48 Weeks to 50: Poll-of-Polls Countdown: Lungbarrow

[hammard]

Continuing my 50th Anniversary countdown of aggregated poll results for Doctor Who Books, TV Serials & Audio Dramas, with number 48:

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[jjpor]

I like it fine - I like all of Marc Platt's weird takes on Gallifrey and its history and culture, mainly because I like my Gallifrey as strange as possible (LOOOMMMSS!) - but I'm not sure it's _that_ good. Mind you, I'm hard-pressed to think of any NAs that I'd consider so good they just had to make the top 50, as much as I do like the NAs generally. Human Nature, perhaps (but then I rate the TV remake with Ten too, more highly than most of the people I've spoken to about it online).

My favourite NA, actually, might be the only one with Eight in, The Dying Days, almost equally insanely difficult/expensive to obtain in dead tree format (but also fortunately one of the e-books that were up on the BBC website).

EDIT: Oh, and the other noteworthy thing about Lungbarrow is that it's the story that was originally going to be Ghost Light, but for a variety of reasons it wasn't considered practical/appropriate for TV Who at the time, so it got rewritten and generally changed out of all recognition to the point where it became the Ghost Light we know and love.

[hammard]

I do like the VNAs, but I find them hard to compare myself as they are often so different. There a few more which appear on the list but not very many.

I actually don't even consider The Dying Days a VNA as it is so different. If I did it would probably by my favourite (or Cold Fusion, which is technically a VMA).

And we are all glad of it :) . As cool as the drudges are the whole story would never have worked well on TV.

[jjpor]

It is very different from what the NAs had generally become by the end of the run, I agree. And that might be part of its charm. And the thing with Eight making a parachute/balloon out of bin-bags is audacious but so well set-up beforehand. Plus the Brig and Ice Warriors both portrayed excellently can't hurt. I find it very hard to believe that RTD hadn't read it before writing the first episode of Aliens of London/World War III, either. ;)

No, I don't think it could have - a wise choice. And I like Ghost Light a great deal just the way it is...