but I have a tag for myself that is #promethia does tv wrong, so these things really ought not to surprise me anymore
I keep watching terrible old TV from 30-50 years ago and falling in love with it (although certainly not all of it), so what can I say? I am certainly not doing TV right, either, that's for sure.
I mean, SN is not my favourite either (as you've gathered) but 11 yr old me loved it without reserve and I do think that it suffered unfairly at the time from not being what people expected of an anniversary story and unfortunately re-running elements of Remembrance only a few weeks later, which is understandable.
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 am always up for rec lists! :-D And not necessarily terrible, hopefully, but not always stuff that anyone would automatically put on a general list for newbies. I shall see if I can do one later and make you watch Underworld or something and then you might have to kill me. ;-)
ust finished all of Seven and am starting on Four.
Aw, cool! I hope you enjoy it. Early Four used to be the most popular period, but it's suffered a backlash lately because of that but also because of it being darker than a lot of Classic Who & while that's understandable, I still think there's a lot of great stuff in that period.
nd for the time spent silently urging the Brig and Liz to just kiss each other already
HOW HAVE THEY STILL NOT? :-(
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.
LOL, and Holmes & Hinchcliff is literally the Gothic period? That's true, although every producer/script writer does it differently, of course. In the beginning, too, nobody even knew what they were building and I have a hopeless love for the earliest years of the show as a result. It may be very elderly now, but it's rather fun to see a show that genuinely can be anything it wants to be. (I'd say within budget limitations, but actually they never let that stop them even when all common sense says it should have done.)
So on that count I do rate City of Death very highly (Also it's funny. I'm very easy for that.)
*nods* It took me a second go to reconcile the inevitable cardboard reality with what had been praised for so many years to me, but, yeah. It's lovely. (I may have once committed Clara Splinter/Scaroth splinter fic *cough*, and the Duggan fic out there in the wild is pretty much universally awesome.) But six Mona Lisas!
I have a friend who enjoys Classic Who (in a non-fannish way) and loves Douglas Adams and left her downstairs watching it one night when she was staying and when I saw her again in the morning, she was basically gibbering and going "AND THEN JOHN CLEESE APPEARED!" But I also am dubious about it as Newbie's FIrst Classic Who serial for various reasons. (None of which are Julian Glover or Douglas Adams, or Four/Romana/Paris).
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I keep watching terrible old TV from 30-50 years ago and falling in love with it (although certainly not all of it), so what can I say? I am certainly not doing TV right, either, that's for sure.
I mean, SN is not my favourite either (as you've gathered) but 11 yr old me loved it without reserve and I do think that it suffered unfairly at the time from not being what people expected of an anniversary story and unfortunately re-running elements of Remembrance only a few weeks later, which is understandable.
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 am always up for rec lists! :-D And not necessarily terrible, hopefully, but not always stuff that anyone would automatically put on a general list for newbies. I shall see if I can do one later and make you watch Underworld or something and then you might have to kill me. ;-)
ust finished all of Seven and am starting on Four.
Aw, cool! I hope you enjoy it. Early Four used to be the most popular period, but it's suffered a backlash lately because of that but also because of it being darker than a lot of Classic Who & while that's understandable, I still think there's a lot of great stuff in that period.
nd for the time spent silently urging the Brig and Liz to just kiss each other already
HOW HAVE THEY STILL NOT? :-(
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.
LOL, and Holmes & Hinchcliff is literally the Gothic period? That's true, although every producer/script writer does it differently, of course. In the beginning, too, nobody even knew what they were building and I have a hopeless love for the earliest years of the show as a result. It may be very elderly now, but it's rather fun to see a show that genuinely can be anything it wants to be. (I'd say within budget limitations, but actually they never let that stop them even when all common sense says it should have done.)
So on that count I do rate City of Death very highly (Also it's funny. I'm very easy for that.)
*nods* It took me a second go to reconcile the inevitable cardboard reality with what had been praised for so many years to me, but, yeah. It's lovely. (I may have once committed Clara Splinter/Scaroth splinter fic *cough*, and the Duggan fic out there in the wild is pretty much universally awesome.) But six Mona Lisas!
I have a friend who enjoys Classic Who (in a non-fannish way) and loves Douglas Adams and left her downstairs watching it one night when she was staying and when I saw her again in the morning, she was basically gibbering and going "AND THEN JOHN CLEESE APPEARED!" But I also am dubious about it as Newbie's FIrst Classic Who serial for various reasons. (None of which are Julian Glover or Douglas Adams, or Four/Romana/Paris).