"Exotic alien swords are easy to come by... Aces are rare." First Transmitted
1 - 06/09/1989 19:35
2 - 13/09/1989 19:35
3 - 20/09/1989 19:35
4 - 27/09/1989 19:35
The Doctor and Ace face knights in armour from another dimension, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart returns from retirement to save the world one last time.I watched this over the weekend, so put together this thread to discuss/review this Seventh Doctor adventure.
As silly as some aspects of Battlefield are, I do love the Merlin mythology they weave in, and the nods to the time of the Third Doctor - Liz Shaw's UNIT pass, Doris as The Brigadier's wife, Bessie. (not to mention Jean Marsh!)
Ace & The Brig interact well, and the new Brig does as well as she can, as does Ancelyn.
This is also the story with the notorious stunt that went wrong - watch closely to spot the cracked glass on the tank when Sophie Alred is trying to escape.
A general point regarding the difference between Classic & Nu Who (series 5 mainly) - why is it that Classic Who could have
proper gunshots &
actual helicopters, but the new series' cheats with spotlights on cherrypickers & ridiculous (I mean you, series 5!) "cable through the sleeve" 10p pyro effects?
Surely putting together the dodgy pyro must be more time consuming (and therefore more expensive) to do, given the small number of times we get gunfire?