Yeah, thanks the the influence of my Tumblr friends, I'm compelled to count the number of Two/Jamie clingings in this story :3 I should point out that this one is a low-level clingage story - so imagine how they're like in later ones. The Dominators and The Invasion even have them clinging in suspicious poses that suggest some groping also occurred. :P
Jamie, I fail to understand how you could've "not had much exercise lately" while traveling with the Doctor. Back when I started a discussion of this serial at the Victoria comm (check it here, if you're interested) someone came up with the theory that some time has elapsed between the opening scene and the rest of this serial, which would explain why we've never seen Victoria with the dress Sarah Jane wears in Pyramids of Mars or why someone so adverse to revealing outfits would jump in to changing to such a short (in her standards) dress straight away. Maybe that break, if there was one, was a bit uneventful and Jamie got a bit lazy as a result?
...Sometimes I wonder why this show feels the need to have the weirdest continuity ever, but then I remember that it is about time travel and that dwelling on such things as continuity is ultimately a pointless and futile task.
That's an interesting theory and it would certainly make sense. It fits both the Victoria skirt length (if you watch her stories/recons in order, you'll notice that the skirts get increasingly shorter) and her behaviour when she and Two have That Conversation, as it suggests she had some time to grieve.
The change is gradual and you usually only notice hints here and there. In the latter episodes of Evil of the Daleks she breaks the clichéd "Victorian damsel in distress" image by standing up to Maxtible and by telling Kemel (who is very much in the same "large strong ethnic servant" mold as Toberman here) that she'll look after him, and here and in The Abominable Snowmen she's eager to explore - in Snowmen she even goes as far as being disrespectful to a friend's religious beliefs because they're in the way of her curiosity. From that point on it all goes downhill, as she's mentally controlled, taken hostage and attacked by all sort of monsters. The Enemy of the World is basically the only story where she is able to take a break from
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I love this serial. I got the DVD because Netflix instant play still fluffs at times. I giggled so much. In all honesty, there were points, even now, that I find frightening. I could watch this one again. :D
Eventually I need to actually buy some of the DVDs instead of just Netflixing them or watching the stuff on Dailymotion. There are some I would definitely watch repeatedly (like The Mind Robber. I know it's available streaming on Netflix, but I'd like to check out the bells and whistles on it too).
Right now, the only Who episodes I actually own are the ones I've bought off iTunes. They actually have a selection of Classic serials that haven't even been announced for DVD yet (like Terror of the Autons and Frontios and Nightmare of Eden. I decided to get The Sun Makers today because I've been sorely lacking in Leela for a while), and since it's just the episodes with no packaging, commentaries, or special features, it's relatively cheep.
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Yeah, thanks the the influence of my Tumblr friends, I'm compelled to count the number of Two/Jamie clingings in this story :3
I should point out that this one is a low-level clingage story - so imagine how they're like in later ones. The Dominators and The Invasion even have them clinging in suspicious poses that suggest some groping also occurred. :P
Jamie, I fail to understand how you could've "not had much exercise lately" while traveling with the Doctor.
Back when I started a discussion of this serial at the Victoria comm (check it here, if you're interested) someone came up with the theory that some time has elapsed between the opening scene and the rest of this serial, which would explain why we've never seen Victoria with the dress Sarah Jane wears in Pyramids of Mars or why someone so adverse to revealing outfits would jump in to changing to such a short (in her standards) dress straight away. Maybe that break, if there was one, was a bit uneventful and Jamie got a bit lazy as a result?
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That's an interesting theory and it would certainly make sense.
I just realized: I've heard before that Victoria's character arc breaks her by the end, but how noticeable is the change with all the recon material?
My main exposure to "delete!" as a villain catchphrase comes from Death Note, so when I saw the Cybusmen doing it all I could think about was this scene (upon re-watching it, I realize how OTT the English dub is, but the first time I saw it it was pretty damn creepy).
...Sometimes I wonder why this show feels the need to have the weirdest continuity ever, but then I remember that it is about time travel and that dwelling on such things as continuity is ultimately a pointless and futile task.
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It fits both the Victoria skirt length (if you watch her stories/recons in order, you'll notice that the skirts get increasingly shorter) and her behaviour when she and Two have That Conversation, as it suggests she had some time to grieve.
The change is gradual and you usually only notice hints here and there. In the latter episodes of Evil of the Daleks she breaks the clichéd "Victorian damsel in distress" image by standing up to Maxtible and by telling Kemel (who is very much in the same "large strong ethnic servant" mold as Toberman here) that she'll look after him, and here and in The Abominable Snowmen she's eager to explore - in Snowmen she even goes as far as being disrespectful to a friend's religious beliefs because they're in the way of her curiosity. From that point on it all goes downhill, as she's mentally controlled, taken hostage and attacked by all sort of monsters. The Enemy of the World is basically the only story where she is able to take a break from ( ... )
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I could The Mind Robber again too.
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