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It’s the doctor at the gate
Nov. 4th, 2024 04:41 pmSo last week the mail bought me the next of the Doctor Who blu ray boxsets, with season 25 arriving. For this boxset (the last of the seventh Doctor ones and his middle season) they’ve decided to do new editions of the four episodes on the boxset, reinserting stuff that was cut and adding some new effects.
So I started the silver anniversary season with Remembrance Of The Daleks, the last Dalek ep of the original series.
It’s a strange title really, and one seems to know exactly why it’s called Remembrance and it just seems a strange choice of word. But I guess it rounds out the last three Dalek story’s each one being ‘r-word of the daleks’.
Anyway it’s a pretty good episode and it’s widely considered the best seventh Doctor episode (I’ll see what I think when the season has been rewatched again). And it has a lot of standout moments, like the special weapons Dalek, the Dalek going up stairs, the Dalek shuttle landing and Ace beating a Dalek up with a baseball bat. The later of which is such an awesome moment and probably the best remembered one of the whole thing.
I love the imperial daleks in this, there gasping looks so nice in the fancy gold and white.
I really loved the counter measures team, which is essentially a proto Unit. Professor Jensen is a fav with her reactions to everything and it’s a shame the doctor didn’t get back to this time period before the show was cancelled. (Thankfully big finish decided to make an audio series with them and I do have one I picked up in the sale so I’m gonna listen to it soon).
What’s depressing about it though is that you could make the episode work set today, since there are a racist group of humans working with a Dalek faction, spouting the same sort of nonsense that is sadly used against immigrants to this day. But the episode didn’t shy away from showing how unpleasant they were and how wrong they were. Because the episode is about racism, the daleks are fighting because they’re slightly different and the association hates people of different races for the same reason.
It is funny though that, during location filming the explosions were so big that people thought it was a terrorist attack. Even firemen got called to the scene only to watch, slack jawed, as daleks emerged from the smoke.
Other good scenes, the fake out with the Dalek battle computer, the cafe scene, the creepy girl and the Doctor out gambiting Davros.
I managed to watch the special features over the weekend and it was bittersweet. Behind the sofa was fun as always (this season they’re rotating in a different guest actor each ep, which is interesting) and it was so cool to see the Dalek shuttle was a full sized model that was lowered by a massive crane! Like damn it really shown they put the effects team to work with this one.
The sadness came from the new ‘looking for’ documentary, this one into the actor that played Mike (the young man that acted as a spy for the association). And damn it was just so sad because he died so so young from aids and it was so sad because he was so full of life, right up until the end.😔
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Anyway other things. I e not done much this weekend though at least I feel better than I did on Friday which good. I’ve also been hit with creativity again, which is hopefully a good sign, albeit I get sidetracked from the WIPs I wanted to tackle.
Yesterday was getting back to the Marple run, but the ep wasn’t too special, then Dungeons and dodongos which was fun (my dice seemed to like me!) though I couldn’t use my cam cause the laptop’s didn’t wanna work and it was too dark for the pad one.
Also there’s the new Fortnite season, though their changes to the music pass seem odd. Instead of only being able to level it up on festival, it’s now tied to general xp. Whcih is fine, but it means, without even trying, I’ve mostly completed the pass in one day. Which would be fair enough if it was short to watch the new season, that this is meant to last about 10 weeks? Hopefully they add additional rewards but…
Today I did some more Echoes Of Wisdom and I got to the goron city, yay! I love the Goron’s they’re one of my fav races (almost joint with the zora) so I was glad to fix the rift in the city. Next time I go on it’s gonna be hunting for missing elders. (I also did a wrecked ship, with the boss similar to one in OOC).
Tonight’s plan is to write some, do some more Marvel Snap (I wanna get the main conquest reward) and then it’s the finale of Solar System and then I wanna continue J-Horror rising.
The main plan later in the week is to head back to Birmingham, to go and see the museum which has been reopened after refurbishment.
Next post might be fic, October’s monthly round up or a locked one, we’ll see.
So I started the silver anniversary season with Remembrance Of The Daleks, the last Dalek ep of the original series.
It’s a strange title really, and one seems to know exactly why it’s called Remembrance and it just seems a strange choice of word. But I guess it rounds out the last three Dalek story’s each one being ‘r-word of the daleks’.
Anyway it’s a pretty good episode and it’s widely considered the best seventh Doctor episode (I’ll see what I think when the season has been rewatched again). And it has a lot of standout moments, like the special weapons Dalek, the Dalek going up stairs, the Dalek shuttle landing and Ace beating a Dalek up with a baseball bat. The later of which is such an awesome moment and probably the best remembered one of the whole thing.
I love the imperial daleks in this, there gasping looks so nice in the fancy gold and white.
I really loved the counter measures team, which is essentially a proto Unit. Professor Jensen is a fav with her reactions to everything and it’s a shame the doctor didn’t get back to this time period before the show was cancelled. (Thankfully big finish decided to make an audio series with them and I do have one I picked up in the sale so I’m gonna listen to it soon).
What’s depressing about it though is that you could make the episode work set today, since there are a racist group of humans working with a Dalek faction, spouting the same sort of nonsense that is sadly used against immigrants to this day. But the episode didn’t shy away from showing how unpleasant they were and how wrong they were. Because the episode is about racism, the daleks are fighting because they’re slightly different and the association hates people of different races for the same reason.
It is funny though that, during location filming the explosions were so big that people thought it was a terrorist attack. Even firemen got called to the scene only to watch, slack jawed, as daleks emerged from the smoke.
Other good scenes, the fake out with the Dalek battle computer, the cafe scene, the creepy girl and the Doctor out gambiting Davros.
I managed to watch the special features over the weekend and it was bittersweet. Behind the sofa was fun as always (this season they’re rotating in a different guest actor each ep, which is interesting) and it was so cool to see the Dalek shuttle was a full sized model that was lowered by a massive crane! Like damn it really shown they put the effects team to work with this one.
The sadness came from the new ‘looking for’ documentary, this one into the actor that played Mike (the young man that acted as a spy for the association). And damn it was just so sad because he died so so young from aids and it was so sad because he was so full of life, right up until the end.😔
***
Anyway other things. I e not done much this weekend though at least I feel better than I did on Friday which good. I’ve also been hit with creativity again, which is hopefully a good sign, albeit I get sidetracked from the WIPs I wanted to tackle.
Yesterday was getting back to the Marple run, but the ep wasn’t too special, then Dungeons and dodongos which was fun (my dice seemed to like me!) though I couldn’t use my cam cause the laptop’s didn’t wanna work and it was too dark for the pad one.
Also there’s the new Fortnite season, though their changes to the music pass seem odd. Instead of only being able to level it up on festival, it’s now tied to general xp. Whcih is fine, but it means, without even trying, I’ve mostly completed the pass in one day. Which would be fair enough if it was short to watch the new season, that this is meant to last about 10 weeks? Hopefully they add additional rewards but…
Today I did some more Echoes Of Wisdom and I got to the goron city, yay! I love the Goron’s they’re one of my fav races (almost joint with the zora) so I was glad to fix the rift in the city. Next time I go on it’s gonna be hunting for missing elders. (I also did a wrecked ship, with the boss similar to one in OOC).
Tonight’s plan is to write some, do some more Marvel Snap (I wanna get the main conquest reward) and then it’s the finale of Solar System and then I wanna continue J-Horror rising.
The main plan later in the week is to head back to Birmingham, to go and see the museum which has been reopened after refurbishment.
Next post might be fic, October’s monthly round up or a locked one, we’ll see.
