"You should know by now, young lady, that you can't get rid of the old Doctor as easily as that!"
So I have watched my first reconstructed "Who" episodes, the fourth and fifth eps in the First Doctor serial "The Reign of Terror."
( Of Reconstructions and Revolutions )
( Of Reconstructions and Revolutions )
You've had the Moment already! The one where The Doctor makes you suddenly realize that things you take for granted as an American looking at history don't hold true everywhere! It was much later in the show when I had my mind blown like that. I knew from The Scarlet Pimpernel and Blackadder and Horatio Hornblower and various other stories that, in general, the British were (and, to an extent, continue to be) sympathetic to the deposed French nobility, so I knew from the start where Our Heroes stood. "The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve" was the serial that did the best job of teaching me about a period of history I didn't know anything about beforehand. But the political mind-blowage? That happens in one of the Troughton serials. I don't want to spoil the moment for you, but I will say this: that isn't who would have defeated the baddies on an American science fiction program in 1970...
(Have I mentioned that I LOVE this show?!)
> "... we need to listen to 'Doctor Who' more often."
PLEASE AND THANK YOU.
^___^ So, so, so glad you're enjoying them!
* Of course, it's easy to say how beautiful and impressive something was after it's no longer around to prove that your memory has embellished things...but the still shots from stories like "Marco Polo" and "The Crusades" do seem to support the claims.
** We do, however, have the clip of the regeneration itself, shabby as the footage is...
*** One of the better teams that does them, if I recall correctly, is Loose Cannon.
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