Unfortunately, if the excerpts I've read of Blue Box Boy are anything to go by, Tom Baker did a LOT of shouting around this time anyway. Maybe that's why Bidmead wrote that line?
No, Nyssa! Stay with Adric! Don't listen to the creepy voice calling your name even though it sounds exactly like your father! Considering she's been looking for Tremas and that the reason for her trip to Logopolis was to ask the Doctor for help in finding him, it was inevitable that she'd follow the sound of his voice.
But wouldn't "have a nice trip" imply that she knew someone aboard could fly the TARDIS and get her home without the Doctor's help? I always saw it as Tegan falling into air-hostess mode, but you have a point there...
Nyssa looks (and sounds) strangely indignant that the Watcher wants to talk to Adric and not her. Well, she has talked with the Watcher before (offscreen) and travelled with him to Logopolis, so it would be understandable for her to feel ignored.
Wow. Nyssa, I think you might hold THE record for emotional recovery from seeing
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I'm still amazed that the evil cackling and youthful face didn't at least start to tip her off...
Ohhhh yes, I remember that scene in The Ten Doctors. I was grinning quite a bit from the awesome.
It's nice seeing the regeneration scenes in context instead of in montages like I've done, and I did love that final pan over his broken body before his companions rush to his side.
She was too desperately happy to see her father again that she missed the blatantly obvious. I expected more of Nyssa, really, but at the same time this helps make me even sadder for her.
It was only when I watched the documentary on regenerations from the War Games DVD that I realized the camera pans over Five's body in a similar way in The Caves of Androzani. It's not specified if this was done on purpose, so I now have something to ask Graeme Harper if I ever get lucky enough to meet him.
It really didn't feel like his last episode till THE VERY END. I knew about this regeneration. (No more shocking, unexpected regenerations like the Fifth Doctors.) This story wasn't a dark story (like you said.), but a lot was at stake.
I laughed when the bridge started turning because I looked behind the Doctor, and the Master wasn't moving, at all.
I agree with the rushed thing. It felt rushed to me. Not the best final story for a Doctor, but I did enjoy it.
There was definitely a more epic feel to this story, considering how much hopping from location to location they were doing.
Now that I think about it, I noticed that too. Wow.
I thought it made a pretty good send-off. Four created a certain sense of finality the way he kept insisting that this was even more srys bznss than usual and that he needed to do this on his own.
Yes. He had great last words too. I think because he knew what was going to happen, he was more serious than usual. I loved the story. It was my second Classic Who regeneration, and it worked for me. The end of a long legacy is really what it felt like. Which, in a sense, it was.
I'm still disappointed in myself for not really feeling the "end of an era" vibe at the end of that. Maybe I was just too tired. Or maybe it's because I still have about a third of Tom's tenure left to see. Or maybe it's just because it happened 30 years ago.
"Wait the TARDIS is AROUND the other TARDIS now and OH GOD MY BRAIN."
Adorable stuff like this is why I read your blog.
I prefer regenerations like this, where the Doctor doesn't know the regeneration is coming until the story in which it happens, or not at all. I know why they did it the way they did with Ten, but....eh. I don't want Eleven's time to come anytime soon, but when it finally does, I hope he doesn't know thing about it until it actually happens.
I actually still haven't seen all of the Tennant Specials yet (although I hope to remedy that sometime in the next few weeks), so I still don't have the best grasp on all the details of how that worked. I do know about the whole "he will knock four times" thing, though.
Did anyone else read the infotext for this episode and go "Oh, so that's what's going on"? Just me - okay. :)
Usually, I can follow sci-fi elements perfectly well, but the Watcher always confused me, since we never saw anything like that before or since. Then the info-text says he's there because of the Universe breaking down or whatnot and I almost sigh with relief. At least it's some sort of explanation.
It's in part 3. I think my dvd was at about 57:45 - from when Nyssa and Adric chase after the Watcher and on through Tegan and the Montior talking.
It says Bidmead (writer) conceived of the Watcher as kind of an embryo. That "the catastrophe which is about to be unleashed is of such a scale that it distorts the structure of time itself and causes a version of the Doctor's future self to be overlaid on his present." But he didn't want it spelt out.
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Maybe that's why Bidmead wrote that line?
No, Nyssa! Stay with Adric! Don't listen to the creepy voice calling your name even though it sounds exactly like your father!
Considering she's been looking for Tremas and that the reason for her trip to Logopolis was to ask the Doctor for help in finding him, it was inevitable that she'd follow the sound of his voice.
But wouldn't "have a nice trip" imply that she knew someone aboard could fly the TARDIS and get her home without the Doctor's help?
I always saw it as Tegan falling into air-hostess mode, but you have a point there...
Nyssa looks (and sounds) strangely indignant that the Watcher wants to talk to Adric and not her.
Well, she has talked with the Watcher before (offscreen) and travelled with him to Logopolis, so it would be understandable for her to feel ignored.
Wow. Nyssa, I think you might hold THE record for emotional recovery from seeing ( ... )
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Ohhhh yes, I remember that scene in The Ten Doctors. I was grinning quite a bit from the awesome.
It's nice seeing the regeneration scenes in context instead of in montages like I've done, and I did love that final pan over his broken body before his companions rush to his side.
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It was only when I watched the documentary on regenerations from the War Games DVD that I realized the camera pans over Five's body in a similar way in The Caves of Androzani. It's not specified if this was done on purpose, so I now have something to ask Graeme Harper if I ever get lucky enough to meet him.
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I laughed when the bridge started turning because I looked behind the Doctor, and the Master wasn't moving, at all.
I agree with the rushed thing. It felt rushed to me. Not the best final story for a Doctor, but I did enjoy it.
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Now that I think about it, I noticed that too. Wow.
I thought it made a pretty good send-off. Four created a certain sense of finality the way he kept insisting that this was even more srys bznss than usual and that he needed to do this on his own.
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"Wait the TARDIS is AROUND the other TARDIS now and OH GOD MY BRAIN."
Adorable stuff like this is why I read your blog.
I prefer regenerations like this, where the Doctor doesn't know the regeneration is coming until the story in which it happens, or not at all. I know why they did it the way they did with Ten, but....eh. I don't want Eleven's time to come anytime soon, but when it finally does, I hope he doesn't know thing about it until it actually happens.
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I actually still haven't seen all of the Tennant Specials yet (although I hope to remedy that sometime in the next few weeks), so I still don't have the best grasp on all the details of how that worked. I do know about the whole "he will knock four times" thing, though.
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Usually, I can follow sci-fi elements perfectly well, but the Watcher always confused me, since we never saw anything like that before or since. Then the info-text says he's there because of the Universe breaking down or whatnot and I almost sigh with relief. At least it's some sort of explanation.
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I'd thought that Rich Morris tried to explain it with the projection Doctor 2.5 in The Ten Doctors, but I could be wrong.
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It says Bidmead (writer) conceived of the Watcher as kind of an embryo. That "the catastrophe which is about to be unleashed is of such a scale that it distorts the structure of time itself and causes a version of the Doctor's future self to be overlaid on his present." But he didn't want it spelt out.
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