Teh Five Best Of Marathon

[rosengirl]

I'm currently in the middle of Mawdryn Undead and can I just say, Turlough makes Jack Harkness look straight as an arrow.

- Castrovalva : actually I watched this one quite some time ago. The zero room effects had me laughing hard, especialy with a certain scene of New Dawn Fades in mind. The master keeping Adric in bondage was also hilarious.

- Hearthshock : if I had watched this story as a kid I would have been traumatized ! Adric's death is brutal, I agree that he was the annoying Dawn Summers of his time but he's so *young* and how abrupt were the silent ending credits with the image of the shattered star ? It was a good story though, quite dark and violent and the cybermen, despite their sillyness were frightening enough.

- The Five Doctors : saw this one before. Quite a fun story, even if a little confusing with everything that's going on. I obviously loved that the Gallifreyans asked the Master to rescue the Doctor XD I'll have to warm up to Ainley's version of the Master, he's a little too cackling for my taste. I'm much more fond of Delgado's composure.

What I still got left before the CiN :

- Terminus
- Enlightenment
- Frontios
- Resurrection of the Daleks
- Planet of Fire
- The Caves of Androzani (really anticipating this one since it's so popular in the fandom)

One problem I have with DW Old Skool are the length of the stories because there's generally not much happening in the first couple of episodes. Especially when it was 6, but even down to 4 episodes, it tends to start pretty slow.
I'm really enjoying the Fifth Doctor though, he's absolutely charming and flamingly gay, which makes him a perfect match for Turlough.



In other news, versaphile found her muse again and is currently teasing the hell out of me with a very sexay brand new Ten/Master fic. I'm so glad she's writing again *___*

And I just saw that part 5 is up ! *punches the air*

Comments

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Ainley's subtle compared to how they wrote Simm... which is a shame, really.

...and yeah, Five and Turlough are as gay as can be. Which makes me happy.

...fuck, imagine if they'd written and let Simm play the Master Delgado-style. I think even more ladypants would've asploded. I keep being in denial and thinking this is the way it really happened...

[rosengirl.livejournal.com]

Yes but the thing is I love the manic and camp version of Simm's Master. I think it was perfectly matched with Ten.

I'm not dislikning Ainley in any way, it's just that his master's evilness is somewhat very classic.

But I agree that if they had pulled a Master Delgado-style for Simm I would have not survived the sheer hotness of it.

I love your icon btw XD