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Wheat Loaf posted:"The Two Doctors" is one of the older ones - the second Colin Baker story released on DVD, I believe. Surprised it hasn't had a special edition re-release yet, when stuff like "The Green Death", "The Claws of Axos", "The Ark In Space", "The Visitation" and "Resurrection of the Daleks" all have, when they were released either alongside it or after it. The one in the Sontaran box set is the standard release. It's unlikely to ever get a special edition either, since the Classic Series DVD range is pretty much over and done with. I think they've got The Underwater Menace coming out later this year, and that's about it. That one's probably going to be a bare-bones release like The Web of Fear and The Enemy of the World, too. The DVD range is brilliant, but I am a bit disappointed with these last few releases. The wealth of extra stuff is the main selling point of the whole range, but then the last couple of ones don't even have making-ofs, commentaries or anything. It looks like we aren't getting special editions of those any time soon, either. After The War posted:"Thankfully" most of them only seem to be moving around $70-$100 on eBay. But of all the episodes... Well I just watched it yesterday and I have to say it was pretty good 
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Wheat Loaf posted:Was that not on "Horror of Fang Rock"? (Might be thinking of a different writer.) It was the reason I got Two Doctors in the first place!  The Fang Rock DVD has a thing about Paddy Russell, at least in the US. Considering it's a Terrance Dicks story, it would be a little strange to have a Bob Holmes documentary on there. Would make more sense to do one on Robin Bland.
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Ebay had them for $200 this morning when I checked… And Time-Flight was going for $50 bucks on Amazon. TIME-FLIGHT!
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After The War posted:Would make more sense to do one on Wobin Bwand.
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Sep 24, 2015 15:57
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My mistake. I can never remember which DVD has which special features, with the exception of "Earthshock" (which has a making-of thing which consists of everyone they interviewed slagging off the story, and an episode of Did You See...? about Doctor Who monsters) and "Pyramids of Mars" ("NEIL BEFORE THE MIGHT OF SUTEKH!").
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The Sontaran Experiment has a history of the Sontarans in the classic series called Built for War. Kind of neat, including the crew slagging off on the swimming pool scene from The Invasion of Time, and Colin Baker with one of the most…not ice burns, not cringeworthy, but somewhere in between…lines I’ve ever heard…Colin Baker posted:Jimmy Savile is much more frightening than the Sontarans. And I’ll leave it at that.
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CobiWann posted:Ebay had them for $200 this morning when I checked… With eBay, click "sold" if you want to see what things are moving for, instead of what people think their junk is worth. As for Time-Flight, well, the more shocking thing is: 
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The_Doctor posted:
Was not expecting this for at least another five years. This is great news, and I'm not even a big Tennant fan.
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Which episodes of Classic Who have the story of Davros? I'm kinda obsessed with watching all of them after the Magician's Apprentice.
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Sep 24, 2015 20:21
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Every episode with the Daleks in them from Genesis of the Daleks onwards also has Davros.
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Sep 24, 2015 20:26
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CobiWann posted:Ebay had them for $200 this morning when I checked… The Two Doctors is available through a Hulu subscription. Don't know the difference between it and the DVD version, however.
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Sep 24, 2015 20:27
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Wheat Loaf posted:You can sometimes find codes online that'll allow you to set your DVD player to Region 0. Yeah, I have never owned a DVD player that wasn't multi-region, because as soon as I bought them I'd just do a google search for,"<DVD model> region code" and 15 seconds later it magically wasn't restricted by some purely artificial region lock bullshit anymore. gently caress region locks on anything 
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Sep 24, 2015 20:31
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I just want Season box sets of Doctor Who. I doubt there's any other TV show as big as Doctor Who that doesn't do this.
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PriorMarcus posted:When he last said that he was actually closer the start than the end. Seriously. He just said it when Capaldi started. CaptainYesterday posted:I just want Season box sets of Doctor Who. I doubt there's any other TV show as big as Doctor Who that doesn't do this. What? http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=doctor+who+season
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Spikeguy posted:Which episodes of Classic Who have the story of Davros? I'm kinda obsessed with watching all of them after the Magician's Apprentice. They all have "of the Daleks" at the end so I'm not going to repeat that part: but Genesis, Destiny, Resurrection, Revelation and Remembrance. I'd recommend Genesis (which is Davros's first appearance and the origin story of both him and the Daleks; and apparently very related to the latest one) and Remembrance (it got the balance right between Davros and the Daleks IMO) as first watches since they are the better stories IMO. I haven't watched Destiny recently but I can remember it being not great: its very cheap even for a classic Who story and Terry Nation apparently forgot everything about the Daleks in the years after writing Genesis of the Daleks, I really don't like Resurrection of the Daleks for reasons I've since forgotten, and I've never watched Revelation but apparently its one of Colin Baker's better stories on TV.
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Rhyno posted:http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=doctor+who+season I'm assuming they mean of the old, pre-revival seasons.
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"Revelation" is fine when the Doctor is actually in it. As it is, he and Peri spend most of the first episode walking towards a building in the snow, and I'm pretty sure a couple of the subplots are almost totally independent of him and anything he actually does. I don't really enjoy either it or "Resurrection", but then again, I'm not a great Eric Saward fan outside of "The Visitation" and "The Caves of Androzani" (which was written by Robert Holmes, but in the style of an Eric Saward story  ).It does have the single most over-the-top reaction to being exterminated in the entire history of the show. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Sep 24, 2015 |
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Sep 24, 2015 21:18
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Forktoss posted:I think they've got The Underwater Menace coming out later this year, and that's about it. That one's probably going to be a bare-bones release like The Web of Fear and The Enemy of the World, too. The Underwater Menace is coming out in the UK in about a month, and will have some bonus features - a making of as well as the other half of the BBC TV Centre documentary which was on one of the re-release DVDs, plus commentaries on the existing episodes.
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jivjov posted:I'm assuming they mean of the old, pre-revival seasons. He made no such specification. And besides, they do offer boxed sets of Classic Who.
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Wheat Loaf posted:It does have the single most over-the-top reaction to being exterminated in the entire history of the show. This bit? 
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Resurrection is pretty drat flawed, but there are things I like about it, most notably Turlough's very sensible "yeah, gently caress this" reaction to finding himself on a space station full of Daleks.
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Rhyno posted:He made no such specification. And besides, they do offer boxed sets of Classic Who. Well I now specify that I was talking about classic Who. The only two seasons of classic Who to be enclosed in an entire box set are the Key to Time and the Trial of a Time Lord seasons.
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I've said it before, but all the ...of the Daleks mentioned above make pretty good summaries of their eras - dark material with a light, silly presentation in Destiny, the paranoia and brutality of Resurrection, the body horror (and almost surreal goofiness) of Revelation, and the introduction of the chessmaster Doctor (along with the destructive nature of conflict itself) in Remembrance. With all the changes, though, Davros is never consistently written (the "and the universe will be MINE!" of Destiny being the worst) so the important one to see is Genesis. If you want a great story that examines the nature of Davros' morality and worldview, his self-titled audio from Big Finish is a $3 download. That side of the character is present in the I, Davros miniseries, which is better than it had any right to be, but not in The Juggernauts. The less said about Terror Firma the better. Unlike the Master, all the great Davros moments really come down to him and the Doctor talking. I'd actually stand by the "greatest nemesis" line on that alone: Davros really is doing what he feels is right for everyone, but coming from a twisted moral center based on seeing his society crumble and people die out For reals, get Davros.
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Zaroff posted:The Underwater Menace is coming out in the UK in about a month, and will have some bonus features - a making of as well as the other half of the BBC TV Centre documentary which was on one of the re-release DVDs, plus commentaries on the existing episodes. Well of course you would shill for the Underwater Menace DVD. Good to hear it still has some extras. No animation on the missing episodes, though? That's a shame, though I wasn't really expecting it.
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Jerusalem posted:This bit? That bit. Though I thought there was a bit where he slowly reaches out to Kara after he's finished writhing about but before he drops dead.
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Davros is at his best in Genesis. It is him at his most human, most complex, and most horrible. He is not a Dalek, he is a flawed old man who has been twisted by war. He believes that he can save his race but is ultimately wrong and his final moments are spent trying to undo the mistake he made, as his own creations prove how much more ruthless and viscous they are than he could ever be. Davros would crush a vile that would wipe out all life, but he would do it because of reasons he has. He's not a genocidal freak for no good reason, he's not a cartoon super villain. The Daleks are worse than he is because they would need no reason to unleash that virus. They would WANT no reason to. And then they brought him back and he became a Saturday morning cartoon character.
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After The War posted:For reals, get Davros. This. Well worth it for the opening monologue alone.
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docbeard posted:This. Well worth it for the opening monologue alone. That's fantastic in itself, but it was when he reveals his plan for fixing the galactic economy that I realized how interesting Davros was as a character and how wonderful Terry Malloy is. And no, the plan does not involve Daleks.
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CaptainYesterday posted:Well I now specify that I was talking about classic Who. The only two seasons of classic Who to be enclosed in an entire box set are the Key to Time and the Trial of a Time Lord seasons. Well, there are more. Technically.
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After The War posted:That's fantastic in itself, but it was when he reveals his plan for fixing the galactic economy that I realized how interesting Davros was as a character and how wonderful Terry Malloy is. Yeah that's great, because you realize he actually thinks he is being helpful and he can't see the moral horror of what he is doing. It's what I based that silly little "Davros gets the dishes done" bit on in a previous thread 
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computer parts posted:And since when does "Hyperspace" exist? So generic and dull.
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I didn't really like Davros very much when I listened to it. I don't actually remember much about it either, but I'm not really a fan of the character outside of the new series anyway.
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Watching The Stolen Earth / Journey's End makes me realize how little I like Tennant's Doctor, and I can't quite place why. (That, and I'm curious what 11 woiuld've done with Davros)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN1UF9U9dzw If you want a sample of the eponymous audio, here's the opening monologue people are talking about.
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Ya'll are scrubs for spoiling that Remembrance had Davros, cause that was a helluva reveal. 
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Astroman posted:Ya'll are scrubs for spoiling that Remembrance had Davros, cause that was a helluva reveal. What's the spoiler policy on 30 year old tv shows?
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And it's also a reveal that relies on you assuming he's in it anyway.
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Well, I mean, the surprise regarding Davros isn't that he is the one behind it all; they pull a much more clever Davros reveal fakeout thing in Remembrance.
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FreezingInferno posted:Well, I mean, the surprise regarding Davros isn't that he is the one behind it all; they pull a much more clever Davros reveal fakeout thing in Remembrance. I just watched remembrance for the first time and it is good and not bad. Except where two sects of Daleks a foot away from one another fire at each other for like thirty minutes and don't hit poo poo.
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Jerusalem posted:Yeah that's great, because you realize he actually thinks he is being helpful and he can't see the moral horror of what he is doing. It's what I based that silly little "Davros gets the dishes done" bit on in a previous thread My favorite part of Davros is when at the end the Doctor just goes "oh he's not dead, he always comes back somehow".
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