Doctor Who and the Silurians REVIEW
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
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Great review; this is my favourite Pertwee story and the best Silurian story. The camera angles help give the story a sense of scale and I can't wait till its released on blu ray because it will look even more stunning.
Excellent review of a truly great Doctor Who story, which is one of my favourites. I'm glad to find that I'm not the only one who enjoys Carey Blyton's score!
You can feel Barry Letts influence on this adventure...but I love the way the Jon Pertwee Doctor tries to to good..
Cool to hear you praise this & especially the music! Thought I was the only one who liked it.
At times it's a bit cheesy (when it sounds like someone laughing into a Kazoo) but whenever it is more subtle (building up tension) and then _suddenly_ jumps to the horns (or whatever they used) - that was wonderfully atmospheric!
Also nice to hear that you agree that it's quite well paced. I remember when I first watched this, I expected it to be *_a lot_* of filler but it's surprisingly well paced and interesting throughout, especially for such a long story.
Plus, as I love (to hate) Nyder, having Peter Miles in a serial automatically makes it a must-watch!
Can't wait to hear your thoughts on "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" & "Genesis of the Daleks"!
Great review! Keep it up!
_It happened like this. By the time Barry Letts and I_ *[Terrance Dicks]* _took over as Producer and Script Editor we were stuck with two ideas imposed by our two predecessors. The first was the Doctor's exile to Earth, the second, longer serials - hence 'The Silurians' being seven parts. Both were attempts to save money, both were potentially harmful to the show. Four parts was the best length for_ Who, _with the occasional six-parter. And the Doctor isn't really the Doctor unless the TARDIS can go on its travels._
_It was the Doctor's exile that worried Mac_ *[Malcolm Hulke].* _After I told him the news he brooded for a moment. You could hear the whirring of the computer-like brain. 'Well, Terrance,' he said at last. 'You've now only got two stories, Alien Invasion or Mad Scientist!'_
_I told him he was being too negative, bu as I went home that evening I had the ghastly realisation that he was almost certainly right... And I had a whole season to set up. How could I get away with alternating Invading Aliens and Mad Scientists? I brooded over the problem that evening, that night, and most of the following day._
_Finally inspiration struck. I called Mac on the phone. 'Suppose the aliens were here all along, a reptile race that evolved before man? They'd regard us as the alien invaders!'_
_Silence from the end of the phone. I imagined I could hear that whirring again. Then Mac said, 'Yes, I could do something with that.' We discussed the idea further and before very long the storyline for 'The Silurians' arrived. The storyline became a_ Doctor Who _serial, and, eventually, this book._
_Now about that title. Once the basic premise was established - an intelligent reptillian species evolved before man, went into hibernation to escape a catastrophe that never happened, were accidentally awakened and wanted their planet back - the intelligent reptiles needed a name. Mac looked up a list of prehistoric period names and came up with Silurians._
_Later, when the show was in productions, Barry Letts had second thoughts. He said the reptiles and apes couldn't have been around together during the Silurian period, and the reptiles should really have been called the Eocenes. Luckily things were too far advanced to change the name, so I gave the Doctor a line to cover the problem._
_(Personally, I was happy to stick with the Silurians, scientific accuracy be damned. The Silurians sound like a race of malignant intelligent reptiles. Eocenes just sound feeble. Later on, somebody said Eocenes was wrong as well - you just can't win.)_
- Terrance Dicks, introduction to the novelisation, _Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters_
Love this story!
I’m with you watching the ones I missed the first time around with you .thought I start with Jon Pertwee.
Oooo the Orginal Silliran story never watched it before nice video btw
Wow I never knew that's why it was called Doctor Who and...
My only serious problem with this story was how easily The YOUNG Silurian defeats The OLD Silurian and convinces all the other Silurians to just roll with it! It feels dangerously close to a plot hole and makes me want to side with all the humans who saw The Silurians as nothing more than hostile alien invaders!