Mawdryn Undead
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beccaelizabethI am trying to watch Mawdryn Undead.
I forgot how much mucking around with the settings this takes before it stops being a stripy mess on my big TV. Why stripy? Like it forgot bits of the picture.
So, anyway, watching.
Tried it without the CGI effects.
... swirly blue green whirly thingy of DOooooOooom!!
... I cannot watch the people because the swirly thing is eating my eyes. Also, looks like a migraine.
So I put the CGI FX on and can watch the story.
That is, until I can no longer ignore the Black Guardian.
I try and watch them be all dramatic and eeeeevil, which is hard enough at the best of times because Actors are Acting real loud.
But.
He has a bird on his head. On his head there is a bird. Bird. Head. Head bird.
I have to pause and LOl.
Previously I have watched it only on mini download vision, where it's more of a splodgy black blur.
On the big TV? Big Bird!
... oh dear, now I'm seeing the Black Guardian wearing a decapitated yellow Big Bird. I'm going to be utterly unable to take this trilogy even a little seriously, aren't I?
:-)
Music is more irritating than I remember.
Turlough has interesting shoes.
The Brigadier called a boy disgusting cause he's fat. Clearly he needs a slap. Maybe forgetting the Doctor made him a jerk. Actually how much of a massive effect would it have on any companion to have the Doctor memories fall out? Donna and Zoe and Jamie and the Brigadier. Huh.
Eew, Mawdryn has a spaghetti head. Heh. Cool.
I do like the design on the swish alien ship. Like Art Deco meets a pinball game.
Frilly Mawdryn is also difficult to take seriously. Is LOLs.
I like it that Turlough is smart. I like it that I know he gets less whiny. I like it that he tries to get out of stuff and does logical call for help things but they make reasons for it not to work. Much more better than just not having things tried.
"It's the third time today that I've yomped up that wretched hill" Brigadier in a good mood.
And giving orders to the Doctor's companions? When his memory is all worky? Shyeah. Yes, he would, but yes, you'd think he'd learn.
Shiny ship is shiny.
I don't like the gold so much, it's the shapes that are excellent.
Realising that I want my house to look like a Doctor Who set... oh dear...
I rather like that this one plays with the whole problem where you can never tell what the Doctor is going to look like next. It only being a problem this once is the surprising bit.
... is that guy's spaghetti head throbbing? Eeew...
So if he regenerated and that was why he grew the throbbing bits and he started out naked but grew the dress then is his dress actually his naked? *blinks*
"It would be the end of me as a Time Lord"
regeneration = Time Lord?
But the Master is running around all regenerationless and I don't reckon he'd give up on figuring himself a Time Lord.
"I can only regenerate 12 times. I have already done so 4 times." 5 has changed 4 times.
... and 10 regenerated that one time to make 10.5 so 11 has used 11 regenerations and 12 is the last one???
"You're perfectly alright in 1983 obviously your 1977 self came to no physical harm"
??! Doctor! fibber! Time doesn't work that way!
Brig doesn't want to spend years in limbo. Old Brig is old enough!
Heh, swiss army knife on keychain = win.
"Will the mutants really travel for the rest of time?"
"I'm afraid so."
"Terrible"
"Sometimes you have to live with the consequences of your actions."
... Am now comparing this with his attitude to jack.
eew, instant illness!
... and then mini Tegan and Nyssa. With the same hair. And clothes that fit without falling off.
"If I reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" *drink*
"He is a deviant" deviant Brig!
and then the big self sacrifice machine of dooom, and two Brigadiers, and
*swoosh*
yes children, touching yourself can save lives!
I likes it. This the reward for compassion! ... six years of having your memory messed up and everyone thinking you had a nervous breakdown. But everybody lives! Or dies. According to preference.
You know, realising what exactly went into my brain as a kid explains a lot.
I like Tegan and Turlough because they complain at realistic intervals. I think this is why other people don't like them.
I think the idea there's nothing to complain about
"May I join you"
"I think you already have"
:-)
... you know, I haven't read very much Doctor/Turlough fanfic, but the stuff I did read seems to have installed itself as True in my head. It makes watching this as U rated kind of hard.
oooh, ship go boom real good with the CGI on!
So that was fun.
:-D
and there's two more! Loves box sets.
The DVD extras have a little new feature that attempts to sort the timeline.
Brigadier, first wife divorced before he was a teacher, mention of Kate and Gordon, Wiki says that's daughter and grandson? Oh from Downtime... I completely forgot I have that! It's in the folder with the Doctor Who unit from university.
The bit that made me stop and LOL is that Mike Yates went into politics in the south, with specific mention of meeting him in Brighton. I know there's lots of politics that happens in Brighton, but that's not the first thing I think of. Huh, Wiki says one of the New Adventures, "Happy Endings", had him end up living with a man. Cool.
So then the Brigadier met Doris again. Whole backstory bit. "We met at a concert at the Royal Pavilion."
And their home together is "Liberty Hall". Aw, cute!
Heh, I think he just mentioned every Big Finish adventure he's been in... including Malebolgia.
So that scoops together all the stuff he's been in that isn't the main Doctor Who series and puts it in an in-character interview on a DVD?
... canon is a complex concept for Doctor Who.
I think it did quite well making it all seem perfectly plausible.
I forgot how much mucking around with the settings this takes before it stops being a stripy mess on my big TV. Why stripy? Like it forgot bits of the picture.
So, anyway, watching.
Tried it without the CGI effects.
... swirly blue green whirly thingy of DOooooOooom!!
... I cannot watch the people because the swirly thing is eating my eyes. Also, looks like a migraine.
So I put the CGI FX on and can watch the story.
That is, until I can no longer ignore the Black Guardian.
I try and watch them be all dramatic and eeeeevil, which is hard enough at the best of times because Actors are Acting real loud.
But.
He has a bird on his head. On his head there is a bird. Bird. Head. Head bird.
I have to pause and LOl.
Previously I have watched it only on mini download vision, where it's more of a splodgy black blur.
On the big TV? Big Bird!
... oh dear, now I'm seeing the Black Guardian wearing a decapitated yellow Big Bird. I'm going to be utterly unable to take this trilogy even a little seriously, aren't I?
:-)
Music is more irritating than I remember.
Turlough has interesting shoes.
The Brigadier called a boy disgusting cause he's fat. Clearly he needs a slap. Maybe forgetting the Doctor made him a jerk. Actually how much of a massive effect would it have on any companion to have the Doctor memories fall out? Donna and Zoe and Jamie and the Brigadier. Huh.
Eew, Mawdryn has a spaghetti head. Heh. Cool.
I do like the design on the swish alien ship. Like Art Deco meets a pinball game.
Frilly Mawdryn is also difficult to take seriously. Is LOLs.
I like it that Turlough is smart. I like it that I know he gets less whiny. I like it that he tries to get out of stuff and does logical call for help things but they make reasons for it not to work. Much more better than just not having things tried.
"It's the third time today that I've yomped up that wretched hill" Brigadier in a good mood.
And giving orders to the Doctor's companions? When his memory is all worky? Shyeah. Yes, he would, but yes, you'd think he'd learn.
Shiny ship is shiny.
I don't like the gold so much, it's the shapes that are excellent.
Realising that I want my house to look like a Doctor Who set... oh dear...
I rather like that this one plays with the whole problem where you can never tell what the Doctor is going to look like next. It only being a problem this once is the surprising bit.
... is that guy's spaghetti head throbbing? Eeew...
So if he regenerated and that was why he grew the throbbing bits and he started out naked but grew the dress then is his dress actually his naked? *blinks*
"It would be the end of me as a Time Lord"
regeneration = Time Lord?
But the Master is running around all regenerationless and I don't reckon he'd give up on figuring himself a Time Lord.
"I can only regenerate 12 times. I have already done so 4 times." 5 has changed 4 times.
... and 10 regenerated that one time to make 10.5 so 11 has used 11 regenerations and 12 is the last one???
"You're perfectly alright in 1983 obviously your 1977 self came to no physical harm"
??! Doctor! fibber! Time doesn't work that way!
Brig doesn't want to spend years in limbo. Old Brig is old enough!
Heh, swiss army knife on keychain = win.
"Will the mutants really travel for the rest of time?"
"I'm afraid so."
"Terrible"
"Sometimes you have to live with the consequences of your actions."
... Am now comparing this with his attitude to jack.
eew, instant illness!
... and then mini Tegan and Nyssa. With the same hair. And clothes that fit without falling off.
"If I reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" *drink*
"He is a deviant" deviant Brig!
and then the big self sacrifice machine of dooom, and two Brigadiers, and
*swoosh*
yes children, touching yourself can save lives!
I likes it. This the reward for compassion! ... six years of having your memory messed up and everyone thinking you had a nervous breakdown. But everybody lives! Or dies. According to preference.
You know, realising what exactly went into my brain as a kid explains a lot.
I like Tegan and Turlough because they complain at realistic intervals. I think this is why other people don't like them.
I think the idea there's nothing to complain about
"May I join you"
"I think you already have"
:-)
... you know, I haven't read very much Doctor/Turlough fanfic, but the stuff I did read seems to have installed itself as True in my head. It makes watching this as U rated kind of hard.
oooh, ship go boom real good with the CGI on!
So that was fun.
:-D
and there's two more! Loves box sets.
The DVD extras have a little new feature that attempts to sort the timeline.
Brigadier, first wife divorced before he was a teacher, mention of Kate and Gordon, Wiki says that's daughter and grandson? Oh from Downtime... I completely forgot I have that! It's in the folder with the Doctor Who unit from university.
The bit that made me stop and LOL is that Mike Yates went into politics in the south, with specific mention of meeting him in Brighton. I know there's lots of politics that happens in Brighton, but that's not the first thing I think of. Huh, Wiki says one of the New Adventures, "Happy Endings", had him end up living with a man. Cool.
So then the Brigadier met Doris again. Whole backstory bit. "We met at a concert at the Royal Pavilion."
And their home together is "Liberty Hall". Aw, cute!
Heh, I think he just mentioned every Big Finish adventure he's been in... including Malebolgia.
So that scoops together all the stuff he's been in that isn't the main Doctor Who series and puts it in an in-character interview on a DVD?
... canon is a complex concept for Doctor Who.
I think it did quite well making it all seem perfectly plausible.