How to stay sane...

[elisi]

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 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?

Comments

[elisi]

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...
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.

[thisbluespirit]

I was just thinking - I don't know if you'd want to (because obviously watching Classic Who is something you need to make time for) but if you do I've lent DVDs in the post to flisters before, and I have rather a large Classic Who collection. (If you package the DVDs with a bit of card, you can easily do two per ordinary envelope, or more if I have some large stamps, without either of us having to take trips to the PO! I am absolutely fine with the risk - the DW DVDs are way more replaceable than other things I've sent & I get very fed up, being ill, of not being able to do things for other people, so I'm entirely serious & also because of being ill can't seem to watch Who much for some weird reason, so there'd be no special hurry to get them back or tears this end if anything happened to one.)

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:

[elisi]

That's so kind!!

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

[thisbluespirit]

You know that Seven is my favourite too, so if you want all the Seven, I'll be happy to oblige. And if it works out fine, no reason we can't do it again some time. :-)

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).

[thisbluespirit]

Did you still want to do this? Don't worry if not, or if another time, but just wondered as you never did reply & I know rl gets hectic!

[elisi]

Sorry - I put a flag in it, but have been pondering. We'll be going on holiday shortly, so I might wait until we get back? Like August/September time? It'll be nice to have something to watch as it gets darker...

If that's OK?

[thisbluespirit]

Of course! Just give me a shout when it suits you. I just wasn't sure if you'd forgotten or didn't want to after all, so just thought I'd ask. I hope you have good hols! :-)

[elisi]

Thank you!

And I'm glad you reminded me, because I've been meaning to get back to you and then ~life...