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mayamaia July 9 2012, 05:38:52 UTC
*big grin*

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nentari July 9 2012, 08:47:18 UTC
The thing that baffles me the most about the Doctor and Jo duplicates is that we never get to see it happen from the other POV. Of course, the novelization develops it, but it's not good enough for those who have only watched the televised version. I mean, I love it, but it makes it feel even more like a filler that way.

Benton has a captive on a stretcher simply vanish right in front of him. And yet all his expression says is "well...that happened...?"
He's clearly getting used to weird shit happening around him.

Is there a word for food-related cockblocking? Because that's what just happened between Benton and Yates. Poor Benton, he just wants foods.
As I said when I did a little picspammy reconstruction of that scene, if there's a reason people should hate on Yates, this would be it. I can forgive his actions during the Three/Sarah Jane days, but not taking food from that puppy of a person. *pets Benton* There there.

And I love how he prioritizes retrieving his cape over getting out before the aliens come in through the window. ( ... )

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classicwhoblog July 18 2012, 21:30:43 UTC
I think if anyone on Earth would get used to weird shit happening around them all the time, it would be UNIT folk. And yet they always seem to try the exact same tactics on every alien they face.

Also, I think this is the only Dalek story between the original and Destiny that wasn't written by Terry Nation. Somehow I think that would've made their presence a lot better. Then again, I watched the Making Of on the disk and they explained why he wasn't available for it.

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nentari July 18 2012, 21:57:06 UTC
I blame it on wishful thinking - the Brig dreams of one day facing an alien who isn't immune to bullets, after all.

Actually, Patrick Troughton's two Dalek stories (and my two favourite Dalek stories, followed closely by Genesis and Remembrance) were written by David Whitaker, so having Nation absent from the proceedings wasn't really anything new.

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cameca July 20 2012, 14:21:49 UTC
What Nentari said. David Whittaker all the way (which is why they're so good!)

Did Terry Nation write Planet of the Daleks and Death to the Daleks then? I used to know these things...

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cameca July 11 2012, 22:40:08 UTC
Well, you went through this one really fast!

"This won't do at all." YEAH, I HAD A FEELING THAT DUPLICATES OF YOU AND JO RANDOMLY APPEARING "WOULDN'T DO," AS YOU PUT IT. #what

Hee hee hee! I always forget about that scene. I kind of like that this era has a lot of the Doctor tinkering around ineptly with the TARDIS and as a result WEIRD THINGS HAPPENING.

So I wonder if the politics of this serial were legitimate Cold War worries or just the writers operating on UNIT Time. Or both.

I'm guessing both. There's gotta be a reason the UNIT era is positively littered with Peace Conferences. And...miners...

If shrunken heads were normal-sized and had bodies, they'd probably look like you.

...huh.

"You say this wasn't made on Earth. Do you mean it comes from another planet?" A+ deduction skills, Brigadier. You win a gold star.

"Immortality? You mean live forever? Never die?" :P ...to be fair, when dealing with the Doctor it's probably a good idea to double check everything.

Also his dialogue in this scene might as well be " ( ... )

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classicwhoblog July 18 2012, 21:35:53 UTC
Believe me, in my first year of doing this, I could crank out about 3 commentaries a week. Those were the good days...

Yes. I somehow completely forgot about your sandwich comment when I got to that scene, or I would have said something about it. You're completely right.

Well, I know there were several peace-talk stories before this, but it's been long enough that I honestly don't remember if they ever specified WWIII.

Yikes! I take it you're out in the Midwest? Because I heard there were quite a lot of blackout problems out that way. I'm in New York and I've tried to confine myself to my nice air-conditioned room as much as possible in the past few weeks.

Ah, fair point with the time-tech.

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cameca July 20 2012, 14:28:29 UTC
I don't know that it's ever been specifically WWIII before this. Of course, the Doctor doesn't exactly pay attention to local politics at all. I guess that I kind of like that something like that can come more or less out of nowhere - that is, it's world-knowledge stuff that's obvious to the Brig and to Jo, but news to us because it's outside the normal scope of the show, making it effective worldbuilding showing that there is an outside the scope of the show...

Yeah, I'm in Ohio. Bad times. Hmm, I always figured from your ip adress that we were closer than that. But I hope New York is treating you well. Yeah, this heatwave has been brutal.

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classicwhoblog July 25 2012, 22:37:25 UTC
Actually I do go to college in Ohio, so yes, part of the year does put me closer.

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cameca July 11 2012, 22:40:34 UTC
...I find it odd that Benton and Yates, as commanding officers, do so much hands-on work themselves instead of sending scouts or something.

Well, Benton's not an officer. He's a Sergeant - the guy who's job it is to be assigned to things like this. Of course, if this is a "looking for Jo and the Doctor" type thing, there might be reasons for them not to want to delegate in this case, when otherwise they would. But at least it seems that Yates and Benton do very different sorts of things from each other most of the time.

The phrase "human guerrillas" just came up. It looks fine in writing, but try saying it out loud and see if it doesn't sound a bit odd.

Hee hee hee

It's probably the latter, but somehow I feel that this guy is actually trying to be a gentleman to her.

Well, he probably doesn't have much opportunity to ever play the nice guy. Everybody in his world knows who and what he is. And now I'm thinking that this might play into his eventual Heel Face Turn.

Apparently the Daleks didn't want to be bothered to make ( ... )

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classicwhoblog July 18 2012, 21:40:30 UTC
Ah, yes, that's my non-understanding of military rank rearing its head. Part of me just assumes that everyone with a title that isn't "Private" has some sort of command authority. :/

If you look closely, you'll notice that the title pattern on the screen stays in place and fades into the actual end credits pattern (at least, if I remember right. I'm pretty sure it did.) Also, it wasn't quite so much a "fanvid" as it was a slideshow of production photos.

Purple jeweled battle shorts? This'll be interesting.

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nentari July 18 2012, 22:19:16 UTC
Personally, I've never seen them as battle shorts - more like hot pants. And go-go boots.

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cameca July 20 2012, 14:34:47 UTC
It's a fair point. Pelladon is a lover, not a fighter :P But I can't resist that bit of language from Douglas Adams: "the leader of the Vl'Hurgs, resplendant in his jewelled battle-shorts."

(since seeing "the Doctor's Daughter", I kinda ship him with Jenny, just for the wacky).

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Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey the Classic Way ext_689652 July 12 2012, 01:16:03 UTC
And I llllllllllove it.

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