Doctor Who Shada...
Jul. 20th, 2018 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. Oh forgot to mention in last post that Apple sent me the Powerbeats3 Wireless earphones, priced at $199.99 as a gift for their failure to help me. So...hmmm. Jut no clue how to work them.
2. Now, I'm watching this odd episode of Doctor Who written by Douglas Adams, from the 1970s, at least I think it is the 1970s, it might be the 80s. But it looks like the 70s. Entitled Shada, and has the curly haired Doctor that I remember from the 70s. (I watched it briefly in the 70s on PBS before we moved, and I found it too scary (because I was 8 or 9 at the time). [ETA: definitely the 70s Doctor, Paul Walker? The one with the scarf.]
Oh wait..it's animated. Why is it animated??? I knew it was supposed to be animated, but it wasn't and now, all of a sudden...I looked away for a moment from the Doctor rowing a boat with his companion discussing Issac Newton of all things, and suddenly it was animated. Rewind. Oh the professor is reading HG Wells The Time Machine (which is a crappy book by the way). "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" -- ie logic and causal relationships - The Doctor tells us for no apparent reason whatsoever (I'm guessing it's the THEME of the episode). His companion discusses Spring, but it is October, he tells her. (I don't know looks like Spring or Summer to me.) She thinks they were coming for May Week. She's confused. So is the Tardis he says...and the audience, I think, ie. me. There's no changing colors of trees that I can see - and the grass is insanely green. Then we leave the pastoral scene and all of a sudden it is animated...not clear transition or anything. Sigh. Douglas Adams sense of humor. Sigh.
Okay the Doctor and his companion with the funky and somewhat ugly white and read dress, and the weird name aren't animated. Nor is the Professor. Just the guy looking for them on the bicycle.
This is just weird. And oh so seventies...in that it is cheesy, bad hair and clothing (the 70s had no fashion or design sense whatsoever) and filled with iconoclastic philosophizing.
2. Now, I'm watching this odd episode of Doctor Who written by Douglas Adams, from the 1970s, at least I think it is the 1970s, it might be the 80s. But it looks like the 70s. Entitled Shada, and has the curly haired Doctor that I remember from the 70s. (I watched it briefly in the 70s on PBS before we moved, and I found it too scary (because I was 8 or 9 at the time). [ETA: definitely the 70s Doctor, Paul Walker? The one with the scarf.]
Oh wait..it's animated. Why is it animated??? I knew it was supposed to be animated, but it wasn't and now, all of a sudden...I looked away for a moment from the Doctor rowing a boat with his companion discussing Issac Newton of all things, and suddenly it was animated. Rewind. Oh the professor is reading HG Wells The Time Machine (which is a crappy book by the way). "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" -- ie logic and causal relationships - The Doctor tells us for no apparent reason whatsoever (I'm guessing it's the THEME of the episode). His companion discusses Spring, but it is October, he tells her. (I don't know looks like Spring or Summer to me.) She thinks they were coming for May Week. She's confused. So is the Tardis he says...and the audience, I think, ie. me. There's no changing colors of trees that I can see - and the grass is insanely green. Then we leave the pastoral scene and all of a sudden it is animated...not clear transition or anything. Sigh. Douglas Adams sense of humor. Sigh.
Okay the Doctor and his companion with the funky and somewhat ugly white and read dress, and the weird name aren't animated. Nor is the Professor. Just the guy looking for them on the bicycle.
This is just weird. And oh so seventies...in that it is cheesy, bad hair and clothing (the 70s had no fashion or design sense whatsoever) and filled with iconoclastic philosophizing.