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bimo and later cavendish yesterday was fun; it also brought a surprise gift in the form of several old Dr. Who episodes. Sitting most of the day in a train today I had the chance to watch The Three Doctors and Carnival of Monsters, both from season 10.
The Three Doctors was ideal for people like me determined to catch up on their Doctors, as it enabled me to meet Three and Two at the same time, as well as presenting me with several companions I hadn't met before, either, Jo Grant, the Brigadier and Benton. (Though I had readastrogirl2's fanfic featuring the Brigadier and Mickey.) And oh, the late 60s, early 70s fashions. Jo with her miniskirt and Three with his Edwardian get-up. I felt like humming St. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (which surely should be the UNIT theme song). Nostalgia of the best kind.
The Three/Two interaction (and naturally, two incarnations of the Doctor would bicker) was great, whereas One's cameos were somewhat pointless; I suspect they only included him out of anniversary guilt, or something. I liked them both, and I liked the actors (plus I kept wondering where I have seen Patrick Troughton before). Jo was a nice no-nonsense type of companion, and both the Brigadier and Benton struck me was refreshingly free of either clichés often found about tv soldiers (they're not dumb machos, and they're not perfect heroes, either). Is Omega supposed to be the Master? Alas, the first time I encountered the Master was in the dreadful American tv movie, and this has made it hard to take him seriously again. (Jonathan Pryce in the sketch? So much better. And he was meant to be funny.)
(Speaking of Timelords, those represented here clearly shop in the same boutique as Kerr Avon does in the first and second season of B7, before he becomes monomanical about the leather and studs.)
The difference between early B7 and Dr. Who: Blake would not have felt bad about tricking Omega as he would have classified Omega as a slave-owner and would have wanted to liberate the munchkins (do they even have a name?) who served as Omega's army, because they totally would have reminded him of the munchkins from The Web. *g*
Carnival of Monsters was even better. I was quite happy about seeing Robert Holmes' name in the credits as the writer. Holmes had his faults - in a B7 Holmes script, Jenna and Cally and later Soolin and Dayna tend to get stuck with teleport duty - but he had an ear for dialogue, and specialized in Avon-Vila-centric scripts, from the lighthearted (Gambit) to the dark (Orbit). Carnival of Monsters was great with the interaction was well. I loved Jo teasing the Doctor about his inability to admit helost the way on the road might have steered the TARDIS to the wrong place (and the fact that in the end, it turns out he did end up on the wrong planet, though Jo's first idea had been wrong as well, of course). The scheming grey locals made want to call them Rontane and Bercol (though these were Boucher creations, weren't they? Not sure about that), and the showman and his assistant clearly went to Freedom City afterwards and fleeced the locals there. Great balance, too, between what they have in common with the Doctor (they weren't wrong, he is a showman), and what separates them - imprisonment of others for entertainment is where the fun ends for him.
And boy, did they import the worms from Dune or what? Yes, I know, they were swamp creatures, but someone clearly read Frank Herbert. Or Herbert saw the episodes. Coming to think of it, they might actually predate his little saga.
Lastly: a) I love Pertwee's voice. Did he any audio books?
b) Jo, like Jenna, Cally, Dayna and Soolin, not to mention Madam President herself, masters the art of stalking through the galaxy on high heels
admirably.
c) QUARRY! Watching quarries in a BBC show from the 70s and 80s gives me such a fuzzy nostalgic feeling as well.
bimo and later cavendish yesterday was fun; it also brought a surprise gift in the form of several old Dr. Who episodes. Sitting most of the day in a train today I had the chance to watch The Three Doctors and Carnival of Monsters, both from season 10. The Three Doctors was ideal for people like me determined to catch up on their Doctors, as it enabled me to meet Three and Two at the same time, as well as presenting me with several companions I hadn't met before, either, Jo Grant, the Brigadier and Benton. (Though I had read
astrogirl2's fanfic featuring the Brigadier and Mickey.) And oh, the late 60s, early 70s fashions. Jo with her miniskirt and Three with his Edwardian get-up. I felt like humming St. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (which surely should be the UNIT theme song). Nostalgia of the best kind. The Three/Two interaction (and naturally, two incarnations of the Doctor would bicker) was great, whereas One's cameos were somewhat pointless; I suspect they only included him out of anniversary guilt, or something. I liked them both, and I liked the actors (plus I kept wondering where I have seen Patrick Troughton before). Jo was a nice no-nonsense type of companion, and both the Brigadier and Benton struck me was refreshingly free of either clichés often found about tv soldiers (they're not dumb machos, and they're not perfect heroes, either). Is Omega supposed to be the Master? Alas, the first time I encountered the Master was in the dreadful American tv movie, and this has made it hard to take him seriously again. (Jonathan Pryce in the sketch? So much better. And he was meant to be funny.)
(Speaking of Timelords, those represented here clearly shop in the same boutique as Kerr Avon does in the first and second season of B7, before he becomes monomanical about the leather and studs.)
The difference between early B7 and Dr. Who: Blake would not have felt bad about tricking Omega as he would have classified Omega as a slave-owner and would have wanted to liberate the munchkins (do they even have a name?) who served as Omega's army, because they totally would have reminded him of the munchkins from The Web. *g*
Carnival of Monsters was even better. I was quite happy about seeing Robert Holmes' name in the credits as the writer. Holmes had his faults - in a B7 Holmes script, Jenna and Cally and later Soolin and Dayna tend to get stuck with teleport duty - but he had an ear for dialogue, and specialized in Avon-Vila-centric scripts, from the lighthearted (Gambit) to the dark (Orbit). Carnival of Monsters was great with the interaction was well. I loved Jo teasing the Doctor about his inability to admit he
And boy, did they import the worms from Dune or what? Yes, I know, they were swamp creatures, but someone clearly read Frank Herbert. Or Herbert saw the episodes. Coming to think of it, they might actually predate his little saga.
Lastly: a) I love Pertwee's voice. Did he any audio books?
b) Jo, like Jenna, Cally, Dayna and Soolin, not to mention Madam President herself, masters the art of stalking through the galaxy on high heels
admirably.
c) QUARRY! Watching quarries in a BBC show from the 70s and 80s gives me such a fuzzy nostalgic feeling as well.
