Dr. Who Classic
Feb. 25th, 2011 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartWatched an episode and a half of "Robot", the first serial with Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor on YouTube yesterday. Not more because watching anything on a computer screen really kills my eyes. I loved it! Watching it was mostly due to research on Harry Sullivan - I wanted to hear his voice, see how he moves around and stuff, as he'll be in the sequel to "Lost in the Past" - as a sixty-something old Commodore. Which will be a funny thing, as the actor himself died at the age of 42, poor man.
Anyway, it made me wish to see more Classic Who. I loved the robot in it, and it was interesting to see Sarah Jane as a young thing. Tom Baker was... interesting, to say the least; he remained me on Christopher Eccleston's 9th Doctor in some moments - only not quite so dark. I think I ought to hunt down the episodes with both Sarah Jane and Harry, preferably on DVD, so that I can watch them properly and without losing what's still there of my eyesight.
It was interesting that I could understand most of the actors quite well, even without any subtitles. So, I'm not a completely lost case where listening comprehension is considered - or the actors used to articulate better in the olden days of televison. The only one I had problems with was the eccentric scientist. So yeah, subtitles are good - even if they make you lazy.
I've decided to turn "Lost in the Past" into a full-fledged trilogy, with the second part being a CoE fix-it, featuring Donna Noble, Sarah Jane Smith with her son and her supercomputer, Donna's family, and everyone else I can bring back from Classic Who without stressing credibility beyond endurance. In other words: it's research time again!
Anyway, it made me wish to see more Classic Who. I loved the robot in it, and it was interesting to see Sarah Jane as a young thing. Tom Baker was... interesting, to say the least; he remained me on Christopher Eccleston's 9th Doctor in some moments - only not quite so dark. I think I ought to hunt down the episodes with both Sarah Jane and Harry, preferably on DVD, so that I can watch them properly and without losing what's still there of my eyesight.
It was interesting that I could understand most of the actors quite well, even without any subtitles. So, I'm not a completely lost case where listening comprehension is considered - or the actors used to articulate better in the olden days of televison. The only one I had problems with was the eccentric scientist. So yeah, subtitles are good - even if they make you lazy.
I've decided to turn "Lost in the Past" into a full-fledged trilogy, with the second part being a CoE fix-it, featuring Donna Noble, Sarah Jane Smith with her son and her supercomputer, Donna's family, and everyone else I can bring back from Classic Who without stressing credibility beyond endurance. In other words: it's research time again!
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Date: 2011-02-26 02:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-02-26 11:54 pm (UTC)Basically, though, I just prefer to sit on a comfortable sofa, with something to eat and watch the stuff on TV.
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Date: 2011-02-27 10:41 am (UTC)