Tranquil Repose
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shadowhiveSo tonight I watched Revelation of the Daleks, the finale of season 22.
One obvious issue with this story is with the name. Like so many other similar eps with a villain name in the title, it gives them away. It probably would be more effective if the ep was called something else, so they’d be a surprise (which of course makes no difference now but still). Same with Davros. He probably should have been held off (at least until after the great healer was mentioned).
Another thing is something I remember reading a bit ago and it stuck with me. That thing is this: The Doctor and Peri don’t impact the story. That is, if they weren’t there, the events of the story would have happened exactly the same as they did here. (The only thing they seemed to do is warn the presidents ship away but other than that…) Which is strange cause clearly Davros lured them there, and for why?
It’s also another one of those eps where virtually everyone dies. In fact virtually every speaking character is dead by the end (other than Peri, the Doctor, Davros and two Tranquil Repose workers). It’s a shame as there are some interesting characters. Kara is cunning and devious (and has a nice outfit), Orcini and his squire are honourable assassins (there’s definitely a story there). And then there’s Jobel, who is less interesting but a total creep. And the DJ who is…. Such an odd addition he feels out of place.
There’s definitely a lot of creepy elements to it. The glass dalek with the human inside, being turned into a dalek (and that whole room). The creepy lower catacombs. Davros curing hunger with… people. The reasoning for calling him the great healer gets a mention, but it’s only in passing and it seems like they should have done more with that.
So now I’m finished with season 22 proper. I still have the special features over three disc, including an audio adventure, which I’ll go through the next few days and week or so. (And speaking of, humble bundle have a bunch of audio adventures here, which I’m gonna get soon cause it’s for charity and they sound pretty good.)
Watching the whole season in context, it’s definitely warmed me to Peri and the sixth doctor. I never used to like either, but I definitely like them more now. I think they got dealt a bad hand, both in the season as a whole (being so dark and grim didn’t help) and then the treatment after. It really is a shame.
I’ve not done this for other boxsets, I probably should have, but I’m gonna do a ranking here so from best to worst.
*Mark Of The Rani
*The Two Doctors
*Timelash
*Revelation of The Daleks
*Attack Of The Cybermen
*Vengeance On Varos
One obvious issue with this story is with the name. Like so many other similar eps with a villain name in the title, it gives them away. It probably would be more effective if the ep was called something else, so they’d be a surprise (which of course makes no difference now but still). Same with Davros. He probably should have been held off (at least until after the great healer was mentioned).
Another thing is something I remember reading a bit ago and it stuck with me. That thing is this: The Doctor and Peri don’t impact the story. That is, if they weren’t there, the events of the story would have happened exactly the same as they did here. (The only thing they seemed to do is warn the presidents ship away but other than that…) Which is strange cause clearly Davros lured them there, and for why?
It’s also another one of those eps where virtually everyone dies. In fact virtually every speaking character is dead by the end (other than Peri, the Doctor, Davros and two Tranquil Repose workers). It’s a shame as there are some interesting characters. Kara is cunning and devious (and has a nice outfit), Orcini and his squire are honourable assassins (there’s definitely a story there). And then there’s Jobel, who is less interesting but a total creep. And the DJ who is…. Such an odd addition he feels out of place.
There’s definitely a lot of creepy elements to it. The glass dalek with the human inside, being turned into a dalek (and that whole room). The creepy lower catacombs. Davros curing hunger with… people. The reasoning for calling him the great healer gets a mention, but it’s only in passing and it seems like they should have done more with that.
So now I’m finished with season 22 proper. I still have the special features over three disc, including an audio adventure, which I’ll go through the next few days and week or so. (And speaking of, humble bundle have a bunch of audio adventures here, which I’m gonna get soon cause it’s for charity and they sound pretty good.)
Watching the whole season in context, it’s definitely warmed me to Peri and the sixth doctor. I never used to like either, but I definitely like them more now. I think they got dealt a bad hand, both in the season as a whole (being so dark and grim didn’t help) and then the treatment after. It really is a shame.
I’ve not done this for other boxsets, I probably should have, but I’m gonna do a ranking here so from best to worst.
*Mark Of The Rani
*The Two Doctors
*Timelash
*Revelation of The Daleks
*Attack Of The Cybermen
*Vengeance On Varos
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Date: 2022-08-06 06:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-06 07:22 pm (UTC)I really think it is a shame, they deserved better than what they got and I just… wonder how it could have gone so badly. Some of the special features have kinda explained it, and I think it’s down to the producer (controlling what Peri wore, insisting on certain elements, not allowing experienced writers back) and to an extent to the script editor having to deal with that,
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Date: 2022-08-07 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-07 10:05 am (UTC)I started with the 9th doctor, watching the first ep of the new series and I’ve watched every episode since at least once. (I should probably do a new who rewatch but I’m kinda waiting in case they do a fancy boxset of them like they have for old who). That ep you’re talking about is pretty creepy, and it’s one I’ve not watched for a long time. I would say 9 does have some pretty good eps, so I hope you do decide to give him a watch sometime
I think it is easier to get put off older doctors though. See you can get new who eps on full season boxsets and they’re presented as such on streaming services. (And reruns play them in order too.). That isn’t the case with old who eps, until pretty recently on two seasons were presented as a boxset and reruns are rare (as well as streaming things too).
When I decided to start watching old who eps they were part way through putting the episodes on dvd. However the episodes came out in a completely random order. You could have a 4th doctor ep for season 17 and then the next realise would be a 6th doctor from season 22, or a 7th from 25, or a 3rd from season 8. As such you kinda never knew what you’d get. You could get a companion you’d never seen before, or the episode where one joins or one leaves. The format gave variety, but it was also… all over the place.
Of the Doctors there’s two who I also saw a release and thought ‘ugh’ and for different reasons. The sixth Doctor is the doctor that I least looked forward to seeing his eps of, because he was mean, he was arrogant and abrasive. The eps were grim. It took until mark of the Rani to actually like him.
I’m also not so fond of the first doctor. First cause he’s a bit arrogant too, but also because his eps tended to be quite long and slow.
And oop that was rambly and kinda went over the place and probably didn’t fully answer the question oop