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 More options Oct 6 2012, 5:15 pm
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
From: doc...@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 21:15:24 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Sat, Oct 6 2012 5:15 pm
Subject: Re: Classic Who
In article <8ab114b8-7e1d-41a9-b456-86aa6f7fda68@googlegroups.com>,

powrwrap  <powrw...@aol.com> wrote:
>On Friday, October 5, 2012 11:02:32 PM UTC-5, MDS wrote:
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>> > > > On Sunday, September 30, 2012 8:06:05 PM UTC-4, MDS wrote:
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>> > > > > Today I watched The War Machines and Image of the Fendahl, and
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>> > > > > afterwards I again felt blessed to have been a long-time fan of t=
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>> > > > > classic series before the revived series started.  People who dis=
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>> > > > > classic Who and refuse to watch it are really missing out on some=
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>> > > > > stuff.  Then again, perhaps these are the same kinds of people wh=
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>> > > > Well said. And they would probably watch it say something like "thi=
>s is so stupid. Look how cheap it was. Where the romance and action?"
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>> > > I thought Hartnell's Doctor putting down that thing Cameca (or howeve=
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>> > > you spell her name) in the temple and then shoving it into his pocket
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>> > > before leaving was romantic.  Not tear-jerking romantic, mind you, bu=
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>> > > it was nice to see him do it.
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>> > There's plenty of subtle moments like that. However, the new instant gr=
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>> I think you're right.  What I liked about the final scenes of The Green
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>> Death and The Angels Take Manhattan, and I do mean the very final
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>> scenes, is their simplicity, the Doctor driving alone in Bessie across
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>> the Doctor and Rose could never have been together, and so all her
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>> gushing at the end of Doomsday was a bit over the top.

>Green Death was the first Doctor Who story I ever watched. Man, that was 30=
> years ago. Anyway, in Classic Who the tender, 'soap opera' moments were ve=
>ry rare, such as the scene at the end of Green Death, and are cherished by =
>fans. In the new series it's so commonplace it's lost its power to move us.

Mind would have been early PErtwee.
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