Just something someone's cobbled together from various bits and pieces. A fan edit, nothing real. And they've spelt "Summoned" wrong.
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Stories You've Watched Recently
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I like your sig.
Thank youJust something someone's cobbled together from various bits and pieces. A fan edit, nothing real. And they're spelt "Summoned" wrong.
Welcome
I like your sig.
Yea, noticed the mis-spelling, but, figured it was deliberate (if it was a true story)
Oh, and thank you for this thread, too, it's been a pleasure reading and remembering some of these episodes
Thanks for you thanks, chap. Thought it'd mean we always have something to talk about in these parts.
On that subject, I watched Full Circle and State of Decay the other day. They were both pretty good, but had that unfortunate season 18 flat feeling a little bit. Still, I like the ideas. Full Circle's certainly the better of the two with its evolution stuff (like the best Doctor Who story ever - Ghost Light), but the vampire backstory in State of Decay is good too, and dying to be abused by Blumorman 15 years down the line.
On that subject, I watched Full Circle and State of Decay the other day. They were both pretty good, but had that unfortunate season 18 flat feeling a little bit. Still, I like the ideas. Full Circle's certainly the better of the two with its evolution stuff (like the best Doctor Who story ever - Ghost Light), but the vampire backstory in State of Decay is good too, and dying to be abused by Blumorman 15 years down the line.
Just something someone's cobbled together from various bits and pieces. A fan edit, nothing real. And they've spelt "Summoned" wrong.
Welcome
I like your sig.
I took a peek at that to be sure.
What that looks like is one of the episodes of "The Stranger" that was named "Summoned by Shadows". Someone tagged on that beginning to make it look like an actual Dr. Who episode.
The first few Stranger releases were meant to be a thinly veiled attempt at releasing new Dr. Who while the show wasn't on the air. By the third or fourth one, the gave the character his own name and identity and the character of "Miss Brown" disappeared. If memory serves, they were written and directed by Nick Briggs. I have them all, but it's been a while since I've sat down to watch them. I remember thinking that they weren't bad, but not that great either.
Watched Invasion of Time on my newly Xmas-presented DVD. Was disappointed by the lack of Special Features. I mean, it was awesome to see Milton Johns alive and kicking, and Louise is looking great for her age. But, I guess I expected something more. Sure, it's considered a silly, mediocre episode on the whole. However, a couple of things stuck in my mind ever since I watched it as a child, and it has become one of my favorite Who episodes.
1) I love Castellan Kelner. I think Milton Johns added star-power to the utter slime that Kelner gives off. Easy, you say? Perhaps for an actor of his measure, sure. But, take into account how he balances that character by the end of the story. Where, it's perfectly feasible that this gutless coward is simply too pathetic to punish or remove from office, even after his complicit role in the Vardan invasion.
2) The Vardans are, simply, the worst-realized villains Doctor Who has ever made. We all joke about the hand-puppets, and wobbly sets. But....The Vardans....I mean, it was literally fucking tinfoil. Sheets of tinfoil being shaken around and superimposed with green-screen. At least the director admitted how awful it was in the interviews. Still, as absolute dead-bottom effects/bad guys go, it was also a nice foreshadowing to the "add-on" villains....
3)The Sontarans. I didn't see it coming. It was so out-of-left-field I was just as shocked as everyone else. I also love that The Doctor...this Doctor...being forced to think on his feet coming immediately after the long, agonizing mental/will battle he had been forced to play against The Vardans. Which leads us to the final stand-out point for me...
4) Seeing a deeper interior of the TARDIS for the first-and-last time. Sure, Castrovalva did some travel inside, but it was all the same boring white-walls. In IoT, we get to see all that awesome brick-work, location shooting, infirmary/greenhouse, and making its one-and-only on-screen appearance, the swimming pool! I ate every second of it up as a child. Seeing the mismatched, very weird, drabby, and alien-like corridors....complete with holographic museum (!)...was more fun than any run-of-the-mill alien planet we had ever seen. I yearn for Moffat to give us a inside-the-ship episode including location-filming for some rooms and corridors. I don't care what FX snobs think, it's the imagination that powers how awesome that would be, not the prim-and-proper execution of the CG. Give me peeling paint chips and seventies-industrial slums any day!
1) I love Castellan Kelner. I think Milton Johns added star-power to the utter slime that Kelner gives off. Easy, you say? Perhaps for an actor of his measure, sure. But, take into account how he balances that character by the end of the story. Where, it's perfectly feasible that this gutless coward is simply too pathetic to punish or remove from office, even after his complicit role in the Vardan invasion.
2) The Vardans are, simply, the worst-realized villains Doctor Who has ever made. We all joke about the hand-puppets, and wobbly sets. But....The Vardans....I mean, it was literally fucking tinfoil. Sheets of tinfoil being shaken around and superimposed with green-screen. At least the director admitted how awful it was in the interviews. Still, as absolute dead-bottom effects/bad guys go, it was also a nice foreshadowing to the "add-on" villains....
3)The Sontarans. I didn't see it coming. It was so out-of-left-field I was just as shocked as everyone else. I also love that The Doctor...this Doctor...being forced to think on his feet coming immediately after the long, agonizing mental/will battle he had been forced to play against The Vardans. Which leads us to the final stand-out point for me...
4) Seeing a deeper interior of the TARDIS for the first-and-last time. Sure, Castrovalva did some travel inside, but it was all the same boring white-walls. In IoT, we get to see all that awesome brick-work, location shooting, infirmary/greenhouse, and making its one-and-only on-screen appearance, the swimming pool! I ate every second of it up as a child. Seeing the mismatched, very weird, drabby, and alien-like corridors....complete with holographic museum (!)...was more fun than any run-of-the-mill alien planet we had ever seen. I yearn for Moffat to give us a inside-the-ship episode including location-filming for some rooms and corridors. I don't care what FX snobs think, it's the imagination that powers how awesome that would be, not the prim-and-proper execution of the CG. Give me peeling paint chips and seventies-industrial slums any day!
Blumorman? Really, sometimes I wish you'd link to a glossary or something.
Although I always learn something from you, even if I don't agree with everything you say.I like both of those episodes, too. The description of the crew who knows every detail of their ship--except how to fly it--really resonated with me as emblematic of people who stop moving forward. That seems to have been the theme for that season.
I'm in a little bit of a DW stupor right now. I'm plowing through my unwatched episodes, and next on the list is The Twin Dilemma.
I don't believe I've read an excess of praise for that one.
Been a while ince I saw any of the Stranger stories, but I recall quite liking them, both Baker and Bryant were far more watchable in them than they were in Who (imo of course, but for one Nicola wearing clothes with her own posh English accent is way hotter than American Peri in a swimsuit could ever hope to be...)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blumorman
Blumorman? Really, sometimes I wish you'd link to a glossary or something.
That probably doesn't help much, so for further clarity:
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Vampire_Science
It's alright. Underrated maybe. Certainly not the worst ever. I tend to think the worst thing Doctor Who can be (apart from downright offensive like Love and Monsters) is boring, and it's not that.
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^Thanks for the link--so the Doctor in San Francisco driving a Bug? Someday when I've got infinite time I'll have to read some of those books. Definitely different.
Edge of Destruction? Really, you hated that? I thought it was pretty interesting, and quite inventive for the time
How'd you feel about the Caveman parts of the first story Unearthly Child?
Keys of Marinus, I believe is as good as The Aztecs. And, it changes scenery often, with something to pull it together, giving it another charm. I think this is a 6 (or is it 7?) parter that doesn't suffer much from padding, (I don't think I could trim it any more than 1 episode, and I don't believe it needs it) because you are fulfilling a quest.
Sorry, if this is considered a double post.
Watched SJA Death of the Doctor (and of course realized part way through, I should've watched Sarah Jane's Wedding first, LOL) SJ'S Wedding is next up.
SJA S1 was juvenile, but, it was enjoyable, I wish SyFy would've brought us the rest.
Doctor's Death is the first Story I've seen since S1 ended. I enjoyed it, and will have to obtain the Box Sets of S2 and S3 (and S4 when it's available).
I barely heard the throwaway line, and not sure why so many are already up in arms about it. I agree that it would be a sad loss of a writing challenge/opportunity to not write the 12th Regeneration as the last (And then be inventive with the 13th and beyond)
I liked the Aliens, far better than the Slitheen, LOL <Pffffft>
Watched SJA Death of the Doctor (and of course realized part way through, I should've watched Sarah Jane's Wedding first, LOL) SJ'S Wedding is next up.
SJA S1 was juvenile, but, it was enjoyable, I wish SyFy would've brought us the rest.
Doctor's Death is the first Story I've seen since S1 ended. I enjoyed it, and will have to obtain the Box Sets of S2 and S3 (and S4 when it's available).
I barely heard the throwaway line, and not sure why so many are already up in arms about it. I agree that it would be a sad loss of a writing challenge/opportunity to not write the 12th Regeneration as the last (And then be inventive with the 13th and beyond)
I liked the Aliens, far better than the Slitheen, LOL <Pffffft>
The story was muddled and pointless and the actors aren't strong enough to carry a bottle show.
Meh. I'm underwhelmed so far. This show'll never get a second season.
The First story after the First ep, was, IMHO, awful, but, I enjoyed the play Atmosphere of Edge of Destruction, and I thought many of the scenes of psychoses were done well.
Definitely, the First 4 episodes, shown on American Television today would lead to a crib death, no matter how awesome the remaining filmed episodes were
But, again, Keys to Marinus, is, IMHO pretty close to excellent.
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^ You can't mean that, Keller, um, I mean Kelso.
You'll love him in Web Planet.
You'll love him in Web Planet.
I do like the Robomen. That's a really creepy notion that I wish the new series would adopt.
Then there's the hilarious bits at the end where Barbara tries to mimic the Daleks' voices while giving new orders to the Robomen.
Aw. I love "Battlefield." (Also, love IS a battlefield.
) I mean, it's the 1st time we've seen the Brigadier in 6 years. That alone makes is cool.I just watched a handful of mid-late Tom Bakers:
"The Robots of Death" was the 2nd Doctor Who story I ever saw back when I was first introduced to the series in 2004. I didn't like it too much because I was still getting used to the slower pacing and sub-Star Trek production values. Also, I don't think Leela is a good gateway companion. But rewatching it now, as a much more seasoned fan, I like it a lot more. It's a nice little mystery and Leela is a very fun character. My only big complaint about it is the robots' feet. Dear god, they look shoddy! And while that's probably to be expected, it's worse because of the series of "ominous" close-ups of the feet!
"Destiny of the Daleks" is a supremely shitty way to begin Season 17. Nothing about this story works. The Daleks all look like shoddy old props falling apart. The disturbingly asexual Movellans commit the sort of fashion crime that should carry the death penalty. Tom Baker looks bored. Lalla Ward refuses to demonstrate anything even remotely resembling acting talent, making me wonder how she ever got this gig (particularly in her monotone 1st scene). The guy playing Davros is similarly awful and often seems to veer into a vaguely Scottish accent for no particular reason. Frankly, everyone in the episode is out-acted by Romana's pink coat.
What little highlights the episode does contain:
- Spotted a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference, when Tom Baker reads a history of the universe book by Oolon Coluphid (author of the controversial blockbuster philosophical trilogy Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, & Who Is This God Person Anyway?).
- Spotted a couple of reused wardrobe pieces. The short version of Romana is wearing that wierd blue outfit from "The Robots of Death." One of the slaves in the mine is wearing a dirty old starship uniform from "Planet of Evil."
"City of Death." You practically get whiplash watching this story back to back with "Destiny of the Daleks." While "Destiny of the Daleks" has got to be the worst Tom Baker story I've ever seen, "City of Death" has got to be one of the best (right up there next to "The Ark in Space," "Genesis of the Daleks," "The Hand of Fear," & "The Pirate Planet"). Julian Glover is a fun villain. Duggan is a great idiot supporting character. The multi-Mona Lisa plot is a great piece of mad genius. Tom Baker & Lalla Ward both seem to be at the top of their game. (It makes me really wonder what it was that made Ward so listless in "Destiny of the Daleks.") Plus, as a bonus, Glover's dimwitted henchman in the Renaissance is played by Peter Halliday, who many years earlier played a similar idiot thug as Packer in my favorite Patrick Troughton story, "The Invasion."
Also, included as a bonus feature on the "Destiny of the Daleks" DVD was a series of Australian TV commercials that Tom Baker & Lalla Ward did for Prime Computers. It's pretty funny watching the Doctor & Romana marvel at that dinosaur of computing technology. Still, they're delightfully in character, except for in the 3rd ad when the computer advises the Doctor to marry Romana. That doesn't feel like the Doctor & Romana. It feels like Tom Baker & Lalla Ward.
Over the holidays I watched "The Ribos Operation" which I loved to death! Especially on a cold winter evening.
Got "Earthshock" for Christmas and picked up "The Green Death" as well. Enjoyed "Earthshock" and am still working through "The Green Death".
Got "Earthshock" for Christmas and picked up "The Green Death" as well. Enjoyed "Earthshock" and am still working through "The Green Death".
I don't know what it is, but I like Destiny, possibly it's because its one of the few episodes I concretely remember watching at the time but I like it, not so much padding, and I found the Movellans interesting--as for the Dalek's looking a bit shoddy, well they were involved in a war, I like it, shows how badly they were losing (well how badly they were drawing I guess).
