Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited The Eighth Doctor: Narrator Gareth Pierce says that 1990s television was ruled by Mulder and Scully. Well how times have changed since we hardly hear about Mulder and Scully these days while the Doctor has definitely made his presence known since his TV comeback in 2005. Lovely to see Daphne Ashbrook. She was cast as Grace in the TV movie she was unfamiliar with Doctor Who. Remarkably it seems she acquired knowledge of Doctor Who outside of her experience with the TV movie. In introducing her, Pierce says that Grace lost her heart to the Doctor who has two hearts. Does this mean that the Doctor now has three hearts (little joke here). Not surprising that kiss is brought up here. Daphne Ashbrook says that she did not know the reactions to the kiss until several years later. Although it did not occur to me reactions to the kiss was something she would have known about immediately but it was staggering to hear from her that because of her finding out the reactions to the kiss it her felt wary of stepping in the UK! It was not until seeing this episode that it did not occur for me to think why Chang Lee wanted the Doctor’s things after the Seventh Doctor’s death. With the circumstances that is given to Chang Lee he was someone who wanted to get what you can take and that is why he took the Doctor’s things as it became available as he thought the Doctor didn’t them anymore. This episode however did not point out the fact that among the Doctor’s things was the TARDIS key which Chang Lee then used to get into the TARDIS and meet the Master (how the Master got into the TARDIS has never been explained). This episode emphasise well how the Master was like a father figure to Chang Lee. This is why Chang Lee eventually felt so betrayed by the Master when he realised that he has deceived him in doing his (the Master’s) bidding and that is why Chang Lee becomes the Doctor’s companion despite technically starting out as the Master’s. While the TV movie has been considered a failure, Daphne Ashbrook said in effect here that it did become the precursor to the “new” series showing how Doctor Who can be made for contemporary audiences and not a show that has been perceived pre-2005 as one that is forever trapped in the time bubble of the 1960s and 1970s (with these perceptions completely ignoring 1980s Doctor Who).
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 00:10:42 +0000
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