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Classic Who "The Face of Evil" Parts 3&4 Early Access! (Patreon)

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2023-02-10 17:36:19
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Classic Who "The Face of Evil" Parts 3&4 Reaction

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James Fish

Thank you for a great reaction. I love this story for sheer mystery of it. You pose a really interesting question - RE Leela and how people felt about her folloing on from Sarah Jane. I guess I can only half answer this. Although I had watched Doctor Who growing up, it wasn't until the next story after this (which BTW scared the living f**k out of me) that I had a proper continuous memory of the show. So from that point of view, she was my first remembered companion. I would have been 5 years of age when this season aired. Watching what I have watched now of course, Sarah Jane is certainly my favourite companion (followed closely by Jamie). Indeed I don't take to her as well as I did Sarah Jane, but she's very likeable for very different reasons. She's wild, strong and very clever as you will see going forward. That makes her incredibly memorable to my mind. Someone a little older than me will be much more able to answer this as they will be going from memory. See you next time!

James Gorman

I was fourteen when this story was broadcast in 1977. The Face Of Evil hasa great concept and was well told. In the novelisation of this story the Doctor repaired the computer during Robot. When he was recovering from the regeneration. I loved Leela! It made a change after the departure of Sarah Jane Smith. The next story is also written by ChrisBoucher. Another high concept Sci Fi thriller mixedwith Agatha Christie!

Kleineganz

Leela was always my favorite Classic Who companion because she was so different from previous companions, and I loved her dynamic with Tom Baker. Thanks for another great reaction, especially when you realized that Leela was being set up as the next companion! ❤️

David Vandervliet

Interestingly enough, it’s the next story, that introduced me to Doctor Who, and I missed the beginning and didn’t know what I was watching. But my little 13 year old brain was almost immediately hooked.

Vanessa J McNamara

I wasn’t there for the original broadcast but I’ve never heard anyone say a bad word about Leela. I have no idea where any more women were, lol. I actually really never thought about it tbh. But it is odd. The BBC never wants to spend any more time or money than it needs to, that’s my guess. I love Sarah Jane but she’s not my favourite Classic Who companion. You haven’t actually met them yet. Thanks for the reaction. Great as always

James Fish
>>101631923

Me too. I was 5 at the time it was broadcast but not one I'd ever forget by virtue of the fact it scared the s**t out of me!

Josef Schiltz
>>101652859

Well, the women folk - the pragmatists - were doing all the practical stuff and were out hunting for the tribe's sustenance. The one that was seen in the crowd was dyspraxic with a crossbow and kept hitting trees.

Megameme
>>101617136

I feel like this is a good story but i think the Tesh really let it down. They're absolutely insufferable.

James Fish
>>101617136

Yes, they didn't really do that much for the story. However, I get that the point being made was that they were the complete opposite of the tribe on the other side of the barrier & I find it quite fascinating to learn that they were the descendants of the Technicians whereas the Sevateem were those of the Survey Team. What I'd like to know is how many generations had gone by since the Doctors initial visit. Like Jess said, Leela appeared to be the only woman, which could have made generational descendants difficult lol!

Nicole Mazza
>>101620384

David -- Same! I wish we had more Boucher stories in Doctor Who, because they are SOOOO GOOD (the next is my fave Fourth Doctor story, but next season's one is probably my second fave!). ❤️❤️

Nicole Mazza
>>101631923

Pretty sure the next story was my first Doctor Who story, too (though I was watching it about a decade late on PBS in 1986 -- LOL). I always joke that I wish I'd made note of what my first story was, as I didn't know that almost 40 years later, it would be a question asked of me here and there. But piecing together the first memories in my head of the show, I know the secondary control/console room was there (which isn't seen in many stories), Leela was there, etc. And I just love the next story SO MUCH, that I like to at least think it was my first. 😉

Nicole Mazza
>>101652859

Josef -- I really like your fanon about the women, especially as we see with Leela how capable the women of the tribe COULD be - so, I'll take that! (It's better than the real reason, which I'm pretty sure I mentioned last week, which was that the Hinchliffe-era is particularly bad at having many female characters -- or at least any that aren't a] window-dressing or b] damsels. It's a bit of a joke about his era these days, especially in stories like this. And definitely one of the reasons I personally don't hold said era in such high esteem as many in fandom do. 🤷)

Josef Schiltz
>>101652859

One could imagine the women returning to find that the men had been holding a costume party! The one woman that had been seen is sitting in a corner, very fed up with the goings on around her and is figuring out on a scrap of parchment how to construct a harpoon gun with telescopic sights. She goes on to be the leader warrior of the Sevateem. Her name is Temple. I must admit that I don't have particular favourite eras of Doctor Who. Each have their own merits and there's too much argy bargy when it comes to trying to sort out "which is best" and "which 'sucks' which gets tedious very quickly. As long as it continues in its juxtapositions of distant realities then I, for one, am quite happy.

Josef Schiltz
>>101631923

I think it was around this time - late seventies to mid-eighties - that Doctor Who made more appearances in magazines in the US. I used to buy some of these, some a bit out of date, at Globe Fantasy, a book-comic-magazine establishment in St Margaret's Green, Ipswich - the Ipswich mentioned by Rose in 'The End Of The World' - when I was a regular there at art college. A little square room that was dominated centrally by a table replete with boxes of mags and comics to plough through.

Eddie Green
>>101620384

Interesting to learn that the next story is a riff on Agatha Christie when this one has reminded me so much of The Doctor's Daughter and the Cobb/Hath multigenerational mythologised conflict in that one.

Eddie Green

What's confusing me about this episode, and specifically the ending, is that ever since we learned that the Doctor was one half of Xoanon's personality print, it seemed really obvious to me that Leela would turn out to be the other half. When Xoanon used a feminine voice, it sounded like her. I thought they would eventually travel into the past and put the dual personality print on him together. So I was really confused when they went to see the sane Xoanon and he just had a generic male voice instead of what I thought had been Leela's. Plus my personal headcanon on Leela seemingly being the only woman is that we've only seen the tribe's official representatives. Like a 19th century parliament with only one female MP.

Alex Cafetzoglou

Although Sarah has always been considered the most popular companion I don't recall any resistance to Leela at all. Perhaps to some of the violence but there has always been a lot of love for Leela and Louise Jameson who is a fabulous actress. The one exception at least to begin with seems to have been Tom Baker, who missed Elisabeth Sladen, objected to some of Leela's more violent characteristics and didn't see the need for a companion at all. They did not get on at all for a while. Louise Jameson has often stated that they get along fine now.

Josef Schiltz

I think when Louise stated the difficulties much later on - in a magazine interview or possibly at a convention - Tom proffered a humfelt apology.