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Have seen The Five Doctors a thousand million times and it never fails to make me flail with glee. Things which especially popped out on this viewing:
* Putting Five and One together for so much of it was a bloody masterstroke.
* I still really like the Raston Warrior Robot and its enthusiastic gay jumping.
* If anyone ever tries to suggest that the Master does not want to shag the Doctor, show them the scene where the High Council explain their 'plan'. The man is drooling, I tell you, drooling! (Though he has naff all chemistry with Three: suppose Fancy Pants only goes for Delgado!Master.)
* Special edition = teh suXXor. The extra doomy ceiling in Rassilon's chamber is quite good. The swirly cone thing is not. And I swear, according to my 8-year-old brain, that at the end, in the One True Version, the TARDIS did a repeated dematerialisation thing which was awesome. (I may be wrong about this: when I was 8 I liked Roland Rat and therefore am an unreliable witness.)
* Zoe's dress doesn't look like bubble-wrap. It is bubble-wrap. Did she wear bubble-wrap in the original series?
* The minute he gets to Gallifrey, Fivey puts on a phenomenal amount of eyeliner. He clearly ran away to escape his inner tranny.
* That bit where there are loads of Cybermen on a hill and no one notices them for ages is arse.
* I slightly hate Sarah. *ducks*
* One appears to not even slightly recognise the Master, which buggers up all thoughts that Koschei resembles the beardy velvety-gloved one. Poop.
* OMG so much hand!porn at the beginning. And how unspeakably brilliant is the bit where One orders Tegan off to make tea, and Fivey sends Turlough too?
* Green & Black's Hazelnut and Currant Dark Chocolate is rather wonderful. (Not technically part of the viewing experience, but highly recommended.)
Think Captain Tight-Pants might have to wait till tomorrow: I have an urge to iconify some high-res handporn.
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Well, *I* liked it anyway.
And I'm pretty sure the original version had the multiple TARDISes dematerilizing too, which was way cooler than how they changed it. I dunno, the extended version had good & bad bits, and I wish I'd kept my copy of the original version
even if I probably still have it memorized enough that when I go through I can see which are the newer bits.I got a bit thrown by the part where the Doctor's standing over the Master, about to use the transport thingy to escape from the Cybermen (and abandon his ex on the floor to some silver nasties, tsk). The Castellan seems to have a VO blethering about 'retrieving now' etc, which seems to suggest they were about to recall the Master anyway, rather than him needing to press the little button. Which makes no sense at all. (This is extra confusing as I don't remember that from the last time I watched it, which was also the Special Edition. Are there TWO special editions??)
OMG where is your icon from? He is EATING the celery!
I'm pretty sure I remember that even being in the original version.
OMG am I getting them confused now??Too many versions! Too confusing!OMG where is your icon from? He is EATING the celery!
Have you not seen "Castrovalva"?! Five's very first story?! I keep telling people (actually, no I don't) that before there was hand porn, there was celery porn. The icon generally has all kinds of strange connotations, actually...
Where is my dvd of that, eh, BBC? *shakes fist*
Ahem. I have nothing useful to add except nodding and saying YES! excitedly. Everytime I see a new one (as in one i've not seen in ages, not some marvellous cache of secret unscreened 80s Who, sadly), I'm a bit more stuck for making my list of Favourites, because even the rubbish ones have so much charm and energy. Best telly ever.