Correct - These are the creatures fromGridlock 😊 it's been amazing to watch your Dr Who journey from the beginning 💕 Hope you are fully recovered soon 🤗
I’m suddenly starting to wonder if there are hundreds of lost stories where the TARDIS crew land somewhere that seems nice, and after hours of sneaking around suspiciously they discover everything is fine...
I find 'The Macra Terror' to be one of the most underrated stories of the Second Doctor Era. I love the concept of having a locale that's seems very peaceful on the outside yet has a rather creepy and disturbing undercurrent at the heart of it. As for the animation, this is easily the best one so far and I have no doubt that both 'The Faceless Ones' and 'Fury from the Deep' will be at the exact same level of quality.
For a fan of over 40 years, I remember when there was no easy way to see DW. Now, we have animated videos in places of lost episodes and I couldn't be happier. Sure, the BBC got by with the cheapest animation possible but they DID it. For that, I am thankful.
Poor Second Doctor. So much of his era was destroyed. :( Also, you've seen Macra before, back in the Series 3 episode "Gridlock" with Ten and Martha. They were the creatures under the motorway killing people if they went down to the bottom level. Ten mentions something about how they must have devolved into a more primitive state since he last saw them.
some people seem really against the idea of getting a new actor to play old doctors because it would open the door to write new seasons for older regeneration and would ruin continuity etc but i think with so many lost episodes it would be worth re-recording as some of the stories are actually pretty good. David Bradley for example did such a great job portraying the 1st doctor I wouldnt mind seeing him redo some of the older lost episodes. certain better than some of the bad recons and animations. at least some like this are done better
@Matthew McIntyre Believe me, it flippin' does look like a miracle! When I was a kid there were only five complete Troughton stories - The Krotons, The War Games, The Seeds of Death, The Dominators and The Mind Robber. Of these, only The Krotons had four episodes and so the rest were never going to get repeated on telly (four episodes being the standard length by the eighties), and BBC Video took a while to believe that people would even buy black and white stories, let alone contemplate reconstructions of missing episodes! Personally, just the narrated audio releases were semi-miraculous, the ghosts of supposedly dead stories trapped in a bottle... The idea of any of these being resurrected even partially through animation was a long way off... Though of course, ironically, just as they were about to release the narrated audio version of Tomb of the Cybermen, somebody found the whole thing in Hong Kong, and that felt like a miracle too...
@@magus104 I think there's a weird psychological block with recasting a Doctor. I literally can't imagine another actor playing the Second or Fourth Doctor - and after all, given that the Doctor changes, you almost don't need to replicate the performance, you might just stick a new Doctor altogether into the proceedings (it's happen before - Nick Scovell played the Doctor in several stage adaptations of missing stories without attempting to copy a particular Doctor). And yet... I'm more than happy with any of the four different versions of the 1st Doctor! I think maybe it's just that I grew up with the First Doctor having been recast in The Five Doctors, so recasting him is not an obstacle in my imagination... I guess, like any stage play, if you did a complete remount of a script (as opposed to trying to make it look like it's been pulled out of the original run) there's no reason why recasting wouldn't work - so long as it felt (as David Bradley's 1st Doctor does) like the actor was playing the character, rather than impersonating the actor who originally played him...
The universe has it in for the Second Doctor. A way higher chunk of his stories destroyed than any other Doctor, the only Doctor to be forcibly regenerated and have it stick, and the first 4 of the 10 parts of his regeneration episode no longer available on Jess's UA-cam channel. And such an innocent Doctor to have all this happen to, just wanting to play his recorder and grin and try on hats. One, Three, Seven and Nine all seem like they'd have been able to fight it all better or at least cope better, while Four and Eleven probably wouldn't have been bothered, Eight, War, Ten and Thirteen would have had other things to worry about, and Twelve would have been very cross with them. (I could make comments about Five and Six but won't because Jess hasn't reached them yet.) But for Two it just seems extra sad.
My freind Graham painted the backgrounds the old fashioned way. I sat in his lounge looking at the actual paintings. They are amazing artworks in their own right.
When "The Macra Terror" was made the idea of planned vacations for the family, you know where you go to visit a camp with pre-planned activities and sing-a-longs and family dining and such, was the norm.
One unfortunate thing about the animation is that there IS a scene set in the spa in the original episode but they chose not to animate it. I think you would've liked it, it's funny. It's how Polly got her fancy new haircut and bright clothes.
With this time you get an idea of Jamie. "I take orders from one person" ir his clan leader - The Doctor. At the start he is a straight down the line guy.And the next episodes feature him heavily. I'd say The Macra Terror was a triumph
Ah yes, the title sequence. _The Macra Terror_ was the first story to have the updated title sequence for the second Doctor. Obviously this is an animated colourised version of it. The original was still black and white, but it's the same effect. You'll see next time you watch a surviving episode.
The animation IS really good on this one. I so agree. I think... this version of the story may well be better in a lot of places (especially when Macra are on screen...) than the original was.
This episode is so exciting for me! It was animated in a studio local to me - Sun and Moon in Bristol. I went on a course there back in September to learn the software they used for this and got to play around with the rigs for the Second Doctor and Jamie! It was awesome
It's quite funny as I have just bought and watched a whole load of 2nd Doctor DVD's recently, so watching them "with you " is really fun. I hope you stick with it as the later ones do actually have Patrick Troughton, live action and little animation. I hope you start to feel better.
The original team had only one Macra prop and it was so heavy, big and cumbersome that they had to bolt the beast to a van in order for it to move and it didn't even have legs.
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS MACRAAAAA!!! (god, I love this story. Btw, I'm glad sesska recalled their appearance in Gridlock, they were a slave faction in that which is also the opposite premise of this story)
So pleased you are watching the 2nd Doctor, he's my ultimate fave, followed by Matt Smith, great reaction, can tell you are still sick, you don't sound your normal self, hope you are feeling better real soon, keep taking the medicine, take it easy, no apologies needed, think we all understand, we all get ill, take care and get well real soon
Yes indeed, the Macra were in Gridlock. Albeit a less intelligent variety that hadn't mastered human speech like the ones in control of the colony here.
I really like the atmosphere of this episode. Gotta love a good sci-fi dystopia. The animation is fantastic as well. The revelation that the Macra are running the colony is one of my favourite Doctor Who plot twists. As the guy in _Gridlock_ said, they don't _look_ like empire-builders.
@Aunchient Pistol What's a spoiler? The revelation that the Macra are in control literally happens in this video (the scene starts at 14:07), and I know for a fact that Jess has already seen _Gridlock._
Loved the reaction! Patrick troughton is my favorite doctor. Cant wait for Web of Fear and Enemy of the world are excellent stories and are both recovered and on DVD! Hope you enjoy the 2nd doctor as well. 😃
You've probably heard it several times by now but - yes, they were absolutely the creatures in Gridlock. Weirdly enough, I worked it out the other way around to you (before the 10th Doctor confirmed it). When Gridlock was on I'd only seen the minute or so of surviving footage from this, which is the bit where Ben saves Polly from the giant crab. Worth checking that out even if you don't react to it. Thanks again for an excellent reaction video & see you next time!
I'd say that's true with the staggering exception of Power of the Daleks. Season Six is all over the place in quality, but boy are there some classics in it too, thank goodness.
@@Mrazmatmahmood Yes, that was my point. "The staggering exception" because it's perhaps the best Who story of the 60s and it's in season 4, not one of the "best serials" of seasons 5 and 6 -- which do have great stuff. But yeah. While 6 has the amazing War Games and Invasion and Mind Robber, it also has some other stuff. 😏😊
Being used to following orders Ben was more susceptible to the colony programming. Glad he got Polly off the Macrabiotic menu though. Hope you're feeling better soon, we all appreciate your powering through, you're amazing.
"Of all the things in the Tardis, Jamie takes a stick?" Ok well two things about that. In the original aired version, Jamie picked up the stick after leaving the Tardis, and come on, the Doctor doesn't have any weapons, you know that ;)
Macra terror is actually available to watch in black and white, or color. They are both fun to watch. Faceless ones will be the same way as even though the live action version of episodes 1and 3 exist they still animated all six episodes.
I really enjoy the fact the animation is in colour. I don't know why that wasn't done with all the animation. Speed & cost I expect. Yes these are the lower level creatures from Gridlock.
I hope you are feeling better, soon! Yes you are right, the Macra were in Gridlock. Actually, the animation of this story, was actually very nice. To be honest it probably enhanced the appearance of the Macra (if you look at still photos of the Macra, you’ll understand what I mean).
As there's only a couple of weeks to go, time for some advice on The Faceless Ones, to make sure you're watching the right version! You'll already know that episodes 1 and 4 survive, but they're also being animated along with the four missing episodes. On the DVD/Blu-ray, it appears that the surviving episodes are only on disc 2*, with the black&white animation. Disc 1 contains the colour animation of all 6 episodes but not the original eps 1&4. So it's either watch the whole thing in B&W, or swap between discs to watch the surviving episodes with the colour animations of the missing ones. (*They're on disc 3 as well, but the rest of that disc is a telesnap reconstruction, so you can safely ignore that one!)
I think the moral of Dr Who is: never go to a spa. Bad things always happen like: mind control crabs; invisible spectres that take over buses and make people hate each other; green-haired mechanics whose kids are smarter than them...
The great shame, dependent on how you view it, is that Gerry Anderson series, like Thunderbirds, were already in colour at this time. I think since 1964 and not just made with the home market in mind. Much more resources were ploughed into them. Also none of these suffered the fate of Doctor Who in being wiped. I often think it's a shame that someone with a tape machine, a 'Whovian Bob Monkhouse', didn't amass an archive we could plunder. It would be wonderful to see those missing Hartnell and Troughtons again.
Sesskasays mentions the similarity with the brainwashing in The War Machines. Not surprising as the same man (Ian Stuart Black) wrote both of them. He also wrote The Savages and that was a place which at first seemed idyllic but had a dark secret at the core of it's society.
Well, according to my 500 year diary, you saw Gridlock in 2016. Now this colony reminds me of a place in Wales . . Portmeirion! Not a place to visit if you have globophobia.
Yeah, the animated version of this is *much* easier to deal with than the slideshow reconstruction. There doesn't seem to be many pictures recovered from this one, so fully half the episodes was the audio over the same image of what looked like an old jeep's headlights in the fog. I suppose it was a picture of a Macra with glowing eyes, but with so few details as to be kinda pointless.
Our colony is the greatest. We have the best colony ever. Drain the caves! Make Affected Colony Remarkable Again! Oh, and we have no Macra. There’s no such thing as Macra! Macra do not exist! But if intelligent, giant crabs were real and were here, they would be the best intelligent, giant crabs. Ever.
Yeah, Season Four is the one hardest hit by the old BBC junking policy. Season Five, you've got two complete serials live action, one only has two animated episodes out of six, and one has a single reconstruction episode out of six. And "Fury" might be completely animated by the time you get to it. Season Six, five of the seven serials are complete, and one has just two animated episodes out of eight. This actually begs the question, though: for "The Faceless Ones", while they've animated all six episodes, parts one and three DO exist live action. And they are two of my favorite "orphaned" episodes. If at all possible for you to find a way to watch that serial split between animated and live action, I'd recommend it. :-)
The Next Serial is gonna get released in animation on the 16th of March. You could maybe delay the reaction to it rather than skipping it altogether. OR you could react to Part 1 and wait a bit for the animated Part 2 to be released. OR (ideal option) delay the reaction by about 5 or 6 days and react to BOTH parts!
Love the animation for this story and cannot wait for the faceless ones. Hope you react to the live action versions of episodes 1 and 3 of the faceless ones
Good story. Glad you are watching it. Wish it was the black and white version. I hope the Macra show up again soon. The cliffhanger to episode 2 is confusing. Why kill him on camera? Why kill him at all? Why even have a human controller?
Good reaction. I don't rate a lot of the animations but the colour helped with this one and I'd imagine the original execution of The Macra might have looked very poor! Hope you've seen your Doctor, some nasty stuff around at the moment, get well soon!
It all seens 'crazy' but that's only because Who has had 860 episodes excluding the upcoming 'Timeless Children'. Record breaking number of episodes of brilliant stuff for nearly SIX DECADES ffs!
Power of the Daleks was in color as well. Thought you picked black and white on purpose. Animation for this was... polished. Rather than try and make it close to what would’ve been filmed, they took liberties with the set design and the action. For example, Polly was never lifted up by a Macra.
I doubt they outright “refused.” The animators were probably gutted that they wouldn’t be able to include it, but time constraints are time constraints and so choices had to be made. I’m sure we’ll get a special edition one day that works the scene back in and has a new model for Polly in the beginning.
Remember the macra wer in the 10th doctor episode ‘gridlock’ they lookd similar to these animated versions, but the actual macra props were....well....shit
For me, the animated episodes are ‘meh’, I wish they’d use a different studio, maybe the episodes would work better for me. There’s people out there doing great work that deserve a shot.
Whilst I've bought the animations and appreciate the effort that's gone into them, I've found that I much prefer to listen to the original soundtracks and let my imagination reconstruct the action.
My apologies sesskasays, usually I do finish your videos but was pressed for time IRL and stopped after you had said you wasn’t sure but thought it was them. It is them, as hundreds have already said. ;) I’m glad you’re enjoying, this is a favorite of mine.
Ten out of ten! The Macra were indeed in Gridlock! And it's nice to see that Ben will always stick beside Polly, even when she has really bad crabs.
whobp8 underrated joke.
I love that this shows how mentally strong Jamie is. How he could resist it. Shows quickly how loyal he is to The Doctor too.
Please dont skip the web of fear! please! its very important
Correct - These are the creatures fromGridlock 😊 it's been amazing to watch your Dr Who journey from the beginning 💕 Hope you are fully recovered soon 🤗
I’m suddenly starting to wonder if there are hundreds of lost stories where the TARDIS crew land somewhere that seems nice, and after hours of sneaking around suspiciously they discover everything is fine...
😂😂😂😂
I find 'The Macra Terror' to be one of the most underrated stories of the Second Doctor Era. I love the concept of having a locale that's seems very peaceful on the outside yet has a rather creepy and disturbing undercurrent at the heart of it. As for the animation, this is easily the best one so far and I have no doubt that both 'The Faceless Ones' and 'Fury from the Deep' will be at the exact same level of quality.
For a fan of over 40 years, I remember when there was no easy way to see DW. Now, we have animated videos in places of lost episodes and I couldn't be happier. Sure, the BBC got by with the cheapest animation possible but they DID it. For that, I am thankful.
I’m sure many people hav said this but, when you get to season 5 please please PLEASE dont skip the web of fear!! Just one ep of screencaps out of 6!
yeah I really love web of fear
Always love that story
Spoiler!
It's the Brigadier/Colonel's first episode!
Yeah, that's an essential 2nd Doctor story. If only for how influential it is on Doctor Who over the next several seasons.
Poor Second Doctor. So much of his era was destroyed. :( Also, you've seen Macra before, back in the Series 3 episode "Gridlock" with Ten and Martha. They were the creatures under the motorway killing people if they went down to the bottom level. Ten mentions something about how they must have devolved into a more primitive state since he last saw them.
some people seem really against the idea of getting a new actor to play old doctors because it would open the door to write new seasons for older regeneration and would ruin continuity etc but i think with so many lost episodes it would be worth re-recording as some of the stories are actually pretty good. David Bradley for example did such a great job portraying the 1st doctor I wouldnt mind seeing him redo some of the older lost episodes. certain better than some of the bad recons and animations. at least some like this are done better
@Matthew McIntyre Believe me, it flippin' does look like a miracle! When I was a kid there were only five complete Troughton stories - The Krotons, The War Games, The Seeds of Death, The Dominators and The Mind Robber. Of these, only The Krotons had four episodes and so the rest were never going to get repeated on telly (four episodes being the standard length by the eighties), and BBC Video took a while to believe that people would even buy black and white stories, let alone contemplate reconstructions of missing episodes! Personally, just the narrated audio releases were semi-miraculous, the ghosts of supposedly dead stories trapped in a bottle... The idea of any of these being resurrected even partially through animation was a long way off... Though of course, ironically, just as they were about to release the narrated audio version of Tomb of the Cybermen, somebody found the whole thing in Hong Kong, and that felt like a miracle too...
@@magus104 I think there's a weird psychological block with recasting a Doctor. I literally can't imagine another actor playing the Second or Fourth Doctor - and after all, given that the Doctor changes, you almost don't need to replicate the performance, you might just stick a new Doctor altogether into the proceedings (it's happen before - Nick Scovell played the Doctor in several stage adaptations of missing stories without attempting to copy a particular Doctor). And yet... I'm more than happy with any of the four different versions of the 1st Doctor! I think maybe it's just that I grew up with the First Doctor having been recast in The Five Doctors, so recasting him is not an obstacle in my imagination... I guess, like any stage play, if you did a complete remount of a script (as opposed to trying to make it look like it's been pulled out of the original run) there's no reason why recasting wouldn't work - so long as it felt (as David Bradley's 1st Doctor does) like the actor was playing the character, rather than impersonating the actor who originally played him...
The universe has it in for the Second Doctor. A way higher chunk of his stories destroyed than any other Doctor, the only Doctor to be forcibly regenerated and have it stick, and the first 4 of the 10 parts of his regeneration episode no longer available on Jess's UA-cam channel. And such an innocent Doctor to have all this happen to, just wanting to play his recorder and grin and try on hats. One, Three, Seven and Nine all seem like they'd have been able to fight it all better or at least cope better, while Four and Eleven probably wouldn't have been bothered, Eight, War, Ten and Thirteen would have had other things to worry about, and Twelve would have been very cross with them. (I could make comments about Five and Six but won't because Jess hasn't reached them yet.) But for Two it just seems extra sad.
My freind Graham painted the backgrounds the old fashioned way. I sat in his lounge looking at the actual paintings. They are amazing artworks in their own right.
That bloody jingle will never leave my head
When "The Macra Terror" was made the idea of planned vacations for the family, you know where you go to visit a camp with pre-planned activities and sing-a-longs and family dining and such, was the norm.
One unfortunate thing about the animation is that there IS a scene set in the spa in the original episode but they chose not to animate it. I think you would've liked it, it's funny. It's how Polly got her fancy new haircut and bright clothes.
Who wants to see their face in a pair of suede shoes?
Why didn't they animate it? Seems silly to pick and choose...
@@GoodKingMort I think they said it would be too expensive but that seems like a cop-out to me.
@@Wannabe_Baby it’s not considering the limited budget and short time frame these animators are given.
With this time you get an idea of Jamie. "I take orders from one person" ir his clan leader - The Doctor. At the start he is a straight down the line guy.And the next episodes feature him heavily. I'd say The Macra Terror was a triumph
I hope The Animated Fury From The Deep comes out before she gets there
Ah yes, the title sequence. _The Macra Terror_ was the first story to have the updated title sequence for the second Doctor. Obviously this is an animated colourised version of it. The original was still black and white, but it's the same effect. You'll see next time you watch a surviving episode.
And Fury from the Deep (episode 2 to be precise) was the first to introduce the updated theme.
The animation IS really good on this one. I so agree. I think... this version of the story may well be better in a lot of places (especially when Macra are on screen...) than the original was.
You're the best, thanks for pushing through! And yes, much more live action Troughton after the next few
This episode is so exciting for me! It was animated in a studio local to me - Sun and Moon in Bristol. I went on a course there back in September to learn the software they used for this and got to play around with the rigs for the Second Doctor and Jamie! It was awesome
It's quite funny as I have just bought and watched a whole load of 2nd Doctor DVD's recently, so watching them "with you " is really fun. I hope you stick with it as the later ones do actually have Patrick Troughton, live action and little animation. I hope you start to feel better.
The original team had only one Macra prop and it was so heavy, big and cumbersome that they had to bolt the beast to a van in order for it to move and it didn't even have legs.
“Hey who’s that he looks smashing “
“ I take orders from no one but the Doctor “
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS MACRAAAAA!!!
(god, I love this story. Btw, I'm glad sesska recalled their appearance in Gridlock, they were a slave faction in that which is also the opposite premise of this story)
So pleased you are watching the 2nd Doctor, he's my ultimate fave, followed by Matt Smith, great reaction, can tell you are still sick, you don't sound your normal self, hope you are feeling better real soon, keep taking the medicine, take it easy, no apologies needed, think we all understand, we all get ill, take care and get well real soon
Yes indeed, the Macra were in Gridlock. Albeit a less intelligent variety that hadn't mastered human speech like the ones in control of the colony here.
I really like the atmosphere of this episode. Gotta love a good sci-fi dystopia. The animation is fantastic as well.
The revelation that the Macra are running the colony is one of my favourite Doctor Who plot twists. As the guy in _Gridlock_ said, they don't _look_ like empire-builders.
@Aunchient Pistol What's a spoiler? The revelation that the Macra are in control literally happens in this video (the scene starts at 14:07), and I know for a fact that Jess has already seen _Gridlock._
Loved the reaction! Patrick troughton is my favorite doctor. Cant wait for Web of Fear and Enemy of the world are excellent stories and are both recovered and on DVD! Hope you enjoy the 2nd doctor as well. 😃
You've probably heard it several times by now but - yes, they were absolutely the creatures in Gridlock. Weirdly enough, I worked it out the other way around to you (before the 10th Doctor confirmed it). When Gridlock was on I'd only seen the minute or so of surviving footage from this, which is the bit where Ben saves Polly from the giant crab. Worth checking that out even if you don't react to it. Thanks again for an excellent reaction video & see you next time!
The best serials of the Second Doctor are from Season 5 and Season 6, and thanks to God, most of them have survived.
Well, around half of season 5 is still missing. At least Fury from the Deep is getting the animation treatment though!
I'd say that's true with the staggering exception of Power of the Daleks. Season Six is all over the place in quality, but boy are there some classics in it too, thank goodness.
@@meropetied Season 6? Power of the Daleks is in season 4. Although, you are quite correct about the actual season 6.
@@Mrazmatmahmood Yes, that was my point. "The staggering exception" because it's perhaps the best Who story of the 60s and it's in season 4, not one of the "best serials" of seasons 5 and 6 -- which do have great stuff. But yeah. While 6 has the amazing War Games and Invasion and Mind Robber, it also has some other stuff. 😏😊
@@meropetied Oh, sorry for the misunderstanding. I'd say Seeds of Death is another good season 6 story.
Being used to following orders Ben was more susceptible to the colony programming. Glad he got Polly off the Macrabiotic menu though.
Hope you're feeling better soon, we all appreciate your powering through, you're amazing.
"Of all the things in the Tardis, Jamie takes a stick?" Ok well two things about that. In the original aired version, Jamie picked up the stick after leaving the Tardis, and come on, the Doctor doesn't have any weapons, you know that ;)
Well, in his first episode, he did pull a knife out, and three frequently fought with a sword.
The First Doctor had a gun collection in the TARDIS, hah.
Macra terror is actually available to watch in black and white, or color. They are both fun to watch. Faceless ones will be the same way as even though the live action version of episodes 1and 3 exist they still animated all six episodes.
The brainwashing while they slept reminded me of the second episode of Keys of Marinus. where it worked on everyone except Barbara
I really enjoy the fact the animation is in colour. I don't know why that wasn't done with all the animation. Speed & cost I expect. Yes these are the lower level creatures from Gridlock.
I hope you are feeling better, soon!
Yes you are right, the Macra were in Gridlock.
Actually, the animation of this story, was actually very nice. To be honest it probably enhanced the appearance of the Macra (if you look at still photos of the Macra, you’ll understand what I mean).
The first time I watched this ep the animation wasn't out yet. So this is new to me!
I think this is probably the best animation of the bunch so far.
Jess,that is heroic commitment on your part. No matter your health,the Classic Who reactions will go on!
Top marks :)
2:42 yeah new title sequence for the first time in the show's history.
I hope Jess shows her reaction whenever a new title sequence appears (especially when we get into the 80s).
Can't wait until you get to Enemy of the world
That's one of my favorites.
Same
As there's only a couple of weeks to go, time for some advice on The Faceless Ones, to make sure you're watching the right version! You'll already know that episodes 1 and 4 survive, but they're also being animated along with the four missing episodes. On the DVD/Blu-ray, it appears that the surviving episodes are only on disc 2*, with the black&white animation. Disc 1 contains the colour animation of all 6 episodes but not the original eps 1&4. So it's either watch the whole thing in B&W, or swap between discs to watch the surviving episodes with the colour animations of the missing ones.
(*They're on disc 3 as well, but the rest of that disc is a telesnap reconstruction, so you can safely ignore that one!)
I think the moral of Dr Who is: never go to a spa.
Bad things always happen like: mind control crabs; invisible spectres that take over buses and make people hate each other; green-haired mechanics whose kids are smarter than them...
The great shame, dependent on how you view it, is that Gerry Anderson series, like Thunderbirds, were already in colour at this time. I think since 1964 and not just made with the home market in mind. Much more resources were ploughed into them. Also none of these suffered the fate of Doctor Who in being wiped. I often think it's a shame that someone with a tape machine, a 'Whovian Bob Monkhouse', didn't amass an archive we could plunder. It would be wonderful to see those missing Hartnell and Troughtons again.
Sesska's Spa - Guaranteed not to be creepy or do terrible things to you.
Count me in!
*There's no such thing as macra*
Sesskasays mentions the similarity with the brainwashing in The War Machines. Not surprising as the same man (Ian Stuart Black) wrote both of them. He also wrote The Savages and that was a place which at first seemed idyllic but had a dark secret at the core of it's society.
I really enjoy Classic who reactions. It would be interesting to hear how you feel they compare with the 2005 series.
Well, according to my 500 year diary, you saw Gridlock in 2016. Now this colony reminds me of a place in Wales . . Portmeirion! Not a place to visit if you have globophobia.
Be seeing you there!
@@Melancthon7332 I hear that the ice cream flavour of the day is strawberry.
Yeah, the animated version of this is *much* easier to deal with than the slideshow reconstruction. There doesn't seem to be many pictures recovered from this one, so fully half the episodes was the audio over the same image of what looked like an old jeep's headlights in the fog. I suppose it was a picture of a Macra with glowing eyes, but with so few details as to be kinda pointless.
This time the Macra are highly Intelligent, but, in Gridlock they were Primitive.
This wad the reaction that made me check out Patreon. SALUTE
Aww big hug from Shrewsbury UK XX Hope you are well soon
Every time I see the Macra I think of the South Park crab people and their theme song
Don't be fooled. Only the animated version is in colour for some reason. But this is the debut for having the doctor's face in the titles
There’s no such thing as MAAACRAA! There’s such a thing a crab chowder 🧐 🤗
Our colony is the greatest. We have the best colony ever. Drain the caves! Make Affected Colony Remarkable Again!
Oh, and we have no Macra. There’s no such thing as Macra! Macra do not exist! But if intelligent, giant crabs were real and were here, they would be the best intelligent, giant crabs. Ever.
No way it has been 5 years of reactions! Holy moly!
This was animated in colour for the blu Ray this era is still in black and white
It was never made in colour. The Blue ray release has both B/W 7 Colour reconstructed versions.
Yeah, Season Four is the one hardest hit by the old BBC junking policy. Season Five, you've got two complete serials live action, one only has two animated episodes out of six, and one has a single reconstruction episode out of six. And "Fury" might be completely animated by the time you get to it. Season Six, five of the seven serials are complete, and one has just two animated episodes out of eight.
This actually begs the question, though: for "The Faceless Ones", while they've animated all six episodes, parts one and three DO exist live action. And they are two of my favorite "orphaned" episodes. If at all possible for you to find a way to watch that serial split between animated and live action, I'd recommend it. :-)
The Next Serial is gonna get released in animation on the 16th of March. You could maybe delay the reaction to it rather than skipping it altogether.
OR you could react to Part 1 and wait a bit for the animated Part 2 to be released.
OR (ideal option) delay the reaction by about 5 or 6 days and react to BOTH parts!
8:00 duel of the fates intensifies
Absolutely love this story.
Love the animation for this story and cannot wait for the faceless ones. Hope you react to the live action versions of episodes 1 and 3 of the faceless ones
Great presentation.
The Gridlock Macra have devolved a little. These ones are a little more advanced.
Good story. Glad you are watching it. Wish it was the black and white version. I hope the Macra show up again soon.
The cliffhanger to episode 2 is confusing. Why kill him on camera? Why kill him at all? Why even have a human controller?
Doctor Who and the Spa...OF DEATH. 'Tis a strange place. Nasty dose of crabs everyone's come down with, even though there are NO SUCH THING as Macra.
Good reaction. I don't rate a lot of the animations but the colour helped with this one and I'd imagine the original execution of The Macra might have looked very poor! Hope you've seen your Doctor, some nasty stuff around at the moment, get well soon!
It all seens 'crazy' but that's only because Who has had 860 episodes excluding the upcoming 'Timeless Children'. Record breaking number of episodes of brilliant stuff for nearly SIX DECADES ffs!
You know they cut the spa scene from the animated version?
This animation reminds me of Archer, but on a lower budget.
Weirdly enough I know exactly what type of sick you're talking about, I had the same thing Saturday and I couldn't even move.
Why did it take do long for them to return lol
So is she gonna take a week break so she can watch the next serial once it releases?
I just have one question, does this mean you know who Zordon is? Does this also mean you like power rangers? Nice.
Power of the Daleks was in color as well. Thought you picked black and white on purpose.
Animation for this was... polished. Rather than try and make it close to what would’ve been filmed, they took liberties with the set design and the action. For example, Polly was never lifted up by a Macra.
There is no Macra!
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MACRA!!!!
I didn't buy this DVD as they refused to animate a very funny scene in episode 1 for paltry cost reasons.
I doubt they outright “refused.” The animators were probably gutted that they wouldn’t be able to include it, but time constraints are time constraints and so choices had to be made. I’m sure we’ll get a special edition one day that works the scene back in and has a new model for Polly in the beginning.
He's from 1745,what else would he take but a stick!😅
And of course he always carried his knife.
Some purists didnt like that this was done in color but personally I dont mind at all I would rather it be in color
There is an option to watch it in black and white too on the blu Ray
Remember the macra wer in the 10th doctor episode ‘gridlock’ they lookd similar to these animated versions, but the actual macra props were....well....shit
Don't forget jess u saw macra b4 on series 3 with Martha Jones in the ep gridlock they had macra
She literally said this in the video.
@@markmckeown87 I know, I says that b4 I was at her review part, I says it during her reaction,
I don't know why this story is called The Macra Terror.
There's no such thing.
Do you hear me? No such thing!!
For me, the animated episodes are ‘meh’, I wish they’d use a different studio, maybe the episodes would work better for me. There’s people out there doing great work that deserve a shot.
Whilst I've bought the animations and appreciate the effort that's gone into them, I've found that I much prefer to listen to the original soundtracks and let my imagination reconstruct the action.
I've been the same. You have my sympathy.
Also, you seen the Macra before! Go watch the tenth doctor Gridlock. :)
She knows she's seen the Macra before! Go watch the whole video instead of turning off after the reaction. :)
My apologies sesskasays, usually I do finish your videos but was pressed for time IRL and stopped after you had said you wasn’t sure but thought it was them.
It is them, as hundreds have already said. ;)
I’m glad you’re enjoying, this is a favorite of mine.
There is no such thing as macra