Last Classic Who Story you watched

[diankra]

Warriors of the Deep was a good story let down by poor design choices (Rentaghost Myrka) bad lighting (all of them all the time) and either bad direction or bad acting (kung fu as though it was developed in a Surrey disco) but is otherwise decent enough hard SF than can only really be done in the Who setting (for the Silurians and Sea Devils as a third party race in the Cold War.)
Like Frontios, it makes a better book than TV outing. (Though Frontios would have been far far too grim if it had made it to screen with it ideas in place) Kinda would also be, but the performances and some of the weird stuff elevated it above Studio Jungle and Blue Peter Giant Robot Suit stuff.

For InVision I wrote a piece suggesting what might have happened if Warriors and Androzani had swapped. Overlight Androzani, dark and moody Warriors.

 

[Mr Awe]

"The Keeper of Traken". A nice slow burn and build-up to a fantastic reveal of a long-forgotten villain (The Master), it's more fantasy than science fiction in a way, but it really manages to sell itself to get you into its world. I blame the lush art deco sets, some of which must have cost a packet to make as not everything could be borrowed from the 16th century monarch productions. It does have a Shakespearean feel to it as well.

Agreed. I was particularly impressed the world building in that story. Really nice. A shame it was all destroyed shortly after!

 

[Mr Awe]

I generally think that script editors are more important than producers. Certainly JNT let Andrew (we worked together on Starburst) have free rein.

I have spoken with Andrew. Truly a nice guy. And he seems to have honestly enjoyed working with JNT.

 

[diankra]

We got on Ok at Starburst, partly because he asked if I could turn some incoherent quotes from Nicolas Cage about Mission to Mars into a printable piece. Mainly I waffled about my memories of NASA Mars missions.
Later on (I was freelancing, so splitting the week between jobs), I walked into the office to find someone sitting at my desk, was then pointed to the editor's chair. Turned out that Andrew had been sacked and I was acting editor (Gary Gillatt was permanent).

 

[jaime]

I have spoken with Andrew. Truly a nice guy. And he seems to have honestly enjoyed working with JNT.

One of the more useful things I have done was point him in the direction of republishing Script Doctor via a convo on Twitter. I met JNT when I was about 14, but have only had the odd interaction with Andrew via Twitter, but think they’re both alright blokes. And Andrew has written most of my favourite Who, including Warhead, which often seems a forgotten book.

 

[diankra]

One of the more useful things I have done was point him in the direction of republishing Script Doctor via a convo on Twitter. I met JNT when I was about 14, but have only had the odd interaction with Andrew via Twitter, but think they’re both alright blokes. And Andrew has written most of my favourite Who, including Warhead, which often seems a forgotten book.

When a snowfall stranded me in Coventry, John helped out. I had checked out, so couldn't buy at the bar, but John could, so we split rounds (he bought, I paid my share until Dad could pick me up).