Subj : Re: Doctor Who DVDs
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 22:44:47

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

"RR" <lynchnutNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in news:9VGWe.13142$h02.12097
@tornado.texas.rr.com:

> 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.
> 

Somebody once told me a story that they were going to make a Leela doll 
and the actress lied and made her bust size larger. How true it is I 
don't know.
 Is Fang rock the one with the snot monster?
Ted

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