Last Classic Who Story you watched
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Finished Planet of the Daleks today. Have to say I found it a bit of a slog, certainly didn't need six episodes and, as is so often the case, the effects budget can't do justice to the scope of the story. I did really like Pertwee's speech at the end about not glorifying war.
Not the first or last time it happens, but Latep falling instantly in love with Jo is annoying (lust yes but love?) and it is weird that he gives her an out but Jo insists on staying with the Doctor, just to she can leave in the next story?
Not the first or last time it happens, but Latep falling instantly in love with Jo is annoying (lust yes but love?) and it is weird that he gives her an out but Jo insists on staying with the Doctor, just to she can leave in the next story?
I finished up The Green Death a few days ago, and I liked it a lot. I thought Jo's story with Professor Jones and the build up to her decision to leave worked pretty well.
I was shocked that BOSS was purely modern Earth creation, I kept expecting him to be based off of some kind of alien or future technology or something. It just find it a little hard to believe that someone in 1973 was able to create a fully sentient AI without some kind of outside, more advanced influence.
I was shocked that BOSS was purely modern Earth creation, I kept expecting him to be based off of some kind of alien or future technology or something. It just find it a little hard to believe that someone in 1973 was able to create a fully sentient AI without some kind of outside, more advanced influence.
Well, it wasn't the first -- see WOTAN in 1966's "The War Machines." Not to mention that we'll get another one in the very next serial, "Robot."
Also, the Pertwee era was meant to take place in the near future, probably the 1980s. It wasn't until "Mawdryn Undead" that it was retroactively and erroneously pinned down to the same years in which it aired.
At least she got to leave in a gem of story instead of a slog. I think her leaving in The Green Death was a fitting way for her to go. Possibly the best departure story of the classic series.
Heck of a lot better than Dodo lol.
gotta love contracts.
Every time I watch it, I think about how much Star Trek and the Borg owe to this serial.
Just because two things are similar doesn't mean the similarity is intentional. Maurice Hurley originally conceived the Borg as an insectoid species, but the makeup budget/tech wasn't up to it. And the idea of the Borg converting people into more of themselves was only added later -- first with Picard to make the Borg a less impersonal threat, then in First Contact because they wanted to make a zombie movie, then in Voyager because they wanted to copy First Contact.
So the Borg weren't based on the Cybermen; they just ended up converging toward them by chance.
Although when Steven Moffat introduced the idea of Dalek "nanogenes" that could convert humans into Dalek puppets, I daresay he was thinking of the Borg. We know for a fact that he's familiar with Trek -- he had Rose Tyler reference Spock in his first script for Doctor Who -- but we don't know whether TNG's producers were familiar with DW, since it was more of a niche/cult series in the US back then, nowhere near as well-known as it was in the UK, or as it is in the US today.
Reminds me of the wire and harness that are visible on Toberman in the scene where a cyberman lifts him [Toberman] up over his [cyberman's] head.
the 60s gave us 10th Planet, The Invasion and Tomb and other than Earth Shock it's largely been largely down hill for them Cyberace since.
Then again maybe it started then as well, with The Moonbase being largely a reheat of Wheel in Space.
Survival
Figured I might as well finish off the McCoy serials. I haven't watched Remembrance nor Ghost Light lately. I doubt I'll be Ghost Lighting it up - that story took like 3 times of viewing it for me to make sense of it.
Survival is really a proto-RTD1 era story. Visiting Ace's hometown and watching her interact with all the people she left behind. I don't think it would be rated as highly if it wasn't the last serial of the classic series.
Figured I might as well finish off the McCoy serials. I haven't watched Remembrance nor Ghost Light lately. I doubt I'll be Ghost Lighting it up - that story took like 3 times of viewing it for me to make sense of it.
Survival is really a proto-RTD1 era story. Visiting Ace's hometown and watching her interact with all the people she left behind. I don't think it would be rated as highly if it wasn't the last serial of the classic series.
I wouldn't put it that way. RTD just continued the precedent that had already been set by the last couple of McCoy seasons in going deeper with the character development, as well as the precedent of the McGann movie's more cinematic and action-oriented style.
Survival also marks the start of Lisa Bowerman’s involvement with Doctor Who.
Oh, I didn't realize that. I looked it up -- her character was the last person to die in classic Who. Kind of symmetrical that she ended up playing the first new regular introduced in the post-finale novels.
Agreed. Especially when you consider that Survival was originally titled "Cat-Flap" and link that to the events in RTD's episode "Rose." It's clear that that RTD was inspired by it.
I decided to get back to work on Classic Who today, since I've already watched The Time Warrior I decided to jump over it and watched the first episode of The Invasion of the Dinosaurs. It got off the a good start, the whole thing with evacuated London was kinda creepy, and it was a little scary how casual the general, or whatever he was, was about shooting looters. I'm a little confused by why the Brigadier was referring to dinosaurs as "monsters" when it was pretty clear what they were. I would have assumed even back most people would have been able to recognize dinosaurs. I know it said on the Tardis Wiki that the called this episode only The Invasion instead of The Invasion of the Dinosaurs Episode 1, so was that also part of that?
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