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Post by rushy on Feb 29, 2024 17:25:41 GMT
I'm unsure if Mindwarp is bad at all... I'd certainly take it over most of 22
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Post by Ludders II on Feb 29, 2024 17:28:39 GMT
I'm unsure if Mindwarp is bad at all... I'd certainly take it over most of 22 I don't quite share the S22 love to the degree that most here do, but I wouldn't go THAT far. 😉 |
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Feb 29, 2024 20:29:50 GMT
I do like Richard Hartley's score for Mindwarp. It sounds quite cinematic in places. Apart from that, there's very little for me to enjoy. Nicola gives her best performance and Patrick Ryecart is good in his role, but the rest of the acting is absolutely dreadful. Sil was a genuine menace in Varos, but here he's nothing more than comic relief - bad comic relief.
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Post by rushy on Feb 29, 2024 20:42:13 GMT
Mindwarp is worth it purely for Crozier drinking his tea in the midst of surgery.
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Feb 29, 2024 20:45:48 GMT
Mindwarp is worth it purely for Crozier drinking his tea in the midst of surgery. Makes sense. Sit through four episodes of crap because a scene involving someone drinking tea is worth watching   I do agree with you, but that moment is not enough to save anything for me. |
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Post by rushy on Feb 29, 2024 21:45:59 GMT
Mindwarp is worth it purely for Crozier drinking his tea in the midst of surgery. Makes sense. Sit through four episodes of crap because a scene involving someone drinking tea is worth watching I do agree with you, but that moment is not enough to save anything for me. Well, there's also Blessed, getting to see more of Sil's culture, that purple alien sky, again Crozier, the ending. Colin acting like he's tripping balls is also pretty funny. Probably his equivalent of Darrow's "I can't stand heroic Avon so I'll act like I'm going completely insane to justify it" |
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Post by Bernard Marx on Mar 1, 2024 15:20:05 GMT
I'm unsure if Mindwarp is bad at all... I'd certainly take it over most of 22 I don't quite share the S22 love to the degree that most here do, but I wouldn't go THAT far. 😉 Agreed, but for the opposite reason. I rate Season 22 highly (barring Timelash and Mark of the Rani- the latter being well directed but narratively uninspired) and certainly wouldn't rank it over it, but I don't share the same seemingly unanimous disdain for Mindwarp as most of the forum's membership. I found much more to appreciate there on a more recent viewing- the constant sense of unease, the disconcerting blurring of reality and manipulated fiction (making it difficult to merely passively consume the story), the unsettling score, and the appropriately dramatic finale all stood out on a re-watch. Colin Baker is often rubbished in this season, but his delivery of "You...killed Peri?" is refreshingly understated for such an appropriately theatrical incarnation and isn't credited enough. Amidst my next viewing of (the undeniably flawed) Season 23, I'll post a more developed review. In the meantime, I await the excoriating replies. In the meantime, Revelation is Colin's best story. I'm not as confident a "ranker" (one letter out- bugger!) as I was five years ago, so I'll save a full list for another time. |
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Post by Ludders II on Mar 1, 2024 18:55:13 GMT
I certainly agree about Revelation, although I'm not impressed with Jenny Tomasin, and there would be no DJ in my own personal Special Edition, but my indifference to Mindwarp is such that it doesn't inspire excoriating replies.  |
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Post by burrunjor on Mar 1, 2024 19:26:13 GMT
I certainly agree about Revelation, although I'm not impressed with Jenny Tomasin, and there would be no DJ in my own personal Special Edition, but my indifference to Mindwarp is such that it doesn't inspire excoriating replies. FIIIIIIINNNNNNNNDD THHHEEEEEE INTRUUUUUDDDDAAAAAAAAA. She's awful. One thing I agreed about in regards to the Wife in Space Review was when Davros offered to make her into a Dalek and Sue said "good her acting will improve." LOL. I do love her final scene though only because of Jobel. He's such a little prick. This woman is having a complete breakdown and he's just having a great wee time. Also that line "I'd rather get off with my own mother, than a fawning little creep like you." She might be a bad actress but that is just horrible. It's a further testament to what a disgusting little man Jobel is the way even after he is stabbed, nobody comes to help him. I also love the way he refers to himself in third person after he's stabbed. "You can't have killed Jobel, you can't have killed Jobel" and then of course the wig falling off is the final deserved humiliation haha. Also extra points to his actor for preferring Revelation over the New Who story he was in and for telling Ben Cook what an absolute arse he was. He was the hero we needed. |
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Post by arthurstengos on Mar 2, 2024 9:18:57 GMT
I do like Richard Hartley's score for Mindwarp. It sounds quite cinematic in places. Apart from that, there's very little for me to enjoy. Nicola gives her best performance and Patrick Ryecart is good in his role, but the rest of the acting is absolutely dreadful. Sil was a genuine menace in Varos, but here he's nothing more than comic relief - bad comic relief. I loved Richard Hartley’s score to Mindwarp too but sadly he had to re-record the score again for the season 23 Blu-ray release in 2019 and it’s not as powerful and cinematic as his original recording. Such a shame as his score was one of my all time favourites of classic Doctor Who. |
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Mar 2, 2024 10:43:52 GMT
I do like Richard Hartley's score for Mindwarp. It sounds quite cinematic in places. Apart from that, there's very little for me to enjoy. Nicola gives her best performance and Patrick Ryecart is good in his role, but the rest of the acting is absolutely dreadful. Sil was a genuine menace in Varos, but here he's nothing more than comic relief - bad comic relief. I loved Richard Hartley’s score to Mindwarp too but sadly he had to re-record the score again for the season 23 Blu-ray release in 2019 and it’s not as powerful and cinematic as his original recording. Such a shame as his score was one of my all time favourites of classic Doctor Who. Sadly I think he re-recorded it because the original score got wiped. You're right, it's not quite as impactful. |
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Post by RobFilth on Mar 3, 2024 10:32:31 GMT
I can't stand "Mindwarp".
The sets are crap, the direction is crap, the plot is crap, the acting is crap.
It reminds me a lot of "Battlefield", 4 episodes of largely muddled shite, with about 10 minutes of good stuff stuck right on the end of the story.
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Post by arthurstengos on Mar 4, 2024 17:51:39 GMT
I loved Richard Hartley’s score to Mindwarp too but sadly he had to re-record the score again for the season 23 Blu-ray release in 2019 and it’s not as powerful and cinematic as his original recording. Such a shame as his score was one of my all time favourites of classic Doctor Who. Sadly I think he re-recorded it because the original score got wiped. You're right, it's not quite as impactful. I read that the master tapes to the original score were lost. Mark Ayers apparently found the master tape to the original score for Part One of Mindwarp but the tape was unplayable. It’s a shame because apart from Peri’s death scene where Kiv possessed her body, Richard Hartley’s original score was only good thing about Mindwarp. Even though Richard Hartley’s re-recording on the Blu-ray isn’t has powerful and cinematic as his original recording it could have been worse as Murray Gold and his fart brass band could have rescored it. |
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Mar 4, 2024 18:14:16 GMT
I can't stand "Mindwarp". The sets are crap, the direction is crap, the plot is crap, the acting is crap. It reminds me a lot of "Battlefield", 4 episodes of largely muddled shite, with about 10 minutes of good stuff stuck right on the end of the story. Nowt wrong with Battlefield. I'd rather watch knights fight UNIT in a foggy countryside than some crap about putting someone's brain into another body. |
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Post by RobFilth on Mar 7, 2024 6:53:42 GMT
I can't stand "Mindwarp". The sets are crap, the direction is crap, the plot is crap, the acting is crap. It reminds me a lot of "Battlefield", 4 episodes of largely muddled shite, with about 10 minutes of good stuff stuck right on the end of the story. Nowt wrong with Battlefield. I'd rather watch knights fight UNIT in a foggy countryside than some crap about putting someone's brain into another body. Well yeah, I guess watching the Brig is always going to be better than watching Sil and Kiv tell Crackerjack jokes next to a slimepool, but although Battlefield benefits from being on location, it still suffers the same awful levels of acting as Mindwarp, stupidly scripted dialogue and aimless plotting. |
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