Doctor Who
20x23 The Five Doctors [40th Anniversary Edition; 3rd or so watch]
+ the new audio commentary (there are four different ones across all the cuts now) with Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, and Mark Strickson, moderated by Matthew Sweet
The Fifth Doctor enters my 60th anniversary celebration by way of the 20th anniversary special, here in a new-and-improved version created to mark its 40th anniversary. Anniversary-tastic!
Of course, the media I chose to consume for my Doctor Who 60th celebrations was all supposed to be new to me — the original idea was serials I hadn’t seen before, which was immediately a problem because I’ve seen every episode from the Seventh Doctor onwards, and so that’s what led to the “mixed media” concept. There are multiple Fifth Doctor texts that could’ve fit either version, but I’ve gone back to one I’ve actually seen several times before (though my most recent viewing was in 2008, i.e. 15 years ago).
So it's just a cheat? Yes and no. As I mentioned above, this is the “40th anniversary version”, which was freshly released just last month as part of the Season 20 Blu-ray set. It was my desire to watch this new version that meant it nabbed the Fifth Doctor’s spot in my celebration marathon. So, although I have seen The Five Doctors before, I’ve never seen this edit, with these special effects*, in HD. Not to mention that, as the big 20th anniversary celebratory story, it fits very nicely as part of a 60th celebration anyway.
* There's a lot more to the new version that just some light polishing on the old effects: there are 117 new effects shots throughout the story, including things like digital set/location extensions. There's a neat comparison video of the different versions here that shows at least a few of them.
Sunday 8 October 2023
Fiction
Doctor Who: The Roots of Evil by Philip Reeve
Prologue + Chapters 1–6 [the end]
Things are overlapping a bit at the moment with my Doctor Who 60th anniversary celebrations: yesterday, the Third Doctor finished on the same day I did my entire Fourth Doctor segment; except it wasn't quite my entire Fourth Doctor, because there's also this story from the 11/12/13 Doctors, 11/12/13 Stories series — which I'm reading on the day I do the main Fifth Doctor instalment. Cripes! But I'm on a relatively tight schedule (possibly — there are some choices later on where I can't be sure how long I need to allow for them), so I can't allow myself the luxury of spreading things out too much.
Prologue + Chapters 1–6 [the end]
Things are overlapping a bit at the moment with my Doctor Who 60th anniversary celebrations: yesterday, the Third Doctor finished on the same day I did my entire Fourth Doctor segment; except it wasn't quite my entire Fourth Doctor, because there's also this story from the 11/12/13 Doctors, 11/12/13 Stories series — which I'm reading on the day I do the main Fifth Doctor instalment. Cripes! But I'm on a relatively tight schedule (possibly — there are some choices later on where I can't be sure how long I need to allow for them), so I can't allow myself the luxury of spreading things out too much.
this week on 100Films.co.uk
No new reviews were published to 100Films.co.uk this week (it'd be a miracle if they were at this point), but there was the second half of my monthly review: the "failures"...
It'd be a miracle if there was more next Sunday, but you never know.
It'd be a miracle if there was more next Sunday, but you never know.
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Normally I post these updates on a Saturday, though sometimes they're delayed if I have too much to add. This week, though, there's nothing to add — so I just kinda forgot, because quiet weeks are so rare. Then I remembered... but had to work out the latest running time increase, because it's that time of the month again, and that took a little time. So here we are on Sunday, even though there's nothing to report... except a new running time, of course.
Number of titles in collection: 3,161 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,022 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,139 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 298 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 7,726 [no change]
Number of films: 3,880 [no change]
Number of additional cuts: 342 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,621 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,079 [no change]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
546 days, 16 hours, and 42 minutes.
(Up 12 hours and 30 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Normally I post these updates on a Saturday, though sometimes they're delayed if I have too much to add. This week, though, there's nothing to add — so I just kinda forgot, because quiet weeks are so rare. Then I remembered... but had to work out the latest running time increase, because it's that time of the month again, and that took a little time. So here we are on Sunday, even though there's nothing to report... except a new running time, of course.
Number of titles in collection: 3,161 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,022 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,139 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 298 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 7,726 [no change]
Number of films: 3,880 [no change]
Number of additional cuts: 342 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,621 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,079 [no change]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
546 days, 16 hours, and 42 minutes.
(Up 12 hours and 30 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
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