and compact desktop computers don't even have an optical disc drive at all, and those that do only have DVD and not blu-ray. So if I really wanted to read the documents, then an external blu-ray drive would be an extra expense of $100+ for something that I never would have gotten in the first place if it wasn't for these document archives.
Kor
Carnival of Monsters parts 1 and 2
Carnival of Monsters parts 3 and 4
He was fine: not a lot to his part.
He had been offered Mike Yates, but had to decline on realising it was a regular role, not a one-off, as he was booked for other work later in the year.
Frontier in Space parts 1 and 2
I'm looking forward to getting to his era. As a kid I'd seen several Tom Baker episodes and a Peter Davidson episode or 2 on PBS, and that was the extent of my Doctor Who exposure until the 1996 movie and then 2005 relaunch. Having seen all the new stuff (except a bunch of episodes of the hard to find unlicensed K9 show), I started in on watching the original from the beginning years ago. I fell out of it for a large stretch towards the end of Hartnells run because watching the missing episodes in badly animated or still frame format was a slog (there's still one episode of Marco Polo that I've only read the script of) and I knew Troughton was missing A LOT. I eventually got back to it though and am now approaching the era with some childhood nostalgia for me.
I'm looking forward to getting to his era. As a kid I'd seen several Tom Baker episodes and a Peter Davidson episode or 2 on PBS, and that was the extent of my Doctor Who exposure until the 1996 movie and then 2005 relaunch. Having seen all the new stuff (except a bunch of episodes of the hard to find unlicensed K9 show), I started in on watching the original from the beginning years ago. I fell out of it for a large stretch towards the end of Hartnells run because watching the missing episodes in badly animated or still frame format was a slog (there's still one episode of Marco Polo that I've only read the script of) and I knew Troughton was missing A LOT. I eventually got back to it though and am now approaching the era with some childhood nostalgia for me.
The last 30 minutes of "Evil of the Daleks" on BBC America yesterday. I had no idea the channel was going to air it. I simply flipped on the set and tuned to BBCA expecting one of the post 2005 episodes. Needless to say I was a bit miffed that I missed the bulk of the presentation as it would have been my first time watching that story, the supposed final end of the Daleks...until they returned in the Pertwee era.
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