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Post by Cyggy on Mar 4, 2022 17:57:46 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 7, 2022 8:33:34 GMT
What I like about this story is that it's a straightforward murder mystery adventure. I think that the fun actually increases when it is Pip and Jane Baker writing the murder mystery as the dialogue gets so daft and florid. I have read that Janet clearly drops something into someone's drink at some point - so she would seem to be a murderer who got away with it - and swans off at the story's end to go and do more killing elsewhere. The Doctor failed to even suspect her, it seems.
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Post by rapscallion on Mar 20, 2022 21:01:23 GMT
Great story! One of my favourite Colin Baker stories, and now it can be watched on the Collection Box Set without the trial scenes which makes it even better!
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Post by GC on Mar 21, 2022 22:52:58 GMT
Been aeons since I last saw this. Recall finding it a nice refreshing change from the rest of that Trial of a Timelord season.The most Doctor Who-ish story of the run. A fun little murder mystery on a spaceship with monsters running amok.
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Post by Black Orchid on Apr 11, 2022 15:58:16 GMT
I thought Terror of the Vervoids was the best part of the Trial season (by default as the rest is so awful).
I would give it a generous 6/10.
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 6, 2022 13:29:32 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Aug 1, 2022 21:22:59 GMT
A Starburst magazine set visit to the filming of this story, confusingly illustrated with photos from "The Mysterious Planet".... Article pdf
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Post by Future-Diver on Aug 2, 2022 6:07:08 GMT
"The Doctor has destroyed a complete species. The charge must now be genocide."
I admit, I generally enjoy The Trial Of Timelord season and don't really understand the hate directed towards it (I even like the courtroom scenes). I'm particularly fond of Terror of The Vervoids - perhaps the most uncomplicated installment of the season, featuring as it does, Mel's first appearance, plant monsters, a black hole, Honor Blackman and a murder mystery in space. Plus, the Vervoid design is impressive (even if it does look a bit rude).
7/10
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Post by sadako on Aug 2, 2022 16:38:39 GMT
Last time I watched it I thought it was entertaining enough (albeit the characters plotting against each other did get ridiculous) and probably one story where Colin's Doctor fit quite snugly and worked as a hero with an alien outlook.
It probably was the Trial's best segment.
I did a little music video for it too...
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Post by iank on Aug 25, 2022 23:21:43 GMT
It's a fun romp and WAY better in the Trial-free special edition version.
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Post by Cyggy on Apr 25, 2023 10:22:47 GMT
Eric Saward's resignation letter to Jonathan Powell (2nd April, 1986).....
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Post by sadako on Apr 26, 2023 22:22:23 GMT
Christ...!
...and I thought Chibnall was tactless....
I do feel bad for Saward in some ways. Doctor Who could've been his big break into TV. He did have undeniable potential as a drama writer, and something of a good eye for what drama needed, even if it also felt like he could do with some mentoring before he was fully *there*.
But it really does come across like Doctor Who under JNT was one of those kind of workplaces you just don't want to start out in (let alone get stuck on). Some of the problems with the show were beyond his control and probably hit him hard. Other problems unfortunately seemed to be a case of a bad working environment bringing out the very worst in him.
It's clear he was very bitter by that point, and that was inevitably going to get him into career-wrecking trouble.
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Post by profh0011 on Oct 27, 2023 4:09:43 GMT
I've loved this story since I first saw it, and for years, it was one of the very few that I would dig out to watch separate from the entire series.
And I just adored Bonnie Langford.
ONE point I feel compelled to make. Pip & Jane loved to say this was an "Agatha Christie" tribute. Okay. "The Robots Of Death" was an Agatha Christie tribute.
Then one day I saw this movie... GOLDEN RENDEZVOUS. It starred Richard Harris. It's an adaptation of an ALISTAIR MACLEAN novel. About a third of the way in, I found myself thinking... "This seems AWFUL familiar." IT WAS.
"Terror of the Vervoids" is to GOLDEN RENDEZVOUS what "Revelation of the Daleks" was to THE LOVED ONE. I'm not kidding. Go watch it! You'll see.
"Vervoids" wasn't an "Agatha Christie". It was an "ALISTAIR MACLEAN".
I think Pip & Jane kept SAYING it was "Christie" because they didn't want people to know what they were really doing. If people found out, they might be laying themselves open to a PLAGIARISM lawsuit!
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Post by profh0011 on Oct 27, 2023 4:14:59 GMT
I do wish it had had nothing to do with any trial. I've fantasized about an alternate version of season 23, where the trial ends, and the last 4 episodes are Mel's 1st adventure with The Doctor.
Or maybe "Vervoids" could have opened season 24... had season 23 actually started with an entire story that would have the Doctor first meet Mel, ON EARTH.
The last bit, the contrived cliffhanger with the "genocide" charge, almost ruins it at the end.
That said, my favorite bit where the story and the trial meet is when we see Colin standing in the radio room, just destroyed, with an AXE in his hands and a BIG SMILE on his face...
"THAT never happened!"
"Are you claiming the Matrix is lying?"
"What I mean is, that WASN'T me!"
"Of COURSE it was! You couldn't be mistaken for anyone else IN THAT OUTFIT."
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