Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → The Web of Fear]
They brought the yeti back for this story, which at first I was dubious about, but I'm liking it so far.
It's set in the London Underground, after the yeti menace has forced london to be evacutated. I love apocalyptic stuff that's centred around a train network – Metro 2033, Ghost Lines...
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → The Web of Fear]
The cliffhanger at the end of episode 1 could have been better, if they just cut the episode 3 seconds earlier:
The doctor is nearing some explosives, when someone presses the button to detonate.
They could have cut here, but they didn't – they cut after the explosives fail to go off properly and the Doctor is mearly knocked aside.
Classic Doctor Who :: [missing episodes musing]
Something I've noticed is this: when a doctor who story is missing all but 1 episode, the surviving episode is often the most boring one.
The evil of the Daleks only has episode 2 remaining, which is mostly faffing about with a side character, and only features the Daleks in the last few seconds.
Until 2013, only one episode of The enemy of the world survived, and that was the episode with a bunch of unnecessary filler
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → Fury from the Deep]
I'm only just starting the third episode and I can tell you that this one sucks and really isn't worth watching.
I'd skip it, but I know I'd look back in a few months when I've finished watching through and be like "why did I skip those 4 episodes... I can't say I've watched every episode for the guide if I skip 4"
Classic Doctor Who :: [Season 5 → Fury from the Deep]
It took me 4 days, but I managed to get through Fury from the Deep. I'm glad I did (mostly because of the scenes about Victoria leaving the Tardis) but it still is absolutely NOT worth watching.
On a more positive note: I updated some subtle stylistic things on the page: https://averylychee.neocities.org/doctor-who/
The next story is: The Wheel in Space
I'm excited for this one, but 5 of the 6 episodes are missing so idk how enjoyable it will be
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Classic Doctor Who :: [ meta ]
"How long did it take you to watch each season so far?"
Season 1 — 17 days
Season 2 — 18 days
Season 3 — 29 days
Season 4 — 39 days
Season 5 — 35 days
Seasons 3, 4, and 5 were hit the worst by the missing episodes, which is why they took so much longer to watch (the reconstructions truly are a slog, and I honestly can't recommend very many of them).
Classic Doctor Who :: [ meta ]
In the next season, only 2 of the 7 stories are missing episodes, so I should get through it faster.
And the seasons after that?
Well, they stopped making ~43 episodes a season, and reduced it down to ~25
Additionally, from Season 7 onwards, there are no more missing episodes.
So these timings will most likely get shorter
Classic Doctor Who :: [ Season 6 ]
The Dominators gets a "maybe" from me – it's not awful, but also it's not great.
A tangent: The Dominators is better than The Keys of Marinus, which I gave a "Highly Recommended" rating. I consider "Highly Recommended" to answer the question "if you only watch 1 story from this season, which should you watch?", rather than say which story is the best.
Next up: The Mind Robber, which is a story I know I've seen but I remember nothing about it.
Classic Doctor Who :: [ Season 6 ]
In the second episode of the Mind Robbers, they had to add a scene at the last minute – the actor for Jamie was ill, and so they replaced him with a different actor. But they needed to explain why his face changed between episodes.
Luckily, the story is already set in a weird hallucinatory reality, so it's relatively easy to explain.
Classic Doctor Who :: [ Season 6 ]
Aside: I've stopped putting the story name in the CW, because the Content Warning was getting too long. If this site was structured more like Tumblr, where the posts are rather wide, then I'd definitely make the post title the full thing, but this UI isn't wide enough
Classic Doctor Who :: [ Season 6 ]
I'm not enjoying this season as much as I hoped I would...
If I had skipped the reconstructions, I probably would be enjoying it more, but now? It's starting to feel formulaic.
Interestingly, this matches opinion of the time – none of this season is particulary bad, it's just starting to feel same-y
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Doctor Who | Season 7
I'm 3 stories in to season 7, and while I really like Petwee's Doctor, and the Brigadier, and liz shaw, and the concepts behind the stories...
they're really way too long and slow paced.
Spearhead from Space was great, but both The Silurians and The Ambassadors of Death are 7 episode stories that really should only be 4 episodes.
It took until Season 12 for them to realise that 4 episode stories worked much better
Doctor Who | Season 7
@DialMforMara As far as I remember, I like the seasons after this one!
But this season just drags on way too much.
(Also, wouldn't we be spending basically the same amount of time with the characters if we had five 4-episode stories instead of three 7-episode stories?)
Doctor Who | Season 7
@lizardsquid I dunno, but out of all the Doctors, years after I watched any of the show, I’m most attached to Two and Three, and they had most of the 6-parters
(Also to Eight, but that’s more because he’s the handsomest of the old guard)