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Post by GC on Sept 6, 2022 4:39:07 GMT
The last one I watched was The Evil of the Daleks animation. That's going back a bit innit. I usually find this story a long rambling affair, by the time Jamie and Kemel fight boredom's normally set in but with the animation it really held my interest throughout, story kind of gently zipped along. Didn't feel overlong at all. It's the first time I'd ever got a sense of it being sorta classic. Still think the Dizzy Daleks were a bit silly though.
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Post by Future-Diver on Sept 6, 2022 5:23:15 GMT
'The Invasion Of Time'It starts well, ends rather poorly, but overall, is a generally enjoyable six-parter. Louise is particularly good in this (I like the friendship Leela develops with Rodan the Timelady). I read a article recently in DWM that compared parts of 'The Invasion Of Time' to parts of the BBC's production of 'I, Claudius' (1976) and it's not quite as ridiculous as it sounds. I must say, I absolutely love this period of Who - Seasons 14 - 16 are my very favourites.
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Post by Servo on Sept 6, 2022 6:21:04 GMT
Last one I watched was Revelation of the Daleks.
It’s ok, better than most of the season if I’m being honest.
Sort of Doctor Who does the Loved One, except with Daleks.
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Post by iank on Sept 6, 2022 21:07:17 GMT
Mark of the Rani, 11 days ago. Been a while, and it's fun. Looks very nice on Blu.
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Post by GC on Sept 11, 2022 1:55:38 GMT
The Black & White version of The Abominable Snowmen animation. Thankfully it's a bit better than the Fury animation, no Mr. Tickle arms this time, though I'm not keen on the "character redesigns". Aside from the obvious which I find jarring, Padmasambhava seems to resemble Snoke. The story itself is normally a favourite of mine but this time I was struck by how slow and ponderous it was, never really gets out of first gear. It had a strange atmosphere to it (that I liked) hard to put in words, made one feel cold, bleak, desolate, I dunno. Overall I still do like the thing but I'm more than aware of its faults.
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Post by Future-Diver on Sept 11, 2022 8:03:02 GMT
The Black & White version of The Abominable Snowmen animation. Thankfully it's a bit better than the Fury animation, no Mr. Tickle arms this time, though I'm not keen on the "character redesigns". Aside from the obvious which I find jarring, Padmasambhava seems to resemble Snoke. The story itself is normally a favourite of mine but this time I was struck by how slow and ponderous it was, never really gets out of first gear. It had a strange atmosphere to it (that I liked) hard to put in words, made one feel cold, bleak, desolate, I dunno. Overall I still do like the thing but I'm more than aware of its faults. "I was struck by how slow and ponderous it was, never really gets out of first gear"That's very similar to how I feel about TAS.
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Post by Silent Walter on Oct 6, 2022 13:25:24 GMT
So far this year.
The Rescue- Underrated chiller bolstered by Tristram Cary's Dalek score making a welcome return and a great debut for Vicki Evil Of The Daleks (animation)- Story itself is still an classic and the animation although not as great as Faceless Ones and everything before is much better realised than Macra and Fury. Kinda- Patchy in areas and unravels slightly around the second half but still an intriguing tale at it's core. Monster Of Peladon- Switched off halfway. I still find it duller than Curse and half-arsed somewhat.
Some point, My friend will be lending me his copy of the TAS animation so I hope to see that soon. I'm quite fond of the story and the snippets of the animation itself looks promising.
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Post by Future-Diver on Oct 7, 2022 7:59:50 GMT
The Invasion. 10/10
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Post by iank on Oct 10, 2022 8:08:33 GMT
Abominable Snowmen. Rather dull. To be honest, I've kinda gone off the animations. I loved the Power SE, Shada (though I've always loved Shada and the cartoony style suited that story) and Fury, but have really struggled with most of the rest. It could be the fault of the stories themselves, but I have a similar issue with the animated eps of The Ice Warriors, which I otherwise really enjoy. But the animations - which are very similar to the prevaling style of the last few years, as opposed to something like The Moonbase - completely lack the atmosphere of the live-action eps, which I can't help but think is also the case here. I mean, I've always liked the extant eps of Evil, Faceless and Snowmen but the animations just don't capture the feel. I'm not entirely sad they're done for the moment, to be honest, and if they come back I feel they need to be a lot better...
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Post by Future-Diver on Oct 10, 2022 9:18:19 GMT
Abominable Snowmen. Rather dull. To be honest, I've kinda gone off the animations. I loved the Power SE, Shada (though I've always loved Shada and the cartoony style suited that story) and Fury, but have really struggled with most of the rest. It could be the fault of the stories themselves, but I have a similar issue with the animated eps of The Ice Warriors, which I otherwise really enjoy. But the animations - which are very similar to the prevaling style of the last few years, as opposed to something like The Moonbase - completely lack the atmosphere of the live-action eps, which I can't help but think is also the case here. I mean, I've always liked the extant eps of Evil, Faceless and Snowmen but the animations just don't capture the feel. I'm not entirely sad they're done for the moment, to be honest, and if they come back I feel they need to be a lot better... "Rather dull".Yep.
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Post by Servo on Oct 10, 2022 10:21:37 GMT
I’ve had the blu-ray of The Abominable Snowmen for two weeks now and haven’t watched an episode yet.
I watched the Making Of documentary though. That was pretty good and the scenery was sensational.
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Post by HappyGoLucky on Oct 12, 2022 12:32:26 GMT
I watched Fury again, i managed to ignore those feckin arms, amazingly!!!. It is a brilliant story and not too long , just such a shame more effort wasn't put into the animation. I keep going back to watch Power Of The Daleks,the first release on Steelbook , you know what,? considering there's glaring continuity slips i really appreciate just how well the animation team did in the short (6 months) time they had, even doing the chequered trousers which all future releases failed to do ,through laziness!!!. The soundtrack remix is absolutely sensational!!! Power is the perfect 6-episode story, it doesn't matter whether it's Tele Snaps or animation , it's bloody brilliant!! Regards HGL
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Post by iank on Oct 12, 2022 21:24:46 GMT
Fury is about the only one since Macra that's really worked for me. It's difficult to judge whether the original stories are poor or if it's the cheap animation letting them down.
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Post by Silent Walter on Oct 16, 2022 10:53:47 GMT
Finally finished The Abominable Snowmen animation and tbh, it was a 50/50 result in the animation scopes. It's still better than the disaster that was Web 3 but it lacks the scale of Evil's animation and it's wide scope style. Still, it's solid for the most part. The rendition of Padmasambhava, whilst not as effective as the original visuals, isn't worth the ire it's attracted in my opinion.
Story itself is great. I've often found it's sadly overshadowed by it's sequel and whilst I do agree Web is a better story and top 10 stuff. This is still an highly atmospheric historical chiller full of odes to Tibetan mythology, haunting visuals and the main trio being on top of their game with an entertaining guest cast headed by Wolfe Morris chilling performance and Jack Watling as the irascible yet likeable Prof Travers.
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Post by varga on Oct 23, 2022 19:31:22 GMT
'The Web of Fear'
Watched this all through yesterday - tried very hard to ignore the animation failures here, although actually not much happens in Ep 3 so it's fortunate that that's the missing episode in this story. Dozed off for a bit during Ep 5 - for me this is where things drag a bit and probably Eps 5 and 6 could be condensed together as there seems to be a lot of standing around / wandering the tunnels to no purpose, and then the ending is suddenly rushed and doesn't make much sense - the mind transference doesn't seem to have started when the Doctor is rescued unlike in Dicks novelisation (IIRC) where the Doctor's act of draining the Intelligence seems to disorient Arnold and the Yeti, whereas on screen we just have Jamie's Yeti and the human characters somehow able to fight off a group of Yeti + Arnold with ease.
Still a wonderful story to watch with some impressive set pieces and moody direction. Just a shame that after the wonderful Episode 4 where the Yeti massacre everyone in sight, they're not able to finish off a single character in the remaining 2 episodes. Structurally it just needs a bit of extra subplot brought in here - some "other ranks" to come back and get killed or some sort of short external filming scene to break up the tunnel stuff.
Spotted something in Ep. 2 I'd never noticed before - there's another soldier apart from Weams / Blake / Lane at the back during the Holborn communications RT scene who gets a short bit of dialogue. IMDB just seems to have a credit for 'Soldier' but I'm sure in the dialogue he's referred to as "O'Brian" or something similar.
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