In the rehearsal script, when Peri is crying because she’s killed the mutant, the Doctor smacks her across the face and shouts at her for profaning his sacrifice with her weak emotions.
I mean, god bless Graeme Harper for putting a line through that.
T’wife points out that agronomists are experts in the science of crop cultivation. There were a lot of them on the news in the mid 1980s due to the Ethiopian famine and western attempts to relieve it.
I don't think that's true at all. Seasons 25-6 are on objectively far more forward facing - and, subjectively, but by consensus, have far more good writing in them - than season 22. (Honestly, the next generation generally love them.) That still get hate from a certain generation of fans suggests that the issue wasn't the writing so much as the cancellation itself. I love Revelation of the Daleks. I don't think it's a better stor,y or a better end to the show, than Survival.
You are absolutely right that the Cartmel/McCoy era is vastly superior to the Saward/Baker II one in every way. One of the 12 stories, at least five are stone-cold classics and most people would include "Remembrance" too. The era definitely points the way both directly to the NAs and ultimately to NuWho. Ace is very much a prototype for Rose and modern companion s generally. I find "Survival" a slightly problematic story. It doesn't really feel like anything that comes before, but may be that's good in a show that was about to be cancelled after 26 years - it was still reinventing itself right up to the very last moment. (Although I think I would have preferred "Ghost Light" as the last story.) My point about "Revelation" is merely that it is best Baker II story and had the show ended in 1985, it would at least have ended on something better than "Timelash".
In the rehearsal script, when Peri is crying because she’s killed the mutant, the Doctor smacks her across the face and shouts at her for profaning his sacrifice with her weak emotions.
I mean, god bless Graeme Harper for putting a line through that.
T’wife points out that agronomists are experts in the science of crop cultivation. There were a lot of them on the news in the mid 1980s due to the Ethiopian famine and western attempts to relieve it.
Dear God, that's awful.
Isn’t it?
Had this been the last story of the classic era, we would have thought the show ended well.
I don't think that's true at all. Seasons 25-6 are on objectively far more forward facing - and, subjectively, but by consensus, have far more good writing in them - than season 22. (Honestly, the next generation generally love them.) That still get hate from a certain generation of fans suggests that the issue wasn't the writing so much as the cancellation itself. I love Revelation of the Daleks. I don't think it's a better stor,y or a better end to the show, than Survival.
You are absolutely right that the Cartmel/McCoy era is vastly superior to the Saward/Baker II one in every way. One of the 12 stories, at least five are stone-cold classics and most people would include "Remembrance" too. The era definitely points the way both directly to the NAs and ultimately to NuWho. Ace is very much a prototype for Rose and modern companion s generally. I find "Survival" a slightly problematic story. It doesn't really feel like anything that comes before, but may be that's good in a show that was about to be cancelled after 26 years - it was still reinventing itself right up to the very last moment. (Although I think I would have preferred "Ghost Light" as the last story.) My point about "Revelation" is merely that it is best Baker II story and had the show ended in 1985, it would at least have ended on something better than "Timelash".