I know this has been done with places like Skaro and Peladon, but I think it could be taken advantage of more often. There was also the Ark, though that doesn't really count as a planet. The main reason, though, is that the powers that be didn't think sequels were very successful, in spite of results proving them otherwise. Still, they should have considered how money-saving a return to an established place could be, since it would have saved money - unless the existing sets, like the TARDIS interiors in this time, kept getting damaged.
I'd use the Evl Hugs icon for this comment, but since I've moved to DW by now and stopped having a paid account over here, that icon is now inactive. So have a smiling Jo instead.
Little bit of trivia: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon was the very first novelization featuring Jo Grant, so Malcolm Hulke tweaked the story a bit to make book!Jo meet the Doctor for the first time in this story rather than someone who already had a relationship with him. Because of that, she's even more on the same
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(Remember when I was good at replying to my comments in a timely manner?)
Actually, I didn't count the Ark because that was all in one serial. But I appreciate smiling!Jo all the same.
Hmm, that's clever. I've actually accumulated a small collection of about half a dozen Target novels by now, but none of them are Three-based (unless you count The Five Doctors.)
Also, your ability to keep track of the Who's Who of Who never ceases to amaze me.
The Ark is a tricky example because you can either consider it as one single serial or two different two-parters, though being presented side by side ruins the surprise effect. Part of me would have liked to see each two-parter separated by a completely different serial, kind of like The Myth Makers standing between Mission to the Unknown and The Daleks' Master Plan.
It's definitely worth finding some Three-based novels. In particular, and since I mentioned Doomsday Weapon, you can always count on Malcolm Hulke for a good piece of story-telling, as he enriches the story with character information that's not possible to get in the serial.
Well, I usually have the help of the Television Companion, which is always by my computer table. :)
Well...the name of the show is the same every time we see it, I guess. But then you have the people who call it "Dr. Who"...
Barret's Privateers has a sort of legendary standing at my camp. Barely a campfire night goes by without SOMEbody doing that song. I still barely know all the lyrics, though.
Yeah, this can show have a weird fixation on miners, doesn't it?
Oh man, since I'm in the middle of The Daemons right now, I can TOTALLY picture the Master sitting around a candle-lit table in a basement with the Doctor, Jo, and maybe a disgruntled Rani playing some D&D.
Master, with all due respect, this has to be one of the lamest plans to kill the Doctor you've ever had.
Hahahaha. You've seen "Mark of the Rani", right? Master: "I'll lure the Doctor here and we can kill him together!" Rani: "You're an idiot."
Intruders in my TARDIS? Quick! Activate the poison gas and slow-moving disco lights!
Hee hee hee hee hee. If there's anything to learn from this era, it's that Disco Lights can kill you.
World-building question: is there really a need for the doors to be shaped like that? Looks rather counter-intuitive. #lightningboltdoors
Well, if you were a society that had decayed because of too much technological advancement and subsequent decadence...wouldn't you have lightning bolt doors? "Hmm, we've achieved flight, immortality, telepathy...God I'm bored. Let's make the doors freakin' lightning bolts! - eh, sure, why not."
And now, Anthropology Hour with Theta and Koschei.
I would totally watch that.
So of course the first thing I notice about this fight scene is WOW that is some impressive
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There was also the Ark, though that doesn't really count as a planet. The main reason, though, is that the powers that be didn't think sequels were very successful, in spite of results proving them otherwise. Still, they should have considered how money-saving a return to an established place could be, since it would have saved money - unless the existing sets, like the TARDIS interiors in this time, kept getting damaged.
I'd use the Evl Hugs icon for this comment, but since I've moved to DW by now and stopped having a paid account over here, that icon is now inactive. So have a smiling Jo instead.
Little bit of trivia: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon was the very first novelization featuring Jo Grant, so Malcolm Hulke tweaked the story a bit to make book!Jo meet the Doctor for the first time in this story rather than someone who already had a relationship with him. Because of that, she's even more on the same ( ... )
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Actually, I didn't count the Ark because that was all in one serial. But I appreciate smiling!Jo all the same.
Hmm, that's clever. I've actually accumulated a small collection of about half a dozen Target novels by now, but none of them are Three-based (unless you count The Five Doctors.)
Also, your ability to keep track of the Who's Who of Who never ceases to amaze me.
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It's definitely worth finding some Three-based novels. In particular, and since I mentioned Doomsday Weapon, you can always count on Malcolm Hulke for a good piece of story-telling, as he enriches the story with character information that's not possible to get in the serial.
Well, I usually have the help of the Television Companion, which is always by my computer table. :)
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Hello Time Lords, up to your manipulative douchebaggery again?
Hahaha! Well put! If they weren't, would they be Time Lords?
Gallifreyan writing is different every time we see it.
Name one thing in Doctor Who (other than the Police Box) that isn't different every time we see it. Come on, I dare ya.
Actually, is it just me, or is Pertwee's console room a little different in every pre-Three Doctors story?
See? See?
In a weird way, it's like watching Hartnell again. Namely that the companions are so torn between fear, disbelief, and fascination.
Huh. What a really interesting point.
Yeah, don't worry, the Doctor's had plenty of experience with quarries.
*snerk*
Well, it's good to know that the Doctor's desire for exploration has gone down from "let's go see that Dalek city" to "oh hey a rock."
Hahahaha!
OH NOES, NOT MINERALOGISTS. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE WORSE THAN A MINERALOGIST.
It certainly does make a refreshing change, doesn't it?
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Barret's Privateers has a sort of legendary standing at my camp. Barely a campfire night goes by without SOMEbody doing that song. I still barely know all the lyrics, though.
Yeah, this can show have a weird fixation on miners, doesn't it?
Oh man, since I'm in the middle of The Daemons right now, I can TOTALLY picture the Master sitting around a candle-lit table in a basement with the Doctor, Jo, and maybe a disgruntled Rani playing some D&D.
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Hahahaha. You've seen "Mark of the Rani", right?
Master: "I'll lure the Doctor here and we can kill him together!"
Rani: "You're an idiot."
Intruders in my TARDIS? Quick! Activate the poison gas and slow-moving disco lights!
Hee hee hee hee hee. If there's anything to learn from this era, it's that Disco Lights can kill you.
World-building question: is there really a need for the doors to be shaped like that? Looks rather counter-intuitive. #lightningboltdoors
Well, if you were a society that had decayed because of too much technological advancement and subsequent decadence...wouldn't you have lightning bolt doors? "Hmm, we've achieved flight, immortality, telepathy...God I'm bored. Let's make the doors freakin' lightning bolts! - eh, sure, why not."
And now, Anthropology Hour with Theta and Koschei.
I would totally watch that.
So of course the first thing I notice about this fight scene is WOW that is some impressive ( ... )
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The reason I found the mud impressive was that it made everything instantly gray and there was a rather large amount of it.
Well, she does take the Brig's form in Zagreus. Then again, that was under rather different circumstances. Also, it ended a lot worse.
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