The Five Doctors - 25th Anniversary DVD thingie
Y'know, the year I am actually older than these 25th anniversary things, I am going to freak out a bit. But that's in The Distance, just now I have a Beautiful DVD of the blasted story that started my rather unfortunate love of Doctor Who. So it's full of shiny, shiny nostalgia. And stuff! Awesome stuff! Even tediously dull extras like Now and Then - or Let's Point Out All The Continuity References because, um, it fills up a bit if disc space - is Not That Bad because there are shiny vidlets within! There's one for the Brig and the Master and the Time Lords and, best of all, Bessie! And then there's a lovely vid at the very end which is all cheering and lovely and suchlike. Mostly I think they should have skipped the continuity reference pointing out and made a few more fanvids.
And, oh, there's filming from the one day what the four main actors playing the Doctor were in the studio and it is JOYOUS. Here is why:
Eee! Lols!
"No, not while I'm acting, put them away!" says Pertwee as Troughton proffers a paper bag.
"I can't be chewing things when I'm in the middle of a shot... he's trying to sabotage my performance by giving me a jelly baby."
From another oh-so-exciting extra making loving mockery o the special effects, such as they are:
"When you did your transference... you did it beautifully, but the thing rocked." OH DOCTOR WHO SETS I LOVE YOU.
I shall stop mocking the extras cause I've just watched the Celebration documentary and it's actually terribly good and quite funny and Moffatt's (the director, yo) all "yeah, that bit with Sarah Jane on the non-precipice was crap" and everyone's "yay!" at the Raston Warrior Robot which is GOOD because it SCARED ME when I was all wee mostly because I tried to stay very still like Three and SJS and could never ever do it and it made me quite frightened that I would have died had I been in The Five Doctors and stuck with Pertwee.
And the documentary also has wee anecdotes what I did not know, which is always a bit exciting, yes. "...I looked round and he'd run, he'd run and hid behind a rock. Afraid of getting hit by polystyrene shrapnel. Which, of course, can be very dangerous." - Peter Davison on Anthony Ainley. Hehe. But best of all? ALTERNATE VERSION OF PAUL JERRICO'S DELIVERY OF "NO, NOT THE MIND PROBE!" If there's any more awesome an extra on a DVD ever, I don't want to know about it.
And, oh, there's filming from the one day what the four main actors playing the Doctor were in the studio and it is JOYOUS. Here is why:
Eee! Lols!
"No, not while I'm acting, put them away!" says Pertwee as Troughton proffers a paper bag.
"I can't be chewing things when I'm in the middle of a shot... he's trying to sabotage my performance by giving me a jelly baby."
From another oh-so-exciting extra making loving mockery o the special effects, such as they are:
"When you did your transference... you did it beautifully, but the thing rocked." OH DOCTOR WHO SETS I LOVE YOU.
I shall stop mocking the extras cause I've just watched the Celebration documentary and it's actually terribly good and quite funny and Moffatt's (the director, yo) all "yeah, that bit with Sarah Jane on the non-precipice was crap" and everyone's "yay!" at the Raston Warrior Robot which is GOOD because it SCARED ME when I was all wee mostly because I tried to stay very still like Three and SJS and could never ever do it and it made me quite frightened that I would have died had I been in The Five Doctors and stuck with Pertwee.
And the documentary also has wee anecdotes what I did not know, which is always a bit exciting, yes. "...I looked round and he'd run, he'd run and hid behind a rock. Afraid of getting hit by polystyrene shrapnel. Which, of course, can be very dangerous." - Peter Davison on Anthony Ainley. Hehe. But best of all? ALTERNATE VERSION OF PAUL JERRICO'S DELIVERY OF "NO, NOT THE MIND PROBE!" If there's any more awesome an extra on a DVD ever, I don't want to know about it.