Three was once in the Tower of London with Sir Walter Raleigh after a dispute with Elizabeth I about potatoes
"Dispute about potatoes"...Suuure. So really Liz I was pissed off with the Doctor for jilting her loooooooong before The Shakespear Code? Ah, retcons. ^_^
This is probably my favorite serial of S8. The sentient Box of Evil is creepy as fuck and being in black and white actually helps add to the atmosphere me thinks. It feels almost like a Two-era story but updated with Three/Master/UNIT awesomeness. Plus the Brig is just made of win in this episode. Not that he ever is but he's just so on fire here. And Three and Jo blanking the Master to finish their game of drafts - LOL.
As stylized as it looked in black and white, I'll still be interested to see it in color. It's always nice to have a chance to see these things as they were originally made (George Lucas, I'm looking at you), which is also why I'll be watching the hell out of any new recovered lost episodes even though I've already watched all the recons.
The Brig is so awesome in pretty much everything he's in that it's really hard to rank his awesome to most awesome stories, quite honestly.
I love this story and must see it out on DVD. I don't need it colorized, since it has tremendous atmosphere in b&w.
While I love the evil cliffhanger with the Doctor being almost terrified to death, I have issues with Pertwee's... overexpressiveness, which seems petty of me. It's just that it looked great for a moment, then suddenly went so overboard that I had to roll my eyes, which I know isn't fair -- and that's not how I first reacted (which was more like "OMG, that cliffhanger, no!!"). I think fandom's constant complaining may have been a bad influence. *grin*
Don Houghton, who wrote this and "Inferno" (two of my favorites!), was married to the actress playing Chin Lee, so there you go -- research and bragging. I read an allegation that Pertwee had so much trouble getting the Chinese dialect to sound right that it cut down on their using more of it.
See above for my feelings about the b&w vs. color (actually, it would be kinda cool if they included both versions in the DVD, now that I think about it.)
I've had so much exposure to Jon's rubberface by this point that his epic gurning in cliffhangers doesn't bother me too much anymore, but I still find them entertaining.
I can imagine he would have that trouble, since Chinese languages are so tonal that you need to be really precise to be saying what you mean to say (have you seen the folktale composed entirely of the word "shi" in different intonations? It's...a bit intense.)
Doctor, when will you learn that telling your companions to stay put and do as they're told only works about 10% of the time? 5% if the companion in question is one Josephine Grant.
Question of the evening: are all the Chinese dialects just the writer showing off or did they actually have to do serious research for this? As pedanther pointed out, the guy who wrote this story was married to the actress playing Chin Lee, so he must have had easy access to means of researching these dialects. Or he was just showing off. Also, he was also the writer of Inferno, which explains why Three's fear went in that direction.
Huh. Looks like Delgado's prowess at speaking through gas masks was wildly superior to Simm's. Delgado's prowess at anything is superior to... well, anyone's. Because he was da man. (And I'm never going to say that again. Even if it's true.)
There's a phrase for casting members of your family in parts of a play/movie/TV show, but it's one of those terms I can never remember for the life of me. Still, I think it worked quite well here.
I'm looking forward to more Delgado deliciousness.
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Don't you just hate it when that happens!
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"Dispute about potatoes"...Suuure. So really Liz I was pissed off with the Doctor for jilting her loooooooong before The Shakespear Code? Ah, retcons. ^_^
This is probably my favorite serial of S8. The sentient Box of Evil is creepy as fuck and being in black and white actually helps add to the atmosphere me thinks. It feels almost like a Two-era story but updated with Three/Master/UNIT awesomeness. Plus the Brig is just made of win in this episode. Not that he ever is but he's just so on fire here. And Three and Jo blanking the Master to finish their game of drafts - LOL.
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The Brig is so awesome in pretty much everything he's in that it's really hard to rank his awesome to most awesome stories, quite honestly.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_111211_01/Missing_Eisodes_ecovered
If it's before, then madam, I take my hat off to your impressive timing.
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While I love the evil cliffhanger with the Doctor being almost terrified to death, I have issues with Pertwee's... overexpressiveness, which seems petty of me. It's just that it looked great for a moment, then suddenly went so overboard that I had to roll my eyes, which I know isn't fair -- and that's not how I first reacted (which was more like "OMG, that cliffhanger, no!!"). I think fandom's constant complaining may have been a bad influence. *grin*
Don Houghton, who wrote this and "Inferno" (two of my favorites!), was married to the actress playing Chin Lee, so there you go -- research and bragging. I read an allegation that Pertwee had so much trouble getting the Chinese dialect to sound right that it cut down on their using more of it.
So glad you enjoyed this one.
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I've had so much exposure to Jon's rubberface by this point that his epic gurning in cliffhangers doesn't bother me too much anymore, but I still find them entertaining.
I can imagine he would have that trouble, since Chinese languages are so tonal that you need to be really precise to be saying what you mean to say (have you seen the folktale composed entirely of the word "shi" in different intonations? It's...a bit intense.)
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5% if the companion in question is one Josephine Grant.
Question of the evening: are all the Chinese dialects just the writer showing off or did they actually have to do serious research for this?
As pedanther pointed out, the guy who wrote this story was married to the actress playing Chin Lee, so he must have had easy access to means of researching these dialects. Or he was just showing off.
Also, he was also the writer of Inferno, which explains why Three's fear went in that direction.
Huh. Looks like Delgado's prowess at speaking through gas masks was wildly superior to Simm's.
Delgado's prowess at anything is superior to... well, anyone's. Because he was da man. (And I'm never going to say that again. Even if it's true.)
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I'm looking forward to more Delgado deliciousness.
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