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@dentarthurdent

Your lack of knowledge of classic Who is disgusting! You need a viewing plan of various really important episodes to watch for your homework. I think you should start with “An Unearthly Child”, “The Daleks”, “The Dalek Invasion of Earth”, and “The Web Planet”. After that, watch “The Chase” and “The Time Meddler”. These are all First Doctor stories. Watching that era filled in a lot of gaps for me. “The Web Planet” is a more realistic story set on a planet completely different to Earth, without an Earth type atmosphere or humanoid natives. Out of these stories, only “An Unearthly Child” isn’t available on BBC iPlayer, so you’ve got no excuse! BBC iPlayer allows anyone to view it so long as their IP address is a residential UK IP address, not for business, but this can’t carry on indefinitely. There are plenty of alternatives which will allow you to watch classic Doctor Who and even The Flash (1990) without getting the episodes confused with NuWho or The Flash (2014).

 

[Dentarthurdent @dentarthurdent]

@translatorcircuit    That’s the first time I’ve been called disgusting today!    I really, deeply, don’t care.   And if you’re trying to tell me which episodes to watch that makes me almost determined not to.   Sorry ’bout that, I can be a perverse bastard when I want to be.   (That was ‘perverse’, not ‘perverted’.   No, wait….)

For example I’m sufficiently perverse not to like Tolkien much, either.

But as far as nuWho is concerned, I don’t think it’s necessary to be familiar with the old episodes to judge the quality of the writing or the standards of the production of new ones.  Continuity is a different matter, but the timeline is so long and convoluted by now that early Who has faded into the mists of time.   I’m not saying continuity can be disregarded, just that errors of continuity from last week or last year is a lot more obtrusive and significant than errors from oldWho.   IMNSHO.

As to which are the good and bad episodes, my opinions are almost the exact opposite of yours.   And so far as I can tell, there are more people here who share my views on that, than share yours.   If you’re not being deliberately contrary, it just shows that tastes can vary wildly.

Now I’m off to watch Red Dwarf.

[janetteB @janetteb]

@dentarthurdent. Well said.

We are all free to watch what we like. After all we watch Dr Who and Red Dwarf for pleasure and because we find enrichment in it. Our tastes do indeed vary to a degree. i love Tolkien for instance though I fully agree, it has some problems. It is of its time. Nothing is perfect and Old Who certainly is not.

Enjoy Red Dwarf. You can also listen to a (only slightly crazy) podcast review Here 

cheers

Janette

[Dentarthurdent @dentarthurdent]

@janetteb   Thanks for that.

That Red Dwarf podcast, sounds like you were all having fun   (I assume you were the janette mentioned?)

FWIW, I think they at their best around Seasons 3-5.    I just watched Back to Reality, which is as meta as you can get – the crew find that they’ve been in a total immersion video game for the last four years, they’ve just returned to Earth, then it turns out the returning to Earth was the illusion, induced by the Despair Squid.

But, of the early eps, probably my favourite is Kryten, with the three dead female crew – only Red Dwarf could make that funny.   “They’re dead.”   “Are you sure.”   “They’re all dead.”   “But I was only away for two minutes.”   Red Dwarf could never be accused of being tasteful.

Anyway, this is kind of Off Topic, not that anyone ever seems to worry too much.

[janetteB @janetteb]

@dentarthurdent Yes we do indeed have fun, too much fun sometimes.Everyone talks at once making it very difficult to edit. We do a Dr Who episode every year, (just to bring it back to topic), one for each Doctor. this year will be McCoy.

cheers

Janette

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