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

ah yes, the loose cannon opening sequences.... where they use literally every animated slideshow transition they can

todo tomorrow: figure out a more clear way of marking the reconstructions in my guide

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.

The Dalek's Master Plan

This one is sooooo looonnnnnggggg

it's 12 episodes....

also 9 of them are missing, so we've only got reconstructions

something that New Who does better than Classic Who: Cold Opens.

Classic episodes don't have them, and it feels.... wrong

oh no, the daleks are burning down the forest~

how will the Doctor escape thie one~

the answer: run into the dalek city, which is right next to the forest

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

one of the villains is a bunch of vines in a robe

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

holy frick that was way more intense than I expected it to be

The author of this story (Terry Nation) is one of the good authors.

But they also don't seem to know what the solar system is... they put a bunch of extra planets into it???

ah, we're up to the part where the author switched, because this story was so long they needed to get Dennis Spooner to write the second half

oh, I thought so!

one of the actors in the first part came back a few years later to play Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, one of the most famous characters from the classic series

I'm watching the christmas episode now...

what utter garbage

so much yelling...

@lizardsquid just for clarification because I've been confused for a while: are you talking about the 2000s season 3 or the 1960s season 3?

@boobs_idiot 1960s

@lizardsquid ahhh ok, thanks <3

@boobs_idiot a couple of people have been confused, so maybe I should make it more clear, somehow?

@lizardsquid you’re watching the long Dalek one
This is the first time Doctor Who really got dark

PS the actress playing the woman who kills him comes back in the 80s and has a symbolically relevant Tense Moment with the Brigadier

@DialMforMara oh neat!

@lizardsquid Funny story. This is the only Christmas special of Classic Who, and it was made because producers didn’t want people who didn’t watch on Christmas missing story, and didn’t want people who *did* watch having nothing to watch. So they compromised on meaningless mayhem, and Steven looking real good in a police uniform.