Hello! I've been lurking and rather enjoying the discussion here. My mind is similarly blown that Silver Nemesis is generally so badly rated, but I have a tag for myself that is #promethia does tv wrong, so these things really ought not to surprise me anymore.
Also, being first and foremost a librarian, it helps a lot to know more of what you're looking for (both meta and poetry are definitions I use to myself, but for different stories (Ghostlight!!) - we overlap and then diverge confusingly, I think) - but probably stories involving certain kinds of Doctor/Time Lord/Timey-wimey mythology elements would be worth a try, even if there may not be all that much more of the very specific/elusive aspects you're after. (Although the list in my head I'm now inevitably working on is very funny - it definitely contains some of the worst serials...)
I for one would be very interested in your list of Time Lord myth-arc-y terrible serials, if you feel up to it. I have been persuaded by season nine that it will be worth it. (I too am just dipping my toes into Classic Who. Just finished all of Seven and am starting on Four. Before this I've watched a few scattered things. The most I've ever gotten through is about a season and a half of Three, which I liked just for Three himself, who I find delightful, and for the James Bond nostalgia, and for the time spent silently urging the Brig and Liz to just kiss each other already.)
Having a bit of an architecture background, it occurred to me that the Seventh Doctor and Steven Moffat are the baroque eras of the show: the ones that take the established tradition, send it through a funhouse mirror, and playfully deconstruct and reconstruct it in the chaos. And I do love nothing quite so much as anything baroque. The problem with falling in love with the baroque, though, is that it makes going back to the classical periods somewhat dull (though crucially informative).
ETA: speaking just for myself, I've got a very great love for any stories that actually incorporate time travel within them, rather than its being merely a means of getting to this week's setting. So on that count I do rate City of Death very highly (Also it's funny. I'm very easy for that.) But anyway, the time-hopping premise of Silver Nemesis went a long, long way in endearing it to me.
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Also, being first and foremost a librarian, it helps a lot to know more of what you're looking for (both meta and poetry are definitions I use to myself, but for different stories (Ghostlight!!) - we overlap and then diverge confusingly, I think) - but probably stories involving certain kinds of Doctor/Time Lord/Timey-wimey mythology elements would be worth a try, even if there may not be all that much more of the very specific/elusive aspects you're after. (Although the list in my head I'm now inevitably working on is very funny - it definitely contains some of the worst serials...)
I for one would be very interested in your list of Time Lord myth-arc-y terrible serials, if you feel up to it. I have been persuaded by season nine that it will be worth it. (I too am just dipping my toes into Classic Who. Just finished all of Seven and am starting on Four. Before this I've watched a few scattered things. The most I've ever gotten through is about a season and a half of Three, which I liked just for Three himself, who I find delightful, and for the James Bond nostalgia, and for the time spent silently urging the Brig and Liz to just kiss each other already.)
Having a bit of an architecture background, it occurred to me that the Seventh Doctor and Steven Moffat are the baroque eras of the show: the ones that take the established tradition, send it through a funhouse mirror, and playfully deconstruct and reconstruct it in the chaos. And I do love nothing quite so much as anything baroque. The problem with falling in love with the baroque, though, is that it makes going back to the classical periods somewhat dull (though crucially informative).
ETA: speaking just for myself, I've got a very great love for any stories that actually incorporate time travel within them, rather than its being merely a means of getting to this week's setting. So on that count I do rate City of Death very highly (Also it's funny. I'm very easy for that.) But anyway, the time-hopping premise of Silver Nemesis went a long, long way in endearing it to me.