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Date Posted: 16:10:34 09/10/06 Sun
Author: BDM
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Eldrad must live!
In reply to: Stardoe 's message, "Re: or I could tell you now!!!!" on 03:38:05 09/10/06 Sun

I have ordered The Hand of Fear on DVD as it comes out here in Novemeber. I'm not sure it was one of my favorites (haven't seen it in 20 years) but any from the early Tom era (Sarah & Leela) were always worth watching. Mary Whitehouse supposedly influenced the show to go into a more kiddie/humourous direction about the time Leela left hence K9 & Tom really overdoing the camp.

Also just got Genesis of the Daleks (perhaps my all time fav) & Inferno from the Jon Pertwee era. Do you like the other old show Doctors besides Tom? I really liked the Pertwee & Peter Davison eras, not into Colin Baker so much, Slyvester McCoy was OK-his stories were just improving as they cancelled the show. The 60s with William Hartnell & Patrick Troughton are another matter. I started watching in the 70s so when I did get to see the 60s eps, they seemed so dated & so made for kids. Plus alot of the eps are missing thanks to the BBC erasing them!!! But there are some that are quite revealing & one can see how the show got to where it did as a result. I got the collection of incomplete stories from the Hartnell/Troughton eras plus the first 3 stories (The Beginning featuring the 1st Dalek story) & The Tomb of the Cybermen.

I'd agree that Sarah wasn't so Sarahish. She did see the Doctor again in The Five Doctors(an earlier self) & got K9 so he didn't totally forget her. Most companions leave with a sense of maturity in them & the Doctor was very proud at meeting Sarah again & knowing she was still doing her thing. A hypotizism scene would have been hilarious knowing how much Sarah hated doing that. The character development/drama stuff is here to stay, every sci-fi show is like this now. The old show had not enough (story driven) & the new ones have too much. Certainly older shows when seen now seem to have characters that don't change at all ep to ep & it's laughable. DW didn't seem to suffer as much from that probably because the actors kept changing.

My friend with all the Whos also collects the action figures & jigsaw puzzles & anything Who related. I got rid of that stuff when I was younger & now realise I could have made some $$. I'm not into toy collecting, just books & DVDs. I kept all my Target Dr. Who novelizations, got all of them. Never got into the continued adventures while the show was gone, always figure they won't be cannon when a new show comes along. Ever read those? Or the audio adventures? Davison, Colin, McCoy and Paul McGann of the US TV movie all did audios in recent years, haven't heard any of them.

DW was a cult thing in the US. People my age remember it but most don't. The Tom Baker eps got the most play here so he's the one everyone thinks of, some know nothing of other Doctors!! I showed an ep to a friend who's into Stargate & he didn't like the Doctor because "he doesn't carry a gun". US shows, I've noticed, are all about macho law enforcement/military type guys. If there is a smart guy, he's the sidekick of a macho he-man (like in Stargate). Oh, well. I'm happy to be different.

I'm excited to see the rest of the season, just a few weeks away. Can't wait!!!

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Replies:

Re: Eldrad must live.....say we who have seen the light of Kastria -- Stardoe, 12:33:15 09/14/06 Thu
- Contact has been made... -- BDM, 15:53:36 09/14/06 Thu
  - Suggest you engage running mode, Mistress. -- Stardoe, 01:15:45 09/15/06 Fri
    - That's Torchwood, not Touchwood. Have you heard of it? (NT) -- Stardoe, 01:19:21 09/15/06 Fri
      - yes, the spinoff -- BDM, 14:08:24 09/15/06 Fri
        Re: yes, the spinoff -- Stardoe (Stardoe), 04:37:34 09/16/06 Sat
        Cap.t Jack -- BDM, 17:23:08 09/17/06 Sun
        Re: Cap.t Jack -- Stardoe, 01:30:21 09/18/06 Mon
        Love and Monsters -- BDM, 12:58:42 09/18/06 Mon
        Rumours -- Stardoe, 18:29:33 11/04/06 Sat
        Re: Rumours -- BDM, 08:51:56 11/06/06 Mon
        Re: Rumours -- Stardoe, 23:55:40 11/10/06 Fri