Plus you've got one of the great ironies of Who production...John-Nathan Turner...was a gay man who seemed to firmly believe that the key to ratings success was in sexing up the companions.
*headdesk* *headdesk again* Oh, the pain. And they even had a fairly attractive Doctor in Five! Augh!
Wait til you see Peri's attire...
I've seen pictures. It horrifies me.
Story arcs = TEH AWESOME, but I remember being young and foolish and not liking them so much. You do have to come in at the beginning in lots of them. (I think that was why I didn't get into Babylon 5, since I tried starting it in the middle of season three or some such nonsense as that.) I thought S1 of the new Who did a good job at taking the middle road between arc-heavyness and overuse of the reset button.
And yeah, I'm glad they're back as well. Because YAY, historicals! Woo-hoo! *does the dance of the happy history minor*
Actually, come to think of it...I hadn't seen the new series when I first heard Zagreus, I don't think, but this would've been a really cool way to show the beginning of the Time War. *g*
And yet, that would kind of limit how much longer it could run... *g*
(Of course, then again, I know Big Finish isn't allowed to deal with the Time War, sadly.)
Ah, well. Maybe after several years they'll renegotiate their BBC contract and get to use it? Actually, the new series is probably going to have a flashback ep at some point...hope so, anyway.
Timeless: Scherzo was absolutely the best of the bunch as far as timelessness goes. (Actually, as far as the Divergent Arc goes. Perhaps even as far as the Eighth Doctor audios. My love for that one knows no bounds.) But that really can't be sustained over longer than they did it. You can't tell stories in a non-linear universe--or if you can, I can't see how. You have to have cause and effect to have a plot.
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Date: 2006-05-28 08:08 pm (UTC)*headdesk* *headdesk again* Oh, the pain. And they even had a fairly attractive Doctor in Five! Augh!
Wait til you see Peri's attire...
I've seen pictures. It horrifies me.
Story arcs = TEH AWESOME, but I remember being young and foolish and not liking them so much. You do have to come in at the beginning in lots of them. (I think that was why I didn't get into Babylon 5, since I tried starting it in the middle of season three or some such nonsense as that.) I thought S1 of the new Who did a good job at taking the middle road between arc-heavyness and overuse of the reset button.
And yeah, I'm glad they're back as well. Because YAY, historicals! Woo-hoo! *does the dance of the happy history minor*
Actually, come to think of it...I hadn't seen the new series when I first heard Zagreus, I don't think, but this would've been a really cool way to show the beginning of the Time War. *g*
And yet, that would kind of limit how much longer it could run... *g*
(Of course, then again, I know Big Finish isn't allowed to deal with the Time War, sadly.)
Ah, well. Maybe after several years they'll renegotiate their BBC contract and get to use it? Actually, the new series is probably going to have a flashback ep at some point...hope so, anyway.
Timeless: Scherzo was absolutely the best of the bunch as far as timelessness goes. (Actually, as far as the Divergent Arc goes. Perhaps even as far as the Eighth Doctor audios. My love for that one knows no bounds.) But that really can't be sustained over longer than they did it. You can't tell stories in a non-linear universe--or if you can, I can't see how. You have to have cause and effect to have a plot.