(but honey we're just passers-by in another leaving scene)

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I know I'm posting these a bit later than usual & I'm sorry, but ah, here they are!

& before we hop into this week's recaps, I want to take this moment to pimp this totally fab Jamie/Victoria mix that the ever-lovely nentari recently posted: Hero and Heroine. Go & procure it

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Me too. I was so excited when I finally hit on the real thing a few years ago, having somehow had no idea which story it came from. But yes, it sounds like our first encounters with T5D were pretty similar. One of the first things I ever saw when I started on DW, actually...

O my! Yes, it does sound as though we came to The Five Doctors in similar ways - for quite some time, it was the only Five serial to my name, up until last New Year's. But it's always a favourite for me. :D

Ah, so you watched the original! I have to say, it's the whole reason I bought the 25th anniversary edition DVD. The Special Edition's changes annoy me--especially the fact that they changed Rassilon's voice and the harp music. If I'd only seen the thing once back in 83, I probably wouldn't notice, but this has been a favorite forever, so it just jars.

I think I've actually only seen the new one ONCE - & that was to hear Peter Davison's commentary. & you know, I can't remember if I even FINISHED listening to it! ::blushes:: But I always will prefer the original to any newer versions! :D

Dude, it was 1983. What the fuck was ANYBODY wearing??

UGH, SERIOUSLY. What were people TAKING that made them think that crap looked good on them? (& let's not even START on the shoulder pads . . .)

As an English geek, I have actually wondered for years if he said "errant" or "arrant" and the longer I wonder, the more I come down on "arrant." It's not so much that it's erroneous, I don't think, but that it's extremely ridiculous. Not that you probably care! /annoying English teacher mode

No, no, I do! & I think I'll go & fix it now - I wasn't sure at all myself so it's good that someone noted that!

I find them far more frightening than the new ones (especially since Rusty tossed all the Mondas mythology out the window for no apparent reason). I think it's because of the voices being somewhat more human, and as you say, the tinfoil. It's easier to tell there's a PERSON in there, not just a human brain. Eeeeeeeeeeee. (That said, the original voices are a big part of why Spare Parts scared the hell out of me.)

I'm definitely a huge fan of the Classic!Cybermen - I can't stand the new ones, really - I hate their new mythology, their redesign . . . just eck, I think Rusty really screwed them up. Classic!Cybermen in ANY serial (or audio, actually - I LOVE audios with Cybermen in them! They're great audio villains, I think) will freak me out way more than the new ones ever could.

Bwahahahaha!! It will never not be "the bling of Rassilon" to me now. Brilliant!

::gigglesnorts:: Any fancy doodads the President of the High Council wears shall be known from now on as 'The Bling of Rassilon'. :P

Is it really considered a serial? It ran as one 90-minute special back in 83 for Children in Need, as I recall. Let's put it this way--I've always thought of it as its own animal rather than a regular episodic story. So my question is one of genuine curiosity--do others classify it in a way I don't? Hmm...

Hmm . . . I usually think of it as a serial because that's how the classic series was made, but you do have a point - it IS its own single story rather than a one part-two part-three part-four part story. I didn't know that it was done for '83's Children in Need though! But I think some people classify it as a serial as well. ::ponders::

Still, if I had to pick one to take with me to a desert island, it'd probably be this one. Unless Enlightenment got to me first. ;) But no, it'd be T5D. Everything I love about DW in one neat package, flaws and all.

THIS. ♥