The Ultimate Foe on Saturday. This coming Saturday it'll be Survival.
Last Classic Who Story you watched
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The Claws of Axos parts 1 and 2
I just finished Planet of the Spiders. Better than I remember the first time. Good send off for Jon Pertwee. I don't recall ever hearing of the planet Metebelis and the crystals again, but I could be wrong. It would be nice to revisit it.Now on to Tom Baker, my all time favorite doctor.
Considering that the Doctor suffered one of their most traumatic "deaths" there, it's no wonder they lost interest in returning to Metebelis III.
Metebelis was mentioned in the modern series, although I forget which Doctor/Story. I think it was a later Matt Smith story, but I could be wrong on that. It could've been a Capaldi story. It caused a minor flap because it was pronounced differently than how Pertwee pronounce it! But, it was just mentioned and not visited.
Planet of Spiders is not one of my favorites though.
It's also a bit of a gag in The Green Death - after all the hype it turns out Metebelis III is a pretty awful place with creatures attacking the Doctor. Jo rightly declined a visit!
Maybe the Doctor's previous visit was in the past before it went downhill. Or in the future after he defeated the spiders.
It was a Smith, and he'd earlier been corrected on Nimon (or Nim-on as he initally put it).
There were suggestions to do a sequel in SJA.
Survival
Yeah, the reviews are generally not very good and I remember not really liking it the first time. I especially remember thinking it wrong to have British actors playing the Tibetan monk. But this time I liked it better. I mostly just chuckle at the old special effects now as I'm really not a fan of the over the top special effects used now. I've also realized I can't apply 2020s standards to the 1970s regarding racial sensitivity. It was simply a different era. If anything, for me, it shows how far we really have come.
except for Kevin Lindsay who played Cho-Je - he was Australian and had previously played Linx in The Time Warrior
I think they would have faced the same issues the producers did a few years later with Talons - the lack of working Asian actors at the time, plus Cho-Je being a Time Lord in disguise.
Think I've seen the full story but like many was pretty bored by it and can't say I've ever been bothered to give it another go.
some of the effects were bad even for the time period (surely they could have filmed the Who Mobile flying without building a mock up that locked very different).
Weirdly, K'ampo and Cho-je were based, and named, after real people: Tibetan monks who came to England and set up a retreat in the early sixties. The real Cho-je died about 10 years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/choje-akong-tulku-rinpoche
You're finishing Three's era while I've just started it.
Yeah. Less is more.
It would never have stuck. The Second Doctor supposedly wiped the Daleks out in "The Evil of the Daleks," but they came back as soon as the Beeb worked out a new deal with Terry Nation. Plus they were wiped out in "Remembrance" and a bunch of times in the new series. They're like the Master -- they often die at the end and they always come back anyway.
Cockroaches to use another analogy.
Hmm, maybe that's the ultimate "secret" of the Daleks (reads like a title, doesn't it?). The "Kaled mutant" itself is just a disguise. The travel machines are really being piloted by very vindictive roaches! After all, they say the only things that will survive a nuclear war are roaches...and Keith Richards.
(And, yes, I AM aware that MythBusters demonstrated that roaches, while more resilient to radiation than humans, can't claim that "prize". "Flour beetles" proved far more hardy. I forget the stats at the moment.)
Hmm, maybe that's the ultimate "secret" of the Daleks (reads like a title, doesn't it?). The "Kaled mutant" itself is just a disguise. The travel machines are really being piloted by very vindictive roaches! After all, they say the only things that will survive a nuclear war are roaches...and Keith Richards.
(And, yes, I AM aware that MythBusters demonstrated that roaches, while more resilient to radiation than humans, can't claim that "prize". "Flour beetles" proved far more hardy. I forget the stats at the moment.)
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