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Nyki
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« on: February 05, 2013, 03:08:20 pm » |
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Following on from PP's question about pure historicals, which is your favourite?
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Nyki
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« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2013, 03:10:37 pm » |
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I was tempted to go with Marco Polo, but it's difficult to judge a story exactly on a reconstruction, so I've chosen The Aztecs. The first time the issue of changing history came up, a wonderful story for Barbara, and the Doctor's only romantic subplot of the classic era.
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ardalyon
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« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2013, 03:19:57 pm » |
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I think I would agree with The Aztecs. I liked John Ringham's performance in this, as well. He was in another story too (I can't remember which one), but I mainly remember him as Penny's father in the sitcom Just Good Friends.
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« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2013, 11:22:56 pm » |
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It's not the most popular of stories but I went with The Myth Makers, purely because it covers an era that I have a very keen interest in and despite it's popularity (or lack of) in fandom, I think it's pretty great. I'm a history lover of all kinds though and I really like all those stories.
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Sparky
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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2013, 09:59:55 am » |
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Marco Polo, The Romans and the Aztecs were the main contenders for me, but in the end I went with The Romans.
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Vampyros Adric
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« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2013, 03:09:42 pm » |
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I don't know if it is within the spirit of the poll, but the book and the audio adventures of the Myth Makers are absolutely superb! I went for it despite it being a missing story. Perversely, my favourite single episode is An Unearthly Child... But I stop liking it when it becomes historical lol  |
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Nyki
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« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2013, 03:51:09 pm » |
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Perversely, my favourite single episode is An Unearthly Child... But I stop liking it when it becomes historical lol I know what you mean. I quite like the Tribe of Gumm story, but it certainly wouldn't win any polls for me, but the first episode's stunning. |
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« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2013, 03:55:16 pm » |
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Perversely, my favourite single episode is An Unearthly Child... But I stop liking it when it becomes historical lol I know what you mean. I quite like the Tribe of Gumm story, but it certainly wouldn't win any polls for me, but the first episode's stunning. I know this is a big claim, but I have read and seen a lot of Sci-Fi in my time and, in my humble opinion, the first episode of An Unearthly Child is the greatest single piece of science fiction that I have ever seen. I only wish I could have seen it fresh in 1963. It must have been amazing (especially given all of the TV that had gone before) |
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Nyki
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« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2013, 04:03:35 pm » |
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It was amazing. Then we saw it again the following Saturday, of course  |
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« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2013, 07:19:23 pm » |
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Perversely, my favourite single episode is An Unearthly Child... But I stop liking it when it becomes historical lol I know what you mean. I quite like the Tribe of Gumm story, but it certainly wouldn't win any polls for me, but the first episode's stunning. Wasn't AUC originally intended to lead into a Planet of Giants type story? I'm sure I heard that, and then when it got scrapped they quickly wrote the caveman stuff |
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