tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post3516398729143262620..comments2024-03-14T05:07:57.110-07:00Comments on Doc Oho Reviews...: The Three Doctors written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin and directed by Lennie MayneDoc Ohohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01819922630249965949noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-65911607105268394882020-11-01T23:33:49.837-08:002020-11-01T23:33:49.837-08:00Watching in order. This is all about nostalgia for...Watching in order. This is all about nostalgia for me. Watched it first in 1981 on BBC2, it is a stupid storyline but it's an anniversary special and is very entertaining. Pertwee is slotting into his later persona, he is quite brilliant in this story, but Troughton in colour is amazing. Good cliffhangers, the Gelguards look better on the Top Trump cards I had as a kid...<br />Better than your review suggests but it's all about opinions. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-10350652342360604062015-10-17T10:16:15.884-07:002015-10-17T10:16:15.884-07:00Jeez, I could watch troughton all the day and a bi...Jeez, I could watch troughton all the day and a bit more! The story isn't great but the Second Doctor's presence is enough to make me enjoy The Three Doctors (sadly, Hartnell was too ill and his presence is sweet but not very long). Dealing with Omega, Pertwee has a more reassuring, commanding presence but the fun that Troughton brings I wouldn't change that for anything!<br /><br />I just hope more 2nd Doctor episodes will be found in the future because he was an absolute delight to watchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-369042347921436682015-06-12T06:02:01.252-07:002015-06-12T06:02:01.252-07:00I will admit to being absolutely biased on this st...I will admit to being absolutely biased on this story, due to the fact that reading the audiobook of it (along with Carnival of monsters and Terror of the Xygons), was possibly my first exposure to Doctor who at the age of five. Thus, when I saw the story six years later it was filling in all the gaps as well as putting faces and personalities to names. I also confess the production values likely bother me less both because I still imagine the purple sky, jet black gell guards and dark stone version of Omega from the novelization, and because what my mind built of those impressions was likely far more than could've been done even with todays most advanced Cgi, and somewhere even when I'm watching the technicolour randomness and tramps across the quarry I still have that vast and very alien world in my head somewhere. <br /><br />I will say though I really disagree on the jell guards, sinse yeah, they wobble and go gloop, but they're just so bold and colourful, they don't fade into the background like a modern cgi blob of general monstrosity, these things look! alien and the fact that they are a trifle ridiculous just contributes to that. While I certainly would've liked more both from Galifrey and from Omega's palace (especially the singularity), I don't myself mind the gell guards at all sinse hay it's better to try to do something which is recognizably just another alien robot or an anthropomorphized something or other, especially with the explanation that these are some weerd melding of matter and antimatter. <br /><br />As to the story itself, I'd agree character is the major thing here from Omega's amazingly impressive presence to Troughton and Pertwee's bickering, not to mention some of heartnal's putdowns, "What's a bridge for hmmm?" <br /><br />I also never minded the Brigadier as streight man, sinse with all the bouncy troughton humour you needed someone to play that card, and I don't think it makes him into a buffoon either, indeed the Brig's no nonsense approach to "We must be elsewhere in Britain" seems a much more credible reaction of disbelief in the Tardis than all the hysterical "whaaaah!" moments we've ever had, especially from a man who obviously has such a strict code of ethics and behaviour and a life time of military training. Indeed, the Brigadier's idea to no nonsense take travels in the Tardis in his stride in Paradise of death is a direct progression from what happens hear.<br /><br />I don't think the "Well look at all the invasions" excuse works for the brigadier's reaction either, because travelling in time (particularly in an old police box), vs being invaded from space are two rather different things, again, look at the Third Doctor's conversation with Sarah in Ghosts of N space where even after her trip in the Time warrior Sarah can't wrap her head completely around the idea of travelling to Atlantis.<br /><br />Holis I will agree is rather pointless, indeed I get the idea that he should've provided a little more down to earth and real world perspective although that job was largely taken by the Brigadier and the Professor. However he's probably the only character who is so badly under used. <br /><br />I think I'd rate this one a 7 over all, sinse the character and story is definitely there and if you can't put your trust in the performances in Classic who when can you? I'd much rather have something that looks naf but has a great script and ideas than the converse, ---- and the converse is worryingly common.darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15526681809763999806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-91740157216504767522015-02-09T21:09:07.229-08:002015-02-09T21:09:07.229-08:00Surprised you didn't give Hartnell a paragraph...Surprised you didn't give Hartnell a paragraph of his own. OK, his appearance really amounts to little more than a cameo but come on, it's HARTNELL, after all these years! The bit where he puts down his successors as "a dandy and a clown" is still one of the greatest lines in classic Who.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-61415794712276762522013-07-23T03:58:08.428-07:002013-07-23T03:58:08.428-07:00I live really near to both the quarry and the hous...I live really near to both the quarry and the house of Reg Hollis. They filmed several other episodes there, like The Twin Dilemma.BSC SSCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-44465586199725486562013-07-22T22:49:26.989-07:002013-07-22T22:49:26.989-07:00As I said in the review, it is a good enough story...As I said in the review, it is a good enough story but the execution leaves a great deal to be desired. <br /><br />And I hope you don't live in a dirty great quarry...that was what I was objecting too. Doc Ohohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01819922630249965949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-81599615741067956542013-07-22T22:47:01.630-07:002013-07-22T22:47:01.630-07:00Also, you comment about how you dislike the filmin...Also, you comment about how you dislike the filming locations-I live there!BSC SSCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-33987173732250479092013-07-19T07:40:58.339-07:002013-07-19T07:40:58.339-07:00I love this story. It was one of the first I saw, ...I love this story. It was one of the first I saw, and if the fiftieth is as good as this then I'll be pleased.BSC SSCnoreply@blogger.com