I actually rewatched this a couple of months ago as BBC World Entertainment (or whatever they call it) showed it a few months ago (for the first time locally in Dubai). Definitely a tale of two halves – first half is great. The second half is amongst the worst Who ever (I’m probably only slightly exaggerating my opinion). It was also the first…[Read more]

@Jimthefish

Conceptually I rather like the idea that the Daleks couldn’t really be bothered to deal with their slave functionary (ies presumably) in “person”; it makes sense to me that they would have total disdain for their slaves, that they prefer to spent their time on their X-box equivalent playing Call of Duty (insert your favourite here)…[Read more]

One question though

Does anyone know whether Louis Marks chose near eastern names for the guerillas for a symbolic reason ? (Anat, Boaz, Shura, and Monia are all Hebrew or Arabic in origin)

@Jimthefish

starting with Remembrance of the Daleks or can you take UNIT back further than the 1950s ? (mind you that was a deliberate cheat).

@Phaseshift

Thanks.

I always thought that Mike Yates character suffered for two reasons:

a) It was just never quite that well written, probably because they wanted/needed someone who ranked between the Brig and the troops and they didn’t really know how to handle it given the budgetary constraints (A captain would most likely have several…[Read more]

@Phaseshift

Thanks for the thought. I’m at work currently although I’ll be back in London in early June when (hopefully) the medical profession will commence replumbing the piping in my brain. So far I’ve had 4 years worth of x-ray dosage in 2 months (with more to come) so I’m probably starting to glow a bit.

I remember taking quite a dislike…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip

Thanks you, I won’t bore you with the details, except to say I don’t recommend it as a way to take 3 weeks off work !

Cheers

Nick

@JanetteB @Bluesqueakpip

Ah, that sounds much more minor than I thought from your description. I have the DVD for Earthshock where the default version plays with new weapons effects instead of the original (better looking but still pretty poor as there’s a limit to how much tinkering they could do to the original). Tinkering around the edges that…[Read more]

@JanetteB

That’s an interesting question to raise. On the whole, If I was voting I’d vote for the original almost always. Whilst some of the special effect shots are pretty cringe worthy these days, I think you’d often need to redo significant amounts of other screen time (all the blue screen stuff for example) if you’re going to address the…[Read more]