Subj : Re: Doctor Who DVDs
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : RR
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 22:36:05

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson wrote:

>> Two new Doctor Who R1 DVDs came out last week: "The Mind Robber" w/
>> Troughton & "The Horror of Fang Rock" w/ Tom Baker.
>>
>> "The Mind Robber" has long been one of my favorite stories. The
>> premise is that the Doc must take the TARDIS out of time & space
>> altogether due to a bunch of lava (from the previous story). Upon
>> doing so, the crew end up in a place called The Land of Fiction
>> where they encounter all manner of low-budget 60's trippy weirdness
>> like Gulliver, Medusa, a unicorn, a bunch of life-size toy soldiers
>> and bunches more. The story has huge amounts of imagination that
>> more often than not the budget is unable to realise. I'd always been
>> forgiving of this, but oddly this time around, I found the serial
>> much harder to appreciate. Even the writing seemed dodgier than I
>> recalled. The memory cheated. I was bummed.
>>
>> But the memory can cheat in good ways as well.
>>
>> Case in point: "Fang Rock". Despite many a Who fan's assertion that
>> it's one of the very best - a "classic" - I'd never really warmed to
>> it and had always found it to be a bit of a snooze-fest. Not so this
>> time around. I really got into the whole thing and saw it in a
>> completely different light. The entire thing takes place in and
>> around a lighthouse right around the time electricity came into
>> fashion. It's basically a group of people and the Doctor & Leela
>> hanging out and one by one folks start getting picked off. It's
>> barely any more complex than that. Gothic, well-written dialogue,
>> diverse supporting cast - the whole thing sails. Best of all,
>> perhaps, there really aren't any seriously dodgy effects. The
>> monster/alien menace is simplistic enough in design that it's pretty
>> easy to accept and the rest is mostly period stuff. It pretty much
>> rocks all the way around.
>>
>> Some Dude: Are you in charge here?
>> The Doctor: No, but I'm full of ideas.
>>
>> Leela (with her knife at some dude's chest): You will do as the
>> Doctor instructs or I will cut out your heart!
>>
>
> (Leela rocked.)

Didn't she though?

http://wheelinspace.com/images/Companions/Leela.jpg

http://uplink.space.com/attachments/141888-leela.jpg

I've always wondered if the "Futurama" Leela was named after her. They're
both pretty bitchin' babes.

-- 
RR

"It's been my experience that every
  time I think I know 'where it's at,'
      it's really somewhere else."
      - William Holden - S.O.B.

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