Bad 80s Who Strikes Again

[meddow]

Revelation of the Daleks has knocked The Visitation out of its position as worst Classic Who serial I’ve watched. Thankfully it was only two episodes. I don’t think I could have taken more of it. Too many characters, too many plots and WTF was with the DJ? Last thing the serial needed was an annoying character with a terrible accent giving a running commentary.

I do wonder who on earth thought the Six-Peri dynamic would be a good idea. He’s basically mean to her all the time – even calling her fat – and although she does make the odd remark back at him, he just comes off as a bully. If they're going to make the Doctor that abrasive he needs somebody who will not take his crap. Thank goodness for Evelyn.

I think I’m going to have to avoid Six for a while after that and maybe watch some more Three. The UNIT gang never cease to make me happy. Or at least re-watch Partners in Crime. Five days and multiple re-watches later I still love that episode to pieces.

Here’s also hoping that The Fires of Pompeii is as good as it’s being made out to be. I do remember last year when 42 was hyped as being a brilliant episode and it turned out to be my least favourite of season 3. As a result I’ve become rather deeply cynical about anything the production crew announces is great (silence, on the other hand, makes me optimistic). Although I do badly want it to be brilliant since sounds like the plot is The Aztecs meets a disaster movie and if they pull it off, it could be fantastic.

Comments

[naushika.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, someone who shares my view that Six & Peri are like a completely abyssmal pairing. He's a total ass and Peri is just weak and whiny in comparison. She was a much better complement to Five's temperament. Honestly I don't really like Six though. I try to give him the benefit of the doubt, and from what I hear there was a greater arc for his character that never got fully played out so we only got the crap part and not the good part, but whatever. All I know is, he's kind of a jerk, heh.

I showed Revelation of the Daleks to my boyfriend early on in his Old Who watching. I had forgotten how bad it was. Needless to say, it was a long time before he agreed to watch any more old episodes with me. And he refers to Six as "the crabby one with the weird clothes."

It must say something about 42 that I did not remember at all what episode that was, and had to look it up. And I still only vaguely remember the plot. Clearly I was not impressed by it either. I am looking forward to The Fires of Pompeii, if only because NEW COMPANION, yay! :D And the previews made it look deliciously old school, so I'm hoping it delivers on that front.

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

Have you seen any other Six/Peri? Their dynamic is much more even in Vengeance on Varos and Attack of the Cybermen.

I adored 42, but from a rather subjective place. Maybe the crew's judgment of its brilliance comes from the Ten & Martha emotional stuff? That was the center of it for me.

I'm really jazzed for Fires of Pompeii because (...like in 42!) powerless Doctor shall be intriguing.

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Peri. *shudders* Is Revelation the bizarre one with Alexei Sayle? Most of the 6th Doctor's reign has been blurred from my memory, mainly because I've only seen most of them once (except "Vengeance on Varos" because of Jason Connery and 'The Two Doctors' which seemed to get shown on assorted PBS stations a lot when I was moving around between New York, Syracuse and Phily) and not since they aired or thereabouts. I know it's pretty awful.

Peri in general just makes my brain hurt. I adore Colin Baker as a human being - he's one of the sweetest people I've ever had privledge to spend time around. I cannot say the same for Nicola Bryant and my opinion of her has coloured my already low opinion of Perpugilliam Brown (yeah, sure that's a normal American name...GAH!)

Sadly, Colin got saddled with some of the worst episodes EVER, and then the BBC blamed him for DW's plummeting ratings and canned him. Poor man.

I'm very psyched about "Fires of Pompeii" for a ton of reasons including the setting, the actual sets (so I can make cracky Rome jokes to myself) and James Moran who wrote the episode. He was at the Gallifrey One convention and just very very sweet. and very very quiet. god he just talked like this all the time in rooms filled withVERY LOUD PEOPLE LIKE STEVEN MOFFAT :-) Also Phil Davis is just made of awesome sauce and he's playing a Roman in it so yayz.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, "Revelation" is up there for Worst Stories Ever. Six's repeated jokes about Peri's weight made me really uncomfortable.

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

So far I've only seen a little bit of Classic Who, I've yet to watch any Sixth Doctor serials, partly because I never hear anything all that great about that era of the show.

I'm optimistic about The Fires of Pompeii, I think largely because I'm still in the mindset that Donna is brilliant and therefore it has to be good. :D (It's the transitive property of Donna. Donna is in the episode, and Donna is brilliant, therefore the episode is brilliant.)