Post by primsong on Sept 8, 2012 16:03:16 GMT
So, surfacing from two months of having no free time to use for watching, well....anything, really.... we decided last night we would pop popcorn and settle in for a round of Who, choosing whatever ep came to hand that was something vague enough we no longer remembered it.
I picked "The Happiness Patrol" - because although we own a vhs tape of it, I haven't seen it since it was originally aired in the 80s and even then I never saw all of it. My faint memories were bits of the Kandyman jumping around in a kitchen and women in over-the-top pink wigs with guns painting the TARDIS pink, that was about it.
Why did I have no memory of Fifi? Oh golly... Classic Cheese Who, I love you. I class Fifi right up there with the rubber dinosaurs and the "giant rat", haha! No recollection of the dwarfy whatnots down in the pipes either, when one popped up from a manhole the first time we were going "What the heck is that? Yoda's grandpa is in the sewers?" They reminded me a bit of the Talons of Weng-Chiang pig-dude, so I wonder if they started out as a prop-recycling effort.
The entire thing has the feel of watching a high-school play, it's so sadly under-budgeted and at the same time so very creative. Seriously! Look at that kitchen set with the moving gears and everything, someone put a lot of work into really trying to make the cardboard and string they were given into something cool enough for a tv show. Over and over I was reminded of how grand all of this would have been if they had a larger budget and more time to flesh it out... it was like watching the Reader's Digest Condensed Version of something longer, something that had been edited and cut so many times it was barely recognizable from the original, with plot-holes the size of dump trucks.
There was some pretty good acting hidden away in it as well - really, the bad-guy-lady was pretty good, as was her affable husband, and Seven was amazing in that brief scene with the two snipers on the balcony, one of those times when the jaw drops and you are reminded of what depth of acting he could really do if they would quit shoving horrible scripts at him.
What ever happened to the Kandyman anyway? He was in the pipes, then his remains came down a chute. What?? And how did Fifi inexplicably go from being supposedly buried under "tons" of crystallized sugar to being neatly laid out on a convenient bench? And then there's all the build up to the "arena" that we never see at all. Is there a novelized version of this one that includes the whole story out there?
Happiness will Prevail! I'm happy and I'm glad you're happy!
I picked "The Happiness Patrol" - because although we own a vhs tape of it, I haven't seen it since it was originally aired in the 80s and even then I never saw all of it. My faint memories were bits of the Kandyman jumping around in a kitchen and women in over-the-top pink wigs with guns painting the TARDIS pink, that was about it.
Why did I have no memory of Fifi? Oh golly... Classic Cheese Who, I love you. I class Fifi right up there with the rubber dinosaurs and the "giant rat", haha! No recollection of the dwarfy whatnots down in the pipes either, when one popped up from a manhole the first time we were going "What the heck is that? Yoda's grandpa is in the sewers?" They reminded me a bit of the Talons of Weng-Chiang pig-dude, so I wonder if they started out as a prop-recycling effort.
The entire thing has the feel of watching a high-school play, it's so sadly under-budgeted and at the same time so very creative. Seriously! Look at that kitchen set with the moving gears and everything, someone put a lot of work into really trying to make the cardboard and string they were given into something cool enough for a tv show. Over and over I was reminded of how grand all of this would have been if they had a larger budget and more time to flesh it out... it was like watching the Reader's Digest Condensed Version of something longer, something that had been edited and cut so many times it was barely recognizable from the original, with plot-holes the size of dump trucks.
There was some pretty good acting hidden away in it as well - really, the bad-guy-lady was pretty good, as was her affable husband, and Seven was amazing in that brief scene with the two snipers on the balcony, one of those times when the jaw drops and you are reminded of what depth of acting he could really do if they would quit shoving horrible scripts at him.
What ever happened to the Kandyman anyway? He was in the pipes, then his remains came down a chute. What?? And how did Fifi inexplicably go from being supposedly buried under "tons" of crystallized sugar to being neatly laid out on a convenient bench? And then there's all the build up to the "arena" that we never see at all. Is there a novelized version of this one that includes the whole story out there?
Happiness will Prevail! I'm happy and I'm glad you're happy!