Aside from “Doctor Who” I’ve always been a Tolkien fan. Named my boys both after characters that appear in Tolkien’s works… and THEN “Rings of Power” happened.
To keep on track, “Wheel in Space” has some lovely moments. It might be quite bonkers, but I’d never skip it. Makes me smile.
I don’t have the Amazon streaming service so I haven’t seen Rings of Power. I have seen very different reactions to it, but mostly negative. What’s your take on it? Is it worth it to start subscribing to yet another streaming service?
So I was going back through various conversations in the TARDIS Guide Discord server, because a bunch of us actually made tier lists of what we thought of the Second Doctor TV stories.
Considering he’s my least favourite Classic incarnation and I find his era kinda uninspired, I fully expect this list to cause some chaos.
You know what, I’m pretty much in agreement with that - although Snowmen would be on the very bottom for me (interminably dull), Web would move down a couple and Evil and Krotons would go up a bit.
Yeah that is pretty far from how I would make that list
For instance I find The Seeds of Death such a slow story with too much foam. That would go at least three tiers down. Though Miss Kelly is amazing
The Dominators would also go three tiers up probably.
Plus the War Games is top three Doctor Who of all time for me as well
I tried… I really tried with “Rings of Power”. I wanted to enjoy it but genuinely struggled. No offence to anyone who enjoyed it, but I wondered if the writers had issues with women? They wrote so-called strong women but made them act in genuinely stupid ways. The men didn’t serve much better, but the women… oh dear! Should have been trailblazing. Instead… I found it painful to watch.
I enjoy season 5 as a whole, but it’s very … uniform in storytelling. I guess that’s a big reason why “The Enemy of the World” stands out so well. It genuinely does something different to the entire rest of the season.
And much as I enjoy season 5, the aliens and monsters are ALWAYS the villains. I far prefer the nuance that we see (particularly with Malcom Hulke’s superb contributions) from Pertwee’s era.
I would recommend switching the knife for a torch or something else that has an easier time cutting metal, otherwise it might take a bit long to take that whole thing apart into bitesized pieces.