Doctor Who DVDs
Jan. 5th, 2006 03:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethClaws of Axos :)
spaghetti monsters! shiny gold people! The Master! UNIT!
Everyone invading Earth, a lot.
'galactic yo-yo'
I don't think confining the Doctor to Earth is at all sensible, story wise. I mean they have just as many monsters, so I don't know how much they could have saved in money. And whats the point of having a guy with a blue box that can travel anywhere and anywhen, and then staying home? Its like Stargate episodes where they don't actually use the Stargate. Much less fun. And, okay, the Doctor knows many things and can do tricks like the time loop, but that doesn't seem to me to be the best use of him. He's just the Science! guy then. Being a Time Lord should be more.
I like the Master though. He saved the world. After putting it in danger in the first place. Lovely and complicated. And all black and silver. Very elegant.
the Doctor wearing purple and red at once though... not elegant.
I do like his coats with the little capes and the silk lining, and the velvet jackets. I just don't like the color clashes sometimes.
galactic yo-yo is funny though. the Time Lords could have prisoned him anywhere and anywhen, and they chose England in the 70s? Thats cruel and unusual that is. ;)
One thing I like seeing in old SF shows is how the vision of what the future looks like has changed. Like, when high tech meant really big glowy buttons, or levers. Or unglowy buttons even. And cables to connect everything, because apparently no part of the future invented radio control yet. The future obviously looked kind of like now only more complicated, and with videophones. Is funny.
I liked the biotech look of the Axons. I mean yes, okay, the claw tentacles have the usual weakness of waggly tentacles looking a bit like sock puppets, and the spaghetti monsters are silly looking, but the whole look of the ship was consistent and alien and strange. I liked the doors that were membranes, and the way everything was tentacles and stalks and stuff. They'd really gone for the biological thing. And the gold people /spaghetti people difference was a way of demonstrating how people's reactions depend so much on appearance. Gold people get treated like good guys, spaghetti people get shot, but they're the same people. Fools gold. All that is gold does not glitter. Glitter as distraction. Layers.
And the greed compared to the Doctor picking holes in the science of their story. Not entirely subtle, because of course the Doctor has a tendency to be right, he's the star, but a nice comparison. 'Ooh, shiny!' is no way to run national policy.
I like this one.
Now I'm going back to bed, cause its 4 in the morning and I think I only woke up because I forgot to eat. Had a vegelasagne, all full now :)
spaghetti monsters! shiny gold people! The Master! UNIT!
Everyone invading Earth, a lot.
'galactic yo-yo'
I don't think confining the Doctor to Earth is at all sensible, story wise. I mean they have just as many monsters, so I don't know how much they could have saved in money. And whats the point of having a guy with a blue box that can travel anywhere and anywhen, and then staying home? Its like Stargate episodes where they don't actually use the Stargate. Much less fun. And, okay, the Doctor knows many things and can do tricks like the time loop, but that doesn't seem to me to be the best use of him. He's just the Science! guy then. Being a Time Lord should be more.
I like the Master though. He saved the world. After putting it in danger in the first place. Lovely and complicated. And all black and silver. Very elegant.
the Doctor wearing purple and red at once though... not elegant.
I do like his coats with the little capes and the silk lining, and the velvet jackets. I just don't like the color clashes sometimes.
galactic yo-yo is funny though. the Time Lords could have prisoned him anywhere and anywhen, and they chose England in the 70s? Thats cruel and unusual that is. ;)
One thing I like seeing in old SF shows is how the vision of what the future looks like has changed. Like, when high tech meant really big glowy buttons, or levers. Or unglowy buttons even. And cables to connect everything, because apparently no part of the future invented radio control yet. The future obviously looked kind of like now only more complicated, and with videophones. Is funny.
I liked the biotech look of the Axons. I mean yes, okay, the claw tentacles have the usual weakness of waggly tentacles looking a bit like sock puppets, and the spaghetti monsters are silly looking, but the whole look of the ship was consistent and alien and strange. I liked the doors that were membranes, and the way everything was tentacles and stalks and stuff. They'd really gone for the biological thing. And the gold people /spaghetti people difference was a way of demonstrating how people's reactions depend so much on appearance. Gold people get treated like good guys, spaghetti people get shot, but they're the same people. Fools gold. All that is gold does not glitter. Glitter as distraction. Layers.
And the greed compared to the Doctor picking holes in the science of their story. Not entirely subtle, because of course the Doctor has a tendency to be right, he's the star, but a nice comparison. 'Ooh, shiny!' is no way to run national policy.
I like this one.
Now I'm going back to bed, cause its 4 in the morning and I think I only woke up because I forgot to eat. Had a vegelasagne, all full now :)