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Post by boies00 on Jan 23, 2006 20:39:49 GMT -5
I thought The One Doctor was a story, perfectly suited for Mel. Same with Bang-Bang-A-Boom!. I think I will shut up before embarassing myself more than I already have... Dom
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Post by glitterrock on Jan 23, 2006 23:07:22 GMT -5
Agreed... Bonnie was superb in those audios. It goes to show how better writing for the character can go towards improving their perception. It's the same with the Sixth Doctor, and how the BF audios went towards his "renaissance," so to speak.
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Post by boies00 on Jan 23, 2006 23:12:23 GMT -5
It goes to show how better writing for the character can go towards improving their perception. It's the same with the Sixth Doctor, and how the BF audios went towards his "renaissance," so to speak. Colin Baker and Maggie Stables are probably the best team on audio. On the other hand, I feel that Sylvester McCoy is rather wasted by Big Finish. They've not been quite able to recreate his best time from the TV serials. Or maybe they're trying to hard to do it. I can't say. Dom
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Post by brendanmoody on Jan 24, 2006 15:30:28 GMT -5
I thought Langford was quite good in Flip-Flop and He Jests at Scars... (she and Michael Jayston basically carried that story). Around the same time as I last listened to those two I watched part of "Time and the Rani." I wanted to strangle Mel within five minutes. The contrast is striking. I don't have many of the Seventh Doctor audios, but I've generally been disappointed by them as well. Only The Fearmonger has seemed particularly suited to him, and even that's a bit weak.
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Post by tractator on Jan 25, 2006 15:06:45 GMT -5
I think the first time I saw her in something it was the mid-70s and she was playing William's sister (Violet?) in 'Just William'. This little red-haired girl shouting "I'll thqueam and thqueam and thqueam!" in a shrill squeak. I remember thinking then "Yikes! Someone get rid of her!" Although it was the character she played, she was annoying in the extreme and I think that kind of stuck with me. A while ago, though, I found an article on the net from a Mel fan. He pointed out (quite reasonably I thought) that Bonnie was raised and trained on the stage and that its a different style of acting to TV acting; you have to exagerate your mannerisms and expressions so that people sixty feet away in the back row can see what you're doing. Obviously, on TV, with a camera thrust up your nose it would seem to the viewer like overkill. Perhaps this is why she has come across as more manageable in audio form? Without the need to do this all the time -> she can settle back and give a more realistic and less frenetic performance. Perhaps we should conduct an experiment: Take two groups of Doctor Who virgins and sit them down to watch Mel at her best/worst [delete accordingly]. Put group 1 in a small cosy room, the TV at arms length. Group 2, for comparison, should be in a community hall, watching the TV from a safe distance of say... 60ft. I wonder how opinions would differ...
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Post by davisonera on May 11, 2006 11:53:01 GMT -5
Sorry but Sylvester McCoy doesn't do it for me. It's not his fault but almost all the stories he's in fail horribly. With the exepction of The Greatest Show In The Galaxy he fails to improve the stories, an almost impossible task.
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Post by The Thinker on May 16, 2006 10:48:35 GMT -5
I think Sylvester McCoy is one of the most horribly underrated Doctors. Granted there were flaws but unoticable ones constituted the majority of them in my opinion. In fact 'Remembrance of the Daleks' is one of my favourite WHO stories of all time (no. 11 I think). In fact from what I've seen of his stories they're very good to say the least, especially 'Survival'.
To cut a long story short, McCoy along with Colin Baker is too underrated for my liking along with TV stories 'Revenge of the Cybermen' and 'The Dominators'.
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Post by Eryx on May 22, 2006 13:01:21 GMT -5
McCoy was a good Doctor who just suffered from some awful stories. He does his best with what he has, same with Sophie Aldred.
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Post by davisonera on May 23, 2006 11:27:53 GMT -5
The Dominators was good actually.
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Post by The Thinker on May 24, 2006 10:42:13 GMT -5
The Dominators was good actually. As I said earlier, 'The Dominators' is a hideously underrated story. Also 'Battlefield' is a bit underrated too, if you ask me the worst (for McCoy) is 'Paradise Towers', though writer Steven Wyatt did manage to redeem himself in the form of 'The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'.
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Post by Eryx on May 24, 2006 17:04:44 GMT -5
Battlefield was a clever story idea. I haven't seen it for years though. Really should scour the video stores a bit more often.
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Post by The Thinker on Jun 2, 2006 4:57:09 GMT -5
There are suggestions that the Doctor psychically induced Mel to leave the TARDIS at the end of 'Dragonfire'. If that's true I don't blame him! ;D
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Post by Dominic Smith on Jul 6, 2006 10:54:44 GMT -5
I think Sylvester was a very underrated Doctor, although I wasn't too fond of him during season twenty-four, he was a bit too clownish for my liking.
However he did mellow and benefited from it, it is such a pity the series ended when it did because he was just about striking gold in his characterisation.
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Post by Ice Warrior on Aug 18, 2006 2:11:42 GMT -5
I think SM was a fantastic Doctor but he did suffer from his companions and stories.
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Post by Dalek on Sept 1, 2006 3:56:26 GMT -5
I've only seem Remembrance of the Daleks with him as the Doctor he was pretty good and funny.
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