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Post by Cyggy on Mar 5, 2022 3:44:17 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 13, 2022 5:54:10 GMT
It's okay I suppose - but I do feel it teeters on the wrong side of silly sometimes. I thought Terrance actually turned it into a more briskly readable book than it had been a watchable story?
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Post by johnnybear on Mar 30, 2022 17:43:53 GMT
Not a big fan of this one although I love the referenced details to the work and pensions fiasco that dominates most people's lives being shown here in a future time! The TARDIS being very far in the future is clever too with perhaps the people on Pluto joining the Nerva Beacon survivors back on earth to repopulate the planet I'd guess with comments made by The Doctor at the end of the story to Mandrell! JB
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 9, 2022 14:04:01 GMT
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Post by johnnybear on Jul 13, 2022 7:57:58 GMT
I loved the idea that here as well as in Frontios the TARDIS has limits to where it can travel! Almost as if it is trapped inside a bubble. A very, very large bubble but still a bubble! The Gallifreyan noosphere as it is identified in Davison's adventure and that he is already exceeding it's limits! I'll bet the producers and writers of today have completely ignored the idea of such a limit! JB
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Post by Servo on Jul 13, 2022 10:20:38 GMT
I guess some people find The Sunmakers rather taxing.
I find it a mildly amusing story in which the bad guys are the much more entertaining characters.
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 29, 2022 14:39:08 GMT
Meanwhile, even as this story aired..... How Star Wars CHANGED Doctor Who | A Video Essay"Star Wars" On Caprona
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Post by Black Orchid on Apr 30, 2023 9:38:57 GMT
Doctor Who Review - The Sun Makers
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Post by Black Orchid on Apr 30, 2023 9:40:40 GMT
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Post by dsjr on Jan 25, 2024 22:54:03 GMT
Like the repeats of Yes Prime Minister on BBC Four, this one is dangerously close to what really seems to go on (oh alright, it's an exaggeration), but when you realise how much of our hard earned gets subtly taken back in taxes and taxes on already taxed prices, it's bloody true really.
Yeah, I enjoyed this one as well and interesting comment by Louise that she felt the story was also about the BBC, stifling insular corporation as it could be back then.
Way OTT performances but in this one it works well..
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Post by profh0011 on Aug 11, 2024 20:28:46 GMT
I guess some people find The Sunmakers rather taxing. I find it a mildly amusing story in which the bad guys are the much more entertaining characters. EVERY time I see Richard Leech in anything, I immediately think of this story. "PRAISE the company!"
Ditto for Henry Woolf, though I haven't actually seen him in too many things.
See Leech as the main baddie in THE AVENGERS episode "Traitor In Zebra", which also features William Gaunt in a small role.
I don't remember mention of TARDIS limits in this one... but my impression has long been that The Time Lords exist in a particular period of time... and EVERYTHING we see on the show is The Doctor travelling around in THEIR PAST. Except for when he goes to Gallifrey.
Of course, this itself makes me wonder about "The Invasion Of Time", since I don't recall it ever being mentioned if The Sontorans had time travel.
Mandrel tends to remind me a bit of JNT.
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Post by Future-Diver on Aug 11, 2024 21:16:08 GMT
Ditto for Henry Woolf, though I haven't actually seen him in too many things. If you haven't seen it already, watch 'Steptoe & Son Ride Again' (1973) - the second film spin-off from the comedy TV series. Henry Woolf plays local gangster, Frankie Barrow.
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Post by profh0011 on Aug 11, 2024 22:02:59 GMT
The thing I noticed him in, crazy enough, was RUTLAND WEEKEND TELEVISION.
Checking his IMDB resume, I see I've also seen THE LION IN WINTER, THER PROTECTORS, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, ALL YOU NEED IS CASH THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (the ghastly 1978 film) and SUPERMAN III (not much better). But I don't actually remember him in any of those, except for ALL YOU NEED IS CASH. (Instead of the band going to India, they went to Scotland... heh.)
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