Like scooby doo but in space
Jan. 20th, 2023 02:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowhiveI was gonna do this post tomorrow but I’m just laying here unable to settle so I’m doing it now.
So tonight I put on the next ep of the season 2 run, The Rescue. While Dalek invasion of earth suffered from being too long, The Rescue is a much bigger length, being two parts. This makes it a much tighter story, even though it’s allowed to deal with Susan’s departure at the end of invasion.
There’s a lot of good things here, the sets are nice and I love the model of the ship. Koquillion‘s costume is so cool looking too it’s almost a shame that it’s just an outfit. But it is an ep plays with our perceptions. Koquillion is a disguise. The scary looking creature is friendly. Bennet isn’t as helpless as he seems.
Of course the ep does serve as a vehicle to introduce Vicki and there’s nothing wrong with that. She does well in it and gets to show off a range of emotions and it’s nice that she’s invited instead of stolen away.
Bennet is quite scary too when you think of him. He was tricking poor Vicki and killed so many people just to cover up the murder he committed. (How he thought any of that was necessary I don’t know)
But this was definitely my fav of the three eps so far. Next time it’s The Romans which I remember nothing of other than the obvious.
On Wednesday I watched the last of the Dalek Invasion special features before disc switching. The main one was a little interview with Carole Ann Ford when the dvd was made and it made me feel for her. You got the sense she was sold on the part with it being more active and getting more development which was never followed through on. Which is a shame because she was clearly so willing.
One of the features is Behind The Sofa which has her and the two other younger companions from these eps watching on one of them (with others watching separately) and I wanna know Carole’s secret, because she’s sat there with Maureen O’Brian who played Vicki and they must be the same age, but Carole looks almost like she could be her daughter. It’s so strange. Maybe it fits with her whole otherworldliness.
Anyway there’s just the one but interview on the disc (with Maureen) which I’ll watch tomorrow.and now I’ll try and sleep and hope for a better mindset tomorrow.
So tonight I put on the next ep of the season 2 run, The Rescue. While Dalek invasion of earth suffered from being too long, The Rescue is a much bigger length, being two parts. This makes it a much tighter story, even though it’s allowed to deal with Susan’s departure at the end of invasion.
There’s a lot of good things here, the sets are nice and I love the model of the ship. Koquillion‘s costume is so cool looking too it’s almost a shame that it’s just an outfit. But it is an ep plays with our perceptions. Koquillion is a disguise. The scary looking creature is friendly. Bennet isn’t as helpless as he seems.
Of course the ep does serve as a vehicle to introduce Vicki and there’s nothing wrong with that. She does well in it and gets to show off a range of emotions and it’s nice that she’s invited instead of stolen away.
Bennet is quite scary too when you think of him. He was tricking poor Vicki and killed so many people just to cover up the murder he committed. (How he thought any of that was necessary I don’t know)
But this was definitely my fav of the three eps so far. Next time it’s The Romans which I remember nothing of other than the obvious.
On Wednesday I watched the last of the Dalek Invasion special features before disc switching. The main one was a little interview with Carole Ann Ford when the dvd was made and it made me feel for her. You got the sense she was sold on the part with it being more active and getting more development which was never followed through on. Which is a shame because she was clearly so willing.
One of the features is Behind The Sofa which has her and the two other younger companions from these eps watching on one of them (with others watching separately) and I wanna know Carole’s secret, because she’s sat there with Maureen O’Brian who played Vicki and they must be the same age, but Carole looks almost like she could be her daughter. It’s so strange. Maybe it fits with her whole otherworldliness.
Anyway there’s just the one but interview on the disc (with Maureen) which I’ll watch tomorrow.and now I’ll try and sleep and hope for a better mindset tomorrow.
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Date: 2023-01-21 08:41 pm (UTC)Yeah, Carol Ann Ford really seems to have been given a bad deal. Just like you I feel really sorry for her. Susan could have been such a great character but instead they turned her into a hysterical screamer.
PS I hope you managed to fall asleep after you'd posted this!
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Date: 2023-01-21 10:52 pm (UTC)It makes me so sad, there was such potential and yet… *wants to hug her* I’ve not seen her season 1 eps in so long but I think you’re right
Yeee I managed to a few minutes after