Revelation of the Daleks

[pontisbright]

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?

Comments

[pontisbright.livejournal.com]

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.

[spiritedchaos.livejournal.com]

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 ;) )

[pontisbright.livejournal.com]

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!!!

[spiritedchaos.livejournal.com]

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!

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

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

[pontisbright.livejournal.com]

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.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

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?!"

[anne-asta.livejournal.com]

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.

[pontisbright.livejournal.com]

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.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

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

[pontisbright.livejournal.com]

*encourages*

[anne-asta.livejournal.com]

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.

[pontisbright.livejournal.com]

The problem with that being...?

[tekiclutch.livejournal.com]

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

[pontisbright.livejournal.com]

*flails at that icon*

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