But, yeah, recently I'd heard that Four starts out rather dark and scary and then gets funny and I figured, right, we'll do this properly in order and see how it goes.
S12 is also an overhang of Three, with Barry Letts overseeing - much as I was saying below - and while you can definitely see Holmes making his mark, their Hammer Horror period is more S13. It's not much liked by current fandom, but I still do for the most part. (But then I watch Ark in Space for comfort viewing - Sarah and Harry and Four wandering around in white is very soothing when ill - and think End of Time is quite some crack, so it takes all sorts, as they say.)
Though the bubble wrap is beautiful.
Never diss the bubble wrap! <3
That is the most enticing argument for watching the early stuff I've ever heard by far.
They were stuck, not even in the BBC building, but in the tiny studios in the archaic Lime Grove building and they still tried to imagine whole other worlds and times, and, sometimes it's hard to get through, but sometimes it's still amazing, and I love that. But I get that I have more tolerance for b&w TV than most, so I am not necessarily a reliable person on the subject. (Plus, I have a lot of love for the original team TARDIS and also Vicki, who is great.)
The key to old telly is that it was fundamentally trying to be theatre - TV in the US was the small screen, whereas in the UK, the BBC called itself the largest repertory theatre in the world, and ITV broke up its commercial breaks with cards that said "Act One" etc. I find it helps to think of it like that as a starting point, although it's obviously a little more complex than that.
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S12 is also an overhang of Three, with Barry Letts overseeing - much as I was saying below - and while you can definitely see Holmes making his mark, their Hammer Horror period is more S13. It's not much liked by current fandom, but I still do for the most part. (But then I watch Ark in Space for comfort viewing - Sarah and Harry and Four wandering around in white is very soothing when ill - and think End of Time is quite some crack, so it takes all sorts, as they say.)
Though the bubble wrap is beautiful.
Never diss the bubble wrap! <3
That is the most enticing argument for watching the early stuff I've ever heard by far.
They were stuck, not even in the BBC building, but in the tiny studios in the archaic Lime Grove building and they still tried to imagine whole other worlds and times, and, sometimes it's hard to get through, but sometimes it's still amazing, and I love that. But I get that I have more tolerance for b&w TV than most, so I am not necessarily a reliable person on the subject. (Plus, I have a lot of love for the original team TARDIS and also Vicki, who is great.)
The key to old telly is that it was fundamentally trying to be theatre - TV in the US was the small screen, whereas in the UK, the BBC called itself the largest repertory theatre in the world, and ITV broke up its commercial breaks with cards that said "Act One" etc. I find it helps to think of it like that as a starting point, although it's obviously a little more complex than that.