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Post by clocketpatch on Nov 23, 2010 1:54:27 GMT
Because, okay, it's only the 47th anniversary tomorrow/today (and, depending on when you read this thread, yesterday, last week, a year ago... etc.) but it's an anniversary non-the-less, so let's have some clapping and cheering and squeeing, not just for Who, but for the excellent Library_Lover who just happens to have one of the most awesome birthdays in fandom.
To celebrate:
When you first started watching Who, what's the scene or quote that got you hook?
Personally, I was pretty much glued to the screen from the second Nine appeared and said "run" but I think it's the "earth revolving" speech that got me to turn in the next week, and the week after, and the week after...
It still gives me shivers, that speech does.
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Post by johne on Nov 23, 2010 16:47:27 GMT
When you first started watching Who, what's the scene or quote that got you hook? I'd switched on a couple of minutes early for Miss Marple and came face to face with the cliffhanger at the end of Remembrance of the Daleks, episode 1. I'd been vaguely aware of Doctors and Daleks before then, but that was the first time I got to see them in action. Hooked me instantly ;D |
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Post by jjpor on Nov 23, 2010 21:39:04 GMT
Yes, happy birthday to LL! ;D
My moment is probably going to be something very similar to johne's, to be honest. I was watching Who all through the 80s as a very small nipper (possibly my earliest proper memory is the bit in Five Doctors where the Raston Warrior robot murders all those poor, stupid Cybermen), but I don't think I was really old enough to appreciate the good things about Who until Seven came on the scene. So yeah, watching those Seven stories when I was aged 9-11, vivid, vivid cool memories for me.
I would have to place the sort of eureka moment at which I went from viewer to fan slightly earlier than johne's, though. Possibly about 10-15 minutes earlier, to be precise. ;D It was that bit where the Dalek shoots the soldier in Totter's Lane and he goes flying back through the air and you see his skeleton for a second. That was kind of a mythic moment for me in many ways. ;D
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Post by reversethepolarity on Nov 27, 2010 2:59:19 GMT
Well, I know for certain that the scene that got me unhooked was the scene in 'The Horns of Nimon' where that huge, ugly bull-thing (that's what I called it then) killed some dude with his horn-beams. Yeah, that kinda turned me off from it. (Blasphemy!) But I love Nimons now. I mean, how can you not? (Lord Niimoon? It is I... Sooldeeed.) I mean, what's not to love about that really awful, wonderful performance right there. = )
But as for what got me hooked, it was Ainley!Master. I got hoodwinked in to a Doctor Who Rp and for some reason when I was flipping through characters, I took one look at that goatee-ed no-gooder and decided he was the one for me. After that, I watched every single episode he was in and fell completely in love. So I guess I'm a weird sort of fluke where it wasn't a scene or quote that got me hooked, but a single character.
But I think the first episode that got me hooked was Logopolis. It was the first classic who I watched after my initial hate-encounter with it (ignoring some McCoy's I watched as a kid). Something about Logopolis just really snagged me. I remember loving Anthony Ainley so much, but it's in that episode that my love of Tom Baker was born. Which is odd, given that it's also the episode in which he dies. But just something about him caught me and he's been my favorite Doctor ever since. I think Logopolis has painted a lot of my Whoness, actually. Through it, Tom has become my fav Doctor, Ainley remained my fav Master, Nyssa, Tegan, and Adric became one of my favorite TARDIS teams, and Tegan became one of my all-time favorite companions. I owe a lot to that wonderful episode. = )
As for a specific scene, I think the scene that really got me was when The Master rolls that computer in and is holding everyone hostage kinda, and then ends up making a big mess out of everything when he realizes he can't shut the stupid thing off and he's let things get out of control. I just loved that scene. I don't know why. The dialogue, the tension, the banter between Tom and Anthony, that Monitor guy. It was just amazing. And the scenery was really top-notch too. Just really stellar.
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Post by jjpor on Nov 29, 2010 20:45:21 GMT
It is great. Ainley!Master's sort of at the top of his game in Logopolis, maybe not hitting the same heights until Survival (although I really like him in The Five Doctors too). And yeah, just the idea that not only would he destroy a third of the universe or whatever just by sheer evil stupidity, but then when they've come up with a solution hold out and try to hold the universe to ransom...even though he's going to get destroyed along with everything else... Pure Master for me, that is. And I really love the way he plays the scene - you know, there's a reason why I've got that icon and that line quoted underneath it...  |
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