Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 3]
here's the link again, in case you want to see:
https://averylychee.neocities.org/doctor-who/
(I also rewrote the introduction a bit)
✨ Classic Doctor Who ✨
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Want to watch Classic Doctor Who, but don't want to slog through the boring episodes?
Check out my guide: https://averylychee.neocities.org/doctor-who/
Now with:
✨ updated recommendations for all of Seasons 1-3
✨ 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 :: Retrospective on the First Doctor
Despite many mediocre stories, the first doctor is still one of my favourites. His charm, his wit, his lovely laugh (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPlI1WpAwpU)... and his indescribable anger at human suffering.
He's a grandfather, who cares deeply about the world and those around him. None of the other doctors have that grandfather-ness to them, and it's part of what made the first doctor so special.
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4]
I really wish the footage for Power of the Daleks still existed... the reconstruction is really hard to watch.
I was planning on watching the animated version of this story afterwards, but I think I'm going to be too drained to watch this same story over again, so maybe I'll try watching it after a long break.
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4]
nearly 2 weeks after starting, I finally got through The Power of the Daleks.
It's not a bad story, but it's just.... hard to watch something that's missing so much footage.
In my guide I gave it a maybe: https://averylychee.neocities.org/doctor-who/#doctor2
because (while I haven't watched all of it) the animated version would be a really good watch
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4]
And now: The Highlanders, which is also completely missing.
Fun Trivia: The Highlanders is the last* of the "historical" stories – the show was originally conceived as having a mixture of historical stories (to teach kids history) and sci fi stories. But the historical stories were hated by the production team, and rarely were as engaging as the sci-fi stories, so they were abandoned - all subsequent stories set in the past also contained a sci-fi element.
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4]
The highlanders was pretty good!
It's definitely one of the stories that I wish hadn't been destroyed, because even though it's a historical story, it's quite entertaining.
Next: The Underwater Menace.
It took me a while to track down a copy of Episode 2, which was thought to be destroyed until 2011.
Unfortunately, my source for all the other episodes seems to come from the mid 2000s, so it didn't include this episode
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4]
The Underwater Menace: finished
(see the site for a review: https://averylychee.neocities.org/doctor-who/ )
next up: The Moonbase
which is the second story about the Cybermen
Classic Doctor Who
I watched some clips of "Inferno", a 3rd doctor story, and.... hmm.
I thought Inferno was terrible when I last watched it, but these clips are exciting, and interesting - quite a bit more than some of the 2nd doctor eps I've recommended.
I see 3 options:
* inferno is not as bad as I thought, and I was just unncessarily harsh to it
* inferno is bad, and I need to be harsher on the older episodes
* inferno is bad, but the badness is not reflected in the clips
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4]
this is a very interesting premise: there's a moonbase with a device for a gravitron. They use it to control Earth's weather - make it rain over crops, keep it clear over beaches.
But something is going wrong, and if they don't fix the fault, then the Earth's weather will become disastrously chaotic
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4]
The Moonbase: rather good!
And the reconstructions don't harm it much – I'm thinking that I'm going to need my guide to make a distinction between a partial reconstruction and a full reconstruction - full reconstructions are very difficult to watch, and require a lot of dedication.
Classic Doctor Who :: (small) feedback request
ok, I've added the different indicators for partial reconstructions (as opposed to full reconstructions) - if you've got a spare minute, could you go take a look and give me some feedback?
Classic Doctor Who :: (small) feedback request
@lizardsquid Do you have a service you've been watching them or recommend using?