Revelation of the Daleks has knocked The Visitation out of its position as worst Classic Who serial I’ve watched. Thankfully it was only two episodes. I don’t think I could have taken more of it. Too many characters, too many plots and WTF was with the DJ? Last thing the serial needed was an annoying character with a terrible accent giving a
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Peri in general just makes my brain hurt. I adore Colin Baker as a human being - he's one of the sweetest people I've ever had privledge to spend time around. I cannot say the same for Nicola Bryant and my opinion of her has coloured my already low opinion of Perpugilliam Brown (yeah, sure that's a normal American name...GAH!)
Sadly, Colin got saddled with some of the worst episodes EVER, and then the BBC blamed him for DW's plummeting ratings and canned him. Poor man.
I'm very psyched about "Fires of Pompeii" for a ton of reasons including the setting, the actual sets (so I can make cracky Rome jokes to myself) and James Moran who wrote the episode. He was at the Gallifrey One convention and just very very sweet. and very very quiet. god he just talked like this all the time in rooms filled withVERY LOUD PEOPLE LIKE STEVEN MOFFAT :-) Also Phil Davis is just made of awesome sauce and he's playing a Roman in it so yayz.
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It is the bizarre one with Alexei Sayle - he was the out of place DJ. I had no idea he was an actual comedian until I just googled him now to see who he was. From what I've read of Colin Baker, he does seem so lovely, and as big a fan boy of the show as David Tennant. It is such a shame he's blamed for the decline and that they took it out on him by canning him - his Doctor is very good in the audios. He really just didn't have the Companion or the scrips for Six to work on screen.
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Okay. Yeah, I remember seeing that one at the time and wondering WTF it was all about. I think Rula Lenska's in it too? (I'm weird, I am actually a fan of hers thanks to a series she did in the late 70s called Rock Follies). I knew who Alexei Sayle was because he was on The Young Ones (with Nigel Planer, Ric Mayall, Adrian Edmonson and Christopher Ryan -- who is now going to be a Sontaran this year) and had seen him do some bizarre standup on tv.
Colin's just a sweetie. I still feel guilty that I didn't get to say hello to him at Gallifrey this year -- he was lovely when I dealt with him at 2 different Visions back in the 90s. He's someone who remembers all his fans by name, is just the nicest, easiest person to deal with, no ego etc. And yes, he's a huge fan too. He really got screwed in the companion and script dept.
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