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Post by magnusgreel on Mar 10, 2009 7:30:12 GMT
Based on notes I just made:
Eps 1 and 2
Jo: "Let's hope he's still there." (Meaning the Master, in prison.) I like cynical Jo.
Unpaid scientific advisors have money for bribes?
Product placement for "Old Oak Light Ale", #1 choice for doomed oceanic station renovators who think sobriety when handling big powerful equipment with no doctor nearby is for sissies. Why the close-up on the label?
In real life, a sort of sea fort, perhaps something like this one, declared independence off Britain.
Ep 3
Jo pushes tough prison guards down like dominoes. One of them yells at the other: "Don't just sit there, get after her!" He's lying almost flat on his back when he says this...! Well, they've got berets on, how tough could they really be?
When freeing the Doctor, Jo taps guard on collarbone rendering him unconscious. She has magical nudging and tapping abilities.
Ep 4
The Devils O'The Sea must look one way then another, moving their heads to one side and then the other, to give both eyes a chance to see something. Or so it looked to me. Having two eyes seems pointless unless you get binocular vision out of it....
Too bad the Doctor lost his land-mine detector before Genesis...
Good for submarine guys, defusing that standoff between scenes and then standing around like chums with the SD chatting away even though the SD can't or won't speak.
The camera lovingly caresses the entire length of the prison warden's left arm, moving up it slowly from hand to head. That cameraman must have difficulty expressing his more tender feelings in words...
A Sea Devil breaks a phone then a guard, then dumps both in a heap on the floor, leaving it all for the janitor to take care of, I guess.
Interesting silent moment, when the prison guards first spot the SDs just sort of standing there in the corridor, large as life... then with only a second of hesitation, one sounds the alarm. Good reflexes, doesn't lose it in a crisis, I give him four stars.
That's all for now.
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Post by jjpor on Mar 11, 2009 19:54:18 GMT
I know, Jo's a terror with the old nudging and tapping, isn't she? And you're quite right about how handy the mine-detecting thing would have been on Skaro; that's the Doctor, though; terribly forgetful about that kind of thing.
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Post by primsong on Mar 12, 2009 19:48:08 GMT
Your commentary on the things the camera focuses on cracks me up - there are times I really wonder.... and his having money for bribes, heh - I always assumed he just mooched money out of Jo's purse from time to time and hid it in his pockets.
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Post by clocketpatch on Mar 12, 2009 20:09:56 GMT
and his having money for bribes, heh - I always assumed he just mooched money out of Jo's purse from time to time and hid it in his pockets. Heh, you know, I never really thought about it, but that is completely what he would do! From his first episode Three showed that he had a bit of a blurry sense of morality when it came to "creative borrowing"
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Post by magnusgreel on Mar 13, 2009 20:29:44 GMT
Thanks primsong.... Unfortunately, I think I just stripped a thread on a jack and rendered one or two video devices useless. No more Sea Devils for awhile....
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Post by clocketpatch on Mar 13, 2009 20:50:41 GMT
Thanks primsong.... Unfortunately, I think I just stripped a thread on a jack and rendered one or two video devices useless. No more Sea Devils for awhile.... *hugs* it really is obnoxious how all of the ol VHS sets are dying.
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Post by magnusgreel on Mar 14, 2009 4:23:34 GMT
((((cp)))) The VCR had better be okay, or I'd better be able to get another one (Salv Army?), or I've had it. VHS is one of the foundations of my precarious, marginal life. It seems all the other underpinnings of my life are threatening to go too... the CD player keeps going silent several times during a song sometimes. The big fan I use to blow poisons out of the apartment (right now paint fumes that are breaking my system down)just had a seizure I don't understand, and no air circulation happens otherwise. On Monday I hope to solve some of this, but in the meantime the pressure is relieved by saying all this, so that's what I'm doing.
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Post by clocketpatch on Mar 14, 2009 6:57:55 GMT
*hugs repeatedly*
The Salv army would probably be the best bet, because i'm not sure that they're making them anymore (get a fan there at least, good grief Magnus, get a fan!). Though, some dodgy electronic store might have a back model that you could get cheap? Or X-cess Cargo... do they have over-stock stores like that in your area? They're always good for cheap electronics.
The other alternative (more pricey I'm afraid) would be to get a combined unit. Or to make the switch to DVD (I've heard that there's a way to convert VHS tapes but search me if I know what it is). Anyway good luck and good wishes!
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Post by jjpor on Mar 14, 2009 14:19:09 GMT
Yes, I need to come by a VHS set from somewhere; preferably the cheapest one available, but you're right, it is hard to get them new these days.
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Post by magnusgreel on Mar 15, 2009 2:33:47 GMT
Problem solved!
Pt 5
The Parliamentary Private Secretary in charge of eating breakfast has arrived. He's very impressed by the male telegrapher in the sailor suit, but thinks of the female officer as a maid! Nice close-up on his mouth as he says this terrible thing, that war is always murder so what the hell, while chewing and swallowing the breakfast he cares about so much more than the lives he's been entrusted with.
It always bothers me when Three says "Don't listen to him!" re the Master. One should listen to everybody.
The chief SD feels the back of Three's head to determine his honesty!
Pt 6
The villain always stands there and waits for you to run up to him, and knock the gun out of his hand!
SD shoulder-massages Three with extreme prejudice.
I think the sonic device the Master and Doctor build enables the SDs to hear the soundtrack of the story. The ear-splitting electronic noise it produces sounds the same as the music, only a little louder!
I hope that hovercraft isn't full of eels.
Master expects SDs to understand "teething troubles".
Finally, the Master successfully hypnotizes someone, an officer. Is this where George Lucas got "These aren't the droids you want?" The line is pretty close to that.
Someone left on the beach identical yellow boat things for the Master and Doctor to take, one each!
Oh no, it's another race of sea creatures struggling out of the depths, only these are orange... wait no, it's just the Doctor and Master in their escape suits.
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Post by jjpor on Mar 15, 2009 19:43:08 GMT
Yes, the little hovercraft thingy chase...as you say, it was very thoughtful of them to leave two lying about. I think the Master's escape at the end, though, is like Exhibit A in the case for his inherent kewlness - as I said somewhere before, this was the first Delgado episode I ever saw, and I became an instant convert.
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Post by magnusgreel on Mar 17, 2009 3:53:21 GMT
A convert to evil? By the way, does "kewl" mean anything in particular, apart from being an alternate way of spelling "cool"? I've been meaning to ask someone.
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Post by jjpor on Mar 17, 2009 20:33:12 GMT
Hey, your evil is my good...er, sorry, wrong baddie...
I think I picked it up from the TV comedy series The League of Gentlemen (starring semi-pro Whovian Mark Gatiss); there was a sketch featuring a very bad actress auditioning for a commercial, and the director (who had an exaggerated comedy Liverpool accent) kept saying everything was "kewl". I think that's where I got it from.
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Post by magnusgreel on Mar 18, 2009 3:38:20 GMT
The thing is, "kewl", spelled that way, is all over the Internet. It seems to be amongst comics or video game fans, or something.
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Post by jjpor on Mar 18, 2009 21:10:07 GMT
No, you're right; I see it around. It just goes to show that the internets can get under your skin if you hang around on them too long...as for the spelling, I guess it's probably supposed to be postmodern or something?? Or possibly "ironic"?? I get those two mixed up... ;D
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Post by primsong on Mar 19, 2009 16:48:25 GMT
The chief SD feels the back of Three's head to determine his honesty! --- I think the sonic device the Master and Doctor build enables the SDs to hear the soundtrack of the story. The ear-splitting electronic noise it produces sounds the same as the music, only a little louder! -- Someone left on the beach identical yellow boat things for the Master and Doctor to take, one each! Yes! ;D lol... Getting someone to re-do the soundtracks for both Silurians and Sea Devils would be among my main fannish dreams, I think. And how nice, matching boats! Exactly two! I remember reading something about how they were hoping to also incorporate water-skiing in this one but had to scrap it because of weather. Moar Phun with Watur! And yeah, the only VHS sets I've seen of late are a part of those 'combo' units - hate those... if only one of the combo goes bad you can't just replace the one, I prefer the more modular approach so wonky things can be swapped out.
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