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grimorieAn Unearthly Child
After a lot of starts and stops I finally got through the first story, the first thing I have to say is: I didn’t realize this was actually a five episode arc (storyline?) and that the Doctor childishly got the TARDIS moving because Ian and Barbara didn’t believe him and Susan.
Plus: No one told me that the first storyline was about cavemen!
And, the Doctor really honestly didn’t know how to pilot the TARDIS! Ian and Barbara are more heroic and reasonable with Susan trying to mediate between them.
Also, hey: ‘Fear makes companions of us all’ was something from the first storyline of the series, so that’s a really deep cut to be referenced in the Twelfth Doctor era.
I wonder when the Doctor becomes truly heroic? I’ve seen a few Second Doctor episodes and he mostly stumbles into it too and Jaime and Zoe seem to handle the hero stuff more.
Classic Who fans, any recommendations for Classic Doctor Who episodes?
(I’m really tickled that the Doctor doesn’t know anything about piloting and maintaining the TARDIS, and that by Gallifreyan standards he was a really mediocre Time Lord– apparently he almost failed his exams! He didn’t become extraordinary until he left Gallifrey, and he was old in his first life when it happened too. Nothing is ever too late!).
Doctor Who: TV Movie (1996)
Finally got to watch it after years of seeing various opinions about it.
- It’s not actually as terrible as fans claim it is, it’s spotty sure, but it’s actually an enjoyable B Movie. Also, I feel like it could slot in with the ridiculous season 1 vibe of the 2005 series.
- Why were the Daleks allowed to execute the Master, and the Doctor to just go in and out of Skaro???? This was the one that did not make any kind of sense.
- I actual fax did not know the whole movie was set in 1999.
- I knew Seven was going to die in a hospital, I didn’t know he was conscious and begging not to be operated on! That was horrifying to watch. And then Eight wakes up in a morgue! Poor Eight, and he’s the gentlest most romantic Doctor of them all, too!
- Dr. Grace Holloway actually had a lot of screen time. She felt very 90s Scully, and 90s Teri Hatcher!Lois Lane!
- Say what you will about Eric Roberts but he did capture the Master’s sense of ~dramaaaa~. Also, he dressed like the Terminator, which, okay, Master…
- There was a 90s style gangster, as someone from a podcast noted, like what Power Rangers think what a gangster should be…
- SHOES!
- He points a gun to himself, and holds himself hostage, what a Doctor thing to do!
- Eight started the kissing craze. One from sheer joy, the next was because Grace was attracted to him, the third was for a goodbye.
- THE DOCTOR IS HUMAN ON HIS MOTHER’S SIDE. I know it’s controversial, blah blah blah. I’M KEEPING IT.
- The Master gets thrown into the Eye of Harmony, and still manages to escape. Maybe when Eight got to Gallifrey the Time Lords extracted him from it, disgusted at how clumsy the wayward children of Gallifrey can be.
- Chang Lee gets a lot of gold (dust)! Yay! And Grace declines the Doctor’s offer to travel, and actually asks him to stay. That’s very refreshing. He doesn’t stay, of course, but still refreshing for Grace to decline because she has a full life on Earth and a career.
- The Doctor resumes reading the book Seven left at the beginning of the movie, showing that he still was the same person.
All in all, this makes me even more sad that Eight never got a full TV season. He has Audios but few people know about them which is a shame since they’re actually quite good!
After a lot of starts and stops I finally got through the first story, the first thing I have to say is: I didn’t realize this was actually a five episode arc (storyline?) and that the Doctor childishly got the TARDIS moving because Ian and Barbara didn’t believe him and Susan.
Plus: No one told me that the first storyline was about cavemen!
And, the Doctor really honestly didn’t know how to pilot the TARDIS! Ian and Barbara are more heroic and reasonable with Susan trying to mediate between them.
Also, hey: ‘Fear makes companions of us all’ was something from the first storyline of the series, so that’s a really deep cut to be referenced in the Twelfth Doctor era.
I wonder when the Doctor becomes truly heroic? I’ve seen a few Second Doctor episodes and he mostly stumbles into it too and Jaime and Zoe seem to handle the hero stuff more.
Classic Who fans, any recommendations for Classic Doctor Who episodes?
(I’m really tickled that the Doctor doesn’t know anything about piloting and maintaining the TARDIS, and that by Gallifreyan standards he was a really mediocre Time Lord– apparently he almost failed his exams! He didn’t become extraordinary until he left Gallifrey, and he was old in his first life when it happened too. Nothing is ever too late!).
Doctor Who: TV Movie (1996)
Finally got to watch it after years of seeing various opinions about it.
- It’s not actually as terrible as fans claim it is, it’s spotty sure, but it’s actually an enjoyable B Movie. Also, I feel like it could slot in with the ridiculous season 1 vibe of the 2005 series.
- Why were the Daleks allowed to execute the Master, and the Doctor to just go in and out of Skaro???? This was the one that did not make any kind of sense.
- I actual fax did not know the whole movie was set in 1999.
- I knew Seven was going to die in a hospital, I didn’t know he was conscious and begging not to be operated on! That was horrifying to watch. And then Eight wakes up in a morgue! Poor Eight, and he’s the gentlest most romantic Doctor of them all, too!
- Dr. Grace Holloway actually had a lot of screen time. She felt very 90s Scully, and 90s Teri Hatcher!Lois Lane!
- Say what you will about Eric Roberts but he did capture the Master’s sense of ~dramaaaa~. Also, he dressed like the Terminator, which, okay, Master…
- There was a 90s style gangster, as someone from a podcast noted, like what Power Rangers think what a gangster should be…
- SHOES!
- He points a gun to himself, and holds himself hostage, what a Doctor thing to do!
- Eight started the kissing craze. One from sheer joy, the next was because Grace was attracted to him, the third was for a goodbye.
- THE DOCTOR IS HUMAN ON HIS MOTHER’S SIDE. I know it’s controversial, blah blah blah. I’M KEEPING IT.
- The Master gets thrown into the Eye of Harmony, and still manages to escape. Maybe when Eight got to Gallifrey the Time Lords extracted him from it, disgusted at how clumsy the wayward children of Gallifrey can be.
- Chang Lee gets a lot of gold (dust)! Yay! And Grace declines the Doctor’s offer to travel, and actually asks him to stay. That’s very refreshing. He doesn’t stay, of course, but still refreshing for Grace to decline because she has a full life on Earth and a career.
- The Doctor resumes reading the book Seven left at the beginning of the movie, showing that he still was the same person.
All in all, this makes me even more sad that Eight never got a full TV season. He has Audios but few people know about them which is a shame since they’re actually quite good!
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Date: 2018-04-16 06:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-16 07:49 am (UTC)Thanks for the rec!
I love Romana in the Gallifrey audios, although I get frustrated with how a LOT of Time Lords question how effective Romana is as President. I hope that stops, and I hope they stop calling Leela 'Savage'.
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Date: 2018-04-16 07:54 am (UTC)And I love him for it. Classic Who is a Gaming group with ever changing DMs and a vast cast of PCs and NPCs. And I love that too.
I like the TV movie, but mind you, I was SCANDALIZED by the kissing!
+grins+
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Date: 2018-04-16 11:51 am (UTC)The Doctor had started being heroic by the end of the First Season - the story "The Sensorites" (which I don't really recommend watching) is generally considered to be the first time that he does something dangerous out of altruism rather than self-service.
All the earlier Doctors really did just "stumble into things", it's only the Seventh Doctor who goes out proactively to do good and that's played as not entirely a positive trait. The Second is actually one of the most vocal Doctors about wanting to fight evil once he does work out what's happening.
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Date: 2018-04-17 01:32 am (UTC)It's interesting how the Doctor didn't start out as a heroic figure, I wonder if it's a cultural thing that he had to shake off since (correct me if I'm wrong) Time Lords have a policy of non-interference?
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Date: 2018-04-16 11:53 am (UTC)