The thing that baffles me the most about the Doctor and Jo duplicates is that we never get to see it happen from the other POV. Of course, the novelization develops it, but it's not good enough for those who have only watched the televised version. I mean, I love it, but it makes it feel even more like a filler that way.
Benton has a captive on a stretcher simply vanish right in front of him. And yet all his expression says is "well...that happened...?" He's clearly getting used to weird shit happening around him.
Is there a word for food-related cockblocking? Because that's what just happened between Benton and Yates. Poor Benton, he just wants foods. As I said when I did a little picspammy reconstruction of that scene, if there's a reason people should hate on Yates, this would be it. I can forgive his actions during the Three/Sarah Jane days, but not taking food from that puppy of a person. *pets Benton* There there.
And I love how he prioritizes retrieving his cape over getting out before the aliens come in through the window. Three's priorities are very much in character.
So I didn't realize this until after I'd finished the last episode, but isn't this the Daleks' first appearance in the show since Evil? Yep.
Oh wow. When that third guy tried to shut them up with "both of you," it sounded distinctly like "no, fuck you" the first time. #iamtired Which reminds me: I haven't spotted it yet, but I've heard in several podcasts that during one of the fight scenes you can apparently hear an Ogron mumble "You bastard!" at Pertwee after being karate-chopped. I need to rewatch this to see if I can finally find it...
Also, we've only got about 30 minutes left in a Dalek story in which the Daleks have only had about 5 minutes of screentime. #huh Well, they were tacked into the script so that the show could have Daleks again, so the small screentime is unsurprising.
I think if anyone on Earth would get used to weird shit happening around them all the time, it would be UNIT folk. And yet they always seem to try the exact same tactics on every alien they face.
Also, I think this is the only Dalek story between the original and Destiny that wasn't written by Terry Nation. Somehow I think that would've made their presence a lot better. Then again, I watched the Making Of on the disk and they explained why he wasn't available for it.
I blame it on wishful thinking - the Brig dreams of one day facing an alien who isn't immune to bullets, after all.
Actually, Patrick Troughton's two Dalek stories (and my two favourite Dalek stories, followed closely by Genesis and Remembrance) were written by David Whitaker, so having Nation absent from the proceedings wasn't really anything new.
Benton has a captive on a stretcher simply vanish right in front of him. And yet all his expression says is "well...that happened...?"
He's clearly getting used to weird shit happening around him.
Is there a word for food-related cockblocking? Because that's what just happened between Benton and Yates. Poor Benton, he just wants foods.
As I said when I did a little picspammy reconstruction of that scene, if there's a reason people should hate on Yates, this would be it. I can forgive his actions during the Three/Sarah Jane days, but not taking food from that puppy of a person. *pets Benton* There there.
And I love how he prioritizes retrieving his cape over getting out before the aliens come in through the window.
Three's priorities are very much in character.
So I didn't realize this until after I'd finished the last episode, but isn't this the Daleks' first appearance in the show since Evil?
Yep.
Oh wow. When that third guy tried to shut them up with "both of you," it sounded distinctly like "no, fuck you" the first time. #iamtired
Which reminds me: I haven't spotted it yet, but I've heard in several podcasts that during one of the fight scenes you can apparently hear an Ogron mumble "You bastard!" at Pertwee after being karate-chopped. I need to rewatch this to see if I can finally find it...
Also, we've only got about 30 minutes left in a Dalek story in which the Daleks have only had about 5 minutes of screentime. #huh
Well, they were tacked into the script so that the show could have Daleks again, so the small screentime is unsurprising.
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Also, I think this is the only Dalek story between the original and Destiny that wasn't written by Terry Nation. Somehow I think that would've made their presence a lot better. Then again, I watched the Making Of on the disk and they explained why he wasn't available for it.
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Actually, Patrick Troughton's two Dalek stories (and my two favourite Dalek stories, followed closely by Genesis and Remembrance) were written by David Whitaker, so having Nation absent from the proceedings wasn't really anything new.
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Did Terry Nation write Planet of the Daleks and Death to the Daleks then? I used to know these things...
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