Best way to consume Wheel In Space

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. :scream:

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.

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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?

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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.

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My eldest did the first episode or two and has never gone back to it. And they’ve watched the extended LotR twice through.

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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.

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Hey it’s your list so it’s a totally valid take. A couple of them I would personally switch around, but I do agree with The Macra Terror being S tier.

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Yeah that is pretty far from how I would make that list :wink:

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 :grin:
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 :blush:

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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.

Eugh! :face_vomiting:

Anyway, back to the cybermen…
:cyberman:

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I thought this was a comment about The Invasion and got a bit confused :wink:

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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.

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Apologies. Responding to your other query. I’ll amend my post. :slight_smile:

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Ah no need. If you click on the top right of a “personal” reply you go to the post being replied to :slightly_smiling_face:

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With a knife and fork probably

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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.

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