Doctor Who Reactions: 'The Seeds of Doom'

Part One:

1) Wow, there's alot of good dialogue in this — it's really quite snappily written.

2) Chase is one of my favorite Doctor Who baddies, as well.

3) It's also very atmospheric and well acted.

4) The Doctor claims to be 749 here.

5) Cliffhanger #1: Winlett attacks Moberly!

 

Part Two:

6) Someone painted an Axon green!

7) "Turn around, Doctor. Facing this way."

8) Cliffhanger #2: The base explodes!

 

Part Three:

9) "Hired thieves and murderers don't usually work for love."

10) Wow, the Doctor really lays into the chauffeur!

11) "Amelia ... Duckett." I wonder if whoever created Keeping Up Appearances had seen this episode.

12) "Have you met Miss Smith? She's my best friend." The Tom Baker/Lis Sladen era is my favorite period of the show, old or new.

13) Cliffhanger #3: The Krynoid starts to open!

 

Part Four:

14) "What do you do for an encore, Doctor?" "I win!"

15) Wow, this Doctor kicks the crap out of people — and carries a gun!

16) Cliffhanger #4: The Krynoid galumphs to the attack!  Really, the special effects in this aren't too bad all things considered, but the Krynoid does occassionally set the needle on the Goofy Meter stirring.

 

Part Five:

17) "I am aware that the Brigadier is in Geneva." I'm guessing that Nick Courtney was unavailable.

18) "Yes, aggressive rhubarb."

19) Cliffhanger #5: The Krynoid looms over the house!  Now, I'm wondering if whoever wrote Godzilla vs. Biollante saw this.

 

Part Six:

20) "I tried to save him — he was trying to pull me in!"

21) The Doctor is the president of the Intergalactic Floral Society.

22) "You forgot to cancel the coordinate program." Umm, you were flown down to Antarctica — why would the TARDIS coordinates be set for there?

 

Another old favorite of mine, one I find quite enjoyable. It manages not to sag in the middle, the way many six-parters do.

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  • The story is another indebted to The Quatermass Experiment. Wikipedia's page on the serial suggests further possible sources (including The Thing From Another World, which hadn't occurred to me).

    One of the reasons it doesn't drag is it's written as a two-parter followed by a four-parter.

  • Yeah, I noticed that even when I was a kid. Almost as though they'd said "The next monster isn't here yet — could you fight the Krynoid some more for a while."

  • An old favorite.  I'm glad to see it's out on DVD.  How're the extras?
  • Haven't looked at them yet.
  • Watched the extras for this.

    The commentary track had various combinations of Tom Baker, actor Michael "Moberley" McStay, Joggs "son of director Doug" Camfield, writer Robert Banks Stewart, producer Philip Hinchcliffe, actor John "Scorby" Challis, deisgner Roger Murray-Leach and actor Kenneth "Dunbar" Gilbert.

    "Podshock" was a "making-of" featurette.

    "Now and Then" re-visited the filming locations.

    "What Do You Do Exactly?" featured Graeme Harper discussing the various duties of a production assistant, director's assistant and production unit manager.

    "Stripped for Action — The Fourth Doctor" discusses the Fourth Doctor's comic strip adventures.

    "Playing in the Green Cathedral" discussed the show's music.

  • I’m half way in, with nothing really to add. I agree with Bob that “It manages not to sag in the middle, the way many six-parters do.” and also with Luke that, “One of the reasons it doesn't drag is, it's written as a two-parter followed by a four parter” (although I’m only one episode in to the “four-parter.”

    The Tom Baker/Lis Sladen era is my favorite period of the show, old or new.

    I don’t know if I’d go that far, but the Lis Sladen era is definitely my favorite period of Tom Baker’s tenure.
  • Finished watching this last night. Many of my favorite episodes are "the first this" or "the last that," but "Seeds of Doom" is a good, solid non-transitional, non-introductory story. I was thinking about the introduction Harlan Ellison wrote for the first of the Pinnacle Books adaptations. Given that Doctor Who was essentially a children's show (or at least started out that way), I wonder if he liked the show that much or just hated Star Trek...?

  • It's hard to tell what Ellison's thinking sometimes - he doesn't move on the same plane as us mortals.
  • Many of my favorite episodes are "the first this" or "the last that,"

    Well, the two Mara stories appear to scheduled for April, but May should make you happy - the scheduled stories are "Planet of the Spiders", the last Pertwee story, and "Terror of the Autons", the introduction of the Master.

  • Oh, yes... been looking forward to both those for some time now, especially "Terror of the Autons" (which is also the first Jo Grant).
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