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The DVD extras are great (especially Oh Mummy!), as is the story they accompany. Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen are at their best here. Excellent.
I don't consider this to be a spoiler ,The Story starts with Benny Reciting Her Story with references to Her husband Jason (similar to The Seventh Doctor in Joseph Lidster's Previous story Master) And again Is told As A greek tragedy with a not to unhappy Ending . The story incase you didn't realise From the Cover or My heading, focuses on The Cybermen taking away there consiouses as well as there body parts from there time of leaving Mondas (like thE recent Rise of the Cybermen and the effects it has on those modified) as A case in there own words
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I can't say that I didn't enjoy this, but there is something a greeping into this plot line I feel I have heard before. It lacks something I can't put my finger on.
Hex is coming through as a strong addition to the crew and helps develop Ace a little more. A another historical plot but far better than last month's attempt.
Cromwell is believable and it's good that the doctor dosn't know everything and gets caught with his pant's down.
A solid, entertaining Pertwee classic with admittedly rubbish effects, but the last poignant scene seeing the Doctor left on his own in the cold makes up for it. DVD extras are very sparse however.
"You were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I."
[The Doctor]
Boom Town is a pretty slow, talky episode but is still enjoyable enough. Bad Wolf also drags a bit, with The Weakest Link scenes going on too long. But The Parting of the Ways is brilliant, and sees perhaps the best Doctor leaving too soon. Shame.
"The world dosen't end if the Doctor dances."
[Rose]
Steven Moffat's 2 parter is one of the best the entire series has ever see, and Father's Day allows Billie Piper to carry a show, which she does splendidly. The Long Game isn't so good, with less Doctor/Rose and more Adam, which seems pointless as he's chucked out at the end of the episode, and a pretty thin plot, but you can't have everything.
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"Doctor?The Doctor? Exterminate! Exterminate!"
[Dalek]
The first two parter works well, and although its pace is slower, it's still thoroughly entertaining.
Chris Eccleston really brings the Dalek episode to life, giving probably his most charged performance ever, ably, as ever, assisted by Billie Piper.
"Run for your life!"
Three episodes of beautiful CGI, fantastic performances, cool aliens, and comedy that's funny. Chris Eccleston is amazing, Billie Piper's quite good as well. Fantastic!
"You can't kill me, I'm a genius."
"Geniusssssss."
[The Doctor and Ice Warrior]
A very slow, if well plotted story with believable characters and cool villains, who really hisssssssss their dialogue!
But there's no excuse for all that larking about with foam...again.
i really enjoyed these stories!
| What: | The Time Travellers (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Hatman, he'll never turn back |
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| Date: | Wednesday 28 June 2006 |
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| Rating: |   7 |
this review might actually be good...
this book has more twists than the fingers of a certain stick insect. they are quite good. well, sort of.
other titles for this book:
the hat bearers
time hats
anything with 'hat' in the title
the actual ending leaves a lot to be desired.. like my reviews. this is the longest I will ever write, so be grateful! Otherwise your past, present and future will end! (soon...ish)
| What: | The Wheel in Space (TV episode audio soundtracks) |
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| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Wednesday 28 June 2006 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
"The Wheel In space" is one of those classic missing stories that is genuinely a classic. The only knocks against it that I can see are that it is probably one episode too long, some of the science is highly questionable, and the character of Jarvis is underwritten and overacted. These are minor drawbacks, however, and the main story itself is a cracker. The Cybermen are clever here, not just big and menacing. Similarly, the people on the Wheel are not stupid, and perform as the competent scientists and engineers that they are. David Whitaker's flair for believable motivation means that there are few obvious gaps in the plot. We also get introduced to Zoe, who is really the first female DW companion since Barbara who has a distinct personality and will of her own, and is not "wet," to use a British term.
| What: | Doctor Who and the Pescatons (Miscellaneous audio dramas) |
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| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Wednesday 28 June 2006 |
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| Rating: | 4 |
This is an interesting low-budget audio adventure produced in 1976 while Doctor Who was still running. Elisabeth Sladen had already left the TV show by this time, but agreed to add some dialogue to this production. Mostly, it is Tom Baker narrating. The story itself is reminiscent of Victor Pemberton's other DW contribution, "Fury From The Deep," involving sea-dwelling aliens with a taste for human flesh. It genuinely suffers from not being a full-cast drama, and no matter how deep Baker's voice goes when he says "Down....Dooown....Doooooown," it still cannot add enough drama and pace to make it interesting.
| What: | Earthshock (BBC classic series DVDs/Blu-rays) |
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| By: | Hatman, the country he didn't die for |
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| Date: | Saturday 24 June 2006 |
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| Rating: | 1 |
rubbish. not 'exeeeeeelent'.
| What: | The Ice Warriors (TV episode audio soundtracks) |
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| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Thursday 22 June 2006 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
This is a strange one indeed. There are a couple of inexplicable bits. One is that if it is the year 3000, and the glaciers are moving over formerly occupied land, then how does everyone know that the Ice Warriors were buried in pre-historic times? And how could they have been trapped in ice for all that time if that part of England was not covered by ice for thousands of years? Despite some fast and loose "explanations", the story itself works essentially by pitting competing worldviews against each other. Thus, we get the Ice Warriors' unchecked militarism against the Doctor's pacifism, Clent's desire for absolute order and predictability against Penley's free imagination, science against anti-science. The one real problem in the whole story is Victoria, who spends the whole thing sobbing and pleading and doing absolutely nothing to advance the plot or fight back.
| What: | The Underwater Menace (TV episode audio soundtracks) |
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| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Thursday 22 June 2006 |
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| Rating: | 4 |
The Underwater Menace is definitely one of the lesser of the Doctor Who TV productions, a silly mad scientist story that goes into total implosion due to bullonium well above critical mass. We have to believe: a) that there was a real Atlantis, b) that its people somehow survived in total isolation from the rest of the world, c) that only mad professor Zaroff managed to figure out where it was, d) that the Atlanteans believe mad professor Zaroff's lies, e) that Zaroff is a kind of universal genius capable of deriving both miracle foods and nuclear generators, etc.... And as for the rest of the characters, well there is a stock Irishman, a stock rabid priest, a stock stupid tribal leader, etc... Only Patrick Troughton rescues this one.
| What: | The Abominable Snowmen (TV episode audio soundtracks) |
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| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Thursday 22 June 2006 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
This is an interestingly different story, given a historical setting without any historical characters. Why exactly an invading intelligence would choose an isolated monastery in Tibet escapes me. Nevertheless, this story has "something" that compels one to listen. Somehow, one becomes concerned for the little monastery and its inhabitants valiantly struggling to figure out just what is going on.
| What: | The Moonbase (TV episode audio soundtracks) |
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| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Thursday 22 June 2006 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
My favorite kinds of Doctor Who stories are the surreal ones (The Celestial Toymaker, The Mind Robber, Warrior's Gate) and the assault ones (The Wheel In Space, Earthshock, The Curse Of Fenric). The Moonbase is tense and does not insult the listener's intelligence. Furthermore, we do not get stereotypes and stock characters. The Moonbase commander, for instance, is rather open-minded and not prone to rash or stupid actions. The other characters are intelligent scientists and technicians who put their minds to solving problems, not to panicky hysteria. The one big problem in the story is Jamie, clearly an afterthought and left hallucinate phantom pipers and other pseudo-scots silliness.
| What: | The Celestial Toymaker (TV episode audio soundtracks) |
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| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Thursday 22 June 2006 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
Long considered one of the lost greats of Doctor Who, The Celestial Toymaker probably works better with the visuals than in pure audio format. Too much of it needs explaining, and much that does is confusing, such as the bits with the chairs and the dancing floor. Still, the idea is interesting, and I like the surreal Doctor Who stories in general (including The Mind Robber and Warrior's Gate). The Doctor Who format works very well for these kinds of stories.
