Iain J Coleman (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} iainjcoleman) wrote,@ 2007-11-26 23:30:00 |
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Feast of Steven
I'm watching The Daleks Master Plan at the moment. I'll do a proper review when I've finished it, but I've just watched episode seven, "The Feast of Steven", and even in its fragmentary, reconstructed form it may well be the best episode of Doctor Who ever made. It brilliantly evokes 20th century Earth, seen through the eyes of travellers from the far future as a baffling, threatening and alien environment. It plays audacious and hilarious games with the form, putting the Tardis in the middle of a contemporary police drama, and action heroes Steven and Sara into silent movie melodrama. Hartnell is on fine form, patronising coppers and wishing all of us at home a merry Christmas, Marsh plays the fish out of water very well, and Purves is splendid impersonating a northern bobby. And if you want to know why Hartnell is still the best, just watch the scene where he has to tell the policeman who he is. None of this "Time Lord from Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous, coordinates 1001100 by 02 from galactic zero centre" business. No, he is " A citizen of the Universe, and a gentleman to boot!" And that's all you need to know.
I'm watching The Daleks Master Plan at the moment. I'll do a proper review when I've finished it, but I've just watched episode seven, "The Feast of Steven", and even in its fragmentary, reconstructed form it may well be the best episode of Doctor Who ever made. It brilliantly evokes 20th century Earth, seen through the eyes of travellers from the far future as a baffling, threatening and alien environment. It plays audacious and hilarious games with the form, putting the Tardis in the middle of a contemporary police drama, and action heroes Steven and Sara into silent movie melodrama. Hartnell is on fine form, patronising coppers and wishing all of us at home a merry Christmas, Marsh plays the fish out of water very well, and Purves is splendid impersonating a northern bobby. And if you want to know why Hartnell is still the best, just watch the scene where he has to tell the policeman who he is. None of this "Time Lord from Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous, coordinates 1001100 by 02 from galactic zero centre" business. No, he is " A citizen of the Universe, and a gentleman to boot!" And that's all you need to know.
