Re: The only Sylv I've never seenclassicwhoblogMarch 18 2011, 04:43:51 UTC
Well, with a few exceptions, there seems to be a general blanket of disapproval from fans covering most of Sylv's serials. I've liked most of the ones I've seen so far, though.
For me this is one of the weaker episodes, based on acting as well as plot. Haven't watched it in a while, so if any of my responses are inaccurate, I apologize.
Pretty odd sort of "camp." It does kinda look like a summer camp for adults, not a vacation spot. But HULA HOOPS! We didn't get to see much of it - in concept it reminded me a little of the place in Dirty Dancing.
Okay, so you're fine having a gun waved in your face, but an egg hatches and THEN you scream? Mel...priorities, woman. Priorities. Yes, weird. I thought of when Fielding (I think) said they used to get told to scream at the end up episodes. And here, there's really no reason for it.
...I REALLY hope that's not meant to be a chunk of human flesh that Gavrok's gnawing on right now. I never got that impression, but I may have to rewatch to check on it now. :)
So these two American agents seem to be almost completely separate from the main plot. Are they going to be relevant anytime soon
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The slab of meat looks more like raw pig than human, but Gavrok had shown himself to be enough of a monster at that point that it very well could have been human flesh.
I think the bee-keeper's name was Goronwy. I liked him too, he was cool. If I remember the InfoText correctly, he was meant to be a character very in-tune with nature and someone representative of romantic Welsh mythology.
I have my aversions to chessmaster!Seven too, but I'm willing to forgive him when he still shows his compassionate side from time to time. Of course, the only NA novel I've read so far is Human Nature and the Doctor wasn't the Doctor for most of that.
I actually won't be covering Dragonfire for a while...
My favorite Seven is when he's saying "Aces are rare" or doing that affectionate nose-touchy thing he does with both Mel and Ace. When we see the better side of his relationship with his companions, really.
I think what happened was that they lost the signal after they blew the guy up and then had to find it again. I was assuming that since the agents had transmitter equipment set it, that was what the Bannermen locked onto. Of course, I could be wrong, but that's the impression I got.
Ah yes, I've read about the Doctor peeing over the shelf...
Pretty odd sort of "camp." It does kinda look like a summer camp for adults, not a vacation spot. But HULA HOOPS!
LOL. It was Britain... It was grim in the 50s, rationing didn't fully stop for ages. It's a Butlins-esque camp (and they filmed in a real ex-holiday camp, although they should have cut the grass first, I feel - it looks as though it hasn't been used in an age.) And at that time the setting would ahve been v familiar to UK viewers, because of the sitcom Hi-de-Hi!. (Opening of first episode. If you're interested - it's probably better than Googling Butlins.) Even now there are still Butlins camps and people have hols there, but their heigh-day was the 50s.
And yay for people liking Seven, and Delta. Baring the music and Delta and Billy's scary romance (the About Time book kind of suggests maybe it's like insects and she's emitting pheromones and will probably eat him, but I think we'll trust to Seven and irrational love...). It's huge fun, and I love Ray and Burton and Goronwy especially.
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Pretty odd sort of "camp." It does kinda look like a summer camp for adults, not a vacation spot. But HULA HOOPS!
We didn't get to see much of it - in concept it reminded me a little of the place in Dirty Dancing.
Okay, so you're fine having a gun waved in your face, but an egg hatches and THEN you scream? Mel...priorities, woman. Priorities.
Yes, weird. I thought of when Fielding (I think) said they used to get told to scream at the end up episodes. And here, there's really no reason for it.
...I REALLY hope that's not meant to be a chunk of human flesh that Gavrok's gnawing on right now.
I never got that impression, but I may have to rewatch to check on it now. :)
So these two American agents seem to be almost completely separate from the main plot. Are they going to be relevant anytime soon ( ... )
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I think the bee-keeper's name was Goronwy. I liked him too, he was cool. If I remember the InfoText correctly, he was meant to be a character very in-tune with nature and someone representative of romantic Welsh mythology.
I have my aversions to chessmaster!Seven too, but I'm willing to forgive him when he still shows his compassionate side from time to time. Of course, the only NA novel I've read so far is Human Nature and the Doctor wasn't the Doctor for most of that.
I actually won't be covering Dragonfire for a while...
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Ah yes, I've read about the Doctor peeing over the shelf...
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Pretty odd sort of "camp." It does kinda look like a summer camp for adults, not a vacation spot. But HULA HOOPS!
LOL. It was Britain... It was grim in the 50s, rationing didn't fully stop for ages. It's a Butlins-esque camp (and they filmed in a real ex-holiday camp, although they should have cut the grass first, I feel - it looks as though it hasn't been used in an age.) And at that time the setting would ahve been v familiar to UK viewers, because of the sitcom Hi-de-Hi!. (Opening of first episode. If you're interested - it's probably better than Googling Butlins.) Even now there are still Butlins camps and people have hols there, but their heigh-day was the 50s.
And yay for people liking Seven, and Delta. Baring the music and Delta and Billy's scary romance (the About Time book kind of suggests maybe it's like insects and she's emitting pheromones and will probably eat him, but I think we'll trust to Seven and irrational love...). It's huge fun, and I love Ray and Burton and Goronwy especially.
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Yeah, being an American 90s kid, references like that would go right over my head :/ But plotholes aside, I thought this was a good fun romp.
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