tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200227130864879951.post543051502499043861..comments2024-02-23T21:17:08.482+00:00Comments on The Tiger Who Came To Tea: The Leisure HiveTygerWhoCame2Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06968881505647242837noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200227130864879951.post-7937155031052423572018-06-02T22:38:51.861+01:002018-06-02T22:38:51.861+01:00I always get a great nostalgia feeling when revisi...I always get a great nostalgia feeling when revisiting this story. Visually, this was a great start for a new era of Doctor Who. Cinematic camera and lighting, modern-looking sets that allow low angles, a great soundtrack... Though the Argolin's head "berries" falling off was always kind of creepy/gross to me... What could they even be? But I also liked that weird aspect!<br /><br />This was really my era of Doctor Who. I was too young for early Tom Baker stories (which I'd see in re-runs of the series), but by this show i was ten, so JNT's era was when i became a fan. I'd watch the older stuff as PBS would re-run it, but it wasn't until late Tom Baker, then Peter Davison and Colin Baker stories that I really attached to the show. i really like the original theme arranged by Delia Derbyshire, but Peter Howell's arrangement is really "my" Doctor Who theme. The incidental music from the series, from this story to the end (except for Keff McCulloch's largely awful stuff) was a strong influence on my developing an interest in music and synthesizers.<br /><br />It wasn't until i read about all the behind the scenes stuff in DWM's look at this story that i finally started to understand what it was about this era. For all his flaws, JNT did a good job of making Doctor Who more modern, more sci-fi, and less "for children". I can't stand the "it's for kids" crap that is always hampering the series (including the current new shows). It's just a shame he lost interest. When he lost interest, the show got more fantasy-oriented again. I loved Sylvester McCoy, but i didn't dig the fantasy elements in his stories. I'd rather have the clumsy "current pop science news" sci-fi of JNT's earlier production than the outright fantasy of the latter stories... (and Moffet's, sigh).dysamoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10297987530825303618noreply@blogger.com