tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post5932187514554941031..comments2024-03-14T05:07:57.110-07:00Comments on Doc Oho Reviews...: Image of the Fendhal written by Chris Boucher and directed by George Spenton-FosterDoc Ohohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01819922630249965949noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-67521488555512828152021-01-07T06:54:38.059-08:002021-01-07T06:54:38.059-08:00Watching all in order. Love this story, just behin...Watching all in order. Love this story, just behind Horror of Fang Rock, subtle non use of music adds to the atmos definitely. Highly quotable: "I read a lot", "It's more fun that way", "head zips up the back", "suede bashing cretin", "TARDIS wonderful", "you called him him". Lovely. I love the way Baker walks in to the kitchen and takes over as you say, that 'amazing air of authority again' which never diminishes in the GW era in spite of the humour. The music in part 4 with Max's death is brilliant. Colby and Thea could have been Stu and Ruth from Time Monster but both are highly engaging, Denis Lill is cracking. This is definitely one of the cleverest stories written, most of the points tie up, the blister was left out I think, but it may have been just to identify them as having died the same way. The sonic screwdriver worked on the door, it just showed the Doctor's lack of patience. A strange point that is well over discussed. I like her new dress. I too turned 6 two days before the 2nd episode, scared me to death too. This was not a story for any other Doctor up to this point, possibly Troughton, but Davison and McCoy could have dealt with it nicely. The quality of cliffhangers has noticeably dropped this season, still good but you can see how much PH cared about production and building up to a good cliffhanger.Linx D Oderanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06587578831858117637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-47574113906385496142019-05-10T14:07:59.513-07:002019-05-10T14:07:59.513-07:00This was quite a complex story, with the writer de...This was quite a complex story, with the writer deliberately getting the characters to 'make a stab' at unearthing the secret of the skull, without fully explaining the plot. Colby's line that the 'skull created man' holds the clue. The developing human species had been shaped in the 'Image of the Fendahl' through the bio-transmutation field ; hence the skull appeared to be 12 million years old and human. We were utilised as a host animal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-31944857413821974912017-04-21T16:21:54.326-07:002017-04-21T16:21:54.326-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.David Pirtlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00636601389899125100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-41882369317623348772013-09-25T09:23:14.115-07:002013-09-25T09:23:14.115-07:00Excellent review – it’s one of my favourites, but ...Excellent review – it’s one of my favourites, but one that seems often dismissed by fandom, so I was wondering what you’d have to say about it. I turned six the day after the first episode was broadcast, and happily remember it as the last TV <i>Doctor Who</i> story to scare me, so I particularly enjoyed lines like:<br /> <br /><i>“Plus there is something very creepy about overlapping Wanda Ventham’s beautiful face with such a hideous skull.”<br />“The smile on the painted face as the Fendhal murders the brethren always gives me the willies.” </i><br /><br />Absolutely – she’s the apotheosis for me of that most <i>Doctor Who</i> of all deaths, when someone dies only to rise, hideously transformed. Not having your remarkable stamina, I’ve dropped way behind with writing my ‘Fifty Great Scenes’ for the fiftieth anniversary, but I did <a href="http://loveandliberty.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/doctor-who-50-great-scenes-46-image-of.html" rel="nofollow">pick Thea-skull and the Part One cliffhanger</a> as one of them. Still terrific. Then there are all the subverted expectations, the funny bits as well as the building terror, and the very idea of the monster that the Doctor had nightmares about… <br /><br />I was mildly surprised you didn’t talk about how much of an influence the story seems to have had on Russell T Davies-era <i>Who</i>, and indeed <i>Torchwood</i>, from names (Tyler, Jack, Martha, Adam, Mitchell) to plot points: <a href="http://loveandliberty.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/image-of-fendahl-and-doctors-door.html" rel="nofollow">I’ve written about that, too</a>, along with the infamous question of the locked door, which is probably the least interesting thing about it but where I opinionatedly claim to have the definitive answer.<br />Alex Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03364653159038708678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-82654951065363208642013-09-25T01:45:49.389-07:002013-09-25T01:45:49.389-07:00The info dumps are almost certainly the work of An...The info dumps are almost certainly the work of Anthony Read. Boucher had just become script editor on another science fiction show... I forget which ;)... and so was unable to complete rewrites to the script.Audrey the Leviathan Vampire Girlnoreply@blogger.com