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Post by Cyggy on Mar 3, 2022 15:39:49 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 7, 2022 8:26:33 GMT
Still the scariest looking Cyber-design imo.
Still a tragedy that we don't have that last episode, although I didn't mind the style of the animation. Thank goodness we have the regeneration clip. Imagine only having the soundtrack and trying to guess what it looked like!
A pity that Hartnell's out of action/absent in the 3rd episode.
I like the polar setting. Cutler the earliest of those rude, bossy base commanders that were about to plague the Troughton era.
A very good story I think that maybe tends to get a bit under-rated these days for some reason?
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Post by Black Orchid on Mar 13, 2022 18:12:28 GMT
The Singing Cyberman (Cyber Trolololol)
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Post by Black Orchid on Mar 14, 2022 0:22:54 GMT
An original idea for Doctor Who and General Cutler is a very well drawn out character - however everyone else Barclay, Dyson etc are rather bland.
The sets also look very cheap.
The Doctor is sidelined - he is drowned out with technical troubles in episode 2 and is absent from episode 3.
I like the Cybermen - they look chilling and unnerving like the Robomen did in DIOE.
The Cybermen in The Moonbase and after look better but the Mondasian Cybermen are more pathetic looking - and more frightening for children.
And there is an excellent cliffhanger to episode 1 (and 4).
8/10
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Post by GC on Mar 22, 2022 3:08:14 GMT
Funny one for me this is. There's not much to the story, it's a bit basic, dull and clunky in places. The Cybermen don't really do much in it and The Doctor does even less. It shouldn't work and yet somehow it does. There's just something very special about this story - despite its faults, its still very watchable - a sense of destiny maybe? or poignancy perhaps? I dunno but I like it.
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Post by GC on Mar 22, 2022 3:22:01 GMT
Still the scariest looking Cyber-design imo. I know it's entirely unintentional but if you look closely in one or two shots you can see the actor's eyes peering out from under the Cybermen's stocking masks. Thought it made them all the more creepy what with their human hands.
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Post by GC on Mar 22, 2022 3:29:08 GMT
Doctor Who The Tenth Planet Its far from being all over Remastered
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Post by GC on Apr 6, 2022 3:15:25 GMT
Colourised: The Tenth Planet
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Post by GC on Jun 5, 2022 3:56:58 GMT
Test animation for The Tenth Planet done by Qurios a number of years ago.
Dr Who - The Tenth Planet
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Post by Future-Diver on Jun 5, 2022 8:22:43 GMT
"They're part man, part robot. They come from this new planet, Mondas."A smashing first story for the Cybermen - I love the original cloth-faced design (though their sing-song voices are rather irritating). They may not be the steel giants of later series, but seeing them emerging from a snowstorm in Episode 1 is creepy and very effective - they are the most human and least robotic of Cybermen.
The Tenth Planet, with its South Pole setting , reminds me a bit of The Thing From Another World (1951) but done on a BBC budget. Ben and Polly are two very likeable companions - Ben here is the man of action, the first to destroy a Cyberman, while Polly is the moral voice of the story; "..you mean you wouldn't care about someone in pain?". However, the Doctor doesn't really do much - Hartnell's last story is chiefly about the mission of the Zeus IV/V spaceships, the discovery of the planet Mondas and the arrival of the Cybermen at Snowcap Base - it's not necessarily about the Doctor's impending regeneration. The change-over from Hartnell to Troughton comes more or less out of nowhere (well, unless Hartnell's absence from Episode 3 was partly a way of preparing the viewers for his eventual exit) and without the hype, spectacle and sentimentalism of the modern series regenerations. This startling change must have come as a bit of a shock to a lot of TV viewers in 1966. Such a shame that Part 4 is missing - this is perhaps the saddest loss of any Doctor Who episode. Attachments:
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Post by GC on Jun 6, 2022 6:04:53 GMT
Earl Cameron's spacesuit from The Tenth Planet was apparently recycled for Bossk in The Empire Strikes Back... Say Hello Spaceman
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 7, 2022 20:42:42 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 11, 2022 10:34:45 GMT
Comparing Doctor Who: "The Tenth Planet" - 1966 vs 2013
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Post by rapscallion on Nov 5, 2022 13:28:37 GMT
This might be blasphemy, but I struggle a bit with The Tenth Planet.
For me, the main strengths of the story are....
1) it's South Pole setting - I've just watched it in November and it's frozen setting has made me even colder, lol.
2) the Cybermen. Brilliant freaky costume. I love the design, and I like how they still have their human hands exposed.
But unfortunately I feel the story has more working against it than for it. I find it quite a messy watch, a lot of disjointed scenes with people speaking/shouting into intercoms and talking over each other.
I don't think it helps that the audio quality sounds really muffled, particularly in episode 2.
It's great to see the first Doctor with two different companions. So much exists comparatively from the first two seasons that seeing Ben and Polly in the TARDIS, *and* with Hartnell, is obviously a rare treat.
The TARDIS crew don't get a great look-in during this story though, seemingly relegated to the far corners of the control room of the polar base, with Cutler, Barclay (and Dyson) more to the forefront. Although Ben gets more action as the story evolves.
The cliffhanger to episode 1 is still one of the greats, with the Cybermen wading through the snow, and the terrified officer by the front door of the TARDIS. The camera panning up on the Cyber leader is a great ending.
I know I won't be alone either in thinking what a pity that Hartnell bows out in a story where he seems to have the least amount of lines in the whole of his 3year run. I wish he could've been a bit more centre-stage for his finale. Not in a post-2005 way, you understand, but in a story that gave him - the first Doctor - a more heroic send off. More like the build-up that Troughton had. But obviously the producers didn't really know where they were going as the concept of regeneration wasn't a thing in 1966.
But having said that, I've always found that Hartnell's line to Ben and Polly "It's far from being all over" and then looming to the camera gives me goosebumps.
7 out of 10.
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Post by Black Orchid on Nov 20, 2022 13:37:42 GMT
A theory about Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet Episode 4
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