Old Who

[mrv3000]

The Highlanders (Two, Ben, Polly, Jamie)

• Oh, man. This one was really hard to get through. It was another reconstruction, which was pretty well done. Someone narrated during the dialog pauses. But it had such a large guest cast that most the time I had no idea who was saying what.
  
  
• In addition to the audio confusion, the plot was just not all that huge. Team TARDIS lands in the middle of Scotland in the war with the English, and immediately they get separated from the TARDIS. The Doctor and Ben are captured, Ben gets put on a slave ship with Jamie (who's introduced in this episode), and the rest of the time the Doctor and Polly are trying to get Ben back. That was pretty much it. No aliens. No mystery. Just a rescue.
  
  
• I forget *why* exactly Jamie decided to come with them at the end. I'm not sure there was a huge reason. I watched a bit of a special about Jamie on one of the DVDs, and apparently the original intent was not to have Jamie be a regular. He was always meant to be a guest character. But they got a bunch of letters from fans, wanting Jamie to join up, and so they re-shot the ending.
  
  
• The Doctor in drag. Won't be the last time. Heh.

The Visitation (Five, Adric, Tegan, Nyssa)

• Still trying to get a handle on Five, although I did see that subtle sarcasm that I believe wiliqueen was mentioning.
  
  
  The Doctor: Now we just need to search for so-and-so.
  
  Adric: Do you know where he is?
  
  The Doctor: Yes, that's why I'm searching.
  
  Most of the amusement of that was the delivery, since it *wasn't* dripping with sarcasm. The line blows by and 10 seconds later you're like, "Wait! HA!!"
  
  
• I'm pretty sure the only person the Doctor *didn't* want to strangle at one point or another in this episode was Nyssa. Good thing Tegan and Six were never in the same room - there would have been a meltdown of epic proportions. I haven't watched so terribly many Tegan episodes yet, but she did seem super bitchy in this one. It was like, okay, the Doctor didn't get you home. So you'll try again later. Let it go already! Heh.
  
  
• I love that while Adric was whining (when is he not?), Nyssa was all, "Well, this device won't build itself. *rolls up sleves*"
  
  
• Awwww. Looks like Tegan and Nyssa share a room. How cute!
  
  
• I find it soooo amusing that even with this large TARDIS crew, they *still* brought on a main guest character who became a sort of temporary Companion. Nothing like writing in even more people. But he was awesome, though. Reminded me of Capt. Barbosa from PotC for some reason.
  
  
• Just couldn't understand the motivation of the former prisoners in wanting to wipe out all humans on Earth so they could take it over, but NOT accepting the Doctor's offer to take them to some uninhabited planet. I guess they wanted the buildings as well? But if their idea was to bring more androids to the planet, why *not* start from scratch somewhere? And make things how they wanted instead of Earth-style stuff. When I can't comprehend the bad guy's motivation, I wind up thinking they're just not that bright.
  
  
• So the Doctor started the Great Fire of London. D'oh!

Comments

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Technical tap! And, I know I read The Highlanders, but I've never seen it.

And the Doctor had HELP starting that fire. Heheheheh.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Okay, so he wasn't *totally* responsible... :D

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

I just started watching Doctor #1 Reign of Terror. I do find it neat to watch them in order. But the reconstructions are coming my way and I know they'll be difficult to get through. Especially when there are multiple reconstructions in a row.

Ahhhh, Doctor Luv...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I've found that some reconstructions are better than others, depending on who did them. But with some of these, I'm wondering if I'd be better off just reading the script since a lot of times it's just an audio blur.

[pixiesio.livejournal.com]

It was like, okay, the Doctor didn't get you home. So you'll try again later. Let it go already!

Unfortunately they never seem to let her. *sigh*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Let her go home? She never goes home? :(

[pixiesio.livejournal.com]

Oh, she finally does, more or less, but she never seems to stop complaining about his inability to do so properly. *sigh*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

*swats at Tegan*

[pixiesio.livejournal.com]

It was the one really annoying trait for her, as far as I was concerned. When I think about it she was rather an annoying character, go figure why I shipped her with the Doctor. ;)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

HA!!

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

She's the only one I ever came close to it with. Possibly because I was watching them the first time around when Moonlighting and Remington Steele were the UST gold standard.

When I can't comprehend the bad guy's motivation, I wind up thinking they're just not that bright.

This is...kind. *wry g* "The Visitation" is particularly weak in many areas, although I love a lot of the character stuff. But as I think about it, murky villain plans/motivation are probably the Achilles heel of that several-season span.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

"The Visitation" is particularly weak in many areas, although I love a lot of the character stuff.

Yeah, the plot wasn't really anything special, but I did love the guest character as well as the Doctor relating to the brood of children...by acting five. :D