Recently I was reading
Hunger Games and a friend gave me a link to
Mark Reads Hunger Games, which has been huge fun to read, and THEN I discovered that Mark was
watching Firefly for the first time ever, and posting about each episode as he watched (and loved) it. He just reached the end and posted the BEST EVER
review of 'Object in Space':
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Mark's review of 'Objects in Space' )
Did you see what his next "watches" project was?
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Well I wasn't sure there was anything Joss could have added to 'Objects in Space' (and the movie wasn't an option or idea at the time he wrote that)....
and of course the movie was supposed to resolve a lot of River's madness and to explain the existence of the Reavers... so it all seemed to work. MY big disappointment was in never getting the rest of the movie trilogy! *sigh*
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Should you recommend the fan favourites, knowing that all episodes afterwards will be worse? Mythos episodes that reveal the show's history - it did take them 6 years before it was revealed the Doctor was a Time Lord, another 7 before Gallifrey was shown and the 12 regenerations rule set. I'd probably go for a chronological introduction to the best villains, with space for City of Death, The Five Doctors and Ghost Light.
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So is there a comprehensive list somewhere of the fan favorites, some I might actually think are better than RTD's or Moffat's? I've made note of the three titles you mentioned in your last sentence (above) and I will rent those sometime next summer when I have a chance to sign up w/netflix again....
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The Caves of Androzani (1984 - Peter Davison)
Genesis of the Daleks (1975 - Tom Baker)
The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977 - Tom Baker) Pyramids of Mars (1975 - Tom Baker)
City of Death (1979 - Tom Baker)
The Robots of Death (1977 - Tom Baker)
Remembrance of the Daleks (1988 - Sylvester McCoy)
The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967 - Patrick Troughton)
The Deadly Assassin (1977 - Tom Baker) - yes, the Deadly Assassin, as opposed to all those mildly wounding assassins.
The Daemons (1973 - Jon Pertwee)
Unfortunately some of the greatest Troughton and Hartnell episodes were wiped so only soundtracks survive. They actually tried re-editing a couple of Davison episodes into a more modern style, complete with new CGI, but it didn't really work.
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I only own two seasons on DVD (but they are such expensive DVDs I cannot buy them lightly): Christopher Eccleston's and Donna Noble's....
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