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

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2024-01-05 13:50:57
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Ryan

Everyone involved in this one ended up deciding that bringing Jacqueline back as another character was a bad idea, which is why companion actors have only come back as their original characters ever since. The director actually didn't know she'd been on the show before. This story is generally considered pretty weak, though on the plus side it's the only time in John Nathan-Turner's tenure that Tom Baker actually seems to be having a good time.

Thomas Corp
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Yeah, it can’t all be Peter Capaldi showing up in Pompeii, then Torchwood, then as the Doctor himself. Then again, there they worked that into the plot. And like you said, a plus that Tom Baker was having a good time on this one. By the way, with two episodes left, it’s amazing how this season of Fargo just breezed by. I have been loving this season. A definite improvement over the last season, which again, wasn’t bad, just overly ambitious and cluttered. I haven’t looked into fan reception to this season much, though I suspect the one episode was a touch divisive as is usually the case with the relatively standalone and somewhat more overly bizarre episodes of the show.

Andrew Vignaux

"Somehow I feel they're not going to outsmart the cactus. Not a sentence I thought I'd say", sesskasays, "Meglos" reaction. I adore seeing the lovely Jacqueline Hill return to Who as Lexa - it had been 15 years for viewers since she had appeared in "The Chase". The Grugger and Brotadac (BTW: Brotadac is an anagram) pair remind me a bit of previous Classic Who Robert Holmes duos (Jago and Litetfoot, or actually more like Irongron and Bloodaxe). General Grugger is played by Bill Fraser who was (actually, will be in the following year) in "K9 and Company". Actually, I just saw Bill Fraser in a "Rumpole of the Bailey" episode yesterday in the role of that week's judge that Rumpole runs rings around. That tracking shot with the actors overlayed onto a model of the planet was revolutionary. The camera shooting the model was slaved to the main camera shooting the actors - an early (first?) use of a motion-controlled camera with CSO. "Flies trapped in amber!", Meglos, "Meglos" I like the quote - although I always mis-attribute it to another story this season. But I was reminded of your love of "Jurassic Park" here. Madame Tussauds in London had a "Doctor Who Exhibition" at the time this was produced and both the 4th Doctor and his Meglos version were included. So Tom got to be in Madame Tussauds twice! It's a nice joke when the guard says it's the second time he'd been there and the Doctor assumes he must mean the time 50 years ago. It's a bit similar to the interplay in Shada with the porter recalling the Doctor's previous visits. I wonder if, given that Shada had not been transmitted, whether the script writer re-used the idea. "First things first? ... But not necessarily in that order.", The Doctor, "Meglos"