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It's not related to this episode, but I've been working my way through the old episodes lately, watching stuff I haven't seen in thirty years again, and I had to share this (probably unoriginal) insight with someone. Dodo was the Poochie of companions. I know ratings slumped during her tenure so I'm assuming the mid-60's audiences agreed with me. I don't remember disliking her this much when I was a kid, though. At least I'm up to the War Machines so she'll be gone soon. Unfortunately I'm entering the bad lands of missing episodes...
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Bad lands of missing episode, good lands of awesome episodes I cheated and skipped ahead to watch Enemy of the World and Web of Fear when they went up for streaming. They were awesome. I'm disappointed that Hulu doesn't offer any of the reconstructed episodes other than the one piece of Web of Fear; I want to check out The Tenth Planet and Invasion.  Also, why couldn't they have destroyed The Dominators and kept... well, pretty much anything else.
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Aug 30, 2014 17:38
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MrL_JaKiri posted:It's worth getting the DVDs of those I remember liking the second Ice Warriors story as a kid, but that's one of the complete stories that the Hulu archive skips over for some reason. They also skip over all of Trial of a Timelord so the gaps aren't all bad. 
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Aug 30, 2014 17:45
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Cliff Racer posted:I still don't see why people dislike Dodo so much while liking someone like, say, Vicki who, despite having watched all of her serials, I can't remember doing anything at all. Baring in mind that I'm still reaching Vicki to refresh my memory (she was generic early female companion in Enemy of the World and Web of Fear, and Enemy of the World had two much more interesting women in the cast who I kind of wished would have gotten picked up as companions instead), Vicki had the benefit of being given a personality beyond "hip youngster that the kids will like". Dodo was such blatant pandering that she annoyed me constantly. Oddly enough, I don't think she was that bad in The Gunfighters but that story had its own set of problems. (Edit: Aw hell, I got my early companions mixed up. Oh well.) I don't have any problem with Leela though she was equally pandering (though to a different demographic ) probably because she was a more fun character.
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Aug 30, 2014 19:06
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Chokes McGee posted:Man of Steel ripped off Miracleman for its entire third act, all the way down to breaking Zod's neck to finish it. I swear I'm the only person on the planet who noticed. Probably because it didn't. The plotting doesn't match, the character's reactions don't match, the themes don't match, and the climax doesn't match. The only thing they share is large scale destruction and a cause of death. I wouldn't count the first since every big action film these days has that kind of violence and I wouldn't count the second because the circumstances are completely different.
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Aug 31, 2014 19:00
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I'm working my way through The Dominators on my Doctor Who rewatch and I've recovered a traumatic memory. When I first started watching Doctor who way back when, this was the first surviving Troughton story (there was about a decade until Tomb of the Cybermen resurfaced). Now that's a bad first impression, but for whatever reason, my local PBS station seemingly decided to make up for the lack Troughton episodes by showing The Dominators every Saturday night for a month. I'd tune in each week ready to see the next story, more of those interesting new companions, and possibly get an explanation why they were calling this weird guy "Doctor", and every week for a month they showed The Dominators again. It's a miracle I survived to Pertwee. Once they got over the Dominators hump and showed those few Troughtons, they didn't break up The War Games. The show started at 10pm and I think I stayed up until after 2am to watch the whole thing. That one was worth it.
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