Simon Collis
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Post by Simon Collis on Oct 12, 2013 12:56:18 GMT
Anyone want to raise that to the real reel deal: one a week? Saturday tea time, even? I plan to watch one episode per week, grow my hair long, watch just 3 TV channels and listen to Manfred Mann. Wait... I already do all those things! Oh, except the one episode a week bit (I'm currently enjoying EoTW on my commute to work... yesterday I deliberately missed my train to fit two episodes in on the way home rather than one...)
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Post by Paul McDermott on Oct 12, 2013 13:37:57 GMT
I plan to watch one episode per week, grow my hair long, watch just 3 TV channels and listen to Manfred Mann. Wait... I already do all those things! Oh, except the one episode a week bit (I'm currently enjoying EoTW on my commute to work... yesterday I deliberately missed my train to fit two episodes in on the way home rather than one...) Good job we're still a little early for T-Mat then! How you could watch and not expect to miss your stop, I'll never know. Seems you figured a way around it! Are you a Brit? Dare you do this with Web if you are going via the Tube? All the same, the small screen, distracting environment, etc etc. Can't be easy! But dang, that's fandom in action! And needs must, I'm sure. And hopefully, you'll do well modelling the wonderment available to all now, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of a small number of people who collectively changed the world for the better. Another quote that sprung to mind, from of all places, the '96 telemovie. Grace: No, sorry. The dead stay dead. You can't turn back time. The Doctor: Yes you can. Grace: I'm not a child, don't talk to me like I'm a child. Only children believe that crap. I am a doctor. The Doctor: But it was a childish dream that made you a doctor. You dreamed you could hold back death. Isn't that true? [Grace looks back at the Doctor for a moment, astonished and then begins to walk away] The Doctor: Don't be sad Grace. You'll do great things. So too did PM, PV and all the other folk in returning to us what by all accounts was gone forever! Utmost gratitude and respect!
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Simon Collis
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Post by Simon Collis on Oct 12, 2013 20:51:58 GMT
Wait... I already do all those things! Oh, except the one episode a week bit (I'm currently enjoying EoTW on my commute to work... yesterday I deliberately missed my train to fit two episodes in on the way home rather than one...) Good job we're still a little early for T-Mat then! How you could watch and not expect to miss your stop, I'll never know. Seems you figured a way around it! Are you a Brit? Dare you do this with Web if you are going via the Tube? All the same, the small screen, distracting environment, etc etc. Can't be easy! But dang, that's fandom in action! And needs must, I'm sure. Ah yes... British trains. Yes, alas, I suffer British trains, although not the tube (incidentally, I can recommend both J E Connor's books on abandoned stations on the London Underground, they're fascinating). I'm watching Enemy first because that's the one I really wanted to see to be honest. Generally speaking by the time I change trains the other platform is full of schoolkids so I just have to stand behind them and finally when I get on the train it's standing room only. Which means I get disturbed every five minutes anyway. (Of course, if you want to really scare people, make them watch Web, then Quatermass & The Pit, Death Line, and finally Creep... then send them home on the tube.... heheheh... *evil grin*)
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Post by Paul McDermott on Oct 13, 2013 0:47:34 GMT
Good job we're still a little early for T-Mat then! How you could watch and not expect to miss your stop, I'll never know. Seems you figured a way around it! Are you a Brit? Dare you do this with Web if you are going via the Tube? All the same, the small screen, distracting environment, etc etc. Can't be easy! But dang, that's fandom in action! And needs must, I'm sure. Ah yes... British trains. Yes, alas, I suffer British trains, although not the tube (incidentally, I can recommend both J E Connor's books on abandoned stations on the London Underground, they're fascinating). I'm watching Enemy first because that's the one I really wanted to see to be honest. Generally speaking by the time I change trains the other platform is full of schoolkids so I just have to stand behind them and finally when I get on the train it's standing room only. Which means I get disturbed every five minutes anyway. (Of course, if you want to really scare people, make them watch Web, then Quatermass & The Pit, Death Line, and finally Creep... then send them home on the tube.... heheheh... *evil grin*) Thanks for the reading tips, Simon! Like your thoughts on a viewing schedule for easing commuter angst too! I suppose nowadays, you'd need a horror story that involves what? Leaves on tracks? Suddenly available seat at peak hour that eats you, a la what happened to that clansman of mine in Farrel Plastics?
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Simon Collis
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Post by Simon Collis on Oct 13, 2013 1:01:41 GMT
I suppose nowadays, you'd need a horror story that involves what? Leaves on tracks? Suddenly available seat at peak hour that eats you, a la what happened to that clansman of mine in Farrel Plastics? I've already had my horror story for today - record snowfalls for next month! That's going to make my commute... interesting...
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Post by Paul McDermott on Oct 13, 2013 1:16:44 GMT
I suppose nowadays, you'd need a horror story that involves what? Leaves on tracks? Suddenly available seat at peak hour that eats you, a la what happened to that clansman of mine in Farrel Plastics? I've already had my horror story for today - record snowfalls for next month! That's going to make my commute... interesting... Bummer. Well, the weather men aren't as often right as we'd like. Fingers crossed all will be well, Simon!
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Post by Paul McDermott on Oct 13, 2013 7:21:52 GMT
Just got done with my first watch of Enemy, Ep 1. My gosh, it's like a dream isn't it? The location shooting is wonderful. The helicopter in the open field reminded me a bit of the finale of Connery's second outing as Bond. Loved Victoria's outfit, easily as good as Zoe's ensemble in The War Games. How thrilling it all is, right from the opening. No waste, all pace. And how simple yet effective the setup! None of it taken for granted, the Doctor isn't a rubber stamp to any of it, thereby selling it to us as viewers. The principles never looked better. You can really believe them when they talk even now of how happy they were working on the show, and with each other. Very glad it's not on VHS, I reckon I'll have broken the tape by the time next Sunday comes around for Ep 2! Back to start rewatch #1 of undoubtedly a very high number indeed, carry on!
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Post by Paul McDermott on Oct 13, 2013 9:56:07 GMT
Another few rewatches and it's still just tremendous, Enemy Ep 1! The incidental music really works well, very nice stuff. Astrid ain't a screaming ninny, and can mix it with the toughs - just as it should be! And the tone of the story, but for the smallest of tweaks, I reckon it could have been slotted into Season 7 with hardly any problem at all. Makes me wonder why Pertwee, unlike Troughton and Tom (even Hartnell), never did a double role in the show during his tenure. I think I have some dim memory that Letts and crew took a view that this was a bit old hat or something. If true, hard to believe that it's Barry doing this one, and doing it so well!
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Post by Matthew Kurth on Oct 13, 2013 13:17:15 GMT
Troughton/Watling/Hines are a top tardis team... perhaps the best ever? I'm still not convinced that they beat Baker/Sladen, but Troughton/Watling/Hines is a very, very good combination indeed. Of all the reasons to be sad that Masterplan is incomplete, from watching the Loose Cannon reconstructions I thought the Hartnell/Purves/Marsh grouping was really sharp and I'd liked to have actually seen more of their on-screen chemistry. I'm getting into a flight of fancy here but I wonder what might have been if John Wiles had decided to keep Sara Kingdom around. I mean, I know half the problem with Dodo was BBC interference so I don't think it's Jackie Lane's fault that Dodo wasn't terribly compelling -- Innes Lloyd pretty much said as much when he let her contract expire. Sara Kingdom going up against the War Machines would have been interesting to see though!
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Post by Matthew Kurth on Oct 13, 2013 13:26:00 GMT
Makes me wonder why Pertwee, unlike Troughton and Tom (even Hartnell), never did a double role in the show during his tenure. After reading the entry on the Brief History of Time (Travel) website, I'm guessing that Barry had enough go wrong trying to record the Doctor/Salamander scene that as a director himself he didn't want to foist that headache on anyone else!
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Post by Paul McDermott on Oct 13, 2013 13:37:01 GMT
Makes me wonder why Pertwee, unlike Troughton and Tom (even Hartnell), never did a double role in the show during his tenure. After reading the entry on the Brief History of Time (Travel) website, I'm guessing that Barry had enough go wrong trying to record the Doctor/Salamander scene that as a director himself he didn't want to foist that headache on anyone else! Aha! Thanks Matthew, I'll check it out once I'm done watching, in about 5 weeks or so. I guess there's also the script weight - I think Jon might have baulked at learning his lines AND the villain's as well!
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Post by Andrew Knight on Oct 13, 2013 17:21:28 GMT
After reading the entry on the Brief History of Time (Travel) website, I'm guessing that Barry had enough go wrong trying to record the Doctor/Salamander scene that as a director himself he didn't want to foist that headache on anyone else! Aha! Thanks Matthew, I'll check it out once I'm done watching, in about 5 weeks or so. I guess there's also the script weight - I think Jon might have baulked at learning his lines AND the villain's as well! Pertwee might not have wanted to risk the chance of being upstaged by the only man who could do it! Blog: Am currently watching two screens on my laptop - Tomb and Web at the same time... Troughton overload baby!
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Post by Paul McDermott on Oct 13, 2013 21:40:58 GMT
Aha! Thanks Matthew, I'll check it out once I'm done watching, in about 5 weeks or so. I guess there's also the script weight - I think Jon might have baulked at learning his lines AND the villain's as well! Pertwee might not have wanted to risk the chance of being upstaged by the only man who could do it! Blog: Am currently watching two screens on my laptop - Tomb and Web at the same time... Troughton overload baby! So that's why he appeared to be following in his predecessor's baggy coat tails, by doing Worzel Gummidge? Fancypants! Scarecrow!
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Post by darrenseal on Oct 13, 2013 22:00:38 GMT
Web of Fear is rather good isn't it. Makes me want to see the rest of season 5 to see more of this TARDIS team too.
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Post by adriandenning on Oct 14, 2013 11:51:22 GMT
Watched all 12 eps yesterday which was fine for enemy but I really need to watch fear again!
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