Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Horror of Fang Rock is incredible. I wanted to write (and have written) a review that's a million pages long about it's direction and atmosphere and mystery and character work and literally everything. I wanted to write about how it finally makes Leela work, about how it's the exact story Tom Baker was made for, about how it is so unbelievably effective at making you care about characters that are just inevitably doomed.
Horror of Fang Rock is incredible. That's all I have to say. Please watch it.
The Robots of Death (this season really didn't nail the titles did it) is a completely solid Asimov style robot story about disobeying the first law of robotics. It's all shot on studio, as it takes place on a mining ship with less than a dozen personell. This actually works to it's favour, though. The studio sets help add to the claustrophobic feeling I think the story was going for. The titular robots also had some excellent production, and genuinely…
The Face of Evil is certainly a story. Honestly, I don't think this was ever going to be a favorite of mine. I like my Who when it's aiming more for themes and messages that it just doesn't have the time or budget to convey. That's never really been Hinchcliffe and Holmes area of expertise, mostly because I think it's just not something that interested them at all.
They were, however, very good at making fun Doctor Who that appealed…
generally ok
gallifrey bits are a lot more boring than I wish they were. this story is really the first proper look we have into time lord society, and it's not very interesting at all.
controversially I think the matrix bits are kind of great. yes, they are so incredibly slow and also quite unimaginative for a computer simulation that could literally place the doctor and goth anywhere you can imagine. but, it's also fun to see tom baker traipse through the jungle.
peaceful assasin prequel when?