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Post by sadako on Mar 31, 2023 20:11:26 GMT
I still feel killing off Chloe Ashcroft's character was the most unforgivable moment. Whenever I watch Resurrection Of The Daleks I can remember my horrified reaction when I watched Professor Laird's death as a 9 year old. No word of a lie, that futile attempt to run and that chilling scream properly shook me up and stayed with me. I can believe that. I remember Genesis of the Daleks horrifying me at age 11. But the violence of Resurrection of the Daleks (which I first saw at 15) makes even Genesis look tame by comparison.
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Post by sadako on Mar 31, 2023 20:12:59 GMT
A music video I made for the story:
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Post by GC on Apr 27, 2023 23:28:13 GMT
Resurrection of the Daleks (1984) KILL COUNT
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Post by GC on Jun 29, 2023 12:32:32 GMT
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Post by GC on Oct 8, 2023 0:08:18 GMT
You learn something new everyday. Trouble is if you're anything like me you go and forget it the day after... Fillings?...
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Post by GC on Oct 18, 2023 18:59:59 GMT
Not as keen on the music for this one. Loud, miserable and shrill. Still better than Gold though...
[Doctor Who - The Music II - Original 1985 track listing - Side Two] 3 "Resurrection of the Daleks"
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Post by GC on Dec 8, 2023 17:38:23 GMT
2000: TERRY MOLLOY on being DOCTOR WHO's DAVROS | Front Room | Science Fiction | BBC Archive
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Post by Future-Diver on Dec 18, 2023 20:12:56 GMT
Not as keen on the music for this one. Loud, miserable and shrill. Still better than Gold though... [Doctor Who - The Music II - Original 1985 track listing - Side Two] 3 "Resurrection of the Daleks"I like this particular bit of music - it's so bleak and stark and yes, far better than anything from the modern series. Not exactly easy listening, though...
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Post by GC on Feb 8, 2024 17:51:59 GMT
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Post by profh0011 on Feb 8, 2024 20:53:04 GMT
I've still got the TV version with NO music and NO sound effects in the 2nd half.
I actually rented the proper tape once, but my machines weren't working right, and so I couldn't make a copy.
"Genesis" was a tragedy that built and built and built until nearly everybody involved died, and because it was a "flashback" (a la the "1795" story on DARK SHADOWS), nothing anyone could do would change the horrible outcome.
But "Ressurection" is more like, "Let's just set up a lot of plots and people and KILL ALL OF THEM for no purpose at all except because we can and we really want to really badly."
It's one of only a very few WHO stories I dug out to watch separately more than once. It was mainly to get a grip on all the plotlines. but, once I did, I never did it again, as I realized just how POINTLESS it was.
You know, I can't even be sure if Lytton was the real Lytton of a clone. But WHY would he need to be a clone, since he was a soul-less, murderous mercenary in the first place? If he was a clone, it just showed the Daleks were wasting material everywhere they went.
Daleks, in my mind, long ago by now, serve no useful purpose to exist. If I were a producer on DOCTOR WHO, I'd want to buck the system and make a point NOT to use them at all. Ditto the Master. Find new stories to tell with new characters and new villains.
As for Terry Malloy, I can't cut him any slack. He played Davros 3 times (Michael Wisher only 1 time), but only did a decent job ONCE. ONCE! And that was up against Colin Baker. It's only the fact that Davros is in "Remembrance" so little that you don't really notice what a horrible job he does in it.
Michael Wisher's Davros is like Roger Delgado's Master. NOBODY-- and I mean NOBODY-- has ever done the character anywhere near as good. What a shame, that during the original run, Davros came back 4 more times, yet Wisher wasn't in ANY of those. And Wisher did several WHO stories. And now that I know who he is, every time he pops up, I think... "Davros!" Even in the funny story.
This is NOWHERE near Peter Davison's best work on the show. I'd list "The Awakening", "Frontios" and "The Caves Of Androzani" for that.
And that scene where the Doctor ABRUPTLY announces, he's going to KILL Davros-- and then-- FAILS SPECTACULARLY to do so... it's no wonder it took his character 4 WHOLE episodes to die painfully.
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Post by Cyggy on Feb 8, 2024 22:24:22 GMT
Michael Wisher's Davros is like Roger Delgado's Master. NOBODY-- and I mean NOBODY-- has ever done the character anywhere near as good. What a shame, that during the original run, Davros came back 4 more times, yet Wisher wasn't in ANY of those. I seem to remember reading that Wisher was going to come back for this story when it was under it's "Sentinel" title and was due to be the last story of Season 20 (and directed by Peter Grimwade), before it's cancellation? Sadly when it rolled around in Season 21 he was no longer available and Grimwade had, of course, upset JN-T by then, so no more directing gigs for him. In some alternative universe 1983 " Sentinel" happened, of course.
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Post by profh0011 on Feb 9, 2024 13:29:52 GMT
There's so much behind-the-scenes tragedy and general F-UPS on that show concerning JNT, Eric Saward, Peter Davison, Colin Baker... and just about every other person who worked on it during that era (including every single "companion" character to some degree or another).
In the case of "Ressurection", I'm sure it would have been a shock to have that happen at the very end of such a low-key season where they were bent on bringing back some old character in each story (no matter how badly such stories wound up being-- as in "Arc of Infinity" or "Mawdryn Undead").
But the way things worked out, by the time "Ressurection" arrived, we'd ALREADY had the utterly pointless and insanely-hopeless "Warriors Of The Deep", plus the deeply-depressing first half of "Frontios" (it got beter in the 2nd half, but that mood was undone by the VERY NEXT story). And then of course, so much about "Planet Of Fire" involved insane and pointless attempts at mass-murder... WHAT THE HELL was wrong with the people in charge?
It's nuts, but when "The Caves Of Androzani" arrived, I thought it was just too too much... (especially when-- ONCE AGAIN-- I somehow walked in HALFWAY into it-- I really have no idea what was causing that to happen at my end). It took about 3 viewings of that ghastly, horrible, visciously-violent thing before I realized just how good the writing was in it. JNT was stupidly determined not to work with experienced writers (apparently because he couldn't lord it over them like the new guys), but Robert Holmes comes back and with his FIRST effort, is like showing JNT, "HERE'S how it's done."
I was just so glad to get rid of Davison's completely-ineffective Doctor, it was years before I genuinely realized, by comparison, JUST HOW AWFUL the writing on "The Twin Dilemma" really was.
And the crazy thing is... a few years later, I really, REALLY got to like Peter Davison as an actor... just, NOT on DOCTOR WHO.
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Post by profh0011 on Feb 9, 2024 13:33:06 GMT
In a better, more sane world, Brian Glover's character would have survived and become one of Colin Baker's companions. Wouldn't THAT have been funny as hell?
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Post by dsjr on Jul 6, 2024 17:36:59 GMT
Well I loved it then and still do now! Sure the props were still knackered under copious coats of paint, but looked a bit better I think to the way they did in Destiny. The odd shaped one dressed as the 'Supreme' and kept out of full view was a good move I think. Cast was good, but Terry Molloy doesn't do 'sinister' anywhere near as well as Michael Wisher did in my opinion. The whole Movellan Virus thing is a bit daft to me I have to say. Davros being affected too - unless it's the circuitry in the casing being affected. Having the casings themselves warped and damaged (I thought Dalekanium was all but impregnable...). Okay okay, my old aspergic mind limiting possibilities. A shame to see Janet leaving. Hopefully UNIT could help her character find her way again post this story I always wondered how Ian & Barbara could deal with life and questions asked, returning to London two years after disappearing the way they did. Their previous lodgings would have been either ransacked or cleared out, and maybe they'd have been signed off as deceased or something. We're not supposed to think about that of course, but still
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Post by GC on Aug 17, 2024 21:35:04 GMT
Fancy missing out Leela...
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