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Post by Cyggy on Mar 5, 2022 4:39:40 GMT
Please rate and review this story here.....
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 11, 2022 11:18:19 GMT
A good guest cast in this. Janet Fielding may mock the show now, but I do feel that she was committed to going for broke in her possessed performance here, almost as if she believed that the show was worth making an effort for, despite her seeming, thinly-veiled contempt for the series now.
Even at the time, I was not convinced that the Doctor needed some silly old fool to give him advice on how to defeat the Mara. Surely he'd had plenty of advice about spirituality from that silly old fool halfway up a hill with daisiest daisies etc. during his youth, back on Gallifrey?
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Post by Black Orchid on Apr 4, 2022 10:07:03 GMT
One of the best stories of season 20 (not difficult) with an excellent guest cast, perhaps all it lacks is action and excitement. Janet Fielding gives one of her best performances as the possessed Tegan. 8/10
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Post by GC on Apr 5, 2022 1:40:50 GMT
Found Davo a bit whiny in this, other than that, not a bad story really.
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 4, 2022 10:59:43 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 7, 2022 15:08:23 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Oct 6, 2022 12:52:52 GMT
A cover from yesteryear..... DWM Issue 73....
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Post by rapscallion on Oct 6, 2022 14:04:24 GMT
A cover from yesteryear..... DWM Issue 73.... This one must be one of the first DWM's I bought! 😎
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Post by rapscallion on Oct 6, 2022 14:12:34 GMT
It's funny how opinions have changed on Kinda and Snakedance.
In 1982 Kinda was voted the worst story of Season 19 in DWM, and in 1983 Snakedance was voted the best story of Season 20.
And yet these days, Kinda is undoubtedly held in much higher regard than Snakedance. I guess Kinda was seen as such an unusual story at the time that it put the DWM readers off?
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Post by sadako on Oct 7, 2022 22:19:05 GMT
It delivers a lot of the goods with a very rich script and strong cast. Definitely the kind of material the season needed more of.
My only niggle is it ends rather too finally and abruptly and ends up exhausting a lot of the Mara lore rather than leaving some things imponderable. If it had done more of the latter, I think this one would have much more staying power.
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Post by Future-Diver on Oct 8, 2022 7:52:56 GMT
“I’m still possessed aren’t I, Doctor?”
Snakedance looks good (the market scenes in particular are impressive), it makes slightly more sense than Kinda and has the wonderful John Carson as Ambril, and a great musical score by Peter Howell. Martin Clunes is also good as Lon, and Janet Fielding gets a bit more to do than usual, but I still prefer Kinda - it's weirder, more surreal (and it came first - sequels seldom have the same impact).
Still, the snake looks better this time around.
6/10
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Post by rapscallion on Sept 22, 2023 10:53:55 GMT
Just watched Snakedance from the Season 20 Blu-ray boxset, with the updated effects for the Mara in Part 4.
I think this is a good little story, but it doesn't hold my attention in the same way as Kinda does. Kinda has a uniqueness, Snakedance just feels a bit more run-of-the-mill.
I agree with Sadako's point up-thread that Snakedance ends too abruptly. The deleted scene showing them debating whether to destroy the Great Crystal would've finished the episode nicely and allowed it to breathe a bit more. It's a pity a slightly extended version couldn't have been made for this.
Looking back, I don't really see much evidence here that it was the finest story of the season, as voted in the Season 20 DWM poll. I think that honour should go to Enlightenment. Snakedance is enjoyable but rather average.
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Post by dsjr on May 27, 2024 10:36:56 GMT
I thought I remembered this story more than I do and have started by listening to the commentaries while looking at the subtitles for the dialogue. I need to watch it again without distractions.
Is Janet F contemptuous of the show as a whole, or merely bemoaning the lack of budget and technology which seems so widely available today? When these DVDs were being released, NuWho had become established in its showy form and the contrasts between the classic low-rent budget and the more lavish effects and so on in the late noughties show couldn't have been more marked. Now of course with even more years to compare, the emptiness and other undesirable aspects of so many NuWho stories today, seem to show just how good and how dedicated these classic series programmes were (the same in recorded music, where the older more delicate 'analogue' recording technology had to be done with rather more care than the 'in the box' productions today where an 'effect' is but a mouse-click away...
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Post by profh0011 on May 28, 2024 14:53:45 GMT
I thought John Carson played one of the biggest A-HOLEs in the history of the series!
How could anyone that aggressively stupid, that completely uninformed, be in charge of their history as he was? (I know, in real life, it happens all the time.)
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