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Doctor Who
Old thread was here: https://computerfairi.es/@lizardsquid/99993615571127762
I'll be continuing the thread from this post, just so if someone clicks on the thead and scrolls up, they'll see the link to the guide.
Doctor Who [Season 3]
[ Galaxy 4 ]
this one is interesting - basically all of the footage is gone entirely, unlike several of the other missing stories which have some footage, or at least telesnaps. The Loose Cannons team spent a lot of time and effort recreating a bunch of things and using visual effects to pull in footage of characters from different stories, in order to recreate it
Doctor Who [Season 3], sexism
The actor for Steven hated this story, because it had been originally written for the companions Ian and Barbara, and when it was rewritten for this season, Steven's lines were mostly barbara's.
He felt upset that his character had been "feminised".
Doctor Who [Season 3], sexism
Peter Purves, the actor for steven: I didn't like that my character was overpowered by Maaga, a woman. He's supposed to be a man.
me: hmmm.... that sounds like a pretty terrible thing to say, but maybe it makes sense in context
*watches the episode*
maaga: *is a highly trained military commander, overpowers steven because she has a gun and 3 guards*
me: 
Doctor Who [Season 3]
lets see if my source is recent enough to have the real version of episode 3, which was recovered in 2013
Doctor Who [Season 3]
I found the real version on youtube, so I'm gonna watch both at once and see how it goes...
Doctor Who [Season 3]
this is actually really fascinating...
Doctor Who [Season 3]
it's interesting how good the reconstruction is, given how rediculously little they had to work with
Doctor Who [Season 3]
the first 25 episodes of season 3 are missing....
jeez this is gonna be hard to get through
Doctor Who [Season 3]
in season 3, there are 45 episodes.
28 of them are missing.
Doctor Who [Season 3]
Mission to the Impossible.
I've never seen this one, and it's unique in that it doesn't include the Doctor or his companions at all
Doctor Who [Season 3]
The problem with reconstructions: they require a lot more attention, otherwise you lose track of what's going on.
But they're also harder to pay attention to, because there's no motion, it's just telesnaps and sound
Doctor Who [Season 3]
ah yes, the loose cannon opening sequences.... where they use literally every animated slideshow transition they can
Doctor Who [Season 3]
todo tomorrow: figure out a more clear way of marking the reconstructions in my guide
Doctor Who [Season 3]
The Myth Makers was a weird one - the story is a farce, the way they depict the trojans is a farce, the way they make Vicki fall in love with a random dude and run off with him is also a farce.
And yet it very clearly wasn't intended to be that. It's just garbage.
The third story to get a "Don't Watch" recommendation.
Doctor Who [Season 3]
The Dalek's Master Plan
This one is sooooo looonnnnnggggg
it's 12 episodes....
Doctor Who [Season 3]
also 9 of them are missing, so we've only got reconstructions
Doctor Who [Season 3]
something that New Who does better than Classic Who: Cold Opens.
Classic episodes don't have them, and it feels.... wrong
Doctor Who [Season 3]
oh no, the daleks are burning down the forest~
how will the Doctor escape thie one~
Doctor Who [Season 3]
the answer: run into the dalek city, which is right next to the forest
Doctor Who [Season 3]
so this story had a teaser episode earlier in the season - they cut away from the doctor and companions for a bit to show the daleks organising a meeting between a bunch of villans from across the universe.
Except between the teaser/cutaway and the actual episode, the actors for several of the villains in-explicably changed, so it's very confusing
Doctor Who [Season 3]
one of the villains is a bunch of vines in a robe
Doctor Who [Season 3]
I'm almost up to Katarina's death scene.
Not only is this the first time a companion of the doctor's dies, but it's also the first scene the actor recorded - the character was written and cast, but then they realised that they couldn't actually make her an interesting long term character, so they killed her off in her second story
Doctor Who [Season 3]
@lizardsquid Less a season and more a cease-son.
Doctor Who [Season 3]
nope, it's the reconstruction
oh well