Pella Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 A new Doctor, a new era. Some really good stories in this weeks poll. I know my favourite but I have no idea which way you lot are going to vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypha01 Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Without a doubt "Earthshock". so glad to be rid of Tom Baker and get a more younger action style Doctor personally. I really love this season, even Time Flight and Black Orchid arent tha bad IMO. But Eartshock steals the season. After 7 years we'ere treated to the return of the cybermen. Black scary androids that melt people and leave there sizzling blood and guts in caves, a great Cybermen redesign, fantastic twist with the ship destroying the dinosaurs...and a nice unhappy/bleak ending with Adric getting killed. IMO how dr who *should* be, much more adult in tone than what went before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnifex Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 I liked the story where he risked giving up the rest of his regenerations so that the afflicted Timelords could die. (don't know the name of it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pella Posted January 22, 2006 Author Share Posted January 22, 2006 That was Mawdyn Undead - it's in the next poll. What about those listed here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S0V13T Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 I went for Time Flight. had everything you could need in a Who story, airplanes mysteriouslly vanishint into the distant past, The Master turning out to be the bad guy, and brainwashing / mind control Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypha01 Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 @S0V13T, You must be one of the only people iv ever come across on forums thats liked Time Flight! I agree I allways found it enjoyable, then again anything with ainleys master is great fun for me, I also liked the Plasmatons...cool weird aliens and concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenriswolf Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Earthshock. I loved Time Flight myself as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnifex Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 That was Mawdyn Undead - it's in the next poll. What about those listed here? Heh, OK... I had to familiarise myself with the names behind the episodes again.. My fav has to be Castovalva. It's a really strong opener, probably the strongest of the entire show, all that info about the TARDIS, the Zero Cabinet, the regeneration fatigue AND The Master.. what more could you ask for :) I will say though, the story that sticks out in my mind the most is 'Kinda'. It's a very startling image.. Tegan with those red teeth and eye (the snake sucked though :cyclops:) BTW: I hope you don't mind but I 'borrowed' your TARDIS gif for use on another website (with a few alterations). Errrr... THX? :) http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/7457/tardis6dk.gif It's a bit wobbly (piloted by the Doctor at New Year,lol) but considering it was the first time I have even opened Photoshop (6 hrs, it took me!!) and it can't just be pasted (or I couldn't anyway..) on to a background and had to be done frame by frame I don't think it looks too bad :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypha01 Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 I love Castrovalva too. Nice bit of Hard sci-fi....love the whole idea of the dimensionally paradoxical trap. Goes deeper into the whole Block transfer computation science too. Great. Kinda is really twisted, dark and imaginative. If only the snake was a giant silver python with red glowing eyes thar ripped people to shreds though.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underscore Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I had to vote for black orchid. I think it made a great 2 parter as it set out to do something totaly out of the ordinary for a who story of this era. I think it was also succesful as a great piece of television. Props to them for trying something different!! I have a soft spot for this era as its the first stuff i was able to record on betamax and so know all these stories backwards from millions of viewings with my fellow sci fi geeks back in the day :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pella Posted January 23, 2006 Author Share Posted January 23, 2006 I love Castrovalva too. Nice bit of Hard sci-fi....love the whole idea of the dimensionally paradoxical trap. Goes deeper into the whole Block transfer computation science too. Great. Kinda is really twisted, dark and imaginative. If only the snake was a giant silver python with red glowing eyes thar ripped people to shreds though.. I hated Kinda as a child (probably because I was too young to understand it), but as an adult I think it is a fantastic story. As you say very dark, and very imaginative, it also had has some very understated sexual undertones in the scenes between the Mara and Tegan. I think this was janet Fieldings finest performance in her time during the show. Not quite my fav in this group, have to go with Underscore and Black Orchid. That was very nearly perfect and as remarked very different from the stories surrounding it. As ever I'm saving my vote till last so I have the casting vite in any tie breakers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USWhoFan Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Had to go with Earthshock, but it was a tossup with Time Flight. B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quig69 Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Had to go with Earthshock, but Time Flight was great also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MixxMaster Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Another vote for Earthshock, I'd put Castrovalva as #1 for the season. Also, I think Castrovalva is the 2nd best post-regeneration story, right after The Christmas Invasion, with Spearhead in a close third... TimeFlight had so much potential, but by that point, the money was pretty much gone, and they were reduced to too much greenscreen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hrimmer Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I view Logopolis and Castrovalva as one episode shown on two parts. It's certantly one of my fav davidson episodes, matched with Mawdwyn Undead and Enlightenment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Potato Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 You mean 8 parts, surely? I voted Earthshock. I love Bidmead's writing on Castrovalva (not to mention I'm a big Escher fan), but Saward killed a companion!!!! I generally dislike Saward as I think his tenure as Script Editor ruined Who. However, some of his turns at writing Who rock; I can't figure out how he good be so good at the one thing and so bad at the other. Oh, well. This was certainly a tough set of choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hrimmer Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 OK, ya got me! 8^) Even though as I originally saw the episodes the local PBS station broadcast them in the movie format. There was something traumatic about The Doctor destroying his scarf.... I mean, The Scarf was a companion too!! (OK, overstatement, but it really effected me when i saw it) You mean 8 parts, surely? I voted Earthshock. I love Bidmead's writing on Castrovalva (not to mention I'm a big Escher fan), but Saward killed a companion!!!! I generally dislike Saward as I think his tenure as Script Editor ruined Who. However, some of his turns at writing Who rock; I can't figure out how he good be so good at the one thing and so bad at the other. Oh, well. This was certainly a tough set of choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonstalker Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Liked both Earthshock and Castrovalva but went with Earthshock. Surprise villain re-appearance, Peter Davison in fine form, history intertwined into the story, and best of all - Adric becomes an iridium layer. (By the way, has anyone seen the DVD extra - the claymation follow-up to the end. Absolutely hilarious!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torjs99 Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 My vote goes for 'Snakedance' a very undervalued story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pella Posted January 27, 2006 Author Share Posted January 27, 2006 Again see next weeks poll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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