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pna · Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 609 Location: Cygnus Alpha

Never seen this until yesterday when I watched it with my kids. Voted poor, mainly because of the script/ story. Paul McGann good tho.

Ron · Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 3149 Location: A town, UK

Yet to see it.
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BLAKESCREWE · Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 21196 Location: 1977!

Too Americanised - the half human stuff was a load of cobblers thankfully discarded by the newer teams!
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RichardWho · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:54 am Post subject:

I enjoyed it. I've collected all the comic strip adventures which they did in the Radio Times that year. The Big Finish audio series they did with Paul McGann have now been broadcast on Radio 7.

I think it is a pity that the TV Movie did not spawn a TV series but at least it kept the ball rolling,

the masters of cheese · Joined: 25 May 2004 Posts: 3227 Location: round the bend

i find it quite hard to watch

but its got paul mcgann in it

was poorly written but well acted..especially paul mcgann!
the master turned into the terminator from T2 imo!
but paul mcgann was good

BlakNo1 · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:45 pm Post subject:

After seeing how absolutely clueless Fox Network was when it came to Firefly/Serenity, I'm glad a new series didn't haapen with them.
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Cockroach Boy · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:17 pm Post subject:

My opinion for what it's worth...

The TV Movie works best during it's more intimate moments - the shoes scene, Sylvester in the TARDIS, Grace's banter with the Doctor, their regretful farewell etc. And the kiss is actually more restrained than many give it credit for, gentle and tentative rather than horny. You can kiss someone affectiontely without wanting to have sex with them (it's depressing really that some people seem unable to accept that idea, but that's another matter entirely)

But it's when the Movie wants to go global with the Earth being pulled inside out that it goes wrong, because it jars and it doesn't follow on naturally from the first half of the movie. All of a sudden we're getting s knock off The Deadly Assassin rather than the refreshingly different approach of the first 45 minutes. Even the Master's villany is creepier when its played 'intimate' casually killing Bruce's wife and Chang Lee is more unsettling than his more grandiose brhaviour.

IMO, if the Movie had kept its focus on two aliens fighting for life rather than a threat to the whole world, then I think it would have been better. An Unearthly Child and Castrovalva both prsent small scale narratives to kick off their Doctors eras and both work well.
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I just did a test to see what Serenity character I would be and I am
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Ron · Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 3149 Location: A town, UK

Twenty Years on now! I don't really like it. We were discussing who the writer was; Matthew Jacobs. One interesting thing is that his father played Doc Holliday in Doctor Who story 'The Gunfighters' and Matthew remembers visiting the set.
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Cockroach Boy · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 11:06 am Post subject:

Can't believe it's been 20 years! I love Paul McGann as the Doctor and the visuals are great even if the script is rather all over the place.
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