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*''[[1968]] [[October 12]]'' | *''[[1968]] [[October 12]]'' | ||
(First watched 2024-03-26, -27, ) So trying to get away from that lava fast enough just in case the TARDIS can't handle it, they end up outside of time and space. As portrayed in the first two episodes anyway, I feel it is a bit more fanciful and abstract than the 60s TV production values can properly portray. There are times when they're clearly supposed to be walking through nothingness, but you can still see where the gray-white nothing floor becomes the gray-white nothing wall. | (First watched 2024-03-26, -27, -29, -31, 04-02) So trying to get away from that lava fast enough just in case the TARDIS can't handle it, they end up outside of time and space. As portrayed in the first two episodes anyway, I feel it is a bit more fanciful and abstract than the 60s TV production values can properly portray. There are times when they're clearly supposed to be walking through nothingness, but you can still see where the gray-white nothing floor becomes the gray-white nothing wall. | ||
In episode 2 Jamie is replaced by a different actor. Without checking I wouldn't know if this was part of the original episode plan or something thrown in, but it was handled pretty well. And probably even a simpler explanation to follow than when the Doctor himself changed faces a few years back. It's actually pretty funny, the Doctor is given possible parts of Jamie's face to put back correctly and he just... blows it. (Checking now, I see Frazer Hines apparently had chicken pox for a few episodes.) | In episode 2 Jamie is replaced by a different actor. Without checking I wouldn't know if this was part of the original episode plan or something thrown in, but it was handled pretty well. And probably even a simpler explanation to follow than when the Doctor himself changed faces a few years back. It's actually pretty funny, the Doctor is given possible parts of Jamie's face to put back correctly and he just... blows it. (Checking now, I see Frazer Hines apparently had chicken pox for a few episodes.) Something about the chicken pox explanation, though. If he couldn't come to the recording, how did they get the footage of him prior to him turning to cardboard and being replaced by the other actor? | ||
A few times "The Master" has been mentioned. My knowledge of the old show is limited, so I wonder if this is really the long-running character "The Master"? Or just someone else using a similar name. Most of the early Master stuff I've heard of has to do with the Third Doctor era but I couldn't tell you his first appearance. You might expect a lot of Masters and Rulers and Leaders to pop up. The Doctor doesn't seem to register any recognition upon hearing the name, but maybe The Master wasn't going by The Master the last time he knew him. (Checking now, it isn't. Just another Master.) | A few times "The Master" has been mentioned. My knowledge of the old show is limited, so I wonder if this is really the long-running character "The Master"? Or just someone else using a similar name. Most of the early Master stuff I've heard of has to do with the Third Doctor era but I couldn't tell you his first appearance. You might expect a lot of Masters and Rulers and Leaders to pop up. The Doctor doesn't seem to register any recognition upon hearing the name, but maybe The Master wasn't going by The Master the last time he knew him. (Checking now, it isn't. Just another Master.) | ||
This story is in the end a lot of fun. Weird settings, weird fictional characters, weird early 20th century pulp author in control of things beyond his will. I don't know that it reflects very well on Zoe, though. Jamie we know is a weird 18th century goofball, but she's supposed to be a very learned person from the future. So her repeatedly insisting things like "No, Medusa is real and I MUST look at her!" makes her seem more foolish than I thought she was supposed to be. | |||
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046: '''The Invasion''' | 046: '''The Invasion''' | ||
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*''[[1968]] [[December 21]]'' | *''[[1968]] [[December 21]]'' | ||
(First watched 2024-04-03, -05, -07) Of the first few I've watched, the non-animated ones seem... visually lower quality, darker. I wonder if they were secondhand recordings from back in the day that are now the best versions available? | |||
So we meet again Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, or now promoted to Brigadier as he is most generally known. At this point I guess we really start to get a sense of modern-Earth continuity going on. When they first showed up they decided to look up Professor Travers from two previous serials again, but he'd moved. | |||
Zoe talks to a computer and makes it malfunction, like Captain Kirk sometimes did, though she did it in a more technical way. I... was again disappointed in her, though. When they weren't getting the answers they wanted from the machine, I thought she was using her technical expertise to essentially hack the machine and get more information. But no, she was just being pissy and intentionally breaking it. | |||
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047: '''The Krotons''' | 047: '''The Krotons''' | ||