And Time Crash is great, as short as it was.
I tried watching “The Three Doctors”....
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And Time Crash is great, as short as it was.
I dunno. I'm one of those fans that still can't make heads or tails out of "Ghost Light." My favorite McCoy story is "Remembrance of the Daleks."
I love what they did with Omega. He's a villain, yet I suspect he's the most tragic villain in Doctor Who history.
And I suspect that Omega will turn out to be the "Silence will fall" guy who caused the TARDIS to explode in "The Big Bang."
The bickering between 2 & 3 was great, both in this story and "The Five Doctors" and even the random charity events they did together. They seemed to be a pair of actors with the utmost respect for each other, whose Doctors were different enough that they could simply stay true to their respective characters and just have fun playing off each other. I suspect we'll never again see two doctors that compliment each other so well.
I also like how slow the Brigadier is on the uptake, refusing to believe in time travel, instead insisting that Troughton is merely a re-regenerated version of Pertwee.
"The Five Doctors" is kinda all over the place. However, I like it. Of course, I'm big on nostalgia. But I think it's also got pretty fast pacing by classic series standards. It has to in order to cram all those Doctors, companions, aliens, & settings into one story.
"The Two Doctors" isn't perfect but it has a lot of fun guest stars and Patrick Troughton is always a joy! In each of his 3 return appearances, he always manages to steal the show, showing even moreso how great a shame it is that more of his old stories didn't survive.
I meant “series” as in the UK version of it. I couldn’t figure the plural of “series”--series-es?
I’ll check them out, though a later poster notes changes.
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Well, I remember reading that it began as a children’s show. But so was Adam West’s “Batman,” and there’s lots of double entendres a child wouldn’t (or hopefully wouldn’t) understand.
I entirely agree.
The new one is not "the same show." That show folded back in the 20th century. nuWho is an entirely different production, much more expensive and elaborate and successfully directed at a wider audience.
And certainly a lot more faster paced. Which while making the stories more exciting, does tend to hurt character development and motivation for the guest stars and villains.
Possibly so, though there have certainly been more than a few memorable characters in nuWho.
My overall impression based on decades of watching what's been been made available in the U.S. - largely on local PBS stations - is that oldWho was frequently dilatory and rarely made good use of the longer serial format either in terms of plotting or characterization. Lots of padding and what often looks like extemporizing. The characters that were interesting were the folks who recurred on the show - folks like the various companions, the Brigadier, the Master.
My overall impression based on decades of watching what's been been made available in the U.S. - largely on local PBS stations - is that oldWho was frequently dilatory and rarely made good use of the longer serial format either in terms of plotting or characterization. Lots of padding and what often looks like extemporizing. The characters that were interesting were the folks who recurred on the show - folks like the various companions, the Brigadier, the Master.
I had a major crush on Sarah Sutton back then, which was well known around school. Someone started a rumour that I'd been banned from watching it after the 'skirt-drop' episode
I think if a bully is capable of making a joke like that, ridiculing someone with such spectacular accuracy, then that bully might be to far gone not to be accused of self loathing.
But isn't it worse when they tease you inaccurately?
My flat mate used to try and tease me but she couldn't tell the difference between star wars and star trek... She was just adorable when she trying to be a vicious (*&%.
I suppose it's different when some one twice your size is using your face for a toilet brush.
Sarah and Petey still plug out 3 or four adventures a year for Big Finish. She still sounds 16... When oddly she's 50 years older while having barely changed a lick in some other stories.
But isn't it worse when they tease you inaccurately?
My flat mate used to try and tease me but she couldn't tell the difference between star wars and star trek... She was just adorable when she trying to be a vicious (*&%.
I suppose it's different when some one twice your size is using your face for a toilet brush.
Sarah and Petey still plug out 3 or four adventures a year for Big Finish. She still sounds 16... When oddly she's 50 years older while having barely changed a lick in some other stories.
Sarah Sutton still looks pretty good these days but yeah it's her voice that really hasn't changed - I was right in front of her and her daughter in the Wimbledon queue last year and it took me a while to realise who she was. It was hearing her talk that jogged my memory.
Well old Who wasn't exactly renowned for character development either.
The worst example of padding IMO was "Frontier In Space"-while parts of it are an interesting space opera (With one of Who's better realized 'good' aliens, the Draconians), and Delgado's pretty cool in his final appearence as the Master, the Doctor and Jo spend practically the entire story in various prison cells.
Padding seems more of a problem with the Pertwee years, I think, since they tended to have longer stories. With Tom Baker on, the pacing was improved IMO with some exceptions (Invasion of Time for one). They experimented with the 45-minute format starting with one version of "Ressurection of the Daleks" (Although stories were often two-parters) and season 22, but after the hiatus debacle they returned to the 25 minute episodes.
Padding seems more of a problem with the Pertwee years, I think, since they tended to have longer stories. With Tom Baker on, the pacing was improved IMO with some exceptions (Invasion of Time for one). They experimented with the 45-minute format starting with one version of "Ressurection of the Daleks" (Although stories were often two-parters) and season 22, but after the hiatus debacle they returned to the 25 minute episodes.
I love the three doctors, Pertwee and Troughton just have so much fun with each other, Hartnell although limited due to illness is just the icing on the cake, and Omega just rocks as a pantomime baddy chewing the scenery......i love it all.
I kind of enjoyed the fact that the Doctors seem to have a bit of hero worship/reverence of the First Doctor. Some of this carries over to Five Doctors a bit (Although there's really no reverence), with the First Doctor letting Rassilon give Borusa his 'immortality' and defeating him while the others didn't.
"Ghost Light" is one of the few I regret adding to my collection.
And "The Three Doctors" is great in my view. My favourite scene has to be the Beatles' "I Am The Walrus" bit, with the Second Doctor whipping out the recorder and saying "How does it go?"
I always loved when the Brig walks into the Tardis for the first time. "So this is what you've been doing with UNIT's funding!"
Hehehe. Yeah, the Brig was in a wee bit of denial in that episode. 
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