I deliberately tried to switch off that part of my brain. Like, THIS IS REALLY OLD! *twitch*
I have to do that a lot lately, but for some reason I found that worse than most of the inevitable stereotypes and blackface - I think because of the whole thing with Kit Pedler being a scientist and that being such an unpleasant bit of 60s pseudo-science that was seen as being crap and racist at the time, let alone later, whereas bad as the other stuff was it was often parodying films or teh sheer desperation of production. But, yeah, there's too much good stuff in Tomb to let that spoil things like Two and Victoria's wonderful conversation in the middle - and Two being at his most devious. But Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis efforts do tend to be a bit worse on the whole racism/sexism thing than other 60s DW writers - although certainly no worse than most 60s SF, my goodness...
See I heard a lot of differing opinions, but (apart from being slow in the way Classic Who always is, because the structure was so different), I rather liked it, yes. :)
I have so much to say about Inferno - it's by far the most meta THree ep, so I love it above all other Three eps - but I have no spoons or coherent thoughts, so I'll just say again that I love it!
Some people find S7 hard to take because of the more serious atmosphere and the three seven-parters. For some reason I don't mind the seven parters here. I think there's just this particular vibe of three competent people saving the world from aliens and having ethical dilemmas that they disagree about it & it's just a great vibe to have in DW for a change. The rest of Pertwee is a lot of fun - people don't talk about the UNIT family for nothing and Katy Manning's Jo is adorable and far, far more useful than people claim, but with the family vibe inevitably comes a little more cosiness - the Brig and the Doctor argue for the lols, not because they disagree over matters of genocide. Liz is brilliant and I also like what it says about the Brig that, told to find the best all rounder in the country for his scientific advisor, he chooses Liz Shaw. So, I have S7 feelings, which is odd, because mostly I love the quirkiness and unexpected DW of the 60s and 80s where you don't know what on earth sort of story you might get next time, instead of being pretty sure there'll be an alien invasion again!
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I have to do that a lot lately, but for some reason I found that worse than most of the inevitable stereotypes and blackface - I think because of the whole thing with Kit Pedler being a scientist and that being such an unpleasant bit of 60s pseudo-science that was seen as being crap and racist at the time, let alone later, whereas bad as the other stuff was it was often parodying films or teh sheer desperation of production. But, yeah, there's too much good stuff in Tomb to let that spoil things like Two and Victoria's wonderful conversation in the middle - and Two being at his most devious. But Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis efforts do tend to be a bit worse on the whole racism/sexism thing than other 60s DW writers - although certainly no worse than most 60s SF, my goodness...
See I heard a lot of differing opinions, but (apart from being slow in the way Classic Who always is, because the structure was so different), I rather liked it, yes. :)
I have so much to say about Inferno - it's by far the most meta THree ep, so I love it above all other Three eps - but I have no spoons or coherent thoughts, so I'll just say again that I love it!
Some people find S7 hard to take because of the more serious atmosphere and the three seven-parters. For some reason I don't mind the seven parters here. I think there's just this particular vibe of three competent people saving the world from aliens and having ethical dilemmas that they disagree about it & it's just a great vibe to have in DW for a change. The rest of Pertwee is a lot of fun - people don't talk about the UNIT family for nothing and Katy Manning's Jo is adorable and far, far more useful than people claim, but with the family vibe inevitably comes a little more cosiness - the Brig and the Doctor argue for the lols, not because they disagree over matters of genocide. Liz is brilliant and I also like what it says about the Brig that, told to find the best all rounder in the country for his scientific advisor, he chooses Liz Shaw. So, I have S7 feelings, which is odd, because mostly I love the quirkiness and unexpected DW of the 60s and 80s where you don't know what on earth sort of story you might get next time, instead of being pretty sure there'll be an alien invasion again!