Of course 25 year old TV special effects on HD look rubbish
But as anyone will tell you, effects are there to help the story along. if you have a good story, you can get away with almost anything. Even Colin Baker’s frock coat.
Tag: the doctor
The Doctor Who origins documentary is the perfect cover… for Doctor Who
David Bradley will play William Hartnell (playing ‘The Doctor’, not ‘the First Doctor’, because Hartnell never played the character as able to regenerate until Tenth Planet) in the BBC’s dramatisation of the origins of Doctor Who. I’d assume they’ll have David Bradley in costume as Hartnell’s Doctor at some point, and there’s sure to be a ‘money shot’ of the original TARDIS set. Which means if the 50th anniversary does need an appearance from another Doctor, and his TARDIS, would anyone notice the modern era team sneaking in with Matt Smith to do some filming at midnight? Alongside Bradley?
The Doctor’s origin is actually laid out in The Mind Robber. Fact?
I’ve been following Philip Sandifer’s fanatastic blog as he steps through and analyses each Doctor Who story starting from 1963 (and its counterpart, Adventures With The Wife in Space on Tachyon TV), but his last post has just blown my mind. He’s up to the final few stories of Patrick Troughton, specifically The Mind Robber: The primary threat in this story is that the characters will become fictional. This is, of course, a brilliant use of existential horror and one of the highlights of the story. But thinking about that from a remotely human perspective, it does not actually make
