I didn't think it was a bad one, overall? That special effects are lolarious, but the story I thought was totally on par for the era.
The underlying story is pretty decent, but it's the sheer amount of bad CSO and running down tunnels in the middle that tends to defeat nearly everyone, so yeah. But, as you say, Leela! I am also amused that team TARDIS start out in a really bad mood for no reason. (They read the script?)
Sadly, I did not like that era nearly as much as I was hoping to
It's a very mixed era, but I'd like to have seen how it went without all the crises - Graham Williams started with Philip Hinchcliffe leaving while having overspent all the budget already, Tom Baker was going off the rails, and rl chimed in with inflation crises and strikes, so it's kind of amazing there is any good stuff in there.
It seems fashionable now to hate the Hinchcliffe/Holmes period and love the Williams/Adams one (it was the reverse when I was first in fandom), but much as I enjoy a bit of fairytale and whimsy, I can't really agree overall, either. There are too many stories that should have been better, although, again, probably mainly due the combination of the above, which the producer-scriptwriter teams weren't to blame for. (One of the DVDs has a really interesting documentary about some of Graham Williams's ideas & how he was fascinated by possibly mythologies for the show and I was very struck - although, of course, how they would have worked, or if they'd have been any good, who knows? But as it turns out, it was the era of needing to do emergency surgery on the budget & JNT could do that, but Graham Williams was a writer first, and just couldn't, not in those circumstances.
That said, I clearly enjoy Key to Time overall more than you! (But, hey, I like nearly all of Classic Who anyway. :-D)
and the scripts were so much better, omg and I knew that we were under new management and thus that I was probably going to like Five's era.
I like Five a lot, too. I wish Chris Bidmead had stayed longer. He was weird, but it was the right kind of weird for DW!
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The underlying story is pretty decent, but it's the sheer amount of bad CSO and running down tunnels in the middle that tends to defeat nearly everyone, so yeah. But, as you say, Leela! I am also amused that team TARDIS start out in a really bad mood for no reason. (They read the script?)
Sadly, I did not like that era nearly as much as I was hoping to
It's a very mixed era, but I'd like to have seen how it went without all the crises - Graham Williams started with Philip Hinchcliffe leaving while having overspent all the budget already, Tom Baker was going off the rails, and rl chimed in with inflation crises and strikes, so it's kind of amazing there is any good stuff in there.
It seems fashionable now to hate the Hinchcliffe/Holmes period and love the Williams/Adams one (it was the reverse when I was first in fandom), but much as I enjoy a bit of fairytale and whimsy, I can't really agree overall, either. There are too many stories that should have been better, although, again, probably mainly due the combination of the above, which the producer-scriptwriter teams weren't to blame for. (One of the DVDs has a really interesting documentary about some of Graham Williams's ideas & how he was fascinated by possibly mythologies for the show and I was very struck - although, of course, how they would have worked, or if they'd have been any good, who knows? But as it turns out, it was the era of needing to do emergency surgery on the budget & JNT could do that, but Graham Williams was a writer first, and just couldn't, not in those circumstances.
That said, I clearly enjoy Key to Time overall more than you! (But, hey, I like nearly all of Classic Who anyway. :-D)
and the scripts were so much better, omg and I knew that we were under new management and thus that I was probably going to like Five's era.
I like Five a lot, too. I wish Chris Bidmead had stayed longer. He was weird, but it was the right kind of weird for DW!