Showing posts with label SUMMARY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SUMMARY. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
My dear Wuundanougats!
The Co-Pilot & I have spent the last couple of weeks ruminating over the season 3 finale & the state of our beloved 'Doctor Who' in general. This coming sunday we will be presenting our joint summary tome. Apologies for the delay, we have been polishing our superlatives (didn't take very long) & sharpening our damnatives (took somewhat longer). See you soon chums...
Lucozer....
Saturday, March 31, 2007
SOME THOUGHTS FROM THE CO-PILOT RE: THE JON PERTWEE YEARS 1970-1974
Considering how successful Jon's first season was - 3 absolute all-time corkers out of 4 - it is a massive crying shame the direction the Letts/ Dicks team took the show in. I like many things about their style - the environmental issues, the Buddhist themes, the advent of the Master etc. However, they unfortunately transformed the nature of the show from gritty, realistic, scientific & frightening to a fun, run around show. They made a massive boo-boo in employing Katy Manning & turning UNIT into a family unit instead of a military one.
Imagine if Peter Bryant, Derek Sherwin & Caroline John had stayed for Season 8, who knows how fabulous the show might have been? Anyway, it's easy to pick faults with other people's work in hindsight, but I can't help but think that Doctor Who could have gone in another direction all together had Sherwin & Bryant stayed around to develop their ideas.
Many of the Pertwee stories could have done with tighter & more inspired direction. The padding is perhaps the reverse of the McCoy era problem where too many half developed ideas were slap dashed together in only 3 parts.
Overall, Jon's tenure can be roughly split into three sections based on quality. His earliest four or five stories, which are generally his best. The next section contains about 6 or 7 stories which are also fairly good although not classics & the final group of about 12 stories is fairly patchy - with the best being passable & the worst being downright awful. I was surprised at this as I thought that Jon's era (like Peter's) was fairly evenly balanced...
The Co-Pilot
Imagine if Peter Bryant, Derek Sherwin & Caroline John had stayed for Season 8, who knows how fabulous the show might have been? Anyway, it's easy to pick faults with other people's work in hindsight, but I can't help but think that Doctor Who could have gone in another direction all together had Sherwin & Bryant stayed around to develop their ideas.
Many of the Pertwee stories could have done with tighter & more inspired direction. The padding is perhaps the reverse of the McCoy era problem where too many half developed ideas were slap dashed together in only 3 parts.
Overall, Jon's tenure can be roughly split into three sections based on quality. His earliest four or five stories, which are generally his best. The next section contains about 6 or 7 stories which are also fairly good although not classics & the final group of about 12 stories is fairly patchy - with the best being passable & the worst being downright awful. I was surprised at this as I thought that Jon's era (like Peter's) was fairly evenly balanced...
The Co-Pilot
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