LOL - thanks for linking me to that. Those are SO FUNNY.
I didn't use a single image as reference, there juat aren't any suitable ones. It's partly because Doctor Who actually got less sexy when he became Doctor (so, for instance, Tegan and Nyssa are covered practically head to toe in Peter's first season, compared to companions like Leela, who was barely waring any clothes to start with (because she was 'primitive' and 'tribal', don't you know), because they were worried what audiences might think was going on in the back of the TARDIS now that they had this handsome young Doctor. It's partly that, but it's also to do with the very different style of filming they used then. It's kind of interesting to listen to the commentaries from that point of view (especially Time Flight, as it's so awful they end up talking a lot more about the technical stuff than the story). Janet Fielding (Tegan), in particular, points out how very 'fourth wall' it all is - it's not just that a lot of the actors were mediocre, working with a bad script and no budget - it looks cheap and tacky to modern eyes because it's so staged. Nobody ever talks over each other (unlike in the very early Doctor Who, of course, where they had the Billy Fluffs because they really didn't have any money) and it's very rare indeed that you see the lead actor's back - he's almost always blocked so as to be face on to the audience. I couldn't even find many profile shots that weren't blurry, it's that way of playing to the fourth wall that just has so deeply ingrained that you must be facing the audience. Sorry - that was probably all very dull and obvious for you, I was just enjoying exploring my thoughts a little.
I was going to upload some of the images I used as a base. but photobucket is misbehaving :o( I may try again in a bit...
I didn't use a single image as reference, there juat aren't any suitable ones. It's partly because Doctor Who actually got less sexy when he became Doctor (so, for instance, Tegan and Nyssa are covered practically head to toe in Peter's first season, compared to companions like Leela, who was barely waring any clothes to start with (because she was 'primitive' and 'tribal', don't you know), because they were worried what audiences might think was going on in the back of the TARDIS now that they had this handsome young Doctor. It's partly that, but it's also to do with the very different style of filming they used then. It's kind of interesting to listen to the commentaries from that point of view (especially Time Flight, as it's so awful they end up talking a lot more about the technical stuff than the story). Janet Fielding (Tegan), in particular, points out how very 'fourth wall' it all is - it's not just that a lot of the actors were mediocre, working with a bad script and no budget - it looks cheap and tacky to modern eyes because it's so staged. Nobody ever talks over each other (unlike in the very early Doctor Who, of course, where they had the Billy Fluffs because they really didn't have any money) and it's very rare indeed that you see the lead actor's back - he's almost always blocked so as to be face on to the audience. I couldn't even find many profile shots that weren't blurry, it's that way of playing to the fourth wall that just has so deeply ingrained that you must be facing the audience. Sorry - that was probably all very dull and obvious for you, I was just enjoying exploring my thoughts a little.
I was going to upload some of the images I used as a base. but photobucket is misbehaving :o( I may try again in a bit...
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