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Classic Who "Enlightenment" Parts 1&2 EARLY Early Access! (Patreon)

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Andrew Vignaux

"You are a Time Lord. A lord of time. Are there lords in such a small domain?", Striker, "Enlightenment" It's an interesting story setup. I'm reminded of the steamer sequence from "Carnival of Monsters", where we think we're just in a simple adventure on Earth with some chickens, until the writers suddenly switch the scenario out from under us. It also reminds me of "The War Games" because humans have been taken out of their own time as pawns in an alien project. This was the first Classic Who story to have been both written and directed by women. Barbara Clegg was a Who fan along with her children. BTW: we would have to wait for a while for the next story from both a female writer and female director - that would be Jodie's "The Witchfinders" 35-years later! Oh my - the white guardian has a chicken on his head! Cyril Luckham was the original white guardian from "The Ribos Operation" (I miss Romana I and K9) just as Valentine Dyall had been the Black Guardian at the end of the "Key to Time" series. "No, I need someone I can rely on. It's important.", "Someone who doesn't run away.", The Doctor and Tegan, "Enlightenment" Ow! Tegan is just great! But she goes through some creepy (Marriner!) stuff in this one - the intro with his face in the scanner; and then all her stuff in the room and especially the photo of her aunt. (BTW: that was another original actor who was brought in for this story - so they could make the photograph). Peter Sallis (we saw him in "The Ice Warriors") was originally signed on to play Striker but schedules changed so they cast Keith Barron instead. I'm intrigued how Peter would have played it. "Brave heart, Tegan.", The Doctor, "Enlightenment"

Rob Walters
>>148680603

I too am disappointed that Barabra Clegg didn't pen another tale as this is wonderfully rich and inventive, especially coming after the yawn-fest of 'Terminus'. I have to say though, that I think the massive time-gap between the series having another female writer and director working on a story, is most likely due to a lack of female writers having submitted many stories, as opposed to some despicable, misogynistic plan to block women directors or de-ink female writers as is insinuated above! May I say Andrew, regarding your quote from Tegan in your comment, it is my number one example of her hypocrisy and snide character. She accuses Turlough of having 'run away' on Terminus and infers she would never and has never, done such a thing. However, who was it that fled, terrified in tears, to the TARDIS and tried to pilot it off of Monarchs ship, not giving two shits about what will become of the Doctor, Adric or Nyssa if she did so....? I believe it was Tegan. How she can dare make such a claim just to score a point off of Turlough infront of the Doctor is despicably fraudulent.

James Fish

Thanks for another great reaction. I like this story purely for the concept of it. These beings who exist forever and whose natural habitat is outside of time, presumably in some kind of void. Existing but that's all. Desperate for stimuli & having to use mortals to get that is a pretty terrifying concept. That the Black Gaurdian threatened to turn Turlough into one of them must be even more terrifying. Someone who once lived as a person being reduced to such a state as to have no real existence is even more terrifying. But, most terrifying of all is Mariner's obsession with Tegan. I can certainly get the comparison to the nice guy at the bar who won't leave you alone. That's terrifying enough, but one who can read your mind on top of it, is on another level! See you next time!

Andrew Vignaux
>>148680603

Oops, I actually watched the full reaction but accidentally posted my comments on the editted version. Sorry if any of my comments/quotes applied to parts of the reaction that weren't in this version.

Andrew Vignaux
>>148680603

That's a point - although Tegan did mention that a reason for getting to the TARDIS in "Four to Doomsday" was to warn the Earth rather than just running away.

Josef Schiltz

Amy: "Then why am l here?" Eleven: "Because... because I can't see it any more." Amy: "See what?" Eleven: "After a while, you just can't see it." Amy: "See what?" Eleven: "Everything. I look at a star and it's just a big ball of burning gas and I know how it began and I know how it ends, and I was probably there both times. Now, after a while, everything is just stuff. That's the problem. You make all of space and time your backyard and what do you have? A backyard. But you, you can see it. And when you see it, l see it." From Meanwhile In The TARDIS: 2 Rose: "Where are you from?" Nine: "All over the place." Rose: "They all speak English." Doctor: "No, you just hear English. It's a gift of the Tardis. The telepathic field, gets inside your brain and translates." Rose: "It's inside my brain?" Nine: "Well, in a good way." Rose: "Your machine gets inside my head. It gets inside and it changes my mind, and you didn't even ask?" Nine: "I didn't think about it like that." From The End Of The World. As the Doctor himself might say, it's all relative. I was waiting for that reveal at the end of episode one. That has to be one of my most favourite moments in all of Doctor Who. Would have loved to have seen more from Barbara Clegg. Would have loved to have seen some stories with Thirteen written by her.

Matthew Beckford

If full reactions could contain the opening and closing themes it would mean so much to us geeks who watch and love your reaction to link up to from beginning to end it would be v appreciated.

Josef Schiltz
>>149075962

I get the feeling that would leave Jess more openly vulnerable to copyright claims. In her podcast interview, she named copyright as her major bugbear, especially with soulless and litigious corporations like the BBC.