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Post by primsong on Jan 6, 2009 3:08:00 GMT
Just watched this one tonight - it had been a looong time since I saw it (Good heavens - it may have been when it was first shown...!) and there were only three things I remembered about it - 1. Scary shrinky-dink compression! ("Oh no! It's a doll in the camera!") 2. Muppet!Master 3. Time Lord Fashion. Not! Now I get to relive all those moments and more! The weird thing is I didn't remember any of this running about in the quarry/ jungle/ swamp / railroad tracks thing he does so much of - that was cool! I'd also forgotten how much I like that poofy white shirt and red pants outfit with the tall boots - Tom looked downright dashing, even when his curls bounced. Time Lord extras have very bad acting. Oh no, the world is ending! Let's just stand here and look around! Oh no, the Master is alive and going to strangle me! I think I'll look vaguely surprised, like I'd just realized I'd opened the wrong end on a box of crackers! The (nouns) of Rassilon!! Oh yeah! We were all watching this riveting earthquakey destruction of the Gallifreyan culture and all around me my kids are hollering "Watch out! The Styrofoam of Rassilon! It's hitting him! Oh no! The Balsa-wood of Rassilon! The big crystal with the Alligator-Clips of Rassilon!" ... It did make it a little hard to stick with the angst.... especially when the Master "fell down the Crack of Rassilon!" which reduced everyone with infantile humor in the room to tears. But all that aside, it really was a boffo episode - lots of good tension, politics, brilliant overcoming of the odds and funky costuming. The wooden TARDIS console room is worth its weight in gold - oh how I would love to see THAT come back! It was beautiful!
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Post by clocketpatch on Jan 6, 2009 4:59:06 GMT
How could you forget the smexy poet's shirt?!?! ? That is Tom's finest moment! The crack of Rassilon made me guffaw. I now want an icon of this. I also want this story on DVD already! It's in the top 10 of just about everyone. It's well-plotted, more than a bit dark and twice as twisted, with some fantastic one-liners, and a clown as creepy as the SJA pied piper! (and some great silly styrofoam moments). and the smexy poet's shirt....
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Post by primsong on Jan 6, 2009 6:35:21 GMT
Ah yes, he was rather nice in that one, wasn't he? Why can't they dress them like that more often?
I am now left with the niggling question of what happens to shrinky-dink Time Lords? Are they just done for, or so they kind of fluff back up when they regenerate, like a dry sponge? Or do they regenerate into teensy little very heavy Time Lordettes? Hm, inquiring minds want to know!
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Post by IMForeman on Jan 6, 2009 6:46:10 GMT
I am now left with the niggling question of what happens to shrinky-dink Time Lords? Are they just done for, or so they kind of fluff back up when they regenerate, like a dry sponge? Or do they regenerate into teensy little very heavy Time Lordettes? Hm, inquiring minds want to know! Do you know those tiny novelty gifts that are like made of this squishy stuff? And then you put them in water and they expand to like 100x their size overnight? That was a really terrible description, but anyway. I now have a mental image of Grow-a-Time-Lord. Which is amusing. I remember watching this story and being really confused by that poet shirt. I just had this realization of oh my god I'm slightly attracted to him. It was disconcerting, to say the least. But the story. Oh, right. There are some really creepy scenes, like the soldier and horse wearing gas masks, or the surgeon with the needle. Or the aforementioned clown. I don't know why Mary Whitehouse complained about the drowning scene, out of all of them. I heard that this was the first use of the term matrix for a virtual reality world. Which is quite cool. Is anyone else annoyed by the tauological title?
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Post by primsong on Jan 6, 2009 16:15:16 GMT
Do you mean its redundancy? ... Of course, I suppose there are UN-deadly Assassins out there somewhere, the ones still in nursery assassin-training school attempting to strangle people with their little nappies. ;-)
A Grow-a-Time-Lord! Yes! You've found the Answer! You know, my kids got a couple of those things from their uncle a couple years back and we had these clear glass mixing bowls of water with these....things.... slowly expanding in them on the countertop for a couple weeks. The Grow-a-Frog-Prince was more than a little disturbing as the larger the frog got the more diffused his eye-pupils were so his full size was more like Zombie-Frog. 0_o
And really, don't feel creeped that you found Tom a touch lovey in that shirt - goodness, what lady wouldn't be at least a little "guh!" at a shirt like that? I love poet shirts. More guys should definitely be wearing them, darnit!
I wondered if they'd coined the "matrix" concept there! Very cool indeed.
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Post by IMForeman on Jan 7, 2009 17:44:00 GMT
Do you mean its redundancy? ... Of course, I suppose there are UN-deadly Assassins out there somewhere, the ones still in nursery assassin-training school attempting to strangle people with their little nappies. ;-) Or a really rubbish assassin, maybe. Still, it's one of those niggling things. really, don't feel creeped that you found Tom a touch lovey in that shirt - goodness, what lady wouldn't be at least a little "guh!" at a shirt like that? I love poet shirts. More guys should definitely be wearing them, darnit! It's just strange because it comes out of nowhere. Half the time he's kind of scary looking. I won't even get into how much older than me he is. Also, zombie frogs should be an enemy on the next series of the show.
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Post by timeywimeyding on Jun 13, 2009 16:19:11 GMT
My favourite bit was seeing Tom Baker with his timelord hat on. Or whatever you call it.
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Post by primsong on Jun 23, 2009 15:58:58 GMT
Yes! How all the rest of them managed to look somewhat dignified in them (if you can call it that) and here he was with his curls all poofing out around the edges. Love it.
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Post by magnusgreel on Jun 25, 2009 6:40:06 GMT
Also, zombie frogs should be an enemy on the next series of the show. How do you tell a frog is a zombie?
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Post by librarylover on Jun 25, 2009 23:35:41 GMT
Also, zombie frogs should be an enemy on the next series of the show. How do you tell a frog is a zombie? A few ideas: 1. If it dresses in ragged clothes and dances like in Michael Jackson's Thriller video. 2. If its hind legs are completely stiff, and it lurches around the pond menacing the other frogs. 3. If it lurches up to you and says, "Hi, I'm a zombie. Can I eat your brain?" EDIT: I feel compelled to add that I posted this comment, and less than 30 minutes later I flipped over to a news site and saw the news that MJ had died. It is a creepy coincidence, but I wanted people to know that it wasn't an intentional joke due to the news. I am actually quite sad that he is gone.
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