When did even her and David Campbell fall in love? 
Or I just couldn’t see it
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YESSS I’m excited to see her!!
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I couldn’t see it either…
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That scene with them kissing then the Doctor walking on them (I don’t know if he saw them but still)
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It’s at a drama television pace, but I could definitely see it brewing with Susan and David, I think it’s definitely there in the writing, and pretty well developed over the course of the serial.
When you think it’s all the time that you’ve got, things can move quickly.
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The Dalek Invasion of Earth always freaked me out. Great story. The opening where a man wearing a surgical device with an exposed brain… walks past a “no dumping bodies” sign and then throws himself in the water… they were allowed to show this on TV??? Awesome.
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Just finished the first two episodes of ‘The Sensorites,’ and this story starts just as strongly as I remember. Trying to keep my mind open to the remaining episodes, so we shall see just how steep the decline is this time.
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Vicki, or as I call her, “better Susan”
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Vicki, to me, feels like the first “real” companion. First one to be invited, the Doctor treats her as a friend, and she enjoys being on the TARDIS without a want to go home. 1 and her get to giggle a lot in the Romans and she’s easily the best part of Galaxy 4. She really sets the standard for future companions like Jo, Nyssa, Peri, Rose, Amy, and even Ruby!
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It’s one of the few companion ‘love stories’ which is actually fairly believable. That scene with the fish alone shows how close they’ve grown over the time they’ve been together. The only one I can think of that seems more seeded in the story is Jo and Clifford Jones’ romance in The Green Death.
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Vicki has always been my favourite First Doctor Companion. Many of the others are brilliant, as well, but she’s tops.
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I mean you obviously mean your favourite AFTER Barbara, so I’ll agree. 
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Haha, Barbara is hands down my favourite through TDIoE, but Vicki very quickly rises to her level for me. After all, her first trip is one of the all-time hilarious stories, and the rapport she and One establish is just so heartwarming and fun.
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Vicki you say!?!
My avatar explains my feelings.
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I just finished watching ‘The Story & the Engine,’ and I have to say that I was captivated for the entirety of its runtime.
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Watched the first episode of Long Way Down during supper, in which actors Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor travel from the northern tip of Scotland at John O’Groats down to Cape Town, South Africa. I read the book back in April 2018 and enjoyed it (along with the first book Long Way Round the previous month).
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Watched a lot of the Special Features on the Series 11 box set.
Oh, this team are amazing - it always saddens me to hear stuff like ‘Jodie was wasted’, or, perhaps even worse, ‘Jodie was miscast’, because that’s just completely wrong and it’s kind of hurtful
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Attack of the Cybermen: Episode 1
I’m one of those who find much to enjoy about Attack, not least Colin really starting to get to grips with playing the Doctor (he was so unfortunate with the way his characterisation was written in The Twin Dilemma). Watched this last night, with headphones and surround sound. Some really atmospheric moments and great fun.
That said, it’s interesting that both this AND The Story & the Engine incorporate continuity and past references into the narrative. The approach is so wildly different and so much more successful (in my opinion) in Inua Ellams’ script. In Attack the continuity is often gratuitous and frequently amounts to a parade of perceived greatest hits.
I.M. Foreman. Totters Lane. 
Cybermen in sewers.
Cybermen on Telos.
Michael Kilgarriff as the Cybercontroller.
It’s easy to see why the show increasingly alienated itself from the general audience in the mid 1980s. In Attack, the story IS the continuity. It IS the fan references. In Story the continuity serves the story (which, I believe, is absolutely the right way to do it).
Don’t get me wrong. I thoroughly enjoyed rewatching Attack Ep 1 and look forward to rewatching Ep 2 tonight. It does a lot of things well and doesn’t really get deserved credit for those things. Nonetheless, the parallels (in use of continuity) and differences (in how this was handled) are enormous.
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