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schrodingers_time_ladyWell, my first thoughts were ‘is this going to be a silent movie with the old school Doctor Who theme playing throughout?’ Overlaid with fizzing excitement because this is my first time watching Classic Who from the start. Followed immediately by ‘that is officially the creepiest place that the TARDIS has ever been parked and we’re only one minute in’.
I’ve seen the odd episode of Old Who, but admittedly nothing earlier than Tom Baker, so going back this far was incredibly disconcerting but like… not necessarily in a bad way? Because I like older movies. I appreciate Susan immediately being too intelligent and that makes one teacher suspicious, and then living in a junkyard and that making the other teacher suspicious. No wonder the Doctor gets so frustrated by Ian and Barbara; they notice too much. Perfect for later Doctors, mind you. You have to appreciate them going out of their way to make sure that a student isn’t in trouble, even if they have mixed motives.
I suppose when you’re about to be kidnapped by an alien, that makes up for being a busybody.
That said, in what way, shape or form is Susan supposed to have passed for a highschool student? And no one likes walking in British fog unless they have never in their life been in the English fog, so that alone should be a clue she’s not human ;)
What I’m really enjoying already is that the show is coming at us from an entirely different angle. We don’t know who the Doctor is, or what they are. We don’t know who Susan is. We don’t know that this show is going to have anything at all to do with time and space. So here we have two perfectly normal humans who have had absolutely nothing weird in their lives happen at all, thank you very much, and we’re about to throw them into the beginning of one of the biggest science fiction events ever to happen.
Poor Susan, getting more and more worked up trying to do what Time Lords probably learned in preschool, with teachers who don’t understand the rules.
“I almost wish she were, it would be so normal!” Oh dear, you’re about to be very disappointed.
A scrapyard full of creepy mannequins and dolls, and you two are paying attention to the police box… /o\ this can only go well.
Ooh, I’m really digging these occasional blasts of almost Bond-esque music in the middle of the pretty-much-just-sound effects. Although hearing the constant hmmm of the TARDIS is potentially enough to drive a person insane.
People talk a lot about how William Hartnell was the grumpy old grandpa Doctor, but no one mentioned the sass in that “oh HOH!” when they tell him he’s coming with them to the police station. And the sarcasm. It’s brilliant. “I want to see your faces when you try to explain away your behaviour to a policeman.”
Old school TARDIS! Old school TARDIS! <3 <3 And ahh. I read about the paradox of Susan making up the TARDIS acronym the other day, I didn’t realise it was literally in episode one!
Ian: You can’t keep us here!
The Doctor, inwardly: Bitch, I might.
“Don’t threaten me, young man.” Well, you can REALLY see the Doctor who would have been friends with the Master, the Rani and the Meddling Monk in this pilot. He’s got the quietly threatening right down pat in a really fascinating way for a person who is very accustomed to New Who… it’s like watching a whole new show, even though it’s a familiar sandbox. And the Doctor being so suspicious of humans, rather than so fond of them? FASCINATING.
60s special effects, and still the old familiar TARDIS sound. Beautiful.
I’ve seen the odd episode of Old Who, but admittedly nothing earlier than Tom Baker, so going back this far was incredibly disconcerting but like… not necessarily in a bad way? Because I like older movies. I appreciate Susan immediately being too intelligent and that makes one teacher suspicious, and then living in a junkyard and that making the other teacher suspicious. No wonder the Doctor gets so frustrated by Ian and Barbara; they notice too much. Perfect for later Doctors, mind you. You have to appreciate them going out of their way to make sure that a student isn’t in trouble, even if they have mixed motives.
I suppose when you’re about to be kidnapped by an alien, that makes up for being a busybody.
That said, in what way, shape or form is Susan supposed to have passed for a highschool student? And no one likes walking in British fog unless they have never in their life been in the English fog, so that alone should be a clue she’s not human ;)
What I’m really enjoying already is that the show is coming at us from an entirely different angle. We don’t know who the Doctor is, or what they are. We don’t know who Susan is. We don’t know that this show is going to have anything at all to do with time and space. So here we have two perfectly normal humans who have had absolutely nothing weird in their lives happen at all, thank you very much, and we’re about to throw them into the beginning of one of the biggest science fiction events ever to happen.
Poor Susan, getting more and more worked up trying to do what Time Lords probably learned in preschool, with teachers who don’t understand the rules.
“I almost wish she were, it would be so normal!” Oh dear, you’re about to be very disappointed.
A scrapyard full of creepy mannequins and dolls, and you two are paying attention to the police box… /o\ this can only go well.
Ooh, I’m really digging these occasional blasts of almost Bond-esque music in the middle of the pretty-much-just-sound effects. Although hearing the constant hmmm of the TARDIS is potentially enough to drive a person insane.
People talk a lot about how William Hartnell was the grumpy old grandpa Doctor, but no one mentioned the sass in that “oh HOH!” when they tell him he’s coming with them to the police station. And the sarcasm. It’s brilliant. “I want to see your faces when you try to explain away your behaviour to a policeman.”
Old school TARDIS! Old school TARDIS! <3 <3 And ahh. I read about the paradox of Susan making up the TARDIS acronym the other day, I didn’t realise it was literally in episode one!
Ian: You can’t keep us here!
The Doctor, inwardly: Bitch, I might.
“Don’t threaten me, young man.” Well, you can REALLY see the Doctor who would have been friends with the Master, the Rani and the Meddling Monk in this pilot. He’s got the quietly threatening right down pat in a really fascinating way for a person who is very accustomed to New Who… it’s like watching a whole new show, even though it’s a familiar sandbox. And the Doctor being so suspicious of humans, rather than so fond of them? FASCINATING.
60s special effects, and still the old familiar TARDIS sound. Beautiful.