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Doctor Who 

Old thread was here: computerfairi.es/@lizardsquid/

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: :thaenkin:

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] 

nope, it's the reconstruction

oh well

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] 

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

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Doctor Who :: [ Season 3 (1965-1966) ] 

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???

Doctor Who :: [ Season 3 (1965-1966) ] 

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

Doctor Who :: [ Season 3 (1965-1966) ] 

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

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 3] 

I'm watching the christmas episode now...

what utter garbage

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 3] 

so much yelling...

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 3] 

hmm.... assuming the rest of The Dalek's Master Plan is good, I'm going to have to do a partial recommendation for this one..

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 3] 

as an aside: someone suggested that editing down the episodes would make people more likely to watch them. I'm sure that's true, but it's also a lot of work...

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 3] 

I'm starting to regret saying "maybe" for The Time Meddler - it's not a very exciting story, but it is very memorable.

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 3], racism 

*realises that the villain in this story is wearing dark makeup and some fake folds to make him look south east asian*

hmm....

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 3], racism 

looks like I really do need to add a content warnings section

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 3] 

episode 11 of The Dalek's Master Plan is interesting - the doctor goes missing right at the start, and isn't seen for the rest of the episode

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 3] 

I've updated the site to have a bunch of extra navigation buttons, which aren't super useful right now, but will be very useful when there are 38 seasons on the page

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 3] 

here's the link again, in case you want to see:

averylychee.neocities.org/doct

(I also rewrote the introduction a bit)

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 3] 

The War Machines is even better than I remembered it being.

(Although it is a bit weird that they write out Dodo, one of the Doctors companions, by hypnotising her and then just saying "she went to the country")

✨ Classic Doctor Who ✨
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Now with:
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✨ a much better introduction
✨ useful navigation buttons
✨ indicators of major plot changes

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4] 

The first story of season 4 is so awful that it took me a week to build up the energy to watch it.

It's hard to even explain how it's bad, it's just... boring and predictable and nothing happens, and it has the same problem that almost all of the historical stories do: there's no energy. No-one seems to care all that much.

And it's made even worse by being a reconstruction, so you've only got stills of the actor's faces.

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4] 

I'm so proud of myself for adding the navigation buttons to the webpage, tbh... it makes it a lot nicer, and I did a surprisingly good job designing them

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4] 

Most of the titles of these stories start with "The"

In the first 4 seasons, there are 36 stories. Only 4 of them don't start with "The"

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4] 

I'm watching "The Tenth Planet" (the last story starring the first doctor), and the doctor just... collapses unconcious for no reason at the start of episode 3

Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4] 

that was.... a much more intense regeneration scene than I was expecting

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Classic Who 

@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

@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.

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