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Post by clocketpatch on Sept 4, 2008 1:31:19 GMT
You'll probably get a commentary of this from me... eventually. I just watched it with my room mate and am not likely to watch it again for some months since it is very, very long.
That said, very fun. Some general comments:
WOW! Liz! The mini-skirt!!! AHHH!!!
WOW! That fake dinosaur is FAKE!!!
and... er...
Well, you must forgive me my lack of details. While watching my room mate was tacking "in bed" to end of every single bit of dialogue. Funny. Funny. I kind of ended up losing track of what was going on...
Also, the Brigadier is awesome.
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Post by magnusgreel on Sept 4, 2008 10:24:38 GMT
Also, the Brigadier is awesome. In bed? I don't know why you think you have to add more detail, cp. I think you've covered everything. It's only a seven-episode story, after all! I found this story on VHS for $3, and VHS wasn't old-fashioned yet. The colorized version. This made me think how much of a confusing mess the story had been for me earlier, just because everything was grey and I could never tell where they were supposed to be, which room... I just wasn't receiving enough information in black and white. Nice science fiction touch, the idea that the Silurians went into hibernation because of a planet colliding with Earth, which turned out to be the Moon, which of course didn't collide, but went into orbit. Now that we know about them, don't the Silurians become part of Earth history? Couldn't the Dr just pop back to their era just as easily as he goes back to the Globe Theater? Star Trek: Voyager appropriated this idea and they had their Silurians develop space flight and resettle on the other side of the galaxy, which is where Voyager runs into them. |
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Post by jjpor on Sept 4, 2008 19:27:33 GMT
And of course this is another one of those Three stories where the "alien" threat comes from the Earth itself, and the greatest monster of them all turns out to be...MAN!!! Sort of a recurring theme for the Pertwee era, as I think we discussed on another thread a little while ago.
As much as I love Roger Delgado and as nice as the little "UNIT family" was, I really like these early Pertwee stories, with their darker, more serious edge. The Brig is also at his best in these early tales - as loveable as he was in the later ones, he did seem at times almost, well, buffoonish. There, I've said it. And Liz Shaw is an excellent, excellent companion - nothing against Jo, mind you, but...yeah, Liz.
To completely undermine what I said above about seriousness, my personal favourite Season 7 tale is probably Inferno (which is a pretty serious story, granted), but mainly because of the alt-universe Nazi!Eyepatch!Brig and Liz's amazing Nazi!Hairdo. Oh, and the countdown, which is the best cliffhanger ever, IMO. And Nazi!Benton, who is even more shocking than the evil Brig precisely because he is such a loveable dimwitted lunk in his normal incarnation.
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Post by clocketpatch on Sept 4, 2008 20:09:13 GMT
Now that I've shown my mum where and how to buy these stories (though I paid for this boxset), I'm making a list to give her come my birthday.
Me thinks,
Inferno, Green Death, four to doomsday, Caves, Survival
and I'll let her randomly pick which one she wants to get. (really random because she knows nothing about who0
Inferno eye-patch Brig is awesome, though I've only seen part of that episode. the thing I remember is that there is slime in the center of the Earth that turns people into green heat-resistant werewolves XD
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Post by jjpor on Sept 4, 2008 20:16:08 GMT
Inferno eye-patch Brig is awesome, though I've only seen part of that episode. the thing I remember is that there is slime in the center of the Earth that turns people into green heat-resistant werewolves XD Er, yeah, basically...and there's this great arrogant-scientist-chap who Three shouts at a lot, and this macho drilling engineer fella who's like the Duggan of the piece, and Jago out of Talons playing some government minister type. And Evil Fascist UNIT from the mirror universe. And green werewolves :-) It's just great. As regards Silurians, the Brig's a bit ruthless in this one, isn;t he? Which is very much the character, but he sort of lost that edge as he and the Doctor became more chummy in the later stories. |
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Post by clocketpatch on Sept 6, 2008 5:15:28 GMT
Ah yes, I forgot to mention earlier:
Three singing 'the Hunting of the Jabberwok" while fixing Betsie.
*flails*
That's like, my favourite poem ever. I've got it memorized and everything... I was totally singing along... much to the weird looks of my room mate.
AND
THREE IN THE TIGHTIE WIGHTY T-SHIRT! I have to get a screencap of this. I'm sure there must be one on the forum somewhere already, but still. How could I have forgetten to mention this???
Even my room mate admited to Three being smexy (in an old man kind of way), but we both agreed that he's better with the frills. It was very relieving when he put them back on.
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Post by primsong on Dec 3, 2008 2:15:23 GMT
Ah yes... I remember our overall thoughts were "EGADS, could this soundtrack be ANY worse??" - it was so horrible we would turn it down at times, just to not hear the music because it distracted from the story so much. It sounded, as someone once noted, like a preschool's kazoo band, and then the kazoo player swallowed his kazoo and kept valiantly trying to play anyway (toot toot toot toooooot!). Weird cheery martial music as they're approaching plague victims? What the heck?
But then.... T-shirt!Doc entered the scene and all was forgiven. Hee!
One of the stated goals of my musically-inclined daughter is to one day put together a more worthy soundtrack for The Silurians, because it could be SO much better.
And there was that moment at the end, when the Brig blows them all up - the Doctor is just devastated by it, it was quite a defining turning point in their relationship, I think.
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Post by clocketpatch on Dec 3, 2008 2:46:39 GMT
The worst bit is that, on the commentary, they keep just going on and on about how good the music is... O.o
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Post by magnusgreel on Dec 3, 2008 8:41:28 GMT
It sounded, as someone once noted, like a preschool's kazoo band, and then the kazoo player swallowed his kazoo and kept valiantly trying to play anyway (toot toot toot toooooot!). Weird cheery martial music as they're approaching plague victims? What the heck? That's dedication, if you're willing to swallow your kazoo and keep playing for the sake of art. |
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