(I am not saying I’m not an old fan, but there are older fans, and they’re the ones who created the consensuses that we still live with to an extent; the Whig history, if you like.)
My sense is that it’s the elder fan consensus that it’s at best a bit rubbish. There’s a small streak of fans a couple of years older than you who like it, but there’s only about six of us. Both opinions are largely formed by it being the first vhs and thus incredibly disappointing / exciting, depending on your age in the mid 80s. It has that Holmes vibe cos it’s almost a top to tail Holmes rewrite. Davis script has been published and adapted by BF, and while it’s recognisably an earlier draft of the same story - or a later draft of The Moonbase if you wanna be catty - huge chunks of the produced story are really “Holmes from an idea by...”. I mean, there’s no Voga in Davis’ version.
(I am not saying I’m not an old fan, but there are older fans, and they’re the ones who created the consensuses that we still live with to an extent; the Whig history, if you like.)
My sense is that it’s the elder fan consensus that it’s at best a bit rubbish. There’s a small streak of fans a couple of years older than you who like it, but there’s only about six of us. Both opinions are largely formed by it being the first vhs and thus incredibly disappointing / exciting, depending on your age in the mid 80s. It has that Holmes vibe cos it’s almost a top to tail Holmes rewrite. Davis script has been published and adapted by BF, and while it’s recognisably an earlier draft of the same story - or a later draft of The Moonbase if you wanna be catty - huge chunks of the produced story are really “Holmes from an idea by...”. I mean, there’s no Voga in Davis’ version.