Doctor Who: Classic 7x4: "Inferno" Parts 1-4 | Reaction!
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
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The Doctor is and always will be a flawed character, so I don't really agree that the moment he chose to test the TARDIS was odd. He was simply just fed up of everyone not listening to him and decided he had enough. All this season he's frequently been clashing with stubborn characters like Lawrence, Carrington and now Stahlman in this story, it's a moment that's been pretty well built up imo. This entire season has put a strong emphasis on flawed human characters and how out of place the Doctor feels stuck on earth, so his eagerness to rush off and leave in that moment doesn't feel unearned to me. However, the reason why it works for me is because it's a decision that comes back to haunt the Doctor. He ends up in an even worse situation due to his actions. He pays for his selfishness, so Don Houghton clearly understands that the Doctor was wrong to do what he did. Also, they do set up that the Doctor was going someplace else during that first trial run in episode 1, so y'all's comments that the parallel world twist came out of nowhere is wrong.
Doctor: I'm not sure. I seemed to be in some sort of limbo. There was a barrier I couldn't break through. We must make another trial run.
Liz: After all that?
Doctor: Because of all that. I wonder where I was exactly? Where I was going?
With all that being said, I'm glad y'all are enjoying this story so far. It's one of the best ever and definitely Pertwee's best imo.
Olaf Pooley - Professor Stahlman/Director Stahlman was in Star Trek Voyager's 'Blink of an Eye'
He also lived to be 101 years old, only having died 6 years ago.
Olaf Pooley who plays Professor Stahlman was once one of the longest living Doctor actors when he passed away and 101 in 2015.
The scene where the guy was shot and fell off the tower was, at the time, the highest fall ever performed by a stuntman on television. In a fun twist, the soldier who took the shot is actually the same stuntman who performed the fall.
The photograph used for The Great Leader was one of the BBC's senior visual effects guys, Jack Kine. It was a nice tribute, as Kine had previously worked on an early 1950s BBC production of _Nineteen Eighty-Four,_ which used BBC's then-head of design as the literal "poster-boy" for Big Brother.
And of course had worked on the Quatermass serials which a lot of the Pertwee era borrow from.
The picture on the wall is Jack Kine, who was head of the visual effects department at the time. It has been suggested in extended media that he is that world's Doctor, who had taken a position of authority; a politician of some kind.
Seems not inconceivable considering what the Master did in the early New Who.
Sir Keith is played by Christopher Benjamin who would return to Doctor Who with the 4th Doctor for the Talons of Weng Chiang as the theatre manager Henry Gordon Jago. He would assist the Doctor along with the police pathologist Professor George Lightfoot, played by Trevor Baxter. Though they only appeared for one story they were so fondly regarded that they would reunite many years later for their own long running spin off audio series, The Adventures of Jago and Lightfoot.
A quick bit of trivia for ya. Inferno was the last Doctor Who story that we see the original 1st Doctor Tardis console. The next time we see it, it's a new design and prop.
You mentioned Salamander...The volcano footage you see in the title sequence was also used in The Enemy of The World!
The image flip for the parallel stuff works brilliantly, in a slightly disconcerting sort of way. I think that's my review of this week's video: 10/10 - mildly disconcerting.:) James Bond with primaeval mutant werewolves and parallel dimensions, what more can anyone ask for?
Star Trek's Mirror Mirror first aired in 1970 on the BBC.
11th November 1970 to be precise. It was scheduled for 15th June, but postponed - well after Inferno had gone before the cameras.
Ah yes. The famed multiple eye patches incident. Nicholas Courtney swivelling round to be met by his fellows in the scene all wearing one - in the hopes he'd corpse! Didn't work! Nicholas used to underline every single syllable of his lines on his scripts - apparently - and determinedly delivered word perfect. Everyone else corpsed instead.
Star Trek was hardly the first parallel-universe story. Even "It's a Wonderful Life" qualifies. Science fiction of course had long had characters travel to such alternate-history worlds, including Piper's Paratime Police and Laumer's Worlds of the Imperium. Don Houghton and Terrence Dicks and Barry Letts were surely aware of this trope.
For that matter, since you mention "Earth-1", D.C. Comics had introduced such a multiverse years earlier.
"The Wizard of Oz" may qualify! Or A Christmas Carol is a first cousin.
This was Courtney’s favorite thing to shoot during his time on the show, for the Time Lords you have it backwards, every universe has time lords of some flavor, and every universe has a Doctor specifically, he is a universal constant, a mathematical function of existence itself which may or may not be related to his status as a personification of the Red Guardian of Justice as a member of the Six-Fold God
Nick Courtney based his performance of the Brigade Leader on Mussolini a puffed up but cowardly fascist
Emilio Largo had an eye patch in Thunderball and Blofeld had the scar in You Only Live Twice so probably a combination of the two
Thank god there was a warning cuz I’m epileptic
Haha loved that you mirrored the camera for the parallel world. Shame you didnt have eye patches too. Great pertwee story, one of the best!
The stunt in episode three which Richard admired, where the infected UNIT soldier is shot and falls from the top of the oil refinery tank, was a record breaking stunt fall at the time. It was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, I'm not really sure if it was subsequently broken, but it probably was, given that it's been 50+ years since this was filmed. There is a famous anecdote that Nicholas Courtney used to tell about this story, where, when he spins his chair around for his reveal as the Brigade Leader, all of the other actors in the scene, and the film crew were wearing eye patches as a prank to try and make him crack up. Courtney told this story frequently at conventions and a humorous book about Doctor Who, "The Completely Useless Doctor Who Encyclopedia" contained an entry about it. Afterwards, Courtney became so self conscious about having told the story so often that he refused to tell it anymore, but it's become part of his legend, as one of the series most beloved supporting characters.
From the Doctor's actions I gather that his attitude towards Earth and humans is that if he could, he would leave whenever he felt like it no matter what was going on. Working for the Brigadier was always merely a means to an end anyway; and he resented answering to anyone, so the sooner he could leave, the better.
Part 1 the doctor enters ‘the void’ space between dimensions as explained by the 10th doctor in army of ghosts. Thats my theory
Krakatoa being mentioned was just Houghton's way to ominously foreshadow that the Inferno project could be heading towards a similarly destructive path. Nothing more to it than that. The Primords (that's what the converted humans are called) aren't really ever fully explained - and while I don't think they really needed to be - I must also admit (and someone else has already mentioned this) that they were only included in this story at the behest of producer Barry Letts. He thought the original script was missing something and felt the story needed some kind of monstrous threat to give it the necessary boost. One thing I will say is (and Richard said this in the video too) that it's definitely not some kind of alien power controlling and converting humans. The drilling project is bringing up some form of bacteria, which is turning humans into animals, who need heat to survive and even radiate it. This means that the drilling project going ahead is beneficial to them because it would release tremendous amounts of force and heat that they can feed on but will kill us all. This means that there's something within the Earth that wants to destroy us all. I think that's pretty creepy honestly. This is probably way out there, but I honestly see the Primords as the destructive forces beneath the Earth (lave as one example that's pretty specific to this story) personified. None of this is ever actually said in the story itself, but I do think we're given enough pieces of the puzzle to be able to come to our own conclusions. I like it when writers leave things open ended and allow the viewer's imaginations to take over. Sometimes having every little detail explained and spoon-fed to to you is boring.
While I don't think there's an alien force controlling the infection, I like to imagine that the Primord Ooze has a possibly extra-terrestrial origin, and was buried inside the earth millennia ago. Perhaps a racnoss bio weapon since that would apparently be at the centre of the earth until 2006.
It's interesting because I believe in the Primord Ooze having the diametrally opposite objective - to stop the drilling from completion. Evidence to back this up:
-The very first Primord (Slocum) had tried to sabotage the reactor. Had he been sucessfull, an explosion presumably would have destroyed the faculty on the surface... but it wouldn't be powerful enough to blast the Earth's crust all the way down to lava, so, the apocalypse would have been prevented, not boosted.
-The fact that Primords are NOT mindless animals, they are intelligent enough to remember what reactor is (see above) and at one point, Primord!Stahlman is even able to speak(!) to trick Dr.Williams into opening the door (see episode 5)... and still murder people at the faculty on sight. This wouldn't make sense if they wanted the drilling to be completed - for me, it feels like as if Primords are taking extreme measures to stop the drilling in episodes 1-4... and punish the humans for not stopping in episodes 5-7.
-It took Stahlman a couple of days to fully transform into Primord. With Slocum, Unit soldier, and that technican, it only took hours for them to transform. It may potentially have other explanation (as Dad had said), but... could it be that Stahlman psychopathic obsession to see the drilling completed was anthithetical to ooze's objective and therefore, he had resisted the transformation for so long with his willpower?
-Fully transformed Primord!Stahlman actually helped(!) the Doctor to save the world in episode 7 by opening the door to the drill room from inside (which he had previously locked before(!) being fully transformed)
What's my take on what the Houghton (or Letts?) was implying there? I think there is an implication there is that the Earth itself is a living being, and the Primord Ooze is some sort of... Earth's immune system response directed at the destruction of whatever is trying to puncture a wound in her. Honestly this idea is way creepier than just "there are something inside Earth that wants to kill us all". In this episode, Earth ITSELF may have been the monster!
There is a couple of downsides to this theory, such as: 1)Why there weren't such an immune response from Earth in "Dalek's Invasion to Earth", "Underwater Menace" or "Runaway bride"? However, this may be handwaved by Daleks and Raknoss being advanced enough to contain or even control it(the Earth had originated from Raknoss ship,remember), and Zaroff... let's say he had found a way to safely collect the ooze and then just didn't care about it lol 2)In "Kill the Moon", we learn that THE MOON is a living being which makes all of this more hilarious. Are Earth and Moon symbiotic beings?
@@Kokostal-b3g I love that theory and accept it happily into my personal head canon.
@@Indigo_Polarity Thank you! ^^
Glad that you had liked it.
only reason why the goo and monsters are in this story was because the producer said it's doctor who there has have a monster or alien it was not in the original script
A great reaction ,perhaps the best so far to a great story to end season 7. This story is partly based on the 1969 film "Journey to the far side of the sun".
Mark: I remember that film - a “doppelgänger” Earth, if I recall correctly!~Dad
@@richardlemin7840 Hi Dad I have not seen the film since I was a child in the early 70s .I only remember dimly astronauts traveling to a mirrored Earth.
2:25 In a handbasket, obviously.
It's nice stock footage of eruptions and lava flows, but has nothing to do with the actual visuals of the episodes.
6:40 Benton is a lowly Sargeant, he wouldn't be a Brigadier's 2IC, he's more like the Brig's personal dogsbody.
8:17 It looks a bit like a sonic screwdriver, but I don't think it is. It may run on the same principles, but I think it's only function is to open that door.
The first Pertwee story where we see him use the sonic screwdriver is ‘Colony in Space’.
This story was inspired by real world events where the Russians were digging an incredibly deep hole and then they just stopped and they never said why. Ask your dad see if he remembers.
Also as for the evil alternate Doctor it was suggested that in this universe when he was sentenced to earth he became the evil dictator figure that you see in the posters.
me1735: I don’t recall the Russian drilling story, but after Chernobyl, I’d believe anything they might have tried to do…~Dad
It wasn't a Soviet project, it was American - Project Mohole. There was a Soviet project too, but it the Mohole that inspired this story.
we all love Dad! hey Richard you da best!
"The spock method is getting rid of mustache." 😂😂😂
I can't believe nobody else has mentioned this, but Nick Courtney's moustache is always fake. You may remember he was clean shaven in Dalek's Masterplan.
Don't pretend you might react to Galaxy 4 - we all know they hired you to do the chumbly animations.
Nice job reversing the polarity of your reaction.
On the topic of actors with facial hair - in the 1960s Barman series with Adam West, the actor who played the Joker (Cesar Romero)wanted to keep his moustache, although the comic book character did not have one, so they just put the white face paint over it, the shape of the moustache is still visible.
There's not an evil version of every Doctor, but the Doctor seems to have seen his regeneratioms before he turns into them The first two doctors me the third in 'The Three Doctors' and the fifth in 'The Five Doctors' also one of the options for the Doctor's new appearance for his exile looks quite like Peter Davison. The Third Doctor in 'The Five Doctors' somehow new he had the potential to be become 'all teeth and curls'. Colin Baker appeared in the series before he became the Doctor. I'm not sure about the Seventh Doctor or New Who,
It's curious the the altermate Petra is a Doctor (presumably of Physics or something similar) but the 'Earth 1' Petra doesn't seem to be.
They have done the 'obsessed scientist' trope before, I think they introduced the alternative Earth to make it different, I don't think it was a combination of two story ideas.
He's been working on the TARDIS console in previous stories, it isn't something he's just started doing, I think the idea is that he has been trying to get it working all the time he's been in exile.
the guy on the right looks like a cross between prfessor travers and the brigadier from the 7th dr's battlefield
You're gonna have to be a bit more specific on which one of us is on the right!
@@7thHourFilms in the gray shirt
James: Alex posted a picture of me in an earlier video that I thought l looked like The Brigadier’s doppelgänger. The Professor Travers reference is new. ~Dad
32:05 Actually, it's Jack Kine, a visual effects designer.
Archival Holdings:
PAL colour: None
NTSC colour: All
B/W telerecordings: All
While all PAL colour copies are wiped, the NTSC copies do survive. However, 1970s standard convertors (PAL to NTSC) were rough with lots of artefacts added. Simply putting the NTSC copy in a standards convertor, even a modern one, doesn't solve anything and adds more mess. The technique developed to solve this is referred to as Reversed Standards Conversion (RSC) and unpicks the original conversion. The result is an improvement, but has issues of noise being generated. This is what was released on DVD in 2006, the second story to be released using this technique after The Claws of Axos.
The process was refined a little more for subsequent stories released but both Claws and Inferno were given special edition releases where they used the B/W telerecordings to provide the luminance (B/W part the analogue colour signal) as the RSC copy has more noise on the luminance (getting a good luminance is more important than the chrominance). These are an improvement over the previous releases and this method has been used for the Blu-ray releases of season 8 and presumably will be used for the affected stories in season 9 as well.
You should react to the animated version of The Evil of The Daleks
He told me they probably won't.
Love what you did with this reaction video :D
Very entertaining!
Hi, love your videos. 1. I don't think the leader on the photo is supposed to be the parallel doctor. 2. I have the DVD, and according to the bonus material not only the monsters were not in the original script (which was new to me, might have missed that), but also the parallel world story wasn't there. The script editor Terrance Dicks thought the story was good, but won't fill 7 episodes, so he added another plot (or suggested it to Don Houghton).
This is one my favourite story’s of the 3rd doctor
Way back in series 1 of New Who the Ninth Doctor also visited Krakatoa once.
my favourite pertwee story it's the real start of action man doctor and pertwee really gets to show of his acting skills everyone does really
Not sure why this episode is considered so ‘strange’? It’s brilliantly written and acted. It’s a great way to end a season, with very clever and, for the time, pretty original concepts.
One thing about Who in its entire history is its originality and ability to reinvent itself and introduce new ideas and concepts. Was it not meant to do so in 1970?
Also don’t know why these guys feel everything needs to be spelled out so clearly, why can’t the parallel world be introduced out of the blue in Ep3? Give the audience some credit (something classic Who did pretty consistently), they can follow the threads without it having to be explained to them every time - maybe that’s an American thing to need it be stated?
The Eye patch lady in NuWho in one of the Matt Smith episodes was a callback to this serial as a tribute to Nicholas Courtney who sadly passed away the same year those episodes came out. Even if this were a Troughton story and Jamie was in it I doubt Jamie would had met his parallel self as he's from another century 1746 so I don't see how that would work as it's just established Time Lords don't exist in a parallel universe world so Jamie would never had met The Doctor in that world or maybe wasn't born at all. About the sonic screwdriver again it's early days The Doctor hasn't quite got it yet. Dad should his own reaction spin off and do a James Bond reaction to show Alex the early Bond movies. This is considered a popular story among fandom.
The Doctor has no patience at all.
Let’s rehash the mustache.😊
This is my go-to example for how serialization affected the writing style of Classic Who. You couldn't (easily) pull off a story with this many moving parts in a single episode.
On the subject of the British weather, did you know that Britain has milder winters than Oklahoma?
Nicholas: Oklahoma’s climate is actually considered mild, with very little snow recorded in the 19th and 20th Centuries. In the last 21 years, however, our winters have been brutal. Britain enjoys the last warmth given off by the Gulf Stream, which tends to produce mild temperatures but more snow (at least from what I remember from my World Geography class). ~Dad
@@richardlemin7840
Hello Richard, the Gulf Stream is Britain's secret weapon, bringing all that lovely warm water up from the Caribbean and keeping Britain warmer than other places at a similar latitude. On the subject of snow, I remember watching a news report a few years ago of some children in London playing in the snow for the first time, they had never seen snow before. The climate is rapidly changing .
I always like reactions to this one -- it's an incredible story, one of my favorites if not the best they've ever done.