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Post by primsong on Dec 2, 2008 6:17:35 GMT
This remains in the top of my Hartnell favorites - shoot, it remains in the top of my Who-favorites in general!
If you haven't seen this one, you should. Good humor, comedy of errors, a bit of angst, marvelously cheesy historic costuming, yummy Ian all scruffy rowing a slave-galley, dear Barbara running away from the grasping Nero who finds her rather too lovely for her own good and Vicki and One wandering through it all with his giggles and hoots and playing the lyre (not!). There's some rather good background characters here, the overseer for the household slaves, the professional poison-mixer, Nero's poor manservant, Ian's friend and of course Poppea.
Great moments include Barbara's bashing Ian on the head with a vase, the Doctor's 'concert' for the Emperor and Vicki's "I think I poisoned Nero." Hee!
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Post by clocketpatch on Dec 2, 2008 6:46:50 GMT
I love the running joke they had with hitting Ian over the head with things mistakenly. It seems to happen at least twice in every serial I see him in, and he takes it all so good naturedly.
I love Ian.
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Post by magnusgreel on Dec 3, 2008 8:45:00 GMT
All I remember is that I liked how the story opened, with all of them already having lived in this villa for some time already. I think I have this on a tape-- I should get it out. Then I should watch it, probably. Then I should put it away again.
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Post by clocketpatch on Dec 3, 2008 8:55:27 GMT
Agreed, I like it when the TARDIS crew stays in one place for an extended period, enjoying the scenery. I liked it in Blink and I liked it in the Human Nature episodes (though I felt rather bad for poor Martha). I liked it less in the series 2 season final, but then... there were a few thing there I wasn't too keen on (though on re-watch, there are several very nice points as well).
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Post by magnusgreel on Dec 3, 2008 9:12:46 GMT
I wish I wish I had access to Human Nature, Blink, and Family of Blood, and one other I think from the middle of NewDW season three. I'm going to be able to see s4 soon since friend Mark just received it for his birthday a few days ago, and I'll be seeing it before I see those s3 ones. It was disconcerting enough seeing the last 3 of s3 without having seen the middle. I have no idea how Jack came to be clinging to the outside of the Tardis! I don't know where the warch thing came from!
My friend in Canada had some hard times and lapsed in taping it for me for awhile. There's an off-chance that PBS here will now go into s3 now that they've just finished s4, but it doesn't work that way.
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Post by clocketpatch on Dec 3, 2008 9:49:30 GMT
I keep forgetting you haven't seen the entire season of Martha. I hope you get to see it eventually because there are some real shiners in there (some real duds as well, but we can't be picky can we? chants mantra: the only bad Who, is no Who, the only bad Who is...)
As for Jack clinging to the TARDIS, um... I've no clue how that happens either. Believe me, that episode doesn't make any sense. I think I might have missed the first five minutes or something??? because the episode previous had nothing to do with Jack.
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Post by magnusgreel on Dec 3, 2008 11:19:19 GMT
Come to think, I believe my tape starts with a brief flash of Jack screaming while hanging onto the Tardis in the vortex, leading straight into the theme, so I think I'm missing the teaser from "Utopia".
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Post by magnusgreel on Dec 27, 2008 23:31:30 GMT
Just saw it. I liked the scene with Vicki and the professional poisoner, who wondered why anyone would ever want revenge against her, saying it was nothing to do with her really, nothing personal! One is utterly unconcerned about his part in the fire... Nero's food taster drops dead, Nero says oh so the drink really was poisoned... We see a fatal stabbing very early on... We're alarmed at these things on I Claudius, but here it's just local color!
One is more Doctor-y than One usually is, when he deals with an attacker with no difficulty, and seems to enjoy the intrigue and danger.
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Post by primsong on Dec 28, 2008 2:08:26 GMT
Oh yes, I loved that! The walloping the criminal into oblivion with found objects! He's so incredibly cheerful in this one, it cheers me up just thinking about it.
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