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promethia_tenk ([personal profile] promethia_tenk) wrote2019-03-20 07:03 pm
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Am I a proper fan yet?

I am done with the Second Doctor!*

Yes, yes, Two is lovely, but more importantly Two and a TARDIS team are lovely. I have not been this squeeful about a Team TARDIS since the Ponds. I would watch them all semi-ineptly attempt to rescue each other all day. LOOKIT THEIR ADORABLE FACES. BABIES.

In other news, I am officially broken, having sat through eight episodes of The Invasion, ten of The War Games, and The Wheel in Space (six episodes, four of them reconstructions) with hardly a thought for how long or slow any of it was. Send help.

I have, actually, watched The War Games long ago and liked it even back then when I basically knew nothing about the show. Am pleased that it is still great, but Jesus Christ, that ending hurts when you know the people involved. WHY. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO THEM. IT WAS HORRIBLE. No wonder Three is . . . Three.

ONLY ONE DOCTOR LEFT TO GO. WOE. BUT ALSO YAY. I am ready to have all the Who available in my head and not to have to pick around the bits where people talk about things I've not seen yet.



* For definitions of 'done' that involve having watched everything on BritBox, so: Power of the Daleks, Tomb of the Cybermen, Enemy of the World, Web of Fear, Wheel in Space, The Dominators, Mind Robber, The Invasion, The Krotons, Seeds of Death, and The War Games. Anyone with recommendations for which reconstructions or partial stories are worth watching, I'd be happy for suggestions.
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[personal profile] flowsoffire 2019-03-21 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Teams are great! :D
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[personal profile] nostalgia 2019-03-21 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
I've seen the stuff what's on DVD, but not the recons because I can't do recons for some reason.

DO YOU SHIP DOCTOR/JAMIE????
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[personal profile] nostalgia 2019-03-21 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)

O noes! Now you must be shunned!
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[personal profile] nostalgia 2019-03-25 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
And they will.
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[personal profile] greensword 2019-03-25 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
The only companion ending I hate more than Jamie & Zoe's is Donna's, and I'm convinced RTD was like, "Man, Jamie and Zoe's last episode was painful, how can I make it worse?"

Thought experiment: if you could bring back any Classic Who set of Doctor+companions for a single season of modern Who-style development and character building, who would you pick? I probably wouldn't pick 2 plus Jamie and Zoe, but I'd be tempted.
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[personal profile] greensword 2019-03-30 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Five, Tegan and Turlough is a really solid choice.

I feel like Three and Liz Shaw and the Brigadier might benefit from modern storytelling, if we wanted to go deep on the perils of militarization and when it's acceptable to use force and the obligations of science vs politics etc etc. Although New Who has had plenty of opportunities to tackle these themes and largely whiffed on them, so who knows if they'd be any better with that particular set of Doctor + companions.

I really like Ace but there was already an almost modern feel to her seasons, which were after all the last ones in Classic Who. Still, I wish the show would play more with the character type of an earthling who doesn't actually like earth all that much. Ace is the closest we've come to that so far.