Time and Relative Dimensions in Spoilers - 2016-01-28

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8:33 PM

I have taken the risk of adding Planet of the Spiders to my list despite it not appearing on anyone's best/must watch lists, because I've already seen more than half of the regeneration episodes so it feels like a waste not to see all of them

hopefully it's more interesting than Doctor pretending to be trampled by CSO jumbo spiders and then glowing for a few seconds

9:23 PM

@Ixrec It's been described as "Grotesquely over padded and stuck with bad CSO," and "unusually feeble" cliffhangers, but people generally agree the regeneration scene itself is "fun" and "almost atones" for the rest of the story.

I haven't seen it myself yet.

well, the first spider was only double the size of a tarantula, and not CSO'd, so that's a start

pretty sure they just used a stuffed toy halloween decoration spider for that cliffhanger

9:36 PM

...the spider shoots force lightning

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not at all what I was expecting

"Now, young Time Lord, you will die!"

Also, this is perfect for my RPG campaign this weekend.

rofl

glad I could accidentally help

(We're fighting giant crystalline termites that have built a hive inside an Atlantean techno-organic engine and are feeding on its life power. Force lighting is exactly what I need to jazz the scene up.)

If Hulu and Netflix aren't gonna have #DoctorWho streaming, and BBCWW isn't gonna have #DoctorWho streaming... WHO'S FLYING THIS TARDIS???

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that's a very good question

the part where the spider attaches to your back and turns invisible and melds with your mind is reminding me of Turn Left

....no, can't use that in my campaign, we already did the mind control thing in this adventure.

9:46 PM

lol

wait, is this the serial with the incredibly dumb chase sequence I've heard about?

I'm having trouble narrowing down to one incredibly dumb chase sequence that you would've heard of.

something involving hovercrafts and a one-man helicopter

...that sounds like The Enemy of the World.

hm, good point, that one did have both of those things

But a quick Google says no, Planet of the Spiders is the one where that's dumb.

> a lengthy chase involving the Whomobile, Bessie, a small helicopter, a hovercraft, and a speedboat

It's so lengthy, the quote above is almost half the TARDIS Data Core's summary of that episode.

9:55 PM

I didn't know the Whomobile could fly

it occurs to me this guy could just stand still, wait for the Doctor to catch up and then simply force lightning him

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the high council of the spider planet just looks funny to me for some reason

the psychic fight between that man and the spider was quite difficult to take seriously

10:34 PM

I'm getting the idea from this chatroom that Old Who is pretty silly...

You're making me doubt whether it's actually worth my time :-P

the silly parts are the most fun to chat about

and let's be honest, New Who is just as silly

I wouldn't still be watching this much of it if I didn't legitimately like a lot of it

As silly?

If Old Who is really no sillier than New Who, I'd be fine with it.

plot-wise I do honestly think it's not any sillier overall

Dec 30 '15 at 22:15, by Ixrec

the only other "background knowledge" I can think of is stuff like Old Who was organized in "serials", there are very few season-spanning arcs or companion-centric arcs to worry about unlike New Who, obviously the special effects are going to be less special, and be prepared for continuity fails all over the place; stuff you probably already got by osmosis

Old Who does have much lower production values of course which does add a cetain amount of what could be called sillliness

10:38 PM

Continuity fails => worse plot?

Crappier special effects => more suspension of disbelief required?

by "continuity fails" I'm mainly referring to inconsistencies between serials, usually ones set quite far apart from another; within a given serial it's usually fine

and yes, older sci-fi television generally requires a bit extra suspension of disbelief because of the dated effects

ST:TOS was very similar in that regard

usually if I really like one of these serials I'm too busy watching it to come make fun of it over here

Spearhead From Space, Inferno, The Mind of Evil, The Three Doctors, Carnival of Monsters and The Time Warrior are the 3rd Doctor serials I've watched which I thought were quite good and will probably buy at some later date

"quite good" as in you didn't come in here to make fun of them?

I think The Green Death and Planet of the Spiders are the only ones I've actively made fun of recently

Thing is, you're watching just a fairly small selection of Old Who, things you've heard are supposed to be good, right?

naturally the starred comments are from those conversations

2 hours ago, by Ixrec

I have taken the risk of adding Planet of the Spiders to my list despite it not appearing on anyone's best/must watch lists, because I've already seen more than half of the regeneration episodes so it feels like a waste not to see all of them

10:44 PM

So if I were to watch everything in order, there'd probably be way more silly stuff

that is definitely true

not to mention you'd be past retirement age by the time you achieved it

Meh. 25-minute episodes aren't too bad.

I've already watched more than half of New Who that way.

yeah, more seriously I think the list I'm working through is something like a third of all serials

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