Classic Who updates again

I've continued getting into the Second Doctor era of Classic Who, though the Twitch marathon has moved on. The Invasion wasn't shown during the marathon, I guess because they didn't have the rights to the two episodes that have been reconstructed as animation because the video hasn't survived. But you can view it online in some places, and I've been watching that lately. It's 8 episodes long, and because I don't have to marathon, I've been taking it more slowly and am not yet quite finished. There little enough that has survived from Two's era that I don't want to rush through the rest of it. But The Invasion is good, and the Cybermen are my favourite recurring monsters (favourite in the sense that they actually do scare me and a lot of the stories with them seem to work well). And yay Zoe gets a girlfriend a friend and there's Capable Girls Doing Adventurous Stuff Together, which I much approve of. (I'm so going to write f/f for them at some point.)

I've also been falling down the Two/Jamie rabbit hole. I went to look for fic pretty much as soon as I'd finished watching what I could of Two's stories in the Twitch marathon. Naturally fic existed, though I haven't found huge amounts of it in my usual DW fic haunts (AO3 and Teaspoon) - actually, most of the good stuff is written by the same person, who I'm gradually starting to shower with kudos and comments.

Anyway, I'm enough into this that I've just splurged a fair amount of money on buying a bunch of Two era DVDs. It's going to be a while before I've got them all, because all stories being in separate DVDs, it doesn't become cheap. Eventually I'm going to want to get some First Doctor era stuff as well, especially as I didn't catch nearly enough of Vicki, and there are companions I haven't seen at all yet (most notably Polly and Ben). I did order the "Lost in Time" DVD set which has the various episodes that exist of the One and Two era stories that are partly missing.

( One note on my thoughts, cut for spoilers for the War Games ending )

I suppose with the black-and-white era already preying on my hard-earned, scarce money, it's just as well that thus far, I haven't been able to like Third Doctor era at all. I've tried watching several stories by now, and the only one I managed to watch from the beginning to the end was The Three Doctors - not because the story is any good, as it isn't, but because it had Troughton and Hartnell (mostly Troughton, but a bit of Hartnell as well). Any time either or both of them was on screen, I was immediately interested no matter what rubbish the script was. Oh, Troughton wiped the floor with all the rest of the cast (save for Hartnell). Even if I got the feeling he wasn't quite in top form either, probably due to how bad the script was and not having much anyone interesting to act with. But still, it was amazing how much more interesting he made the story whenever he was on screen.

But yeah, the whole Third Doctor era is really not impressing me. True, some of the episodes I was trying to watch when sick with a nasty flu, so it considerably affected my desire to go on if I didn't enjoy something. But it hasn't improved even after my health did. ( Ranting about UNIT setting, Third Doctor, and Jo. )

Anyway, really looking forward to my DVDs arriving soon! It's fun to be obsessed with something new, even if it's sort of the old thing in the sense that it's Doctor Who. But so very different from what I've viewed until now! Hopefully I won't fall for too many of the Classic Doctors and companions, because my finances can't support it...