Cyber-Man!

Post by **Best First** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 4:28 pm

by which you mean it plays like one long ep?

those silly men.

cheers for the heads up.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:48 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:Tennant reminds me of Davison a bit, must be his boyish enthusiasm!

And the way you could imagine them both saying things like "Never mind. Best foot forward, eh? Whoop! Mind that pool of blood. Blood? That's brilliant! Means there's hope for defeating this unkillable thing Hmm?"

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 7:12 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:
Legion wrote:Lumic: "FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!"
Terribly OTT wasn't it?

Yes, mind you i thought Roger Lloyd Pack was terrably miss cast in this. I reckon it would have been much better if he and Don Warrington had swapped roles! Don's excellent, shame he had to go and die and all.

spiderfrommars wrote:Was I the only one that thought the split second 'horned demon' on the console in the latest ep was a bit comical?

Er, yes? I loved it, very spooky. What with that, poor Scooti's "trip outdoors" and the "don't turn around" bit, i thought it was great. A bit let down by some of Billi's performance i thought (or maybe just Rose's character rather than Billie herself...)

Best First wrote: yeah - it was intereesting to watch Davison and compare notes to the more modern Doctors, plus i liked how layered the plot was, although it seems a bit cheap in some ways that

SPOILERS
(Do we need 'em for a 20+ year old story? I'll leave 'em in but...)

everyone dies at the end, in some ways the tone would have been darker if someone had profitted or been left to pick up the pieces. The Lava beast was a big waste of time as well. On the other hand the regeneration was excellent (nice Master cameo) as was the dark edge they applied to it with Baker essentially seeming to reject his former incarnation with his opening lines and the ominous 'feels different this time' comment from Davison as he passed.

Androzani is an incredably bleak tale for Dr Who, mind you Davison's last season had some pretty dark stuff in it through out, what with the body count at the end of Resurrection of the Daleks and Kamelion's actions in Planet of Fire, the only way was down! (and i don't just mean down Ms Bryant's cleavage during the regeneration)....

Best First wrote:Made me want to watch the next one.

The Twin Dilemma?! Ugh... don't bother. Watch the beginning post-regen scenes between ColDoc and Peri but don't bother with the rest, it's awful. An absymal end to an otherwise great season...

Best First wrote:Just got Pyramids of mars to go now.

Now, that is a total classic!! and possibly good timing as a certain actor is in the current two parter (or at least his voice is) too!

Post by **Best First** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:37 pm

i left the spoiler stuff in cos i hadn't seen it before (that i could recall) so i guessed some others might have too.

i really want to see all the old Dalek and Cybermen stuff, does anyone know a complete listing?

Bouncelot · Post by **Bouncelot** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:39 pm

Best First wrote:SPOILERS

everyone dies at the end, in some ways the tone would have been darker if someone had profitted or been left to pick up the pieces. The Lava beast was a big waste of time as well. On the other hand the regeneration was excellent (nice Master cameo) as was the dark edge they applied to it with Baker essentially seeming to reject his former incarnation with his opening lines and the ominous 'feels different this time' comment from Davison as he passed. Made me want to watch the next one.

Didn't Timmin (or whatever her name was - the girl on the other planet) survive? Though the best thing about the next story is that Colin Baker attempts to strangle Peri.

Oh, and the second half of the Cyberman story was style over substance - the Cybermen are big clanky and numerous, but the plot is relatively weak.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:42 pm

Timmin, yeah, i suppose, but she was a bit of a bolt on wasn't she?

as an aside Lana Lang is an annoying slag women.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:03 am

I'm currently going through Smallville on DVD. Just finished season 1 - a long way to go! Lana liked to have her cake and eat it as far as I saw.

Here's a complete Doctor Who episode listing:
http://www.gallifreyone.com/epguide.php

There's some decent Dalek stories available on DVD:
The Daleks (part of The Beginning box set)
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Genesis of the Daleks
Resurrection of the Daleks
Revelation of the Daleks
Remembrance of the Daleks

I remember when I was asking all these questions on here...