Well you're half-rightThe Beast Below is as underrated as the Weeping Angel 2 parter is overrated.
Currently going through Series 2 again, started a full rewatch with a good friend of mine. The Sarah Jane episode, what a heartfelt episode, but man, the Doctor is just outright pathetic in his reasoning for leaving her behind.
Very excited to watch her series soon.
School Reunion is definitely an episode that hit me way more after having gone through a bunch of classic Who episodes.
I've watched The Satan Pit two parter a couple of times recently. I'm still uncomfortable with the theme, which is basically a satanic horror pastiche, but I'm beginning to warm to it. I am now fast running out of New Who stories I don't completely enjoy. Maybe Rings of Akhaten will be the next to fall, and after that I really don't know what else will remain to dislike.
I'd say no if you're in the UK / another region that supports 50Hz / own the compatible hardware. Playback speed is wrong.
They're pretty compressed on DVD tho, so there IS a slight image quality improvement. I guess it depends on what you value the most, but for me that's a dealbreaker.
Does anyone know if there was any HD film footage added to Season 10 for the boxset? I mainly got it for completionism but I'll rewatch any stories with genuinely upgraded footage.
One of the restoration team guys mentioned on GB that the source for the film footage in the Three Doctors is just bad looking to begin with.do you mean rescanned film like some of the later seasons? I don't think so. my set came today and I had a quick look at three doctors but the film stuff looks really soft, but studio stuff looks amazing. It's not suddenly 4K but it does a look better than a DVD upscaled.
and 100 times better than the TV series Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Bluray.
Just started watching The Three Doctors, the filmed footage looks a bit... Off? It's not bad by any means, but it's not really good either. I can't quite put my finger on what the thing is. Oddly, I'd say that the studio footage looks actually better on this first episode. I'd even argue that the studio footage looks better than season 18 and season 19 oddly enough...
Spearhead is so good and it *looks* fantastic. Such a shame they couldn't shoot more episodes on film like that.best Pertwee is Spearhead from Space imo
Though I loooove Day of the Daleks SE.
It's a weird positive and negative at the same time. On the one hand, if they managed to film everything just as Spearhead, a ton of amazing stories we know wouldn't have been possible simply by the nature of how the series was produced. But on the other hand, the series does look a bit cheap in part because of the taped nature of it all. Honestly, I'm mostly annoyed some of the new stuff wasn't recorded in HD from the start. Tape just looks like tape, but it looks decent. The first four series of New Who just look bad in general. Even the blu-ray upscales are a bit iffy.Spearhead is so good and it *looks* fantastic. Such a shame they couldn't shoot more episodes on film like that.
New spoilers from The Mirror. They are usually spot on
New spoilers from The Mirror. They are usually spot on
The interesting thing is that there's a Big Finish story, Storm Warning, where the 8th Doctor basically says he had a hand in the Frankenstein story, with him quipping that the story isn't entirely accurate to the real events that inspired it, heh.
To be fair, though, at one time or another Doctor Who has been known to make a similar quip about just about every historic event well known to English speaking audiences.
The interesting thing is that there's a Big Finish story, Storm Warning, where the 8th Doctor basically says he had a hand in the Frankenstein story, with him quipping that the story isn't entirely accurate to the real events that inspired it, heh.
Moffat invented a universal mcguffin which can be applied like duck tape to heal plots. "The Doctor lies." There, now isn't that better than worrying over every tiny detail in a fifty-five year old drama series?
I really don't mind those kinds of contradictions tbh. I guess Who cares a bit more about its continuity nowadays, but this kind of thing has happened plenty of times in the past, both with Big Finish stories and within the classic era.
The way I see it, my nerdy interpretation is that these events might have been changed through timeline shenanigans, but from the perspective of the Doctor they'll always have happened. Remember the whole cracks in time storyline in series 5 in which the Doctor explained time travellers would still remember erased events? Yeah, it's convenient, but it's how I try to explain away this kind of thing whenever it occurs. :p