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Post by The Thinker on May 26, 2006 10:34:38 GMT -5
I give it 80%! In other words 4 Stars.  |
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Post by Dominic Smith on May 26, 2006 14:32:40 GMT -5
A lovely idea to get all three Doctors together again, such a pity William Hartnell was unwell and couldn't be there for the whole story  The gel guards are a bit of a blip on an other wise good record for the story. Omega results to shouting a bit but then again the character was meant to have been a bit deranged. 4/5 |
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Post by Eryx on May 26, 2006 19:22:08 GMT -5
Good story. Fantastic idea getting all three Doctor's together. Thats set a trend through the series that every so often we can get reunions of a sort.
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Post by davisonera on May 27, 2006 3:04:25 GMT -5
Enjoyable but overall not particularly brilliant, cheaply made.
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Post by The Thinker on May 27, 2006 4:50:30 GMT -5
Enjoyable but overall not particularly brilliant, cheaply made. Well, what do you expect? It is 1970's Doctor Who after all. |
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Post by Massimo on Jun 1, 2006 3:07:53 GMT -5
A great story with the Second and the Third Doctor fighting all the time and the First teasing them. On the other hand I didn't find Omega particularly impressive so I gave it 4 stars instead of 5.
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Post by magnusgreel on Jun 15, 2006 4:06:59 GMT -5
Overall average for a Pertwee story, which is to say good, and the reunion added to it makes it special. Does everyone realize that the trend now is to hate this one? On Outpost Gallifrey, anyway.
I love villains like this Omega; not the Davison era one. Booming voices, larger than life, but not cardboard villains because it's explained plausibly how they got that way. Great moment where they open his mask. That's some "will" he had.
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Post by The Thinker on Jun 15, 2006 10:03:33 GMT -5
Overall average for a Pertwee story, which is to say good, and the reunion added to it makes it special. Does everyone realize that the trend now is to hate this one? On Outpost Gallifrey, anyway. I love villains like this Omega; not the Davison era one. Booming voices, larger than life, but not cardboard villains because it's explained plausibly how they got that way. Great moment where they open his mask. That's some "will" he had. If the comment that people on Outpost Gallifrey are beginning to dislike this story is true, why are they? This story has little padding and although some of the music and sets may be a bit tacky, Bob Baker and Dave Martin did a good job with the scripts. I especially liked the Second Doctor/Brigadier scenes though I think in places Jo got too many lines, but good stuff. |
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Post by magnusgreel on Jun 17, 2006 4:34:18 GMT -5
Too discouraging for me to want to study their reasoning too much. These things seem to be fashions. It's like... Everybody loves JNT, then they hate him, then love him again, every few years, that sort of thing.
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Post by Ice Warrior on Aug 18, 2006 1:08:33 GMT -5
5/5 from me!
Those bubble anti-matter aliens were a bit odd but appart from that I found this a most enjoyable story which I happily watch again and again!
I also enjoyed the Brigadier's role in this story.
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Post by The Thinker on Aug 27, 2006 10:35:17 GMT -5
It's an undeniable fact that every classic Doctor Who story has to have cheap effects of some kind. Here it's the gel guards as I call them.
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Post by quatermass on Sept 5, 2006 16:55:18 GMT -5
2/5 - So, once we've gotten over the whole two Doctors together (and one on a screen) celebration thing, what's left? Very little that's any good.
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Post by The Thinker on Sept 6, 2006 10:08:27 GMT -5
Well, you could've given it less. So, there must be something you like about it.
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Post by quatermass on Sept 6, 2006 12:05:54 GMT -5
Well, you could've given it less. So, there must be something you like about it. A valid point!  I quite like the Brig's farcical denial of pretty much everything that happens in the story! And Troughton (my 2nd favourite Doctor), even though he's playing just one aspect of the character - the clowny tramp! I guess not having seen it at a young enough age has made me look upon the story more cynically... |
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Post by The Valeyard on Mar 19, 2007 20:25:28 GMT -5
5/5. It was the last time Troughton would give a stellar performance on Doctor Who.
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I quite like the Brig's farcical denial of pretty much everything that happens in the story! And Troughton (my 2nd favourite Doctor), even though he's playing just one aspect of the character - the clowny tramp! I guess not having seen it at a young enough age has made me look upon the story more cynically...