Am I a proper fan yet?
20 Mar 2019 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
promethia_tenkI 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.
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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Date: 21 Mar 2019 04:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 21 Mar 2019 08:52 am (UTC)DO YOU SHIP DOCTOR/JAMIE????
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Date: 21 Mar 2019 12:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 21 Mar 2019 12:57 pm (UTC)See, I'm pretty sure that's the right and normal reaction . . .
DO YOU SHIP DOCTOR/JAMIE????
I don't! *continues reign of terror over all the beloved traditions of Classic Who* I don't . . . actually think the Doctor's any more attached to Jamie than he is Victoria or Zoe? /heresy
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Date: 21 Mar 2019 07:08 pm (UTC)O noes! Now you must be shunned!
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Date: 25 Mar 2019 03:07 am (UTC)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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Date: 25 Mar 2019 08:39 pm (UTC)That does sound like him.
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.
OOooOOOo. I like your thought experiment. I want to ask many people it. How to answer?!?!? Do I go with a favorite? (Four'n'Leela) A team that has all the building blocks for a rich treatment like that but could use the level of execution you get on modern TV? (Five'n'Tegan'n'Turlough) Something that desperately needs fixing? (*cough* Susan *cough*) I sure would not say no to Two, Jamie and Zoe, though. *frets* I might go with Five, Tegan, and Turlough.
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Date: 25 Mar 2019 08:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 25 Mar 2019 08:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 25 Mar 2019 08:54 pm (UTC)Well, I've had a good run.
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Date: 30 Mar 2019 07:41 pm (UTC)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.