02-13-2021, 10:12 AM
Well alright then. I can see Who is the best Doctor Who? might be worthy of its own indie thread. I watched a few of the Hartnell eps but couldn't quite get through the because they were slow and dated. I was amused that the first companion was his granddaughter Susan but I didn't hang with it long enough to get into that. Hartnell was okay I guess. He seemed bound in his time period which is ironic for a timelord.
And then for S3, it rolled over to some pretty slick animation, clearly not from the 60s. On doing some research this morning, it seems many of the early episodes were lost, so these are reconstructions. The animation was B&W and in that flash-driven style, which came off as appropriately surreal. It somewhat explains the transition to Troughton.
Ripping Yarns e3 - This one felt vaguely familiar. Palin is a Brit soldier trying to escape from a WWI prison camp. It wasn't as NPC as the previous eps. The writing and comic timing is just so Python. Jones is hardly present. It's all about Palin.
And then for S3, it rolled over to some pretty slick animation, clearly not from the 60s. On doing some research this morning, it seems many of the early episodes were lost, so these are reconstructions. The animation was B&W and in that flash-driven style, which came off as appropriately surreal. It somewhat explains the transition to Troughton.
Ripping Yarns e3 - This one felt vaguely familiar. Palin is a Brit soldier trying to escape from a WWI prison camp. It wasn't as NPC as the previous eps. The writing and comic timing is just so Python. Jones is hardly present. It's all about Palin.
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