Classic Doctor Who | S19 - Four to Doomsday: Part Three | Reaction

[@whobp8]

"Just punch him in the face!" Don't feel bad, most of us have thought that about Adric at some point.😄

[@johna5635]

The difficulty with any Adric hatred is that anyone who has ever listened to any of the DVD Audio Commentaries from this era can't fail to appreciate Matthew Waterhouse's self-awareness regarding the character he portrayed and his inherent flaws.

[@alexfletcher5192]

One of the features that distinguishes the modern Peter Davison from his youthful self is that high tenor and he did have a recording contract at one stage - which he seems oddly shy about mentioning. With some backing vocal help he could even turn out a theme for another fondly remembered children's show: kzbin.info/www/bejne/naaToGmrZrugfac.

[@alexfletcher5192]

This era has attracted a lot of hostility over the years from some fans, who dislike what they call the 'soap opera' element; in short, the conflict between the Tardis regulars. But I think this actually raises the stakes. When you had Tom and Lalla and K-9, you could be more than reasonably confident that they were all on the same page as far finding a resolution to any problem was concerned. Now we're faced with a ship full of people all with very different reasons for being there. After all, none of these three were directly invited aboard or volunteered to become a passenger. And, for all the supposed 'realism' that gets talked about in modern companions, Tegan's response to the prospect of being turned into a walking pocket calculator is, to me, entirely reasonable!

[@ShamrockParticle]

Awesome overview, thanks! Also, Kraftwerk approves of "Pocket Calculator" 😁.

[@fourthdrawerdown6297]

7:44: Tegan: living the dream 8:22: laundrette. My sister is an air stewardess and I think this would’ve been a relatively quiet day for her.

[@soupdragon1971]

The dialogue states the chips in the androids use tracks 100 nanometres wide. This sounded incredible advanced in the early 1980s but that level of silicon technology has been around since the early 2000s. The XBOX 360 and PS2 used 90 nanometre technology. Current commercial available chips have tracks of less than 10 nanometres.

[@ShamrockParticle]

Very. If memory serves, 2000nm was the norm in 1980.

[@DarthAzabrush]

I dunno why but I love Classic Who's scenes of villains watching surveillance footage. Its almost like Statler and Wardorf from the Muppets.

[@neptune04]

I'm taking Nyssa's side on this about that alien leader one there is a saying "absolute power corrupts absolutely."

[@kemmdog4444]

I think that Monarch got these robot bodies from the Kraals.

[@robert_bbiii]

The Athenian opened himself up in more ways than one since he gave the infodump

[@joshsimmons6156]

"Then our only hope is to warn Earth" ummmm Tegan suggested that at the start of Part Two. Always listen to an Aussie Doctor!

[@neilmcdonald4113]

Phillip Locke who plays the Athenian in his clean-shaven younger days played a lot of villainous henchmen-and the odd lead villain-due to his height, balding pate and piercing stare🎩

[@WolfGratz]

Oddly enough I was re-watching Christopher Plummer in Hamlet at Elsinore after he died and there was Phillip Locke playing an even more effete Osric than usual. But he still managed to inject a sinister aspect. Michael Caine's Horatio certainly didn't like the look of him.

[@alexfletcher5192]

There's an accidental meta-commentary going on in this story, where the story boasts about the transformative possibilities of technology - while actually dating both the serial itself and the antagonists within it. Bigon gives the Doctor a summary of the technical specs for his 'chips', but nearly 40 years on these have been superseded - and we still don't have machines that can duplicate to any degree the behaviours of a very specific individual. Simultaneously, Monarch suffers from the delusion that he has the highest available technology, even while the miracle that is the Tardis sits downstairs and defies his best efforts to analyze it. On a good day, you could turn the whole thing into a comment on the microchip revolution and the growing availability of consumer electronics - which,, in a later paradigm, inspired an alternative origin story for the Cybermen in the RTD era - but instead it just feels like some incomplete coda to the 1970s; with its obsession for humanoid robots whose faces fall off at inopportune moments.

[@easty74]

The Urbankans just won't let bygons be bygons...... thank you I'm here all week, try the veal. :P

[@AerodeonThorne]

1:46 - (Sings) I make no apologies...

[@crustychris2]

Just watching this with my dog called tegan sat next to me

[@DarthAzabrush]

"Just punch the kid in the face" sadly that line can be applied to a lot of 80s and 90s TV shows. Doctor Who inadvertently started a trend with Adric to add an annoying kid to the main cast. It even reached Star Trek and Robocop.

[@philippaine2169]

Great reaction as always 😀

[@Payne2view]

Adric is the first person I'd throw out of the balloon. He's just like everyone who thinks all technology is an improvement and authority figures should always be obeyed. He is a really naiive little twerp. Well at this stage he is. He may become useful.

[@chrisboot2468]

Adric could have been an interesting character, if they had carried his "ability" to evolve and adapt forward (like his fast-healing shown in "Full Circle") Unfortunately, I doubt the actor could have done any better.

[@chrisboot2468]

If you like Tegan, follow Janet Fielding on twitter. She's great!

[@medusacascade]

One step ahead 😉

[@bananasaregood8655]

Tegan is my favourite 80s companion. Shes usually disliked cus shes often grumpy and complaining, but thats the reason i like her so much, i find it rele funny how she always gives the doctor a hard time!

[@WolfGratz]

She has much to be grumpy about esp given various other companions - I exempt Nyssa.

[@Jamienomore]

When it was black in your room I saw two eyes behind you on your left. Then again it may have been my reflection on the screen. I have a GOD Complex because of Women. Everytime I ask one out they keeps saying, 'Oh! GOD!'

[@thomasstevens2746]

Im subscriberd to literally every reacter going, I love all of them Just curious what's your thoughts on new reacter's starting out Like Josh bostoc or thomas Stevens or anyone else starting

[@ajivins1]

They should have let Bygone be Bygone...

[@dngillikin]

I'm still waiting for the sequel, "Terror of the Bygons."

[@kierenevans2521]

Adric is...Adric

[@1nelsondj]

I adore you but don't know what you see in Tegan. The Doctor was right about her, she thinks only of herself. She and Adric are bad companions.

[@easty74]

Doctor Who's androids look better than Star Trek ones do (Data lol)

[@CountScarlioni]

"My reasoning chip contains more circuits than there are synapses in your brain. Each linked by lines 100nm thick." LOL what is this stone age nonsense?! Processor manufacturers like Intel exceeded 100nm circuits in around 2001. Modern computers are now being produced for the consumer market with circuits just 5 nm thick. The thing is, Moore's law was a known thing even in 1982. So even though computers around when this was written were still using processors more like 3000nm wide, it would have been expected to reach 100nm by the end of the 1990s. Could Terrance Dudley not get just a _little_ more scifi than that?

[@geoffmason7215]

some of the answers...a cliffhanger....whats next?

[@Jasonm25870]

How come you're sat in the dark? Did the bulb go?