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How to stay sane...
Stay away from the internet/news.
As you may have guessed I had Monday/Tuesday off work (co-incidence, I booked the days off ages ago to use up my annual leave), but I was back today & busy, so am feeling much better!
So to continue avoiding ~news, I thought I'd talk about Classic Who?
Within the last half year I've watched Inferno (with thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kerkevik_2014), City of Death (with thanks to enevarim), and (yesterday!) Tomb of the Cybermen (with thanks to our old parish priest who was giving away books/DVDs before he left last year (well, you could donate whatever you wanted).
However, although I enjoyed them all, my mind is blank. I'm useless at doing ordinary 'reviews', which is why I hardly ever write about whatever regular TV I might be watching. I'm sort of meta-or-nothing.
So talk to me? Do you love/hate/feel indifferent towards these episodes? Do they prove that Two/Three/Four is the best Doctor ever?
As you may have guessed I had Monday/Tuesday off work (co-incidence, I booked the days off ages ago to use up my annual leave), but I was back today & busy, so am feeling much better!
So to continue avoiding ~news, I thought I'd talk about Classic Who?
Within the last half year I've watched Inferno (with thanks to
kerkevik_2014), City of Death (with thanks to enevarim), and (yesterday!) Tomb of the Cybermen (with thanks to our old parish priest who was giving away books/DVDs before he left last year (well, you could donate whatever you wanted).However, although I enjoyed them all, my mind is blank. I'm useless at doing ordinary 'reviews', which is why I hardly ever write about whatever regular TV I might be watching. I'm sort of meta-or-nothing.
So talk to me? Do you love/hate/feel indifferent towards these episodes? Do they prove that Two/Three/Four is the best Doctor ever?
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Sounds like me! >:) And then people get confused by my sense of humour.
although I am increasingly turned off by the unfortunate racist pseudo-science in Tomb of the Cybermen
I deliberately tried to switch off that part of my brain. Like, THIS IS REALLY OLD! *twitch*
Everyone says that last one is too long, but they are wrong. There are far more ploddy and dull four parters out there. War Games is excellent and then hangs around a bit because they know we can't bear to part with the adorableness of Jamie-Zoe-Two and then leaps into game-changing revelations and HEARTBREAK FOREVER.
If I come across it, I shall certainly watch it!
City of Death is the wittiest and has Julian Glover. I hope you had fun with it and weren't disappointed because of high expectations!
I think I had heard about half the dialogue already in quotes, so it was more a case of putting it in context...
However, out of those three, my favourite is Inferno. I have a huge love for S7 (the proper season 7, not the new one, although I like that one more than most people seem to), and Inferno is my favourite bit of S7. "So free will is not an illusion after all." And the whole world ends this time.
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. :)
Later UNIT stuff is a lot of fun, but S7 is its own thing, and very satisfying to watch.
Duly noted.
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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!
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It's a low bar. But what can you do...
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!
Also a valid response! <3
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.
*nods* I love competent people.
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.
This.
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!
LOL. I'm still very much feeling my way through Classic Who through the process of watching what I have access to. Which is random.
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Anyway, if you would like that, then PM me your address and a list of stories you'd be most interested in seeing - or if you just want me to send some I like, let me know which ones you've seen. I do have some gaps in 1-4 (especially in Three and Two) but it's a complete collection from 5-7 & I should be able to send you from two-six serials (depending on stamps, envelopes and whether any of them are on two discs or not.) I have found DW episodes that were a bit dull or not so much my favourites - but none that weren't at least a bit delightful, because that's DW and all the Doctors are wonderful. So if you'd like that, don't hesitate to PM me - I'm entirely serious and love to spread the Classic Who love and have no one round here who wouldn't faint with horror if I tried! ;-)
PS. I'm a repressed librarian - I exist to lend! :lol:
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And I might just take you up on that. Hmmmm. I shall go away and have a think, although my first thought it 'YAY I CAN WATCH ALL OF SEVEN!!' (I wrote an essay on Season 25, and adored Seven, even from watching it online in rather crappy condition).
Do you have any recommendations? I guess I really ought to make a list of what I've watched...
So I think I'll get back to you once I'm awake! But thank you. :D
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And have your think & either send some specific requests - or a list of what you've seen & let me choose some favourites if you'd rather! Whatever you'd prefer is fine by me. If you want to take a run of a few eps in order, or meet as many new-to-you companions and Doctors as you want, or request some fan favourites or fan turkeys just to see - whatever!
As I said, I don't have a complete collection, but the gaps are relatively few, and probably mostly in Three (and One - I'm not quite sure why that is, because I love One a lot. I think I just had the videos back in the day and didn't replace some of them as quickly, I'm not sure).
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If that's OK?
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And I'm glad you reminded me, because I've been meaning to get back to you and then ~life...