Posts by Grace Dalley
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There's a lot of PTSD (post-Tennant sulking disorder)
Oh that's wonderful! :-)
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Does anyone else remember Chris Eccleston playing Iago in the modern-day BBC retelling of Othello? Wow, he was scarily good.
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Use it or lose it, surely. Also, dressing Billy Idol like Adam Ant? Full of win.
:-) All so true!
At the risk of being unpopular, I really liked Rose! But the problem with having a Doctor-Companion romance is that when the companion leaves, and someone else hops on board, and they try to do the same dynamic...well it just seems a little cheap and nasty!
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(Re the Buffy thing, there's a lovely wee bit in The Writer's Tale where Russell Davies is having dinner with Kylie Minogue and James Marsters, and can't get over how James is even hotter in real life. Bless.)
Emma -- that is very funny.
I saw a YouTube clip of JW speaking at a convention, someone had asked him what he thought of RTD, and he said, "Don't mention that man, he stole my James..." :-)
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Who remembers Attack of the Autons, from the Pertwee era? There were plastic chairs that swallowed people, and I seem to remember plastic flowers that attached themselves to people's faces and suffocated them? Very very scary to me at the time!!
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Oh and by the way, that clip about the Radiophonic Workshop is fascinating, 3410! Although I don't know where that creepy little man came from...please tell me you can see him too?!
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Jon Pertwee was my first Doctor, and I was thrilled to hear him speak at a convention in Chch some years later. He had just as much charisma and stage-presence as you'd expect. And he told a lot of funny stories.
The original Doctor Who series of the 60s, 70s and 80s was quite a different beast from its current incarnation as a movie-like action-horror-comedy. The old series was much more theatrical in style, and the scariness came from the actors working tremendously hard, and the dramatic music and lighting making something scary out of the sock puppets and people in rubber masks.
Nowadays, special effects and CGI create scary monsters that we can tell are scary even without a big reaction from the actors. :-)
One strength of the more recent series has been the change in the Doctor's character and in the Doctor-Companion dynamic. In the old days the Doctor was a wise old patriarch, and the companions went around getting into trouble and needing to be rescued. Sometimes they gave him a bit of cheek, but he was unquestionably in charge.
When Russell T. Davies brought Doctor who back to life with Chris Eccelston starring, the Doctor was flawed and fallible, and sometimes needed rescuing himself. And I think the show had learned something from Buffy's use of a more ensemble cast (I'm thinking of Rose and her Mum and Dad and boyfriend, and also Captain Jack).
I'm a big fan of Torchwood, for showing that an adult version of Doctor Who can be something different again. (I wish the major-character death-rate was less than one or two a season, though!)
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I'd love to see another half hour of Marilin Waring, talking about anything at all.
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Paul, I have just the recipe for you: Easter Quark Cake
If you don't have enough subatomic particles in your pantry to make this recipe, you can substitute kwark. Less exciting, I know, but it probably tastes better.
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Love the cake!
And now we know that colliding silver cachous creates hundreds-and-thousands :-)