Subj : Re: Doctor Who DVDs
To   : RR
From : Finnigann
Date : Sat Sep 17 2005 06:51:00

-=> RR wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=-

 RR> From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

 RR> 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.)

 RR> Didn't she though?

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

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

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

Better yet. (I haven't looked at all of these yet... )
http://tinyurl.com/cdjxq

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