Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
This icon is not wholly appropriate, given it's clearly the wrong Doctor, but still. I watched the Unearthly Child, by which I mean Unearthly Child, Cave of Skulls, Forest of Fear and Firemaker. Woohoo for old skool Who episode names. *g*
As well as watching 'An Unearthly Child', I watched the original pilot episode, which is broadly the same episode, but a lot looser and, um, worse. The non-pilot version is just ... better, like someone's tightened up the screws and given it a lick of paint and a polish, and it's all the better for it. There are very few differences really, mostly the odd line cut or added here and there, or a slightly different camera angle. The big thing that really stands out and which I really like is the Doctor is just a tad more reasonable in the second version. I know he's crotchety and grouchy and unhuman and that's part of his character, but in the pilot episode he really comes across as big bad wolf in the forest a little too much, and toning it down in the second version definately works.
After the first episode: there be lots of cave people. With fire, only not. Hee. I'm glad that the Doctor (or rather Ian) didn't introduce them to fire; they'd seen it before, but never passed on the knowledge of how to make it. So Ian shows them in a fantastically boy scout way - I know very little about this sort of thing really, but wouldn't they have used flint to make sparks? Anyway - which in itself is marvellous, because the Doctor, admittedly in desperation while trying not to get killed, was frantically patting himself down for matches. Give a man a match, and he'll... well, you know. I'm not going to finish that mis-quote.
The woman comes back, doesn't she? Not the same character, but the actress. I think she plays a simlar cavewoman type in a later first Doctor story, possibly the Meddling Monk, which is the only one I've really seen before (the only one we have on tape, recorded off the tellybox when I were a lass). Also I'm fairly sure she's the cook woman in The Time Warrior (Sarah Jane's first story, and it's quite awesome like, I think).
Barbara screams an awful lot, but I suppose she is having rather a lot to deal with, so that's fair enough. I hope she calms down though. Susan is also quite screechy at the moment, but strangely no twisted ankles yet. Ian is ... mildly annoying sometimes, and awesome other times. I cannot work him out.
Next story is The Daleks, of which I have read a rather bizarre Target novelisation (in which Babs & Ian joined the Doctor only at the beginning of the story, and have never met before, and it's all rather odd). Also I think I still have some more recent (i.e. 35 years old instead of 45) Who for watching.
As well as watching 'An Unearthly Child', I watched the original pilot episode, which is broadly the same episode, but a lot looser and, um, worse. The non-pilot version is just ... better, like someone's tightened up the screws and given it a lick of paint and a polish, and it's all the better for it. There are very few differences really, mostly the odd line cut or added here and there, or a slightly different camera angle. The big thing that really stands out and which I really like is the Doctor is just a tad more reasonable in the second version. I know he's crotchety and grouchy and unhuman and that's part of his character, but in the pilot episode he really comes across as big bad wolf in the forest a little too much, and toning it down in the second version definately works.
After the first episode: there be lots of cave people. With fire, only not. Hee. I'm glad that the Doctor (or rather Ian) didn't introduce them to fire; they'd seen it before, but never passed on the knowledge of how to make it. So Ian shows them in a fantastically boy scout way - I know very little about this sort of thing really, but wouldn't they have used flint to make sparks? Anyway - which in itself is marvellous, because the Doctor, admittedly in desperation while trying not to get killed, was frantically patting himself down for matches. Give a man a match, and he'll... well, you know. I'm not going to finish that mis-quote.
The woman comes back, doesn't she? Not the same character, but the actress. I think she plays a simlar cavewoman type in a later first Doctor story, possibly the Meddling Monk, which is the only one I've really seen before (the only one we have on tape, recorded off the tellybox when I were a lass). Also I'm fairly sure she's the cook woman in The Time Warrior (Sarah Jane's first story, and it's quite awesome like, I think).
Barbara screams an awful lot, but I suppose she is having rather a lot to deal with, so that's fair enough. I hope she calms down though. Susan is also quite screechy at the moment, but strangely no twisted ankles yet. Ian is ... mildly annoying sometimes, and awesome other times. I cannot work him out.
Next story is The Daleks, of which I have read a rather bizarre Target novelisation (in which Babs & Ian joined the Doctor only at the beginning of the story, and have never met before, and it's all rather odd). Also I think I still have some more recent (i.e. 35 years old instead of 45) Who for watching.