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Classic Who "Snakedance" Parts 1&2 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Thomas Corp

For the purposes of an authentic reaction, I am pleased nobody spoiled you about “this bullshit on this day” as you described it. On a personal level, I am sorry, Jess, you had to put up with said bullshit on this day. Your reaction to just seeing the title was expected. I also couldn’t help being a wiseass as you kept saying, “What do you MEAN Snakedance?” which I kept noting is a fair question. The youts these days all have their tik-toking nonsense, who’s to say the snakedance couldn’t be something like that? Similarly, you said the one gentleman was not a snake, made me note, “Well, perhaps not literally. How do we know he’s not a metaphorical snake?” You kept saying it was complete bullshit to have the Mara again after you already went through the snake story. Well, we recently dealt with the somehow, Sutekh returned deal in New Who, thus, not the most surprising thing that we deal with the Mara snake nonsense. Watching you in this reaction makes me think you’d have gotten along well with my grandma. My step-grandma on my mom’s side, to be more specific. My grandma HATED snakes just as you do. The one rotten thing is one of my favorite characters is Jafar, and you know how snake like he can be. Then again, I’ve recently acquired the snake phobia you have, leading to mixed feelings. Certainly, I was feeling your pain in this one, Jess. Setting aside the snake business, I do like how you assess the plot as being wonderfully terrifying and quite good, thus you would have a better response to it if it was sans snakes and the snake moichandizing that the people were taking part in. Though I didn’t notice any snake oil salesman now I think about it. Tegan’s dilemma is terrifying as it feels quite realistic. Janet delivers in this one. Shame she wasn’t listening to Kate Bush to ward off Vecna; I understood that reference, by the way. Proof that the Kate Bush in Stranger Things was such a big thing is that you make the reference to that, dummy like me who hasn’t seen those episodes, let alone the show itself, even I understood that reference. A big highlight is Lon, primarily because he’s played by dear Martin Clunes, who is now well known for his starring role as Doc Martin Ellingham in one of my favorite shows, Doc Martin. You say you find Lon insufferable yet still quite entertaining. Funny you should say that as that succinctly summarizes Martin’s role as our dear Doc Martin. Talk about a relatable character in Doc Martin, I love that show. I imagine you would too, even with it being a medical show with needles from time to time, and one episode, I guarantee you would HATE. Here, Martin is terrific as Lon. It’s jarring seeing him as young as he is. I kept expecting him to ask, “Louisa, when did Portwenn become overwhelmed by this serpentine cult?” In addition to my appreciation of you showing Martin some love, I also was happy that he provided some good things to help distract you, however little, from the snakey-snake business. And this was a great reaction, even if I wanted to give you a hug many times over. Godspeed on the conclusion to this one. Stay strong, Jess.

Andrew Vignaux

"You look different.", "Yes, Doctor.", The Doctor noticing Nyssa's outfit, "Snakedance" This is a nice story bringing back a recent Who enemy tied into Tegan's dreaming again. It would be terrifying to imagine what might have happened if this had all been initiated after Tegan had been left on Earth after "Time-Flight" with no Doctor around. And I love the delicious world-building in this story - the reported history of this civilization. There is a big world out there all shown in some small TV sets. And Janet gets to do her evil Mara acting again! "Oh, they were frightful. They were all covered in ash. Some of them were almost naked. They lived entirely on roots and berries and things, and they put themselves into trances. It was quite disgusting. They handled live snakes, I remember.", Tanha, "Snakedance" Yes, a nice Who story! Except for all the snake imagery, I guess. Er, sorry about that. "The Federator's son is bored.", Lon, "Snakedance" This is a very early (first?) TV appearance for Martin Clunes. I never really got into his later roles so he's always been Lon from this story for me. "Dare you come face to face with the finally unfaceable? ... Children half price.", Dugdale, "Snakedance" Dugdale is played by Brian Miller, husband of Elisabeth Sladen. Later, in New Who, he played the tramp in Capaldi's first story. He was also the caretaker of a closed funfair in a SJA story. I've only just realized who the character strongly reminds me of - he reminds me of "The Player" in Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" - especially the film version played by Richard Dreyfuss. "I do find it quite extraordinarily difficult to take seriously a legend that cannot even count accurately.", Ambril, "Snakedance" I like John Carson as Ambril, the stuffy historian. And the "Six Faces" head-piece solution is nice. I've just checked his IMDB credits - 188 entries. I don't really recall him in anything else but I suppose I probably recognised him in rewatching something like "The Saint" or "The Avengers". He's great in this story! And I like the scene when he's boring Tanha and she just plaintively asks when they can eat. "Look at me!", Tegan, "Snakedance"

LatePaul

Not quite sure what to say that doesn't sound trite or condescending. I appreciate you for putting yourself through this, although I almost wish you just skipped it. You were clearly uncomfortable throughout. I guess on edge wondering when the next piece of snake imagery would appear. It's a shame because there's really a lot to like in this story. I really like Janet Fielding's performance and Martin Clunes (Lon) has the perfect delivery for those dry sarcastic lines. But it's hard to enjoy that stuff if you're stressed out because of the snake stuff. If it helps this is the only other snake-themed story in Classic Who. I can't even really remember any other snake-related stuff in other stories but I may be forgetting since it doesn't stand out to me. Braveheart. Stay strong.

Matthew

I was not planning on watching this for a while, but that THUMBNAIL :0