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Post by Cyggy on Mar 5, 2022 1:25:28 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 12, 2022 0:54:32 GMT
If there's some over-riding memories of seeing this on broadcast, it was firstly of that bellowing Captain and that parrot having a fight with K9. And the bunch of telepaths who looked as though they all needed a good night's sleep, judging by their dark eye sockets.
It's okay, but I don't necessarily think it's up there with the greats simply because it has Douglas Adams' name attached to it?
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 8, 2022 9:55:39 GMT
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Post by GC on Jul 26, 2022 2:33:22 GMT
1978 The Pirate Planet - Tom Baker gets a bit sweary
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Post by GC on Sept 7, 2023 3:45:52 GMT
Don't mind this story apart from Bruce Purchase shouting his bollocks off all through it. I've only got to see a picture of him as the Pirate Captain and me ears start ringing...
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Post by Future-Diver on Sept 8, 2023 6:48:16 GMT
"Appreciate it? Appreciate it? What, you commit mass destruction and murder on a scale that's almost inconceivable, and you ask me to appreciate it? Just because you've happen to have made a brilliantly conceived toy out of the mummified remains of planets!"*
Certainly one of the better serials of the Key To Time season - I really don't mind the shouty Pirate Captain so much. The Pirate Planet is fiendishly clever and very funny and full of the kind of big, mad Sci Fi concepts you'd expect from Douglas Adams - Zanak, the hollow world that devours other planets, the psychic Mentiads, the robot parrot, the inertia corridor, and the collection of crushed, shrunken planets, providing power for Queen Xanxia's dreams of immortality. Really, truly grand stuff!
9/10
*Surely one of the Fourth Doctor's best speeches.
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Post by dsjr on Feb 6, 2024 22:29:42 GMT
If this is one of the better ones from ŧhis story arc, then heaven help me. Bloody hell this is awful, mainly due to 'The Captain' being so completely over the top and trying to be funny... He makes Brian Blessed seem tame and quiet| I love the original radio Hitchikers episodes to bits which I gather may have preceded this story and 'get' the humour there, but this one is simply too much for me I'm afraid.
Still not sure on Romana's character either as yet.
Apologies folks, but speeded up, even more camp and then edited down into a breathless form, this could almost be an RTD story.
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Post by Future-Diver on Feb 7, 2024 6:26:48 GMT
this could almost be an RTD story. Never -it's far too funny witty, zany and Pythonesque to be have come from the mind of Davies. If The Planet Planet had been penned by his mediocre talent, then the planet Zanak would have no doubt looked like a council estate, the Doctor would have flirted with and/or snogged a sassier, sexier version of Queen Xanxia and Romana would have had a little cry when the robot parrot was killed- before confessing her love for the Doctor and then going off somewhere together for a bag of chips (forgetting all about the Key To Time). Yes, it's a bit daft at times but The Pirate Planet is still an intelligent sci fi comedy, full of wild, flamboyant ideas -a product of the imagination of Douglas Adams, not that soap opera writer. "You don't want to take over the universe, do you? No. You wouldn't know what to do with it, beyond shout at it"
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Post by heccy on Feb 7, 2024 8:32:49 GMT
Eermmmmmm... I hate it.
Douglas Adams is a great writer...
A shame it's ruined by hammy theatricals...
There's a diamond in there, a shame it's being polished by turds...
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Post by dsjr on Feb 7, 2024 10:41:03 GMT
Yeah, you lot are right and I suspect it's the deliberate? hammy acting and shouting which I'm having difficulty getting past.
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Post by profh0011 on Feb 7, 2024 15:41:29 GMT
it's far too funny witty, zany and Pythonesque Perfectly put.
I mean, that one guy always reminds me of Michael Palin as it is.
This was YET another where I somehow came in midway in the first time. HOW in the hell did that keep happening?
Anyway, once I saw it from the beginning... my mind was blown. REPEATEDLY. This is one of those rare stories where, like the best murder mysteries, the odds just slowly keep getting upped, as they slowly reveal, one piece at a time, more and more info, and each time, your head is exploding just a bit more as they go. What are they doing? What are they doing THAT for? WHY are they doing it? WHAT THE...
I feel a bit sorry for Romana in spots, because at this point, she IS still rather naive, and DOESN'T realize the extreme danger she's in (partly because the baddies often look and act like cartoon characters).
"Captain? We're going to take a look at your engines." "DOCTOR!!! Do you know-- what I would DO to you-- if I even BEGAN to SUSPECT you of PLOTTING against me???" "Captain! it wouldn't be worth my REPUTATION!" "ORRR-- your LIFE!!!" "Yes, my life, as you say..."
I swear, Tom Baker's Doctor really began to impress me, more than before, from the moment Romana showed up. He was still acting goofy-- but unlike when he was hanging around Sarah-- you KNEW he was acting.
I say, if anybody has a problem with this story-- given SO MANY other stories that really are genuinely awful-- maybe you should find some other show to B**** about.
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