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Post by rapscallion on Oct 9, 2022 18:15:58 GMT
Another cover from yesteryear.... DWM issue 64.... 45 f***ing pence !!!?? 😳
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Post by johnnybear on Oct 13, 2022 7:20:33 GMT
Back in the days when we all looked forward to the show and especially the magazine! JB
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Post by rapscallion on Mar 16, 2023 6:00:15 GMT
I always assumed that his interference with the alien casket transformed him somehow rather than it just being a mask to confuse us the viewers as no one outside of The Doctor and his companions would have known who he was anyways! I'm not about to say that we could've had a classic on our hands, but I think that one of the most frustrating things about Time Flight is that the whole business with the Master posing as Kalid is never given an explanation. Like, is he simply 'posing' and amusing himself, which is a pretty lame reason, or is he doing something a lot more grim and sinister and literally inhabiting the body of a dead, (or even alive), man for the purpose of animating the controls in the sanctum? Did he use the TCE somehow to take over Kalid's body? When Kalid is seen to die at the end of episode 2, he collapses and then there's green slime oozing out of him, so something's definitely taken place. And then the Master gets up, literally either throwing off a costume for no reason, or a dead man's skin. Thinking about it, it surely can't have just have been all 80s Master theatrics, Grimwade was a clever guy and must have planned and written something a bit better than just the Master dressing up for effect. Whatever the explanation is, it's not very well done whichever way you look at it, but maybe lines were trimmed and explanations got lost in the process. And maybe if it had been better explained it could have given Time Flight a harder, darker edge which would have made Episode 2 and the story itself slightly better remembered.
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Post by sadako on Mar 31, 2023 9:35:44 GMT
I'm not sure how to rate this one.
In hindsight it looks like the most identifiable 'jump the shark' story of classic who. Season 19 had its issues but this definitely feels like it actively undoes the good work of the season prior and exacerbates its misjudgments. I firmly think the Master should've stayed dead after Castrovalva. At least for a while (Tegan and Nyssa's ability to cope with their bereavements might've been more plausible if they believed justice had been done).
Having him back so soon makes it feel like consequences have just stopped mattering in this show now, and there's no reason to care. Then again so does everything else about this mess of a plot. Feels like the whole thing is meant to be held together by wishful thinking and random exposition, and the result is hollow and boring. It feels like every scene is counting on a wing and a prayer. Maybe it'd work if it had more of a sense of humor about itself.
It also feels too much of a saccharine pantomime turn too soon after the gritty grimdark of Earthshock (though in some ways it's also a tragic hint that 80's Who nearly didn't have to, nor was supposed to go that nihilistic direction). There's a few nice bits of face-off between Davison and Ainley in part 4, but it really feels like the Master has long outlived his shelf life in the grander scheme of things.
This feels like one hell of a hole for the classic show to get out of. Sadly I'm not convinced it ever did.
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Post by GC on May 1, 2024 14:05:18 GMT
I was reminded today, how crap the Plasmatons looked... _
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Post by dsjr on May 18, 2024 23:21:27 GMT
Didn't care for it at the time, but you know, it's kind of grown on me as I watched it on VHS and now DVD. Seems as if the money was running out (what budget they had for the season), but they try so hard and do their best every time during this era.
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Post by Future-Diver on May 19, 2024 8:31:07 GMT
Didn't care for it at the time, but you know, it's kind of grown on me as I watched it on VHS and now DVD. Seems as if the money was running out (what budget they had for the season), but they try so hard and do their best every time during this era. "Better watch out for the odd Brontosaurus"
Time-Flight looks shoddy but it certainly isn't lacking in ambition. The Master's disguise as Kalid makes no sense (in fact, why is the Master even in this story?) the crew and passengers often act as if travelling back to prehistoric times is a perfectly normal thing for the Concorde to do and the Plasmatons look ridiculous, even by Who's cheapo standards. However, for Episode 1 alone, Time Flight is still more fun than Arc Of Infinity or Warriors Of The Deep.
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