A lifelong SF and fantasy fan, this channel showcases my views on the latest cult TV shows and blockbuster movies, as well as my ongoing watch-through of every story in the classic run of Doctor Who.
I always loved this episode, for the longest time I had only ever seen Part One while I was on a holiday so when I eventually got my hands on the DVD when that came out I was over the moon. Absolutely incredible stuff in my opinion. Great review!
@@richardlyth I do wonder Richard if giving the ship in this story, a name or even an indetification number would have been something the writers might have considered doing when the scripts were been written .
I wonder Richard were you like myself a huge fan of Blake,s Seven as well as classic Dr Who, the man Terry Nation who devised the Daleks as the Doctors arch-enemies devised 2 science fiction series first the Survivors and then later Blake,s Seven and there are people who say Blake,s Seven needs to be reinvented and rebooted for TV I do no know whether that would be such a good idea myself what if any opinion do you have on that please Richard.
I do have all of Blakes 7 on DVD. I've always thought it should be brought back, it's a great premise with lots of strong characters. Firefly and Farscape were clearly inspired by it, but it really needs a British cast and crew to make it as bleak and cynical as the original.
@@richardlyth Hi Richard I say with the demise of Adric, in Earthshock it was like the demise of Gan in series 2 episode Blake,s Seven episode Pressure Point and it was a big shock when both characters were in their respective sci-fi shows Gan in Blake,s Seven and Adric in Dr Who. I do say in B7 when episode 6 of series 1 of B7 was aired we were introduced to 2 arch-enemies Servalan and Travis and also the female arch-villain Servalan herself lasted for 29 out of 52 episodes of B7 whereas Travis only lasted for 13 episodes and was then killed off and exited the series with a bang. I liked in Earthshock the actors who played the main Cybermen the Leader David Banks and Marks Hardy the Lieutenant they IMO were a definite improvement on the actors portraying the main Cybermen in the previous serial Revenge of the Cybermen who were Christopher Robbie the Leader and Melville Jones the deputy as he was credited as .
I do say Richard when Adric dies it is similar to the demies of Gan in classic Sci-fi series Blake,s Seven in the 2nd season episode Pressure Point both male characters regulars as they were are killed off and no fans of Blake,s Seven and or Doctor Who knew in advance these two main characters were to depart their respective sci-fi shows by been killed off . David Jackson Gan, in B7 was keen for Gan to die , as the part was very limited and could not really develop Matthew Waterhouse Adric wanted to leave Dr Who but he did not want Adric to die, and when JNT decided that 3 companions in the TARDIS was way too many he decided one must be written out of the series. He wanted it to be Nyssa at first but Peter Davison strongly objected, and instead JNT went with Adric who was not as popular amongst the companions and so Adric was written out in a way that was not the usual way for a companion to leave Dr Who. When Adric was blown up aboard the spaceship the unnamed freighter it was a big shock in billions of ways, but it menat Adric could never return to the show in the future his demise was the final end of Adric.
Hi Richard when Earthshock was made and broadcast for the first time, the Cybermen,s return in that awesome story was a great big surprise in billions, tens of billions and hundreds of billions of ways and there was no way the secret that they were coming back after a gap of 7 years having last appeared in Revenge of the Cybermen with the 4th Doctor not even the Dr Who comic which had become monthly and still is to this present day would on a preview for Earthshock advertise the return of the Cybermen. I was back then aged 13 and also it was the second colour Cyberstory and the second not to star Patrick Troughton as the Doctor given how much the Cybermen were the recurring villains in the 2nd Doctor era and were taking place of the Daleks at the time. This Cyberman story was also the first where neither of the 2 men Kit Pedlar and or Gerry Davis the two awesome men who devised the Cybermen as new returning villains to take the place the Daleks were leaving empty as their creator Terry Nation was removing them from Dr Who to put them into their own show in the U.S. which ultimately did not succeed . In the year Eartshock was shown there was no internet, no social media and also no twitter and also fans of Dr Who could not get to see this awesome Cyberstory been made the public gallery was closed to keep the surprise of the Cybermen,s return a guarded secret and when the first episode went out on tv I got goosebumps and I had only seen the Cybermen on tv once before in Revenge of the Cybermen 7 years earlier when I was 6 years old.
Space frogs. Mabye, they are selling Bud wise er where no beer has gone before or it could be the future off spring of Tsuyu from My Hero Academia well you know here families quirk is frog like.
Current rumours claim that Alien Isolation Remastered is about to be released as a tenth anniversary edition with official VR support! Alien Isolation 2 is expected sometime late 2025. Don't know if this is true but I certainly hope so!
1984 Dune is so much worse than Villeneuve's. Villeneuve knew how to adapt it while Lynch tried to jam every single thing that happened in the book into the movie. I don't hate Lynch's but it felt all over the place, while I thought Villeneuve chose the elements to focus on and brought them to life cinematically.
Thanks for the reviews. Unfortunately I couldn't get tiks to anything but Sooz for the day we're going. You picked some great entertainers and I'll look out for them for future.
As I said at the end, more are coming! Meanwhile here are some I did a few years ago that you might have missed: Swap Shop Annual - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IYYQVd0Aepo.html Jim'll Fix It Annual - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dZ0vhjA_3ew.html (they're more than two years old so the quality might not be up to my current standard).
The books themselves were mostly awful and forgettable, but the behind-the-scenes dramas on Outpost Gallifrey with the narcissistic "authors" strutting around taking themselves so seriously was hugely entertaining and the best thing to come out of Doctor Who.
It wasn't actually, because of the production order and the problem that would have been if the casting had wanted Ant Ainley in three stories back to back (The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis and Castrovalva) then Pete wouldn't have had to be there for the Regeneration and then do Four to Doomsday, so 'technically', Peter's first appearance was in Episode 4, then exiting the TARDIS for scenes in Episode 1 and then back with the police box for the departure from Earth and heading to Event One.
nice video Richard I think in the future of you rating movies you should have a chart kind of like a tier list or something throughout the video for viewers to keep track of your ratings otherwise very good video hoping to see more from you
Thanks! I'm not massively familiar with tier lists, but it does seem like it could be a decent way of ranking a bunch of different things. I'll definitely consider it next time I do a similar video.
My top ten: 10. Planet of Evil 9. Deadly Assassin 8. Face of Evil 7. Seeds of Doom 6. Talons of Weng-Chiang 5. The Armageddon Factor 4. Brain of Morbius 3. Pyramids of Mars 2. State of Decay 1. The Horror of Fang Rock
Love some Ribos Operation appreciation. It’s not the most exciting story but it’s so charming, has a plot that doesn’t get boring over 4 parts and I had a massive crush on the villain 😂
My favourite Tom Baker story's are The Talons of Wheng-Chiang, it has Sherlock Homes meets Fu Manchu meets Jack the Ripper, You got your money worth in though's days. But my all time favourite is The Planet of Evil, and i also recommend The Horror of Fang Rock. As far as i'm concerned Tom Baker is Doctor Who.
My favorite Doctor is John Pertwee, but I wouldn't argue with you over your Tom Baker choices. All are excellent examples of Bakers Doctor. I mean no insult, but I just can't watch anything in the last two iterations of the Doctor.
I checked your Boom video, it's perfectly fine to have your own opinions, and don't let the people who were negatively commenting affect you as they seemed to all be from the ragebait side of RU-vid with people like "Nerdrotic" and such. Keep up the amazing work and continue to do these fantastic videos!
its crazy how close our season ranking were. the only season we kinda disagree on is S10 which i have at 3rd instead of 6th my rankling was 1st - Season 9 2nd - Season 4 3rd - Season 10 4th - Season 6 5th - Season 8 6th - Season 5 7th - Season 2 8th - Season 3 9th - Season 1 10th - Season 14 11th - Season 7 12th - Season 11 (tossup with S12) 13th - Season 12 Havent watched - Season 13
My tier list would match yours. The ending of finale felt like it dragged on. Ruby felt like they just wanted to right her off without real answers. Her biological mom was so happy to see her, a perfect mom and the reason she had to give her up was an abusive husband but even he is this great new relationship Ruby will have. It broke my heart when she called the bio mom "her real mom".
It was just mid. Underwhelming relationship (surprising given RTD's track record not only with his old Dr Who work, but also his recent work on It's A Sin and Nolly). Sutekh never really did anything that made him personally evil - like I can't think of anyone who feels particularly close to anyone who died the way they were close to say Wilf or Donna. Like The Master being mean to Wilf, you want him hanged, drawn and quartered, but everyone who died here... Yeah, generally evil, but we didn't know them well. Sutekh seemed a bit inept with decision making at times. I dunno. A weak season overall, better than Chibnall, worse than every other season than maybe the messier Smith seasons. 6/10 S1 10/10 S2 7/10 S3 10'10 S4 10/10 S5 10/10 S6 7/10 S7 5/10 S8 9/10 S9 8/10 S10 5/10 S11 3/10 S12 3/10 S13 4/10 S14 6/10
I prefer Lynch version. Villeneuve's Chani is a insufferable girl boss, the Emperor looks like he's just left the urologist office and Alia talking from the woomb was silly.
It would be impressive if they'd filmed Jodie when she was pregnant and/or giving birth, that would be some great forward thinking. But who would the father be? The Master?
@@richardlyth maybe whoever dropped Ruby off isn’t her mum though and was just doing the duty of leaving. Although since I was last here I’ve seen some people mention another potential who’s name begins with J that gets me even more excited.
