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Revelation of the Daleks

Felt strangely compelled to watch some Six, after listening to Sirens of Time and deciding he can't be all that rubbish. So:

Hooray!

· Eleanor Bron. In a turban. That woman can make the line ‘And then I shall control the food supply of the galaxy!’ sound surprisingly unstupid.
· William Gaunt. In a ponytail. And leather trousers. OK, he looks ridiculous, but he has an exciting heroic death and a big gay sidekick.
· Snow.
· Davros in a fishtank!
· Perspex Dalek!
· Soylent Green is PEOPLE!

Boo!

· Eric Saward has written a story which is inexplicably reliant on double acts. And then ‘humorously’ pointed it out. Ow.
· Alexei Sayle and his ray-gun of Rawk. And him and Peri trying to out-awful one another in a scary accent face-off.
· The woman with the wet lips and the freakish baby-face was infinitely scarier than the Daleks.
· Peri’s coat makes her look like a Boobah. I actually thought she must be pregnant for three-quarters of this.
· The Doctor going to shake Davros’s hand?
· I did not really understand what the hell was going on even at all.

I think this really suffers from the Father’s Day empty-TARDIS syndrome of ‘this is a fantastic image, let’s use it even though it makes no sense!’ The Perspex Dalek, the Doctor’s tombstone, Davros being just a head: look nice, go nowhere.

Colin’s quite good. I really don’t hate Six as much as I think I do. But it’s another one of those where there’s so much time spent on the ‘amusing’ side characters that the Doctor gets bog all to do (apart from stand around wishing he’d worn something else). The entire thing would’ve happened in almost exactly the same way if he hadn’t been there at all.

Conclusion: I like Doctor Who better when he gets to run about solving puzzles and being silly and heroic and fabulous. But all episodes should take place in snow, because it makes the TARDIS look even more marvo than usual.

Peri:

Boohbahs:

Six's cloak = circus tent, no?

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Look at you being all analysy while I'm sat here pondering innane questions mostly like does Turlough roll his sleeves up to above or below his elbows. The best bit about this episode is the fact that the blue cloak covers a lot of the rest of the costume ;).

I've never seen Peri mentioned in the same sentance as boohbahs before though, usually people pick and entirely different but similar sounding word.

She does wear a quite boohbah-revealing top later...

Excellent question about sleeves. In the hopes this might encourage you to draw exciting console!pron, I felt I ought to do some research: oh, the hardship.

I love those Nyssa promo shots, even though they make absolutely no sense at all as they barely say two words to one another on-screen. He just looks so gloriously smirky. Plus that PoF shot is such a brilliant moment of 'how many silly outfits can we have in this one scene?' Someone's been playing in the BBC's dressing-up box.

That's the first time I've ever seen Strickson doing pocket acting.
He's smirky because he's only been on the ship for two episodes and already he's got Fivey smiling adorably at him and Nyssa draping herself all over him (and he's already stolen Tegan's mascara by that point).

If I were Turlough I would be wary of going back to Trion if they dress like that. How is it in that episode he suddenly gains a watch?

Console!pr0n? As if I would. No sex in the TARDIS and all that. (I like the way you've written "exciting console!pron" as if to differentiate it from say boring console!pr0n ;) )

I reckon him and Fivey made a deal, where Five got the pockets, and Turlough got tie-fiddling, nervous jacket-buttoning, and splaying of fingers.

The Trion ensemble is topped off with nice white wellies which are hard to spot in that pic, what with the unsettling bulge and the alarmingly pink collar. Now at last we see why Turlough was so keen to stay in the kinky schoolboy gear: the Doctor would never fancy him in that beige monstrosity.

The watch thing's weird, isn't it? He's wearing it through the whole episode. Bet Stricko got tan lines and then had to keep it on for continuity...

Boring consolepron = the kind with Tegan in. ~~Ha, you made there be sex in the TARDIS omg!!!~~

It's a horrendous watch and he wears it all the way through - it must have been tan lines (have been looking through PoF pics for iconing and am amused by the fact that a surprising number of the Master and Timanov ones are oddly slashy (as Timanov belives the Master is the chosen one and is gazing at him in wonder) - would have been a perfect pairing for FUF those two). And I definitely agree that Fivey's uniform fetish would certainly not stretch that far.

~~If they can fire weapons in the TARDIS in Earthshock than the TARDIS's circuits must be faulty hence both violence and sex must be allowed in the TARDIS. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!~~

...but srsly, am I the only person get scary Strickson/Suttton RPF thoughts?

Yes you are.

But only because RPF gives me the fear. It is quite difficult to look at those pictures and not think that they're shagging, to be honest. That's quite the possessive hand he's got on her arse ~~the jammy tart~~.

It's less worrying than the fact that when someone told me Arabella Weir (girl!Doctor from teh Big Finish thingy) used to live with Tennant my IMMEDIATE thought was "omg, Doctor/Doctor RPF?!"

Dude, I love love love the random Turlough/Nyssa photoshoot, beause it's totally setting them up together despite them scarely making eye contact on the show, not the mention the weird prop book they give to them (to show that they're "smart"?).

Also, it looks like it's taking place in a back BBC parking lot.

I'm calling the Turlough/Nyssa, maybe because I root for the sweet girl/bad boy pairing, but I think I just like the idea of Nyssa with anyone and Turlough with anyone, so I can lump them togwether with ease. Either way, the follow-up to "Buru-Buru" already has them necking on Adric's bed.

Hurrah, a Buru-Buru follow-up!

That photoshoot is indeed a work of genius. The 'we made this at school' TARDIS manual is so gloriously shite. And yeah, um, location? Hilarious to think how slick they are about these things now, yet the results are largely arse: all the new series promo shots are hideous.

Turlough/Nyssa would be wonderful. Almost as good as Five/Turlough/Nyssa... *thinks*

*encourages*

Ack! Naughty! Naughty!

It would probably work for the first five minutes, but I can't help but think that it would have to end with Nyssa standing on the sidelines looking sweetly confused.

The problem with that being...?

Aw, through the initial seething rage of Nyssa draping herself over ~~the Doctor's catamite~~ Turlough, Turlough/Nyssa is kind of sweet.

*flails at that icon*

Noooo! They are together forever and have the One True Love!

I love how in a post about Revelation of the Daleks the replies wander off into Turlough territory. Nothing wrong with that, it just demonstrates where your mind always is!! tee hee hee. Nothing wrong with that either! (Love the Turlough/Nyssa pics BTW, I'm feeling all "icon-y.")

Anyway, yeah, Revelation does have it's weak points (most notably to me is the accent of that hideous DJ). But there are a few lines in it that I really did like. I also loved the Doctor's expression when he hears Peri's cries suddenly cut off over the "radio." It just truly deomnstrated to me the acting ability of C.Baker when given something decent to do. Of course the BF audios are a wonderful example of that. But then he's my favorite, so, yeah, I'm biased.

BTW, I friended you, hope you don't mind!

Heh, yes, the ginger minx does tend to be a bit inescapable in these parts, even when I try to branch out:)

Revelation certainly has some things to recommend it - and Colin is actually one of the best things in it, which makes it even more annoying that his role's so small. Am amazed to discover the Beeb site touting it as one of if not the best of his stories: he really did get a shitty deal. Hurrah for BF: am looking forward to hearing more from him in his 'good' phase, so to speak! Am slightly impressed to find a dedicated Six fan. And hurrah for friendiness: the more the merrier.

There are a few more of the Turlough/Nyssa shots at Tragical History Tour - think they're listed under the Terminus pics. Immensely iconable, I'd say...

I love the BF audios, they keep me going. And yeah, he did get a bum deal. I honestly think I'm one of the very few sixth Doctor fans out here. *sob* Still ....

And yeah, the pics at the THT are great, and definitely iconable. I downloaded a bunch of caps from "The Five Doctors" (from

multi_who ) and am happily buried in ginger love. *sigh*

How did I miss those caps? Doh.

I think Six has his admirers, but they are mostly radio-based. Helps when you can't see what he's wearing;)

Hey now! I want to be buried in that coat!! *loves*

*shrug* What can I say, I have odd taste in clothes!!!

I know a lot of fans who didn't like the sixth, but now that they've heard some of the audio adventures and realize that Colin can actually act and is in fact very talented they are beginning to like him more. The scripts he had to work with were terrible, but bless him, he gave it his best.....

My trouble with Six, more than anything, is just the age-old one of not liking the Doctor who replaces 'your' one. Fivey was my childhood hero, and I was always going to be devastated when he wasn't the Doctor anymore. Six being such a complete git by comparison didn't exactly help - though now as a grown-up person I can appreciate that we weren't necessarily supposed to 'like' him at the start, and respect the fact that they were trying to do something interesting with the character.

And yes, the problem was never Colin, poor chap.

I really cannot stand the coat, though. Much as I love Five's get-up, I will admit the 'off the peg' look made a bit more sense - and Six's gear just makes it really hard for him to be as interesting and dark as he ought to be. Yet more reasons to love the audios!

I this that's one of the reasons why I don't like #7 very much. He took over form "my" doctor... Wait, wasn't I talking about that over at

multi_who ? So yeah, you have a point, and it's one that I completely understand. (Keep in mind that #5 is an extremely close second for me).

As for the costume, I think Colin would agree with you. And while I tried my darndest to dress like him when I was in junior high and high school, I can see now that dark muted colors would have been best for #6. In fact, during the commentary for Vengeance on Varos he comments that he hated the coat and wishes they had gone with the black that he wanted. While I think the black would have been a mistake as well, I think a dark blue would have been perfect. (A costume he actually wears in some of the books/BF audios/ and in "Real Time.")

I imagien that must have made high school interesting...;)

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