Doctor Who on Twitch - again!
Jan. 7th, 2019 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auroracloudOh dear, I spend a few days not checking in on Doctor Who news websites, and what happens? They drop a new Classic Who marathon on Twitch! with a few days' notice! So they've started on January 5th already and are currently busily streaming the Hartnell era!
If you're in the Doctor Who fandom, or if you have been hanging around and following my journal, you might remember when Twitch streamed most of Classic Who in marathons of three 8-hour runs a day, five days a week, and that's when I managed to get a taster of all the eras, fall in love with several of them and get obsessed with the Second Doctor era, and it all went crazy from there.
So, anyway, they're now apparently doing a quicker version of the marathon, by streaming it all in about three weeks, every day, two 12-hour runs per day. Which is really way hard core for me, so I don't really expect to do a lot of watching even though I have more free time now, but I sure will use it to catch some of the stories I wasn't able to see during the summer marathon. The link I provided above has the schedule if you want to try to catch up on some, too. (They've helpfully provided how many episodes each story is, which makes it a bit easier to calculate what's airing when - an episode is 25 minutes.)
So anyway, I just watched The Dalek Invasion of Earth, which I didn't catch before. Oh, Barbara is just so awesome! I'd forgotten a bit how much I enjoyed this era already. (And I'm tearing up a bit now, because of the ending.)
I found this out last night, when I couldn't sleep and was checking out new podcast episodes to listen to, and Radio Free Skaro had this in their description. And then I figured out that as awake as I was feeling, it wouldn't hurt to watch where they were at. It was showing some episode from The Web Planet. Let's just say that when I finally fell asleep again, my dreams were very trippy.
If you're in the Doctor Who fandom, or if you have been hanging around and following my journal, you might remember when Twitch streamed most of Classic Who in marathons of three 8-hour runs a day, five days a week, and that's when I managed to get a taster of all the eras, fall in love with several of them and get obsessed with the Second Doctor era, and it all went crazy from there.
So, anyway, they're now apparently doing a quicker version of the marathon, by streaming it all in about three weeks, every day, two 12-hour runs per day. Which is really way hard core for me, so I don't really expect to do a lot of watching even though I have more free time now, but I sure will use it to catch some of the stories I wasn't able to see during the summer marathon. The link I provided above has the schedule if you want to try to catch up on some, too. (They've helpfully provided how many episodes each story is, which makes it a bit easier to calculate what's airing when - an episode is 25 minutes.)
So anyway, I just watched The Dalek Invasion of Earth, which I didn't catch before. Oh, Barbara is just so awesome! I'd forgotten a bit how much I enjoyed this era already. (And I'm tearing up a bit now, because of the ending.)
I found this out last night, when I couldn't sleep and was checking out new podcast episodes to listen to, and Radio Free Skaro had this in their description. And then I figured out that as awake as I was feeling, it wouldn't hurt to watch where they were at. It was showing some episode from The Web Planet. Let's just say that when I finally fell asleep again, my dreams were very trippy.
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Date: 2019-01-07 12:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-07 12:50 pm (UTC)(And Vicki! ♥)
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Date: 2019-01-07 06:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-07 09:19 pm (UTC)I plan to catch The Time Meddler again tomorrow, and well, then that's it for Vicki on Twitch, they go straight to The Ark.
(But I should be able to watch The War Machines tomorrow! Polly and Ben yay! I didn't see it in the last marathon because of my schedule, so the first time I saw them was when I got The Underwater Menace and The Moonbase.)
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Date: 2019-01-08 08:36 am (UTC)Enjoy The War Machines! Poor Dodo gets a bit of a rough send off, but Ben and Polly are lovely.
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Date: 2019-01-11 09:16 pm (UTC)The War Machines was really good! I enjoyed it largely, except for the scene where Ben and Polly meet because geez, I'd have reacted just like Ben did if someone tried to "cheer me up" like that. I'll assume she was nicer in a scene that we didn't see! Heh, it's nearly all I've seen of Dodo, so given she spends half of the time hypnotized and then is just gone, I don't have much of an idea of her yet. But it was so much fun to see more of Ben and Polly. Ben especially got a sweet amount of stuff to do!
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Date: 2019-01-12 10:44 am (UTC)It is! And who doesn't have something in their eye at that point? Only a heart of stone... ;-)
And, aw, glad you enjoyed The War Machines! I do love Ben and Polly and it's the only really complete serial for them - and DW's first step into the kind of story that will become its staple forever after.