Dr. Who Classic - Kinda Part 4
Added 2022-05-23 14:00:09 +0000 UTCThis is the very first Classic "finale" I´ve seen. And it was an adventure :)
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Yes that is kinda depressing. But I guess it´s something you get used to, when getting older. Because you get confronted with it almost every single day. I really like the strangeness of the story (Is that even a word :) ) And I like this doctor, too. He seems really funny. And he reminds me of David :)
Nicologik
2022-05-24 11:59:07 +0000 UTCThat´s a very true line. I liked it, too. :) Thank you for the info about solar panels. Wow 1860, that´s a very long time, whichmakes me think, that we had so much time to develope that technology and didn´t really do anything with it. It´s kind of sad. Thanks for looking it up and telling me :)
Nicologik
2022-05-24 11:56:46 +0000 UTCI liked the story to. And it will always be the first Classic stories that I have ever seen :D Haha it´s true, who knows the Mara snake doesn´t look like a plastic snake. :D Do you know if the CGI scene is somewhere on Youtube to watch? I would really like to see the difference. I feel like a CGI snake would not really fit into the episode. It must look even weirder than the plastic one. People really built replicas of aeroplanes in World war 2? I didn´t know that. Those gaps in the circle were something I noticed, but I think I didn´t mention it. But I thought, that this gap is left theer for a camera to film. So I was right about it, yeah :)
Nicologik
2022-05-24 11:54:17 +0000 UTCIsn't it depressing to think that the actress who played the little Kinda girl would now be around 55! This is one of the strangest Who stories; but I've always enjoyed it. It was hated by fans at the time,but it's reputation has grown hugely since it's first broadcast. I like the 5th Doctors timidity and uncertainty - it makes him feel vulnerable. The third companion,Nyssa,barely appeared in this story due to a complete mix up on the part of her Agent,who inadvertently signed her up for four episodes too few!
Ian Smith
2022-05-23 22:48:43 +0000 UTCThanks for not spoiling. Interesting that they are not related. That was my no. 1 guess. Well, I guess I will just have to wait, until one day I´ll find out :)
Nicologik
2022-05-23 21:41:58 +0000 UTCHaha, sometimes I´m afraid of that, too. :D :D
Nicologik
2022-05-23 21:39:46 +0000 UTCOh and very basic solar power devices were patented as far back as the 1860s. But the idea of using solar panels for powering or heating homes didn't really take off until the 1970s. The American government passed the Solar Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Act in 1974, and said they would "make solar viable and affordable and market it to the public.” (Yes, I looked it up)
Stephen Males
2022-05-23 20:10:48 +0000 UTCYou can't mend people, can you? You can't MEND PEOPLE! One of my favourite lines from a Doctor Who story.
Stephen Males
2022-05-23 19:59:26 +0000 UTCI like the story. It wasn't rated very highly by fans at the time but people have appreciated it more over the years. Todd (Nerys Hughes) is a really nice character - taking the role of the Doctor's companion in this story. The snake: hm, what to say? Production pressures meant they had to do what they could. They knew it wasn't very good at the time. On the DVD release they give the option to view the scene with a modern CGI snake - which looks really nice. However, I admit I always watch the original puppet. But, as Robert Shearman said in the DVD extra - who is to say that a real Mara doesn't actually look like a big plastic snake? You can't argue with that. The structure made of branches and leaves which Aris climbs into is the Kinda's copy of the TSS machine from the Dome. This is reminiscent of the pacific "cargo cults" during and after World War II when, in some cases, people built full scale replicas of aeroplanes out of straw and branches hoping to coax the real aeroplanes to return. One thing that worries me in the mirror scene is that the Doctor insists that they have no gaps in the mirror - but there is an obvious gap when they show the circle from above. This is because of the way they made the episode at the time. They filmed the episode in a studio with multiple cameras running simultaneously - rather than using a single camera and then re-staging the scene for each camera view. They needed the gap so one of the cameras could film the ground-level shots of Aris inside the circle as the rest of the action was being filmed by the other cameras.
Andrew Vignaux
2022-05-23 19:29:25 +0000 UTCI won't say how this Doctor ended up with three companions, because of spoilers, but none of them are related to each other. In fact, despite looking human, two of them come from completely different planets to Earth!
Andrew Gwilliam
2022-05-23 19:27:13 +0000 UTCI thought for a moment that your cat was going to take over the reaction.
Andrew Vignaux
2022-05-23 18:46:50 +0000 UTC
