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Post by iank on Aug 30, 2021 21:10:05 GMT
Ah bollocks. Web is awesome. Tomb goes in the overrated crap pile.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2021 12:24:36 GMT
Nope. This scene alone is better than anything in Web. The music, the shots, the acting... it's just a beautiful scene. NuPooh will never top this.
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Post by Monster X on Aug 31, 2021 13:05:06 GMT
Ah bollocks. Web is awesome. Tomb goes in the overrated crap pile. Hmm... I used to prefer Web, until it was found and I could finally see (most of) it and sadly, I was a bit disappointed. However, I think Web has a better supporting cast of characters than Tomb -Anne Travers, Mr Chorley, Staff Sgt Arnold and Lethbridge Stewart, plus various military types are all more convincing, appealing and 'real' than say the Tomb crew of Kleig and Kaftan, that over-acting crewman with the naff American accent and even (the usually dependable) Cyril Shaps, who, quite frankly, gets on my wick as Viner. But at 6 episodes, Web can be heavy going, while Tomb is shorter and more fun - the actual tomb design looks like a psychedelic, pop-art play room ( I love how the Cybermen have gone to all the trouble of stencilling their face/logo on practically every surface of the tomb), which I prefer to Web's gloomy Underground tunnels ( I regularly travel on the Northern Line, so maybe that's got something to do with it). Plus, I simply prefer Cybermen to Yeti, but each to their own.  |
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Post by Bernard Marx on Aug 31, 2021 14:20:00 GMT
Nope. This scene alone is better than anything in Web. The music, the shots, the acting... it's just a beautiful scene. NuPooh will never top this. N The Yeti attack in episode 1 rivals it, I'd say. But yeah, it's a fantastic scene by any measure, and one of the finest of the entire series. Troughton is mesmerising and the faint yet ever-present score only adds to the sequence's and exchange's spellbinding nature. |
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Post by Brian MK.II on Aug 31, 2021 16:36:04 GMT
Nope. This scene alone is better than anything in Web. The music, the shots, the acting... it's just a beautiful scene. NuPooh will never top this. N People often cite Troughton as the highlight of this scene, and rightly so, but I feel Deborah Watling rarely gets a mention. She really conveys the fragility of the situation and the character's story arc and had more depth and charisma rather than being the two dimensional screamer all the usual f*ckers slag her off as. This scene alone proves she had more dimensions than most the NuWho lot combined. |
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Post by Bernard Marx on Aug 31, 2021 17:03:19 GMT
Nope. This scene alone is better than anything in Web. The music, the shots, the acting... it's just a beautiful scene. NuPooh will never top this. N People often cite Troughton as the highlight of this scene, and rightly so, but I feel Deborah Watling rarely gets a mention. She really conveys the fragility of the situation and the character's story arc and had more depth and charisma rather than being the two dimensional screamer all the usual fokkers slag her off as. This scene alone proves she had more dimensions than most the NuWho lot combined. Absolutely. She and her character often get a bad rap, but I thought Watling was excellent here (and in Fury from the Deep). |
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Post by burrunjor on Aug 31, 2021 17:32:16 GMT
Nope. This scene alone is better than anything in Web. The music, the shots, the acting... it's just a beautiful scene. NuPooh will never top this. N The Yeti attack in episode 1 rivals it, I'd say. But yeah, it's a fantastic scene by any measure, and one of the finest of the entire series. Troughton is mesmerising and the faint yet ever-present score only adds to the sequence's and exchange's spellbinding nature. Even though I prefer Web to Tomb, I'm with Maxil that that scene is one of the best in all of DW. The Yeti attack on Covent Gardens meanwhile is one of the best action sequences in DW's history. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2021 20:00:17 GMT
I think both a great.
Tomb I think suffered more from over hype then anything else. It was built up to such an amount from what I hear that it a snowball in hells chance of ever living up expectations. Also if was twats like Moffat making the choice, it could have been the entire first series of Quatermass and it would have been booed of stage. To me Tomb is one of the best Troughton sci-fi era stories, the cyber-men are genuinely scary and the story is lots of fun. If I had to knock it at all its sets are a little plan and don't hold up quite as well next to the more current era and location shooting the Troughton era took. It also has probably my faviort cyber-man line of all time.
"You belong to us. You shall be like us."
Web of Fear is a great story of equal calibre but has two things in it's favour. One, production. Web blows not only Tomb but many who stories out of the water with it's set and the updated Yeti make for an affective, if less iconic, villains. The other is a stronger caste. In many ways Web is the alpha version of the Pertwee era. The solders here are far more interesting the the non-antagonistic humans of Tomb, and you care far more about their losing battle against the Yeti. This stories ideas were later developed further in Invasion and then perfected in Pertwee's run.
Both a great but Web just as a few things that give it a slight lead.
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Post by iank on Sept 20, 2021 1:33:12 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 21:12:14 GMT
Bought it today. Let us know what you think when you can. |
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