Having a DW day on Saturday sounds pretty good to me! I hope rl allows (it really ought to for such a special occasion.)
I just watched the David Tennant/Classic Who documentary and it was really nice, actually.
watched the first two episodes of The Aztecs over lunchtime today - it's an interesting story in lots of ways, and other one that keeps coming up in considerations of the kind of show this ended up being versus what it started out as. I'm not sure I believe Ian besting a warrior trained since childhood in hand to hand combat with his thumb, but that's the power of being one of the protagonists...!
I love The Aztecs! And, I mean, Ian's martial skills are comparatively easy to handwave away quite plausibly, even though we're never given actual details on screen. He's a science teacher, may well have done biology as well as physics & chemistry (especially if he teaches general science), hence knowing the nerve cluster trick, I suppose. He would certainly have done National Service and, as I think he's supposed to be early 30s in 1963, he would have hit the exact point where he might have therefore fought in the Korean War. Plus, if he has any interest in any sort of sports or martial arts, as a young, single teacher, he'd absolutely have been roped into at least one club or youth club for weekly or monthly. I think it's one of those things where it looks weirder to us than it would have done to contemporary viewers.
But, yeah, Ixta has trained for years in types of fighting unfamiliar to him! I suppose that's why he does it by trickery, at least until he's had a bit more practice.
I love the way Aztecs has great character things for the whole TARDIS team, rather giving the lie to the fact that you can't have that big a team and use them well. Even with Susan side-lined this time around, she still gets a quite distinct little plotline of her own.
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Date: 2023-11-21 06:28 pm (UTC)I just watched the David Tennant/Classic Who documentary and it was really nice, actually.
watched the first two episodes of The Aztecs over lunchtime today - it's an interesting story in lots of ways, and other one that keeps coming up in considerations of the kind of show this ended up being versus what it started out as. I'm not sure I believe Ian besting a warrior trained since childhood in hand to hand combat with his thumb, but that's the power of being one of the protagonists...!
I love The Aztecs! And, I mean, Ian's martial skills are comparatively easy to handwave away quite plausibly, even though we're never given actual details on screen. He's a science teacher, may well have done biology as well as physics & chemistry (especially if he teaches general science), hence knowing the nerve cluster trick, I suppose. He would certainly have done National Service and, as I think he's supposed to be early 30s in 1963, he would have hit the exact point where he might have therefore fought in the Korean War. Plus, if he has any interest in any sort of sports or martial arts, as a young, single teacher, he'd absolutely have been roped into at least one club or youth club for weekly or monthly. I think it's one of those things where it looks weirder to us than it would have done to contemporary viewers.
But, yeah, Ixta has trained for years in types of fighting unfamiliar to him! I suppose that's why he does it by trickery, at least until he's had a bit more practice.
I love the way Aztecs has great character things for the whole TARDIS team, rather giving the lie to the fact that you can't have that big a team and use them well. Even with Susan side-lined this time around, she still gets a quite distinct little plotline of her own.