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Classic Who "The Ark in Space" Parts 1&2 Early Access! (Patreon)

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2022-06-17 13:01:04
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2023-04

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Classic Who "The Ark in Space" Parts 1&2 Reaction

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Darryl Gillikin

Y'know... the bubblewrap comes in for a lot of flack today. But when I first saw the cliffhanger to Part 2 in 1983, that bubblewrap fucked 7 year old me right up! And the set design stayed so vivid in my head between then and when I got the story on VHS circa 1992.

Ryan
>>85978311

The major issue is that it was a fairly new invention at the time that not many people would recognize, so they didn’t put much effort into hiding it.

Azmat Mahmood
>>85978311

I think people forget that bubblewrap still wasn't widely available in 1975 and most viewers wouldn't have known what it was back then.

Ryan

This is Tom Baker’s own favorite of his stories, plus Russell T. Davies’ AND Stephen Moffat’s favorite of the classic era. A big reason why is that speech about human determination, which was specifically designed to show off Baker’s delivery skills and make him distinct from all three previous Doctors.

Ian Smith
>>85978311

I remember watching it when it was first broadcast; and EVERYONE was talking about it at my school on the following Morning! None of us had any familiarity with bubble-wrap back then; so,to us,it was the freakiest thing ever :D

Darryl Gillikin
>>85979242

Also worth noting how Tennant quite deliberately echoes Tom's "Indomitable!" in "Utopia"... :-)

Josef Schiltz

Fourth Doctor: "Ah! The Wirrn! What a particularly 'amiable' species! Like the Lancet Fluke, that likes to get into the brain of an ant - then proceeds to drive it around like an all terrain vehicle. I've met a number of individuals that have the same aim! Not an agreeable intimacy! . . . . What's that Harry doing now??"

Ian Smith

That's really curious - the cliffhanger in the BBC version (and on the DVD and Blu ray) is the big bug falling out of the storage locker; but in the one that Jess watched,it's the discovery of the frozen SJS. How odd.

Anonymous

Thanks for a great reaction. I love this story for how weird it is at first as well as the Doctors amazing speech about the progress of human kind. I find the language barrier between Vira and The Doctor & co really interesting & the doctor explaining about society being compartmentalized in the 30th Century. I also love the mad technology & I find the creepy and claustrophobic air of this story morbidly satisfying. It is truncated from what I can tell. I guess the discovery of Sarah is perfectly valid as a cliffhanger, but I'm wondering what else might have been left out of the first two episodes compared to the version I have. Oh well, gives me an excuse to watch the full reaction as well! Thanks and see you next time!

Anonymous

I love the cryogenic parts of this story (less the slimy bug parts), and this was definitely one of the influences of the sci-fi novel I'm writing. I was a kid when I first saw this and it's still one of my favorites.

Anonymous

love your dress btw! feels very four

Dave Ford

A classic this one - and scary too, if you're bubble-wrap phobic

David Vandervliet

Harry's inclusion as a companion came about because they started writing the series before they cast Tom Baker as the Doctor, and they were thinking they may cast another older, more Hartnell type Doctor, and they would need a younger leading man to do the fighting and action a la Ian or Steven

Darryl Gillikin
>>86028140

For example, one of the actors who was heavily considered for Four was Fulton Mackay, who you've already seen as the villainous Dr. Quinn way back in Pertwee's second story, "The Silurians". :-)

James Gorman

The Ark In Space really kicks off with the Philip Hinchcliffe/Robert Holmes Era with a dark, disturbing and thoroughly engrossing body horror story. Excellent sets in this story and lighting gives this story a rather eerie atmosphere. I loved the dynamic between the Fourth Doctor, Sarah and Harry.

Anonymous
>>86217144

What I love about the stories written by Robert Holmes was that he knew exactly what would work given the limited time and budget. Often writers would submit very lofty ideas for stories that they just could not achieve with time and budget constraints and in many cases they had to be dropped or re-written in an almost unrecognizable way to the original script. The Holmes/Hinchcliffe association was a great period in the shows history, making for some incredibly creepy and dark stories.

James Gorman

Absolutely the Holmes/Hinchcliffe Era is notable for producing high quality, scary and very dark stories. Proper behind the sofa stuff!