Comments on: ‘Back, Doctor! Back to your beginnings!’

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:33:32 +0000

Hopefully not long now! Once our various summer-time activities come to an end (and judging by the weather, that may be really soon!) we’ll be firing off emails to each other to see what and when, and dusting off the mixing desk. We’re looking forward to it

By: Draculasaurus

Draculasaurus — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:06:38 +0000

yeah, those old Hartnells are amazing.
Once you actually sit down and put them on, they draw you in and really transcend their stagey-ness.
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anyway, when is the Oodcast coming back?

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:26:42 +0000

i was listening to jean-michelle jarre in the car today and remembered how amazing synthesisers sounded the first time i heard them

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:00:37 +0000

There’s also a touch of nostalgia for a simpler time. I love some of the TV from the 70s but because that was when I was growing up and everything was new. Now I’m older novelty is harder to find. having said which I have loved the most recent series of DW and think Matt Smith and Moffatt between them have produced a diamond. Shelock was also an example fo ‘new’ working really well.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:15:03 +0000

I think you are so right, Roger. I remember the amazement involved in sending a fax, (‘You mean they get a copy of this coming out of their phoneline? No way! But….how??’) and the sense of excitement of video recorders. The idea that we could watch and re-watch telly whenever we wanted was so revolutionary. The novelty of these things was such a huge thing back then. And that’s what I felt when I watched the Beginning boxset. The novelty of those stories must have been boggling when they were first shown.

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:15:16 +0000

It is difficult to appreciate how amazing the early stuff is. Speaking as someone who has a 15 year head start on you I can say that my generation has been amazed at colour tv, more than 3 channels, walkmans, video, computers, lap tops, the internet dvds and mp3. The speed with which these have been absorbed is quite amazing, but for many born since 1990, these are all simply part of life. Consequently it can be difficult to appreciate ‘newness’ because it surrounds us. When they did the 100 scariest movies for C4, one of the first in that list was a movie of a train pulling out of a station which when it was first shown caused panic in the cinema. I’m not suggesting that we should go back, but sometimes it’s a shame when we can’t appreciate the novelty of something. I watched Blade Runner again the oher night; a film which still seems advanced, even now. I watched all of the Tom Baker dvds recently and if you can suspend your notiton of sfx then they still hold huge value for the story telling and the characterisation.