S23 does a few things a little better. Like the dynamic with Peri is much improved (well, for one of the stories in there).
The end of Mindwarp has my favorite 6 moment in the show too, so you’ve got that to look forward to. Edit: no, I mixed it up with another scene in Ultimate Foe, but the Mindwarp one is still very good.
Hooray! What I’m most looking forward to, to be honest, is finishing Seven’s run and getting to the black and white Doctors.
I think 60s Doctor Who is in some ways the best Doctor Who ever was, though the 70s is still my favorite Who decade.
Now that sounds promising. I’ve only seen bits of Hartnell and Troughton’s runs, but I’ve enjoyed what I have seen.
Hartnell is just so good, and I don’t think gets as much credit as he should. He’s not quite the Doctor we really get to be familiar with later, but he’s just a fun, silly old man most of the time, not the awful guy Twice Upon a Time wants you to believe he is. People like to poke fun at the flubbed lines, but A, it’s not nearly as often as you’d think, and B, I think it adds to the character and makes it realistic as real people misspeak sometimes. Hartnell was excellent as the originator of this character.
Troughton is very good too, and serves as a sort of template for every Doctor going forward. I think they all have a bit of Two in there somewhere. I may like some other Doctors more (including Hartnell), but Troughton is a big part of what we come to think of as the Doctor as a character, and was the first proof that you could have the Doctor be played by a different actor, so a very important one.
Just as Troughton proved the part could be played by another actor, Hartnell set the stage for the part to exist at all… I love the First Doctor, he’s such a silly young/old man.
In other news, I’m (re)watching The Androids of Tara, this time with the commentary on.
I continued my Season 18 rewatch with Full Circle today. I had forgotten how great monsters the Marshmen are; easily some of the best in Classic. Also really liked Alzarius as a setting. Tom and Lalla are quite nice. The plot is a bit of nothing really, but it does build up to a nice finale. And we get Adric here, who isn’t too bad here yet.
The big thing that keeps me from really liking Androids of Tara as much as I probably should, is how Romana is written in it. It’s pretty much where she starts to turn into the very damsel in distress that Tamm didn’t want to be. Romana looking at a horse and saying “how does it go? What makes it work?” as if it’s a car or some mechanism and not obviously an animal, as if she’s an idiot, grinds my gears so much.
Yeah, I agree with that. It’s one of several stories where you get the sense the writer simply doesn’t have a clue what to do with Romana, so it doesn’t bother trying and just reverts to the damsel in distress. Still, I find it a lot of fun.
And it’s odd, since David Fisher used the female characters pretty well in The Stones of Blood just a story earlier.
Watching Class again, and I intend on finishing it but I hate how these actors are pretending to be 17/18.
I lost interest in this series as a kid in part because the ages just don’t match the faces.
But I do like all the blood and violence
Most of the Doctor Who spinoffs have just told me they should stick to the main show on TV.
I think the Whoniverse would feel lonely without the spinoffs. As long as writers have a good vision, and justify them existing through great story-telling, they can be great.
Shame SJA and one season of Torchwood is all I’d call good of them.
Don’t get me wrong. I hope TWBTLATS is good, but the spinoff track record is not good for me.
Haha, fair enough
Presses a loud incorrect buzzer (jk)
I also put this review on the Guide itself. Here’s the link:
Watching The Ghost Monument. Review to follow.