City of Death and mastering the cut-tag
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cyphomandraWatching old school Doctor Who eps, as a form of procrastination. The last time I tried this, at least two doctors ago, I was watching them on video, which is a technology currently unavailable to me; this is unfortunate, as I never finished the Black Guardian arc and the BBC DVD release schedule mocks any plans I had to rectify this. Numbering system from the Wikipaedia list, initials of Doctor in question because I'm not memorising all that chronology, nor am I about to look it up each time for reference.
City of Death (TB, 105). Excellent episode. I remember bits of this from TV, although interestingly what stuck was the multiple Mona Lisas and the Doctor writing “This is a Fake” on the backs of six of them, and I retained absolutely nothing about the rest of the plot (Paris, the last of the Jaggeroth, Del Grant from the Blakes’ Seven episode Countdown showing up as private detective Duggan, chickens). Great dialogue, great location shots (the Doctor Whos keep surprising me with their location shooting, which looks genuine in a way that the current ones don’t. I’m concerned that I’ve somehow internalised 1970s exteriors as the one true reality or something), great interaction between the fourth doctor and Romana. Plus, John Cleese as the sort of person I constantly expect to encounter in modern art galleries, the disadvantage being that the next time I go to an Anselm Kiefer exhibition I’ll be expecting something to dematerialise half-way through.
I can see why people loved the fourth doctor, and also why I didn’t – I was an oddly conservative child, in some ways, and Tom Baker does play the Doctor as alien in a way that Jon Pertwee and Peter Davison didn’t. Plus, everyone else liked him best.
City of Death (TB, 105). Excellent episode. I remember bits of this from TV, although interestingly what stuck was the multiple Mona Lisas and the Doctor writing “This is a Fake” on the backs of six of them, and I retained absolutely nothing about the rest of the plot (Paris, the last of the Jaggeroth, Del Grant from the Blakes’ Seven episode Countdown showing up as private detective Duggan, chickens). Great dialogue, great location shots (the Doctor Whos keep surprising me with their location shooting, which looks genuine in a way that the current ones don’t. I’m concerned that I’ve somehow internalised 1970s exteriors as the one true reality or something), great interaction between the fourth doctor and Romana. Plus, John Cleese as the sort of person I constantly expect to encounter in modern art galleries, the disadvantage being that the next time I go to an Anselm Kiefer exhibition I’ll be expecting something to dematerialise half-way through.
I can see why people loved the fourth doctor, and also why I didn’t – I was an oddly conservative child, in some ways, and Tom Baker does play the Doctor as alien in a way that Jon Pertwee and Peter Davison didn’t. Plus, everyone else liked him best.
