Doctor Who stories that should be released on DVD asap (with asterisks to indicate pressing urgency of release!!)
** Decent story. A worthy addition to the DVD shelf
*** Good story. slightly surprising it has been passed over thus far
**** Get it the #%&* out on DVD already!!! &*^%# to the wall classic!
In chronological order...
TIME MEDDLER **
A snappy little 4 parter & it would be the first full Steven/ Vicki release
WAR MACHINES **
A modest charmer & the only complete Ben/ Polly adventure
ICE WARRIORS ***
With animation (or preferably CGI) for the missing episodes 2 & 3
WAR GAMES ****
The extra star for the lavish packaging & bonus feature possibilities. The story perhaps only worthy of 3 & a half
THE SILURIANS ****
!!!!! My most anticipated release at the moment
TERROR OF THE AUTONS/ MIND OF EVIL/ CLAWS OF AXOS/ COLONY IN SPACE/ DAEMONS ****
A masterful Master box set. He appeared in every story in Season 8 so it makes perfect sense. A fitting tribute to wonderful Rog. This is really the only way I would buy Axos & the best way to flog off the dreary Colony
FRONTIER IN SPACE/ PLANET OF THE DALEKS ***
As the double header it really is, this 12 part space opera would be a superb anorak filler
DEATH TO THE DALEKS ***
Can't wait to hear the striking incidental music restored!
TERROR OF THE ZYGONS/ ANDROID INVASION ****
Linked by being the final two appearances for both Benton & Harry & also the final UNIT story proper (not including the brief scenes in 'Seeds Of Doom'). Zygons contains some of the finest incidental music in the shows history, as does the wonderful...
SEEDS OF DOOM ****
All hail Geoffrey Burgen! Best TB story not out on DVD as yet
FULL CIRCLE/ STATE OF DECAY/ WARRIOR'S GATE ***
A superb set that would be more than the sum of it's parts. The only way I would buy Full Circle
MAWDRYN UNDEAD/ TERMINUS/ ENLIGHTENMENT ***
A fab triple set of the Guardian trilogy. Enlightenment is the only individual story I'd rush out for, but together they are almost a match for the E-Space trilogy
PLANET OF FIRE **
A modest story. A polished production if a little bland. Certainly one of Ainley's best showings
TRIAL OF A TIME LORD ***
The bonus features & packaging will lift this one above its station
HAPPINESS PATROL ***
This should be considered the 'Rocky Horror' of the Who canon. People should have dress up parties to watch it & lay on hors d'oerves & champers!
Cheers, The 'Cozer
Oh..and as for the Animated/CGI Hartnell/ Troughton missing story reconstructions. GET MOVING BEEB!!!!PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
Power, Evil, Masterplan, Fury, Web...the palette waters!!!
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Peter Davison Returns!!!!!!!!! (?)
I'm just a little bit excited if this is all true. I'm biting my fist & salivating fan boy saliva by the bucketload.
Thoughts that are making me salivate:
- The thought of Dr's 5 & 10 meeting & interacting
- Steven Moffat warming up his typewriter/ keyboard/ quill/ scribing tool of choice
for said meeting
- A companion with Dr 5?
- The (unlikely it seems) potential of a grand multi-Doctor 2 parter in Series 4.
Thoughts that are making my saliva dry up:
- If this is for 'Children in Need' it will be 15 minutes? at best? Probably chopped
into two 6-8 minute 'blink & you'll miss them' 'fun-sized' chunks. This would be a
cruel tease surely?; a sexy wink across a crowded fan convention without a
follow through of some heavy petting...
- 'Dimensions In Time'
- Frothy 'specials' in general
- 'Dimensions In Time'
- A School Reunion/ Sarah-Jane Adventures-esque out-of-character 'sassying up' of the
5th Doctor. Unlikely from Mr Moffatt though thankfully.
But really, I'm just very excited. Peter was 'my Doctor' as I was first hooked back in 1983.
Bring on the bells & whistles.....
Lucozer
Thoughts that are making me salivate:
- The thought of Dr's 5 & 10 meeting & interacting
- Steven Moffat warming up his typewriter/ keyboard/ quill/ scribing tool of choice
for said meeting
- A companion with Dr 5?
- The (unlikely it seems) potential of a grand multi-Doctor 2 parter in Series 4.
Thoughts that are making my saliva dry up:
- If this is for 'Children in Need' it will be 15 minutes? at best? Probably chopped
into two 6-8 minute 'blink & you'll miss them' 'fun-sized' chunks. This would be a
cruel tease surely?; a sexy wink across a crowded fan convention without a
follow through of some heavy petting...
- 'Dimensions In Time'
- Frothy 'specials' in general
- 'Dimensions In Time'
- A School Reunion/ Sarah-Jane Adventures-esque out-of-character 'sassying up' of the
5th Doctor. Unlikely from Mr Moffatt though thankfully.
But really, I'm just very excited. Peter was 'my Doctor' as I was first hooked back in 1983.
Bring on the bells & whistles.....
Lucozer
Sunday, August 19, 2007
A little spelunking in 'The Caves of Androzani'
Oh wondrous Caves! How deep & dark thine are!
I watched the DVD of Androzani a couple of days ago while I was in bed with a heavy cold (or perhaps lite-flu would be a more apt description). It was a first time viewing of the story on DVD for me & the first time I've watched it in several years. I was impressed at how well it held up. I was worried that its high standing in fan esteem was largely due to the ho-hum quality of many of the stories surrounding it. Thankfully, it seems, not so.
Firstly the faults. Nicola Bryant struggles with some awkward & unlikely dialouge. The scene early in episode 1 examining the lumps of fused silica where she fumbles with the terrible 'reticular vector gauge' joke, to which the Doctor replies sarcasm is not her stong point, is particularly cringeworthy. Her accent falters at times too, in that same 'joke', a very English sounding 'glaa-ass' grates in her faux-yank drawl. The characterisation of Peri was a troubling mess from the start really. The production team didn't seem to know what to do with her. There was half-baked botany bollocks, clunky American cliche crap & not much else. That aside, she does quite well in Caves & I much prefer her here than in 'Twin Dilemma' & most of season 22. She is quite sweet & innocent, a far cry from all the dreadful nagging & sarcasm she was lumbered with later.
The greatest fault however is the 'Mire Beast'; an absolutely wretched creation. It serves no important purpose & could just about be excised from the story all together by a nifty re-edit. It wears a cloak too?! What were they thinking? The caves themselves don't quite convince either. Studio floors with a bit of dirt thrown about don't cut it I'm afraid.
The pros? There are a wondrous multitude. Morgus is simply superb. Every deadpan line is a sweetmeat delicacy! Lines to camera almost never work, but Normington not only gets away with it, he leaves me wanting more. He turns the dastardly villian cliche inside out. There is no maniacal laughter or rubbing of hands; just simmering, unblinking malevolence. Stotz, Chellack & Salateen are all suitably shifty & self interested to varying degrees. The scene where Salateen laughingly realises his life will be spared by the Doctor & Peri having contracted Spectrox Toxaemia is particularly striking.
As with 'Resurrection of The Daleks', we have here a very dark story with very few (if any) sympathetic support characters, but Caves is all together more involving. Holmes' characters are more deeply textured & far more fascinating. Resurrection's convoluted nastiness just leaves me cold, but the unrelenting bleakness of Caves draws me in & leaves me breathless at times. Even the smaller parts add further richness to the piece; the icy & viciously efficient Krau Timmin a case in point. Her little side-plot victory over Morgus, dressing him down with her feet on his desk, is a marvellous touch.
Jek, like Morgus, is a masterful villian. Gable's voice & gestures are perfect. He conveys the complex character & its many contradictions using only these things & one eye. Once or twice he teeters on the edge of OTT, but always pulls back just in time. He & Morgus are a formidable duo. It is so rare in the history of the show to behold two classic humanoid villians in one story. Most stories have trouble raising one that is in any way memorable. Jek's love for Peri's innocence & beauty, which in the end almost redeems him, is beautifully played & utterly believable as she lays sweating, suffocating & barely conscious. Gable plays the desperation wonderfully; feverishly mopping her brow & trying to comfort her while the Doctor hunts for the bats milk.
Which brings me to Davison. I hope I haven't exhausted my superlative supply because he deserves to have lots of them shining on his sitting room mantle. The smiling, optimistic & energetic Doctor of early Davison era has been replaced by a stone dry, impatient, dour & no-nonsense demeanour that suits the story perfectly. Davison gives his swansong absolutely everything he has. His ailing Doctor, whether spitting out a very hard to deliver (but stunningly believable) "I'm not going to let you stop me now!", or panting & staggering through endless dunes while being chased & shot at, is compelling to watch.
I was impresssed by the effectiveness of the scenes of the Doctor being chased through the dunes & later carrying Peri back to the TARDIS. The grainy film stock & grey skies combine with the rumbling soundtrack to conjur some of the most striking scenes in the history of the show. This in an era that generally suffered from cheap glossy videotape, garish costumes & ham-fisted overhead lighting. Hats off to (Graeme) Harper! You forget for several minutes at a time this was an early/mid 80's JNT story! The incidental music, although uniformly strong through JNT's first few seasons, is particularly atmospheric & foreboding in Caves.
The Davison/ C. Baker regeneration is probably the greatest in the history of the show. The tension of the moment was never greater before or since. The Doctor saves Peri on the point of death & collapses with the immortal, fearful line that Davison nails; "Is this death? feels different this time". The Master's malicious taunts followed by the 'white noise' cacophany is the stuff of fan boy foam & froth. Stunning. Even Colin's brief moment shows qualified promise. He is immediately arrogant & salty, but with no warning of the mugging, bickering buffoon that would emerge in the worst moments of the following season. So not even the last scene can spoil the grandeur of Caves.
Caves...thou art shining with glowing phosphoresecent glory!....
Lucozer..
I watched the DVD of Androzani a couple of days ago while I was in bed with a heavy cold (or perhaps lite-flu would be a more apt description). It was a first time viewing of the story on DVD for me & the first time I've watched it in several years. I was impressed at how well it held up. I was worried that its high standing in fan esteem was largely due to the ho-hum quality of many of the stories surrounding it. Thankfully, it seems, not so.
Firstly the faults. Nicola Bryant struggles with some awkward & unlikely dialouge. The scene early in episode 1 examining the lumps of fused silica where she fumbles with the terrible 'reticular vector gauge' joke, to which the Doctor replies sarcasm is not her stong point, is particularly cringeworthy. Her accent falters at times too, in that same 'joke', a very English sounding 'glaa-ass' grates in her faux-yank drawl. The characterisation of Peri was a troubling mess from the start really. The production team didn't seem to know what to do with her. There was half-baked botany bollocks, clunky American cliche crap & not much else. That aside, she does quite well in Caves & I much prefer her here than in 'Twin Dilemma' & most of season 22. She is quite sweet & innocent, a far cry from all the dreadful nagging & sarcasm she was lumbered with later.
The greatest fault however is the 'Mire Beast'; an absolutely wretched creation. It serves no important purpose & could just about be excised from the story all together by a nifty re-edit. It wears a cloak too?! What were they thinking? The caves themselves don't quite convince either. Studio floors with a bit of dirt thrown about don't cut it I'm afraid.
The pros? There are a wondrous multitude. Morgus is simply superb. Every deadpan line is a sweetmeat delicacy! Lines to camera almost never work, but Normington not only gets away with it, he leaves me wanting more. He turns the dastardly villian cliche inside out. There is no maniacal laughter or rubbing of hands; just simmering, unblinking malevolence. Stotz, Chellack & Salateen are all suitably shifty & self interested to varying degrees. The scene where Salateen laughingly realises his life will be spared by the Doctor & Peri having contracted Spectrox Toxaemia is particularly striking.
As with 'Resurrection of The Daleks', we have here a very dark story with very few (if any) sympathetic support characters, but Caves is all together more involving. Holmes' characters are more deeply textured & far more fascinating. Resurrection's convoluted nastiness just leaves me cold, but the unrelenting bleakness of Caves draws me in & leaves me breathless at times. Even the smaller parts add further richness to the piece; the icy & viciously efficient Krau Timmin a case in point. Her little side-plot victory over Morgus, dressing him down with her feet on his desk, is a marvellous touch.
Jek, like Morgus, is a masterful villian. Gable's voice & gestures are perfect. He conveys the complex character & its many contradictions using only these things & one eye. Once or twice he teeters on the edge of OTT, but always pulls back just in time. He & Morgus are a formidable duo. It is so rare in the history of the show to behold two classic humanoid villians in one story. Most stories have trouble raising one that is in any way memorable. Jek's love for Peri's innocence & beauty, which in the end almost redeems him, is beautifully played & utterly believable as she lays sweating, suffocating & barely conscious. Gable plays the desperation wonderfully; feverishly mopping her brow & trying to comfort her while the Doctor hunts for the bats milk.
Which brings me to Davison. I hope I haven't exhausted my superlative supply because he deserves to have lots of them shining on his sitting room mantle. The smiling, optimistic & energetic Doctor of early Davison era has been replaced by a stone dry, impatient, dour & no-nonsense demeanour that suits the story perfectly. Davison gives his swansong absolutely everything he has. His ailing Doctor, whether spitting out a very hard to deliver (but stunningly believable) "I'm not going to let you stop me now!", or panting & staggering through endless dunes while being chased & shot at, is compelling to watch.
I was impresssed by the effectiveness of the scenes of the Doctor being chased through the dunes & later carrying Peri back to the TARDIS. The grainy film stock & grey skies combine with the rumbling soundtrack to conjur some of the most striking scenes in the history of the show. This in an era that generally suffered from cheap glossy videotape, garish costumes & ham-fisted overhead lighting. Hats off to (Graeme) Harper! You forget for several minutes at a time this was an early/mid 80's JNT story! The incidental music, although uniformly strong through JNT's first few seasons, is particularly atmospheric & foreboding in Caves.
The Davison/ C. Baker regeneration is probably the greatest in the history of the show. The tension of the moment was never greater before or since. The Doctor saves Peri on the point of death & collapses with the immortal, fearful line that Davison nails; "Is this death? feels different this time". The Master's malicious taunts followed by the 'white noise' cacophany is the stuff of fan boy foam & froth. Stunning. Even Colin's brief moment shows qualified promise. He is immediately arrogant & salty, but with no warning of the mugging, bickering buffoon that would emerge in the worst moments of the following season. So not even the last scene can spoil the grandeur of Caves.
Caves...thou art shining with glowing phosphoresecent glory!....
Lucozer..
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
The Lucozer's first whiff of spring!!
The following people/ beings can roll the Lucozer's wild oats any time they like!!!
The list is not exhaustive, but I'd be utterly exhausted....
Ian Chesterton (circa 'Marco Polo')
Marco Polo (circa 'Marco Polo'?!)
Steven Taylor (circa 'Dalek's Masterplan')
Brett Vyon (around about then as well)
Jamie McCrimmon (circa 'The Mind Robber' in the void!)
The Karkus (in 'The Mind Robber', right after Zoe has made him submit!)
Alt. universe Sgt. Benton (circa 'Inferno'...I like 'em mean sometimes)
Irongron (in the 'Time Warrior' after a jolly good scrub)
Harry Sullivan (circa 'Terror Of The Zygons', in the barn, with the pitchfork!)
Romana 1 (circa 'Ribos Operation'...raise that eyebrow mistress!....please!!)
Kimus (from 'Pirate Planet'...I would like to materialise around him)
The 5th Doctor (circa 'Black Orchid' in the casual silk robe)
The Cyber Leader (circa 'Earthshock'...that voice...that expressive silver chin!)
Mr Mariner (from 'Enlightenment'...is that weird? probably)
Dibber (with his 'heavy artillery' in 'Mysterious Planet')
'That guy with the motorbike' (circa 'Delta & The Bannermen')
The Destroyer (from 'Battlefield'..with a bag over his head of course!)
Capt. Jack (circa 'Utopia' with those big cylinders!!)
Capt. Jack Harkness (the real one from Torchwood ep 'Capt. Jack...', phwooaaaaarrr!)
The PA to the Prime Minister (from 'Christmas Invasion')
Ianto Jones (with a stiff scotch on a silver tray)
'That kidnapper guy' (from 'Gridlock')
Riley Vashtee (from '42'..'Whoops, I jettisoned our capsule, how ever will we spend
our last moments alive?...hmmm!)
Lucozer...
The list is not exhaustive, but I'd be utterly exhausted....
Ian Chesterton (circa 'Marco Polo')
Marco Polo (circa 'Marco Polo'?!)
Steven Taylor (circa 'Dalek's Masterplan')
Brett Vyon (around about then as well)
Jamie McCrimmon (circa 'The Mind Robber' in the void!)
The Karkus (in 'The Mind Robber', right after Zoe has made him submit!)
Alt. universe Sgt. Benton (circa 'Inferno'...I like 'em mean sometimes)
Irongron (in the 'Time Warrior' after a jolly good scrub)
Harry Sullivan (circa 'Terror Of The Zygons', in the barn, with the pitchfork!)
Romana 1 (circa 'Ribos Operation'...raise that eyebrow mistress!....please!!)
Kimus (from 'Pirate Planet'...I would like to materialise around him)
The 5th Doctor (circa 'Black Orchid' in the casual silk robe)
The Cyber Leader (circa 'Earthshock'...that voice...that expressive silver chin!)
Mr Mariner (from 'Enlightenment'...is that weird? probably)
Dibber (with his 'heavy artillery' in 'Mysterious Planet')
'That guy with the motorbike' (circa 'Delta & The Bannermen')
The Destroyer (from 'Battlefield'..with a bag over his head of course!)
Capt. Jack (circa 'Utopia' with those big cylinders!!)
Capt. Jack Harkness (the real one from Torchwood ep 'Capt. Jack...', phwooaaaaarrr!)
The PA to the Prime Minister (from 'Christmas Invasion')
Ianto Jones (with a stiff scotch on a silver tray)
'That kidnapper guy' (from 'Gridlock')
Riley Vashtee (from '42'..'Whoops, I jettisoned our capsule, how ever will we spend
our last moments alive?...hmmm!)
Lucozer...
Sunday, August 12, 2007
The Lucozer's little yawny list of 'yeah...whatever!'
Hopefully nothing too obvious here & hopefully a few 'what the's??'...
Revelation of The Daleks
Carnival Of Monsters
Army Of Ghosts
DJ Muzza G
The Racnoss
Brain of Morbius
MC Keff Mac
Shakespeare Code
The Visitation
Master Simm
Rose/10
Tomb Of The Cybermen (sorry Pat, I still loves ya baby)
Eric S.
Idiot's Lantern
Christmas specials
Modern Cybermen
Lucozer lists
Evil robot santas (no more Russell!!!)
School Reunion
Doctor Who 2006
Yawn, I can't even be bothered thinking of any more. This 'uncredible bunch' have made me snoozy & apathetic.....
Zzzzzzzzz.... Lucozzzzzzer.
Revelation of The Daleks
Carnival Of Monsters
Army Of Ghosts
DJ Muzza G
The Racnoss
Brain of Morbius
MC Keff Mac
Shakespeare Code
The Visitation
Master Simm
Rose/10
Tomb Of The Cybermen (sorry Pat, I still loves ya baby)
Eric S.
Idiot's Lantern
Christmas specials
Modern Cybermen
Lucozer lists
Evil robot santas (no more Russell!!!)
School Reunion
Doctor Who 2006
Yawn, I can't even be bothered thinking of any more. This 'uncredible bunch' have made me snoozy & apathetic.....
Zzzzzzzzz.... Lucozzzzzzer.
The Co-Pilot whacks his lyrical (with Lucozer by his side)
Hey babes.
Been well busy piloting tribute flights and polishing off Nimon horns...such is the life of a poorly Skonnan. Haven't had time to post anything meaningful.
As I still don't have much time, I'll just go ahead and post something that's not meaningful...
Secret Sippers
Unstoffe and Garron "Come now my boyyyy...don't let me lose faith in youuuu"
Vizlor T. & the wet vet on the beach (No-one even noticed the nubile, near nude Peri)
Mike? Mike Yathethth...? and Thththtsmith, Dr Jon Ththmith
Leththth-bridge Ththstewart and his Ththstalwart "UNIT(!!!!)"
Cyril and his funny Valentine "Beware...beware....beware....beware...be where?"
Cardinal "9" out of 10" Borusa had "AMPLE opportunity" with Runththible the fatuousth
The Lucozer (!) and the "Blessed" Yrcanothth
Seththth from Annethtth & the Thskonnan Co-Pilot "Thsuck my tribute Weakling thscum!"
"Tiny tower" Toberman and the Thththyber "Controller"!
ThthV7 and "Darling" Dask (Let me put my thsonic thscrewdriver in your super "voc")
Vince and Reubin...couldn't get enough "Rutan" (if you know what I mean...)
Hindle & Sanders "A fire-brating tongue licking me all over" (Hmmm "Kinda" kinky)
"Mmmmm"-Packer and "Big" Toby Vaughan
The Salubrious Chang and Marvelous Magnus (show us your Pee king Humunculous)
Irongron and Lynx "Hey Pig Face you've got a nice probic vent"
The Tththththtthtilurains and the Ththththeeee Devilththth
Glitththth and Dibber "Hey Dibber, how about "blowing" up my black light converter?"
Gilbert M, Candyman and Joththephph Ththeee "I rescued him from "Vasalip" (PLEASE?!!!!!!!)
Stay tuned for "Friends of Bruth Forsyth" featuring Lizth Thshaw and Nurse Lammond.
Kisses ahoy!
Love Co P (with a little help from the Lucozer)
All of the above are purely slanderous and pr
Been well busy piloting tribute flights and polishing off Nimon horns...such is the life of a poorly Skonnan. Haven't had time to post anything meaningful.
As I still don't have much time, I'll just go ahead and post something that's not meaningful...
Secret Sippers
Unstoffe and Garron "Come now my boyyyy...don't let me lose faith in youuuu"
Vizlor T. & the wet vet on the beach (No-one even noticed the nubile, near nude Peri)
Mike? Mike Yathethth...? and Thththtsmith, Dr Jon Ththmith
Leththth-bridge Ththstewart and his Ththstalwart "UNIT(!!!!)"
Cyril and his funny Valentine "Beware...beware....beware....beware...be where?"
Cardinal "9" out of 10" Borusa had "AMPLE opportunity" with Runththible the fatuousth
The Lucozer (!) and the "Blessed" Yrcanothth
Seththth from Annethtth & the Thskonnan Co-Pilot "Thsuck my tribute Weakling thscum!"
"Tiny tower" Toberman and the Thththyber "Controller"!
ThthV7 and "Darling" Dask (Let me put my thsonic thscrewdriver in your super "voc")
Vince and Reubin...couldn't get enough "Rutan" (if you know what I mean...)
Hindle & Sanders "A fire-brating tongue licking me all over" (Hmmm "Kinda" kinky)
"Mmmmm"-Packer and "Big" Toby Vaughan
The Salubrious Chang and Marvelous Magnus (show us your Pee king Humunculous)
Irongron and Lynx "Hey Pig Face you've got a nice probic vent"
The Tththththtthtilurains and the Ththththeeee Devilththth
Glitththth and Dibber "Hey Dibber, how about "blowing" up my black light converter?"
Gilbert M, Candyman and Joththephph Ththeee "I rescued him from "Vasalip" (PLEASE?!!!!!!!)
Stay tuned for "Friends of Bruth Forsyth" featuring Lizth Thshaw and Nurse Lammond.
Kisses ahoy!
Love Co P (with a little help from the Lucozer)
All of the above are purely slanderous and pr
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
The Doctor's Favourite Companions! (McGann/ Eccleston/ Tennant eras)
Grace Holloway - A ho hum character played fairly well, but who cares? The movie was a travesty with Eric Roberts the poison cherry atop a steaming turd. Don't mind him in Heroes though...
Rose Tyler - Hard to wrestle with. She was such a huge focus, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Rose was played very well by Billie Piper, but the character should have left at the end of Parting of the Ways. How do you top someone absorbing the vortex, seeing all space & time & rescuing two people she loves from certain death? YOU DON'T!... that's how you do it. It was a huge comedown with Rose treading water all through season 2. The giggly & awkward relationship with Tennant didn't work anywhere near as well as the intense Eccleston/ Piper dynamic. Her increasingly flippant & know-all attitude started to grate too. That said, her farewell was marvellous & Army Of Ghosts/ Doomsday did give Piper a meatier role. A bridge too far with season 2.
Mickey Smith - Mickey improved over time, partly due to much needed character development & partly due to Noel Clarke's performances lifting after a shaky start. I like that he toughened up & gave up on Rose. I didn't like the silly dialouge he was always lumbered with..."Mickey Smiff!, defendin' the Erf!!". Supposedly he's returning in season 4. If it's without Rose & if he's got his blonde friend in tow, then MAYBE it will be ok...
Jackie Tyler - the 'mouthy Mum from the high rises' stereotype was a bit tired, but Camille played her pretty well. As with Rose, the season 2 stuff didn't work as well for Jackie, but I'm a bit of a softie for Jackie even though I don't believe in 'Domestic Who' generally.
Adam Mitchell - I suppose since I included the briefest of companions Katarina, I should include Adam. He was a bit wet for my liking & only competently played. It was a good decision not to keep him on after the 'Long Game', but then why even bother to carry him over from 'Dalek'. They could have just dropped him off between adventures. It felt pretty pointless.
Capt. Jack Harkness - A walking *^#" with a cheesy vaseline smile. Barrowman isn't the greatest actor & some of Jack's dialouge is often grimace inducing, but I like him. I really shouldn't. He's like a big bag of frosted peanuts. You know..the purple ones. They are bad for the teeth & sickly sweet...but you keep eating them. Once you get past the purple stuff though, there is a wholesome peanut inside. Where am I going with this? I don't even know. He had some lovely moments with Eccleston & his scene with Tennant through the glass in Utopia was absolutely phenomenal. Barrowman got it just so! Oh damn it. Even his OTT "here we go again" shoot 'em up in LOTTL was fun. He was shooting from the crotch as only he can do. Leela for the men's men. Fab!
Martha - Sexy, stylish, warm, genuine. Freema seems to be all these things too. Sadly, another potential seasons worth of gradual, inspired character development was rushed & ruined by Russell's ridiculous end of season panto. They can't go back now though. Martha had her 'character development' in a 30 second montage of her trudging through sludge & sleet for 'a year'. Tut tus Russ! Now here's how to fix it...The finale was all a feverish dream; Martha was knocked out by a blow to the head by one of the futurekind in Utopia. Now take 2...Here's what REALLY happened...
That's it...
The Lucozer
Rose Tyler - Hard to wrestle with. She was such a huge focus, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Rose was played very well by Billie Piper, but the character should have left at the end of Parting of the Ways. How do you top someone absorbing the vortex, seeing all space & time & rescuing two people she loves from certain death? YOU DON'T!... that's how you do it. It was a huge comedown with Rose treading water all through season 2. The giggly & awkward relationship with Tennant didn't work anywhere near as well as the intense Eccleston/ Piper dynamic. Her increasingly flippant & know-all attitude started to grate too. That said, her farewell was marvellous & Army Of Ghosts/ Doomsday did give Piper a meatier role. A bridge too far with season 2.
Mickey Smith - Mickey improved over time, partly due to much needed character development & partly due to Noel Clarke's performances lifting after a shaky start. I like that he toughened up & gave up on Rose. I didn't like the silly dialouge he was always lumbered with..."Mickey Smiff!, defendin' the Erf!!". Supposedly he's returning in season 4. If it's without Rose & if he's got his blonde friend in tow, then MAYBE it will be ok...
Jackie Tyler - the 'mouthy Mum from the high rises' stereotype was a bit tired, but Camille played her pretty well. As with Rose, the season 2 stuff didn't work as well for Jackie, but I'm a bit of a softie for Jackie even though I don't believe in 'Domestic Who' generally.
Adam Mitchell - I suppose since I included the briefest of companions Katarina, I should include Adam. He was a bit wet for my liking & only competently played. It was a good decision not to keep him on after the 'Long Game', but then why even bother to carry him over from 'Dalek'. They could have just dropped him off between adventures. It felt pretty pointless.
Capt. Jack Harkness - A walking *^#" with a cheesy vaseline smile. Barrowman isn't the greatest actor & some of Jack's dialouge is often grimace inducing, but I like him. I really shouldn't. He's like a big bag of frosted peanuts. You know..the purple ones. They are bad for the teeth & sickly sweet...but you keep eating them. Once you get past the purple stuff though, there is a wholesome peanut inside. Where am I going with this? I don't even know. He had some lovely moments with Eccleston & his scene with Tennant through the glass in Utopia was absolutely phenomenal. Barrowman got it just so! Oh damn it. Even his OTT "here we go again" shoot 'em up in LOTTL was fun. He was shooting from the crotch as only he can do. Leela for the men's men. Fab!
Martha - Sexy, stylish, warm, genuine. Freema seems to be all these things too. Sadly, another potential seasons worth of gradual, inspired character development was rushed & ruined by Russell's ridiculous end of season panto. They can't go back now though. Martha had her 'character development' in a 30 second montage of her trudging through sludge & sleet for 'a year'. Tut tus Russ! Now here's how to fix it...The finale was all a feverish dream; Martha was knocked out by a blow to the head by one of the futurekind in Utopia. Now take 2...Here's what REALLY happened...
That's it...
The Lucozer
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Janet 'Fourth Wall' Fielding & the ebullient Malcolm Hulke!
Hi folks,
The Co-Pilot & I failed to produce our long promised Season 3 summary tome last weekend. What we did manage to do was scour youtube for two & a half hours, get some take-away Indian, drink about 15 beers between us & watch episode 1 of 'Resurrection Of The Daleks' with the commentary track on. All of which was fabulous. We are both very partial to a Janet 'Fourth Wall' Fielding commentary. The smoky cackle...the caustic wit...the actor-speak! Marvellous. She is rapidly becoming my favourite companion based on commentaries alone. Now if only BBC Worldwide could have given her a tray of hors d'oeuvres & a bottle of bubbly & let her loose on 'Timelash!' The thought makes me prickle with excitement...yet ultimately sigh at what could have been.
The Co-Pilot slipped the word 'ebullient' into conversation at one point. A favourite word of mine that I don't hear employed all that often. I was surprised to find that Malcolm Hulke sprang to mind when he said it. Why Malc? I feel as if the person I have most heard referred to as ebullient over the years is Mr Hulke. Can anyone enlighten me as to why this should be? Is that the stock-standard phrase used in the Who-niverse to describe the man & his talents? Hmmm!?
Looks like next weekend for our season 3 thoughts...Until then...adieu..
Lucozer..
The Co-Pilot & I failed to produce our long promised Season 3 summary tome last weekend. What we did manage to do was scour youtube for two & a half hours, get some take-away Indian, drink about 15 beers between us & watch episode 1 of 'Resurrection Of The Daleks' with the commentary track on. All of which was fabulous. We are both very partial to a Janet 'Fourth Wall' Fielding commentary. The smoky cackle...the caustic wit...the actor-speak! Marvellous. She is rapidly becoming my favourite companion based on commentaries alone. Now if only BBC Worldwide could have given her a tray of hors d'oeuvres & a bottle of bubbly & let her loose on 'Timelash!' The thought makes me prickle with excitement...yet ultimately sigh at what could have been.
The Co-Pilot slipped the word 'ebullient' into conversation at one point. A favourite word of mine that I don't hear employed all that often. I was surprised to find that Malcolm Hulke sprang to mind when he said it. Why Malc? I feel as if the person I have most heard referred to as ebullient over the years is Mr Hulke. Can anyone enlighten me as to why this should be? Is that the stock-standard phrase used in the Who-niverse to describe the man & his talents? Hmmm!?
Looks like next weekend for our season 3 thoughts...Until then...adieu..
Lucozer..
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