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Post by The Doctor on Feb 2, 2024 18:39:25 GMT
So... Phil hates Resurrection and Andy likes it? Davros is very shouty. But it's great fun so far! You would be shouty too if you had been forced into suspended animation by fools and then find out your creations are a bit shit! -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2024 19:24:39 GMT
Yeah the Daleks could be better in this. Much better in their previous appearance.
Anyone would think Saward wanted to write about Lytton and co more than the monsters we came for.
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Post by legios on Feb 2, 2024 19:30:42 GMT
I'm not sure whether that was "the monster we came for". I can't recall if I actually knew this was a Dalek story before I sat down and watched it. Sure, when the title came up it was clear that Daleks were going to be in it, but I don't recall whether I knew before that.
Obviously it wasn't as huge and amazing a surprise as Earthshock managed - Cybermen! Without warning or preamble it just turned out that it was a Cybermen story! Plasticised terrors I had only read about up until then! That was incredible exciting. Mind you, I quite like "Ressurrection"and I didn't think the Daleks were too bad in that. Mind you, I prefer my Daleks without Davros so I did find his inclusion a bit of a drag on the story. At least, once he became more than a Popsicle McMcguffin.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 2, 2024 20:30:58 GMT
Davros makea Daleks better!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 2, 2024 22:21:13 GMT
PART TWO NOW!
Linton! I remember him!
And Davros getting control of people!
I can't wait for THE BIG MOMENT!
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 2, 2024 22:29:28 GMT
WHEN DOES HE SAY IT?! WHEN DOES HE SAY IT?!
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 2, 2024 22:31:28 GMT
I thought he was going to say it but he didn't!
He's building up to it though!!!
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 2, 2024 22:31:57 GMT
Chloe Ashcraft, the scientist with the soldiers She has a very loud scream. |
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 2, 2024 22:32:16 GMT
ANY MINUTE NOW!!!!
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 2, 2024 22:37:16 GMT
HE SAID IT!!!!! YYYREEAAAYYYYY!!!!!!
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 2, 2024 22:37:42 GMT
I'm going to rewind it and watch it again.
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 2, 2024 22:38:41 GMT
YYYEEEAAAYYYY!!!!!
BRILLIANT!!!!!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 2, 2024 22:58:18 GMT
I CAN'T STAND THE CONFUSION IN MY MIIIIIIND!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 2, 2024 23:00:50 GMT
STIEN! NNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
....Tegan
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 2, 2024 23:04:35 GMT
Brilliant Hoop.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 2, 2024 23:07:56 GMT
Oh wait a minute! That's the 'I can't stand the confusion in my mind' guy! At last! Hooray! We have come Full Circle. No wait... Wrong story. |
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 2, 2024 23:16:10 GMT
This is all very exciting.
Regarding the DVD Dilemma (the opening story Colin Baker should have had), I don't think there's an answer that solves the problem. No way is going to look right. I agree with Ralph though, the full DVD set is magical to behold. Mine is complete because all the missing stories have individual silver cases with the Loose Canon recon DVDs I made. They've slowly been replaced by the animations.
The where to put the Blu-rays question I'll face once my new library is built.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 3, 2024 15:23:00 GMT
Portsmouth's Comic Con seems to be becoming a haven for Who guests. Last year they had the Peter/Colin/Nicola triple whammy. This year they've got Sylvester and Paul McGann.
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Post by legios on Feb 3, 2024 16:12:04 GMT
I think I lean towards the viewpoint of DVD/vs Bluray with a mixture of "eh" and Bluray's are more practical. Doctor Who became a series of discrete stories as they went on, but originally it could be said it was a serial where each particular world/misadventure was part of the ongoing quest by two schoolteachers to return safely to the present day... So, the first episode up until the end of The Chase could be said to have a continuous narrative through line, after which it becomes a fragmented set of adventures in time and relative dimensions in space. So, depending on when you are presenting it as a single entity or a pile of separate entities could be valid.
On the practicality point of view, if I had all of the DVDs released so far I would be in the process of getting rid of some of them because the footprint they take up is simply too large for my available living space. (Or identifying an alternate solution for storing the discs and disposing of the cases. From that point of view the smaller footprint that the Blu-Rays offer make them a much more practical solution.
Karl
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Post by legios on Feb 3, 2024 16:15:27 GMT
Portsmouth's Comic Con seems to be becoming a haven for Who guests. Last year they had the Peter/Colin/Nicola triple whammy. This year they've got Sylvester and Paul McGann. I've got family in that neck of the woods and, whilst I can take or leave Portsmouth, once you get out of the town it is quite a nice part of the world. So if there is a gig in that part of the world that'll make you some pin money from a public appearance then why not. Beats London in my view. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 3, 2024 18:56:01 GMT
McGann is a surpisingly titchy fellow in person. He always seems a million feet high on screen and in my imagination.
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Feb 4, 2024 9:19:07 GMT
Portsmouth's Comic Con seems to be becoming a haven for Who guests. Last year they had the Peter/Colin/Nicola triple whammy. This year they've got Sylvester and Paul McGann. I've got family in that neck of the woods and, whilst I can take or leave Portsmouth, once you get out of the town it is quite a nice part of the world. So if there is a gig in that part of the world that'll make you some pin money from a public appearance then why not. Beats London in my view. My own views are somewhat different, but then familiarity breeds contempt and all that. And there are some nice parts of the city, I will confess. Not that I am likely to return there often. If at all. Not that that matters - unsurprisingly McCoy is never long absent from any of the Central Belt comic cons, and this summer he'll be at this one with Aldred, Langford, and Jo Martin: www.filmandcomicconglasgow.com/ . I might just have to attend this one. |
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 4, 2024 10:39:25 GMT
Being the closest local city to me, Portsmouth was always a big draw once I was old enough to travel by train alone. Commercial Road offered delights that I couldn't find locally, like proper bookshops and toyshops and HMV. And the big library. Bit of spending money for the latest Who VHS release in Volume One and enough change for a bag of chips was the ultimate Saturday. These days it's a wasteland though, Gunwharf killed the high street and Amazon killed Gunwharf for anything other than the things that are harder to buy online than in person, like discount clothes. What interests me now about the place is the history and the occasional theatre trip, there's no other reason to go there.
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Post by Llama God on Feb 5, 2024 8:28:06 GMT
Ah yes, Beatties, Volume One, the big Woolworth's, HMV and Virgin Megastore, and the market and comic shop in the Tricorn. Good times. All gone now...
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 5, 2024 12:09:23 GMT
Like tears in the rain!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 5, 2024 13:07:51 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 5, 2024 20:43:05 GMT
Fuck sakes.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 6, 2024 0:37:12 GMT
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Post by legios on Feb 6, 2024 21:43:06 GMT
A sad, sad loss.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 6, 2024 22:00:43 GMT
No other actor could have delivered a certain line with such gravitas: "There's nothing you can do to prevent the catharsis of spurious morality!"
-Ralph
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