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Post by RobFilth on Jul 18, 2021 12:21:51 GMT
LOL so he was! God what is it with guys named Mike who are associated with DW and end up following dodgy cults? Mr Ratcliff was more charismatic than Cutrone though, so once again I think the Mike in Remembrance comes out better. The T-Rex was more charismatic than Cutrone. If only Cutrone couldn't do anything like the T-Rex. The T-Rex could smash his head through brick walls, Cutrones garbage makes everyone else want to smash their heads through brick walls. |
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Post by burrunjor on Jul 18, 2021 12:38:45 GMT
The key to good effects is if they look alive. Sure the Dinos in King Kong may look outdated, but at least that Brontosaurus looks alive. At least it can bend its neck, run and bite people. The T-Rex in Invasion in contrast literally can't do anything LOL. It just wobbles from side to side and roars. It can't run, it can't bite. Get out of it! It smashes it's head through brick walls and has hanger lights bounce off it doesn't it? What more do you want, an all singing tap dance routine with top hat and cane?  Well actually yes. Though I think this bit from the old Rugrats game is sufficent too. Jump to 3:55 Sad thing is that Reptar still looks better than the DW T-Rex LOL. |
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Post by burrunjor on Jul 18, 2021 12:40:17 GMT
LOL so he was! God what is it with guys named Mike who are associated with DW and end up following dodgy cults? Mr Ratcliff was more charismatic than Cutrone though, so once again I think the Mike in Remembrance comes out better. The T-Rex was more charismatic than Cutrone. If only Cutrone couldn't do anything like the T-Rex. The T-Rex could smash his head through brick walls, Cutrones garbage makes everyone else want to smash their heads through brick walls. Also the T-Rex's roars were far better political points than anything Platypus have ever said LOL. |
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Post by iank on Jul 18, 2021 21:13:07 GMT
Yet in spite of this the story still asks us to sympathise with Mike? The Doctor even says "poor Mike." And we're meant to think that it's a shame he was forced to quit. LOL I'd have locked him up for life like any former Nazi war criminal. To be clear I'm not doing a Paul Cornell and saying "oh the story is pro Nazi" or anything like that LOL. Obviously not, I just think it's sloppy writing. Clearly they wanted to show us how even good people can be taken in by bad crowds and that's fine, but the bad crowd they had Mike fall into was too bad. It wasn't as though this was a group who wanted to establish a better world for everyone, and Mike learned how far they were willing to go. They were planning a holocaust and Mike knew that and joined him for that reason. Quite frankly I have more sympathy for the guy in Remembrance of the Daleks that unknowingly joined the Renengade Dalek faction. Both he and Mike were awful people, but at least when he joined a racist, elitest group that wanted to keep the undesirables out, he didn't want to exterminate all of them LOL. You seem to be missing the fact that Mike had become vulnerable and weakened after the mind attack by BOSS in the previous story so therefore was susceptible to extremist radicalization. It was in fact VERY GOOD writing because it was carrying on the continuity of the characters personal story arc perfectly. It's why he then joins the monastery for meditation and cleansing his mind in the next story. Precisely. Mike appears to be rather confused and buys into Grover's insistence that rolling back history isn't really hurting anyone as they'll just not be born while still steadfastly refusing to let anyone actually be killed in the present. That's kind of the point. He's been preyed on at a vulnerable time and doesn't appear to really understand what he's doing. |
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