✨ Classic Doctor Who ✨
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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
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]
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]
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]
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
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]
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 ✨
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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] | spoiler
@lizardsquid I think that last sentence is probably a bit too spoilery outside of the major plot change thing.
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4] | spoiler
@BatElite except.... if you scroll down 1 line you see that we've moved on to the next doctor, so it's not that much of a spoiler
I'll rephrase that, though....
re: Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4]
@lizardsquid
I wish I could see this one so bad
re: Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4]
@lizardsquid
There are a few in seasons 5 and 6 that you need to watch. Like The Ice Warriors and the ones with Lethbridge-Stewart (wasn't a brigadier yet).
re: Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4]
@DialMforMara The Ice Warriors isn't missing ALL of it's episodes, though - I just mean the stories with no suriving episodes
re: Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 4]
@lizardsquid
Many that are missing 5 out of 6 are worth it.
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 3], racism
looks like I really do need to add a content warnings section